Abstract: Refereed journals, to which scientists turn for their reliable information, carry virtually no information on the UFO problem. Does this
imply that scientists have no views and no thoughts on the subject, or that all
scientists consider it insignificant? Does it imply that scientists have no reports to submit comparable with UFO reports published in newspapers and
popular books? The purpose of this survey was to answer these questions.
Brenda J. DUNNE, York H. DOBYNS, Robert G. JAHN, Roger D. NELSON
Abstract: Effect sizes achieved by human operators in random event generator anomalies experiments show correlations with the ordinal positions of
the experimental series in both the collective and individual databases.
Specifically, there are statistically significant tendencies for operators to produce better scores over their first series, then to fall off in performance in
their second and third series, and then to recover to some intermediate levels
during their fourth, fifth, and subsequent series. Such correlations appear in
both local and remote experiments, and are also indicated over a sequence of
different experimental protocols, but no similar effects are found in baseline
or calibration data. These serial position patterns thus appear to be primarily
psychological in origin, and may subsume the rudimentary "decline," "primacy," "recency," and "terminal" effects propounded in the parapsychological and psychological literature. The results also emphasize the importance
of very large individual databases in determining the asymptotic effect sizes
in any given experiment of this type
Abstract: At the beginning of the century the law of conservation of mass
in chemical reactions was checked experimentally by Landolt and various
other experimenters. Even though in 8 of the 10 chemical reactions studied
by Landolt the validity of conservation of mass was confirmed within the
margin of experimental errors, in 2 reactions the pre vs. post comparison of
the determined weights indicated mass differences that exceeded the experimental error by up to a factor of 6, indicating apparent violations of the law of
conservation of mass. However by averaging between such results and subjective assessments Landolt discarded these deviations. We report on careful
and systematic repetitions of one of Landolt's chemical experiments. Using
modern sensitive and, in one case, automatic weighing techniques, the results
obtained reveal time-dependent and long-range gravitational irregularities
which are many orders of magnitude larger than expected relativistic mass effects, indicating an apparent violation of the law of conservation of mass in
this special chemical reaction. Similar effects could be found in biological
and purely physical systems, as well as synergistic effects between these systems. The observed spontaneous mass fluctuations suggest the existence of a
form of cold, dark matter which is detected in the described systems.
Michael EPSTEIN, Joe HIMES
Response to Volkamer et al.
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William H. JEFFERYS
Erratum: Bayesian Analysis of Random Event Generator Data
Abstract: Unusual acts of artistic and scientific creativity - associated in the popular
mind with the concept of "genius" - do not have a satisfactory explanation in
terms of the cerebral or mental processes of individuals. The 'genius hypothesis' suggests that such acts of creativity involve an interaction between the
mind of the creative individual and other minds, bent on similar creative endeavors. The interaction envisaged in the hypothesis relies on the spontaneous
transmission of the crucial Einfall that catalyzes the creative acts. Following
the presentation of pertinent evidence culled from the fields of cultural development, scientific discovery and artistic production, the mechanism of transference is illustrated with the analogy of networked computers. It is also
shown to shed light on what Jung called 'archetypal experience.' The phenomenon of instantaneous spatiotemporal connectivity is not limited to
human brain-minds but has counterparts in quantum physics and evolutionary
biology. Its explanation poses one of the greatest challenges to the contemporary natural sciences
