November 5, 2004
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WEIRD SCIENCE: TELEPORTATION PHYSICS
The Air
Force Research Laboratory has paid for and published a new study
on "teleportation physics," referring to the disembodied transport
of objects across space.
The author strives to distinguish his subject from the fictional
Star Trek "transporter" concept, and notes that "we are still very
far away from being able to ... teleport human beings (and even
simpler biological entities such as cells, etc.) and bulk inanimate
objects...."
But after fifty pages of opaque physics, he concludes with an endorsement
of remote viewing, psychokinesis and spoon bending by psychic Uri
Geller.
"During a talk that he gave at the U.S. Capitol building, Uri caused
a spoon to curve upward with no force applied, and then the spoon
continued to bend after he put it back down and continued with his
talk," he reports.
"There are numerous supporters within the U.S. military establishment
who comprehend the significance of remote viewing and PK [psychokinesis]
phenomenon [sic], and believe that they could have strategic implications,"
he notes.
And he repeats a warning that "foreign adversaries could exploit
micro- or macro-PK to induce U.S. military fighter pilots to lose
control of their aircraft and crash." Given the looming ESP gap,
the author recommends that "A research program improving on and
expanding, or implementing novel variations of, the Chinese and
Uri Geller-type experiments should be conducted in order to generate
p-Teleportation phenomenon [sic] in the lab."
The report concludes with a ten-page bibliography on teleportation
physics and a distribution list that amounts to something like a
"who's who" in "alternative science."
See "Teleportation Physics Study" by Eric W. Davis, Air Force Research
Lab Special Report, Edwards Air Force Base, August 2004, distribution
unlimited (1.7 MB PDF file):
http://www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/teleport.pdf
© 2004, Federation of American Scientists.
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