Using Psychokinesis to Explore the Nature
of Quantum Randomness
Jean E. Burns
Consciousness Research, 127 Williams St. #1
San Leandro, CA 94577, USA
Email: jeanbur@earthlink.net
Abstract: In retrocausation different causal events can produce different successor
events, yet a successor event reflecting a particular cause occurs before the causal
event does. It is sometimes proposed that the successor event is determined by
propagation of the causal effect backwards in time via the dynamical equations
governing the events. However, because dynamical equations are time reversible, the
evolution of the system is not subject to change. Therefore, the backward propagation
hypothesis implies that what may have seemed to be an arbitrary selection of a causal
factor was in reality predetermined.
Yet quantum randomness can be used to determine the causal factor, and a
quantum random event is ordinarily thought of as being arbitrarily generated. So we
must ask, when quantum random events occur, are they arbitrary (subject to their
probabilistic constraints) or are they predetermined?
Because psychokinesis (PK) can act on quantum random events, it can be used as
a probe to explore questions such as the above. It is found that if quantum random
events are predetermined (aside from the action of PK), certain types of experimental
design can show enhanced PK through the use of precognition. Actual experiments
are examined and compared, and most of those for which the design is especially
suitable for showing this effect had unusually low p values for the number of trials. It
is concluded that either the experimenter produced a remarkably strong experimenter
effect or quantum random events are predetermined, thereby enabling enhanced PK in
suitable experimental designs.
Keywords: retrocausation, backward propagation, quantum randomness,
psychokinesis, precognition
PACS: 03.65.Ta, 89.90.+n
INTRODUCTION
In retrocausation the nature of a successor event depends upon a causal
event, yet the successor event showing this dependence takes place before the
causal event does. The dynamical equations of physics are time reversible,
meaning that if a system can follow an evolution through a positive time
interval +t, the reverse evolution through –t is also a possible physical path
for the system [1]. This property of the dynamical equations enables the
possibility of backward propagation of effects from the (future) causal event
to the (past) successor event. So it is sometimes proposed that retrocausal
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