A Theoretical Physicist's View ...

Reports from people who claim to have had paranormal experiences appear to emerge more often than one would have expected if these phenomena could be attributed to pure chance. The fact that you ignored my warning and clicked anyway may possibly be due to an experience you have had yourself.

Question frequently asked me:
Theoretical physicists sometimes talk of particles moving backwards in time, or that the speed of light may sometimes not be truly constant. A better informed remark: in Quantum Mechanics certain features appear to happen with correlations over a `spacelike' distance ...
Can the human brain be sensitive to such phenomena, and can explanations be brought about along such lines?

The aswer to this is simple:

ABSOLUTELY NO!
Both relativity theory (special as well as general) and quantum field theory have a causality structure built in. This means that information processing takes place along extremely rigorous rules, and these rules include the mechanisms at work inside our brains. What is more, since our brains operate at body temperature (mine does), quantum correlations between nerve cells are washed away by thermal fluctuations, so you may even forget about quantum mechanics when you discuss the mechanisms active inside our brains ...

All this means that any explanation of paranormal experiences must come from psychology, not from theoretical physics ...
I am confident that you are NOT interested in my little essay explaining how a theoretical physicist imagines what paranormal phenomena really are, so do NOT click here.

I challenge anyone who believes that paranormal phenomena can be scientifically detected with a BET.


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