The Speed of Thought: Investigation of a Complex Space-Time

Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 331–354, 2001

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© 2001 Society for Scientific Exploration

The Speed of Thought: Investigation of a Complex Space-Time
Metric to Describe Psychic Phenomena
Bay Research Institute
1010 Harriet Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301
“Consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown.
There is only one thing, and that which seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this one thing, produced by a deception… as in a gallery of mirrors.”
Erwin Schrödinger
What Is Life

Abstract—For more than 100 years scientists have attempted to determine the truth or falsity of claims that some people are able to describe and experience events or information blocked from ordinary perception. For the past 25 years, the authors of this paper—together with researchers in laboratories around the world—have carried out experiments in remote viewing. The evidence for this mode of perception, or direct knowing of distant events and objects, has convinced us of the validity of these claims. It has been widely observed that the accuracy and reliability of this sensory awareness do not diminish with either electromagnetic shielding, or with increases in temporal or spatial separation between the percipient and the target to be described.
Modern physics describes such a time and space independent connection between percipient and target as nonlocal.
In this paper we present a geometrical model of space-time, which has already been extensively studied in the technical literature of mathematics and physics. This eight-dimensional metric is known as “complex Minkowski space” and has been shown to be consistent with our present understanding of the equations of Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and Schrödinger. It also has the interesting property of allowing a connection of zero distance between points in the complex manifold, which appear to be separate from one another in ordinary

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