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| | SSE News Items |
| | Highlights of the 1992 European SSE Meeting | 205-211 |
| | Next SSE Meeting | 211 |
| | SSE Council Member Radin Work Cited | 211 |
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| Michael EPSTEIN | The Skeptical Perspective | 213-216 |
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| Illobrand VON LUDWIGER, T. AUERBACH | Heim's Theory of Elementary Particle Structures | 217-231 |
| | Abstract: Heim's theory is defined in a 6-dimensional world, in 2 dimensions
of which events take place that organize processes in the 3 dimensions of our
experience. A very small natural constant, called a "metron", is derived, representing the smallest area that can exist in nature. This leads to the conclusion
that space must be composed of a 6-dimensional geometric lattice of very small
cells bounded on all sides by metrons. The existence of metrons requires our
usual infinitesimal calculus to be replaced by one of finite areas.
The unperturbed lattice represents empty vacuum. Local deformations of the
lattice indicate the presence of something other than empty space. If the deformation is of the right form and complexity it acquires the property of mass and
inertia. Elementary particles are complex dynamical systems of locally confined interacting lattice distortions. Thus, the theory geometricizes the world by
viewing it as a huge assemblage of very small geometric deformations of a 6-
dimensional lattice in vacuum. The theory also has significant consequences for
cosmology |
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| Michael EPSTEIN, Luigi GARLASCHELLI | Better Blood Through Chemistry: A Laboratory Replication of a Miracle | 233-246 |
| | Related:
Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 7 Number 1 Spring/1993 - Comments on Better Blood Through Chemistry
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| | Abstract: -The recent simulation of the miracle liquefying blood of Saint Januarius is shown to be viable from both historical and scientific standpoints. The
history of the holy blood is traced and means and motivation for the simulation
are provided. Spectral analysis of the simulated blood, a thixotropic gel of iron
hydroxide (FeO(OH)), shows the absorption spectrum to be similar to old
blood. Many reported characteristics of the holy blood can be explained by the
behavior of a thixotropic gel. Modifications of the preparation procedure are
attempted to bring the simulation into agreement with fourteenth century
alchemical knowledge. A critical evaluation of previous spectroscopic studies
of the miracle blood is presented. |
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| Suitbert ERTEL | The Gauquelin Effect Explained? Comments on Arno Miiller's Hypothesis of Planetary Correlations | 247-254 |
| | Related:
Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 4 Number 1 /1990 - Planetary Influences on Human Behavior ("Gauquelin Effect"): Too Absurd for a Scientific Explanation? [Müller, Arno]
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| | Abstract: Arno Müller's "hypothesis of the planetary klite" (Müller,1990)
amended Gauquelin's "midwife hypothesis", which suffered from weaknesses.
The approach is a welcome contribution to the persistent problem of how to
explain planetary correlations with human births (the Gauquelin effect). However, it is inconsistent with empirical observations:
(1)Gauquelin effects are unrelated to character traits. Miiller's hypothesis
explains a correlation that does not exist.
(2) Sometimes planetary effects decrease with eminence. This is inconsistent
with Muller's idea that more eminent as compared to less eminent people
should have cultural and biological advantages.
(3)Birth frequencies can be infrequent instead of abundant when the planet is
rising or culminating. This is inconsistent with Muller's assumption that in
prehistorical times the births of children were desired, not avoided, when
the divine planet was so placed.
(4) The doctrine of planetary heredity-the basic precondition of Muller's
hypothesis-is probably invalid.
(5) The Gauquelin effect is weakest for Venus. Muller's claim of an impact of
planetary appearances on the evolution of the Gauquelin effect would predict the opposite.
(6) Muller's model covers only the evolution of conditioning between planetary
sensitivity and character traits. It does not explain the evolution of planetary
sensitivity prior to such conditioning.
Gauquelin's original midwife hypothesis as well as Muller's new version of it
could be refuted straightforwardly if further tests showed that the Gauquelin
effect occurred undiminished in eminent births induced by obstetric drugs. |
| Arno MÜLLER | The Gauquelin Effect Explained? A Rejoinder to Ertel's Critique | 255-259 |
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| A. I. GRIGOR'EV, I. D. GRIGOR'EVA, S. O. SHIRYAEVA | Ball Lightning Penetration into Closed Rooms: 43 Eyewitness Accounts | 261-279 |
| | Related:
Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 8 Number 1 Spring/1994 - Comments on Ball Lightning
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| | Abstract: 43 Eyewitness Reports on the ability of ball lightning to penetrate
into rooms through window glass (very often leaving no holes) and to enter
houses through radio and electric sockets are presented. |
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| Ian STEVENSON | A Series of Possibly Paranormal Recurrent Dreams | 281-290 |
| | Abstract: In 1986 Dr. Walter D'Souza, an Indian physician living in the United States, had a series of realistic dreams in which his deceased father, who had
been buried in India three years earlier, appeared to be leaving his coffin and
trying to communicate something to him. After Dr. D'Souza had had three of
these dreams, a letter from India informed his mother that his father's bones
had not been adequately disposed of. Dr. D'Souza then believed that his dreams
had some connection with the matter of his father's bones. He urged his mother
to go to India and attend to the burial, but she and his sister minimized the difficulty, and did not wish to spend money on a journey to India. Dr. D'Souza then
had a fourth dream similar to the previous three. He told his family about his
dreams and insisted that his mother go to India and attend to the disposition of
the bones. She agreed to go and the dreams ceased. It seems unlikely that Dr.
D'Souza before he had his dreams had any normal awareness that anything further needed to be done for the proper disposition of his father's bones. Paranormal interpretations of the dreams have plausibility. Attention is drawn to the
quality of vividness in dreams as a possible marker of paranormality. |
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| | Letters to the Editor |
| | Comments on Survival or Super-psi? | 291 |
| | Related:
Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 6 Number 2 /1992 - Survival or Super-psi? [Braude, Stephen E.]
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| | Are Memories of Alien Abductions Recollections of Surgical Experiences? | 291-294 |
| | Related:
Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 7 Number 2 Summer/1993 - Comments on James Wilson's Letter to the Editor
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| | Book Review |
| Ian STEVENSON | Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method by Henry H. Bauer | 295-297 |
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| | Erratum | 297 |
| | Related:
Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 6 Number 2 /1992 - Highlights of the Princeton SSE Meeting
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