Deep in the basement of a dusty university library in Edinburgh lies a small black box, roughly the size of two cigarette packets side by side, that churns out random numbers in an endless stream. At first glance it is an unremarkable piece of equipment. Encased in metal, it contains at its heart a microchip no more complex than the ones found in modern pocket calculators. But, according to a growing band of top scientists, this box has quite extraordinary powers. It is, they claim, the 'eye' of a machine that appears capable of peering into the future and predicting major world events. The machine apparently sensed the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre four hours before they happened - but in the fevered mood of conspiracy theories of the time, the claims were swiftly knocked back by sceptics. But last December, it also appeared to forewarn of the Asian tsunami just before the deep sea earthquake that precipitated the epic tragedy. Now, even the doubters are acknowledging that here is a small box with apparently inexplicable powers. 'It's Earth-shattering stuff,' says Dr Roger Nelson, emeritus researcher at Princeton University in the United States, who is heading the research project behind the 'black box' phenomenon. 'We're very early on in the process of trying to figure out what's going on here. At the moment we're stabbing in the dark.'

Dr Nelson's investigations, called the Global Consciousness Project, were originally hosted by Princeton University and are centred on one of the most extraordinary experiments of all time. Its aim is to detect whether all of humanity shares a single subconscious mind that we can all tap into without realising. And machines like the Edinburgh black box have thrown up a tantalising possibility: that scientists may have unwittingly discovered a way of predicting the future.

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Not possible! Everything electronic is man made! Computers don't have brains...I don't see how scientists can be scientists when the believe in the stupidest things! Crazy....

Hhhmmmmm I find this very hard to believe, a machine that can predict the future, well anything is possible................

I find it iredeemably funny when people write things off so easily when it's obvious they know so little. No one said it had a brain, they just believe it's tapping into something that no other device has detected yet.

BTW, that's kinda the whole POINT of science. Leave no theory untested, no proverbial rock unturned. They wouldn't be scientists unless they gave something like this a fair shake.

Thats not the point of this phenomenon, it generates a supposedly random sequence, which should appear on the graph as a straight line. However, it hasn't been doing that prior to large scale world events, suggesting that a human consciousness could be effecting the outcomes.

Very interesting,... something so "world shattering" as they said can come out of something so small.

Hi folks,

I tend to belive that it is humanity "remembering they can do it" Call it ancestral memorys. Some call it magic, ritual, prayer, whatever you call it, in my opinion it is the one thread that connects all of humanity. A desire to reach out and touch the face of Divinity, to become one with, to share energy.

mabey we are all wired into the matrix

Still! The little black box didn't make itself. FAKE!!!

i was just wondering if anything possile could it be possible that nothings possible since any things possible

Yeah, I think that's possible.

lol

I've been playing Star Wars 2: The Sith Lords, and even though it sounds strange it's like the philosphy of the "force" seems to work both in our reality and in the virtual world of hollywood but to a lesser extent, for now maybe...



It should have shown up as a straight line following the mathematical system of chance and possibility. It seems a higher "force" is being played.



That is interesting. It's like the myth that says if a tree or an object is placed in the center of an arena and the crowd concetrates on the object to burst into flames, it would. Maybe the mythbusters on the discovery channel could work something out...

A global consciousness eh... it maybe considered as the global conscious force.

Ive read about many experments about random number generators and how humans can influence them. Allthough be it a small amount, its still significant and cant be explained away by chance. Everything in the universe is connected by quantum dimensions, and little is known about them, but we do know is that they are interlinked with human conciousness. And thats bizzare. It seems to point out that humans are mulit-dimensional beings. Mayby we do have souls.....

This movie had a bunch of cool stuff about this kinda phenomena, check it out.

http://www.whatthebleep.com/scientists/

I have something that works nearly as well:
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I didn't get a clear picture Fluffy. A YO-YO?

Oh, an Eight Ball . Got Ya.

I read the article with interest.
Whether it's true or not, the random generation process involved reminds me of 2 words: WHITE NOISE.
I seem to recall ( from other issues)the speculation that white noise might be some type of medium for paranormal activity.

Fluffy!Now the Fbi will be all over your ass! You can come hide in my underground bunker though, Anyone else want to help start a insurrection? Or just have a house party?

How about both? You can't have an insurrection without a housepart and you can't have a house party without an insurrection (aka resisting arrest when the police come because of noise pollution).


Are you being serious? The REGs are set up to be altered by our consciousness. The REGs are just simple machines. They have no intelligence.


I thought their idea was that it was our collective consciousness that somehow knew the events in advance and caused the REGs to behave oddly.