Psychic Research and Modern Physics (Psychic Exploration)

This essay, chapter 22 of Psychic Exploration, describes the application of concepts of modern physics to the study of psychic functioning. Included are a discussion of an example of a theoretical model of precognition that is testable and is compatible with contemporary physics, and descriptions of recent experiments using instruments that have exceptional sensitivity. The full volume of Psychic Exploration can be purchased as an ebook or paperback version from all major online retailers and at cosimobooks.com. HAROLD E. PUTHOFF, Ph.D., is the CEO of EarthTech International, Inc., which is dedicated to the exploration of new frontiers in the physics of spaceflight energy and propulsion. Formerly, he was a senior research engineer at Stanford Research Institute. Dr. Puthoff holds patents in the area of lasers and optical devices and has supervised research for doctoral candidates in electrical engineering and applied physics at Stanford University. In addition, he has initiated programs to study psychic phenomena from the standpoint of modern physics. RUSSELL TARG was a senior research physicist at Stanford Research Institute, where he worked with Harold Puthoff and coined the term “remote vieweing.” In 1982, he cofounded Delphi Associates, a psychic consulting service. He is author of more than two dozen articles on lasers, plasma physics, and psychic research. He is also the inventor of the tunable plasma oscillator at microwave frequencies, the FM laser, and the high-power gas-transport laser. With another inventor, he devised the ESP Teaching Machine, for training people in clairvoyance and precognition.