This stuff was considered unprovable, and left to the imaginations of New Age gurus and others thought of as wackos. This is not to fault those scientists; it's their job to be skeptical and to be able to prove, as best they can, whether or not something is true or likely. Now science is doing just that with regard to some forms of ESP and telekinesis. Research conducted at Princeton University and other research laboratories around the world is confirming that thought alone can influence random events, with aid of computers, sensitive instrumentation, and robotics, science now has the tools with which to test and measure the subtle influences of the human mind and reveal how it can possibly affect inanimate objects, electronics, and perhaps other human minds. The implications are astounding and far-fetching. Science is beginning to shake hands with the pararnormal.
http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa062298.htm
This is just an excerpt from the article an interesting concept. Perhaps science might one day prove the things that have been unprovable....first one must be willing to have an open mind.