From: Robin Lee Powell (rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org)
Date: Wed Jan 04 2006 - 12:24:34 MST
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 01:55:28PM -0500, Richard Loosemore wrote:
> It is entirely possible for psi to exist and for all of physics to
> be the same as it is now, plus some extras. What on earth makes
> you think this is impossible? Physicists themselves are, I
> think, a good deal less upset by the idea of psi than you are,
Just for the record: there is an obvious reason for physicists to be
excited by the ideo of psi, as the physicist that could show it
existed in an experiment replicable by other physicists (i.e. a
physics experiment rather than a parapsychology experiment) would
probably get a Nobel at a *minimum*.
This is why I've found the whole "parapsychology can't be so bad;
physicist like it!" argument to be rather disengenuous from the
start.
-Robin
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