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the work of Kelvin, mechanics, heat, energy, and thermodynamics were well understood. Then in 1905, Einstein, an unknown patent clerk working by himself, published four papers showing that these models were entirely incorrect. One paper dealt with the photoelectric effect of light, and showed that light does not always behave like a wave. Another paper presented the theory of relativity, demonstrating that all motion is relative, and that matter and energy are equivalent. Specifically, Einstein showed that physics was a wide-open field, nowhere near complete. |
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Kurt Gödel Ten years after Einstein published his breathtaking physics papers, Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead, the leading mathematicians of their day, published their monumental contribution to symbolic logic, Principia Mathematica.
1 The perfection of mathematics had been Russell's passion for more than a decade. He sought to organize all mathematics into a complete axiomatic framework. In 1931, Kurt Gödel published his now famous "Incompleteness Theorem," which shows that any system of postulates and axioms (such as mathematics, and probably physics) will contain propositions, which although they may be true, cannot be proven. Gödel proved that what Russell and Whitehead had considered accomplished, not only had not been accomplished, but was impossible! |
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For the past several years, many distinguished Nobel Prize-winning physicists have written books and publicly declared that all physics is solvable in terms of what we know today. They seem to believe that there are no outstanding problems that cannot be handled within the Grand Unified Theory, the "Theory of Everything." I do not believe that this is true for physics, and I know it isn't true for the phenomena of parapsychology. |
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In this chapter we describe groundbreaking experiments which show that mild-mannered researchers sitting in the laboratory, or you in your living room, can experience and describe distant events and locations |
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