Extrasensory perception (ESP)

1. There have been some extra- ordinary claims about the ability of the human mind to go far beyond what is contemporarily accepted by science. Even religion has condemned from time to time such abilities as demonic. Is this because we just tend to reject what we don’t currently understand, or is it because such abilities are nothing more than mere illusions?

2. But what is an illusion, in opposition to what is reality? Formally an illusion is defined as follows:

An instance of a wrong or misinterpreted perception of a sensory experience; a deceptive appearance or impression; a false idea or belief.

Synonyms: mirage, hallucination, apparition, phantasm, figment of the imagination. [1]

3. According to Wikipedia, extrasensory perception or ESP, also called sixth sense, includes claimed reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses, but sensed with the mind. The term was adopted by Duke University psychologist J. B. Rhine to denote psychic abilities such as intuition, telepathy, psychometry, clairvoyance, and their trans-temporal operation as precognition or retro-cognition.

The scientific consensus does not view extrasensory perception as a scientific phenomenon. Skeptics have pointed out that there is no viable theory to explain the mechanism behind ESP, and that there are historical cases in which flaws have been discovered in the experimental design of parapsychological studies. [2]

4. Commonly such perceptions are strong during childhood and young age, while it is also reported that animals such as pets show paranormal mental abilities. Is it because we grow up in a materialistic society, where the brain is hypnotized by ready- made apparatuses (such as cell- phones), which replace the need of using our mind as a means of communication?

5. There is a view that in order for a civilization to progress, that civilization has to pass through the stage of technological advancement. However in the immense universe, somewhere, a civilization may have appeared, who, because of some special or different environmental conditions, has never created any kind of technology, but instead they have learned how to use their minds in order to control their environment or even to make interstellar voyages. Suppose now that such beings pay us a visit with their spirit. How are we going to trace them? Will we treat them like ghosts? Will we disregard their presence just because we believe that such lifeforms are impossible?

6. Despite the possibility of extra- sensory perception, we are full of premonitions and misconceptions. We often think of things that don’t exist. We may have seen a light in the night sky, mistaking it for a flying saucer. Even if aliens came to our planet with flying saucers, how could we possibly trace them if they used special technology to be invisible? How are we supposed to photograph ghosts if ghosts, for one reason or another, do not appear on films? How can we persuade someone about some paranormal experience we have had if we are they only ones who have experienced it?

7. Apart from all the paradoxes and misgivings, there is in fact in modern science a phenomenon which seems to be close to what we would consider impossible or paranormal. This is quantum teleportation. An object disappears from a place and reappears instantaneously in another place. Still the phenomenon, although replicated experimentally, cannot be explained by current physical laws. For example, according to relativity nothing can travel faster than light. But this may be seen just as a current obstacle which will have been surpassed in the future.

8. I have written a document according to which faster than light travel is possible. Here I will simply expose some ideas about how the brain could perceive or emit frequencies far above (or below) levels which are currently detectable by scientific instruments, or beyond values which are attainable by current physics:

Let’s try to find with numbers the biggest or smallest possible object or particle in the universe. Supposing that the maximum possible value for a particle’s wavelength can be equal to the radius of the observable universe, which we may call R_U, then the minimum possible mass, which we may call m_b, for a particle will be

The previous formula is based on the energy equation of the brachistochrone, which is of the form

and whose derivation I explain in my document.

Here we have used units of light for Planck constant h

while the radius R_U of the observable universe is assumed to be

The corresponding mass m_b will be the smallest possible mass in the observable universe.

On the other hand, if the maximum possible mass of a particle is the mass of the observable universe, which we may call M_U, then its corresponding wavelength, which we may call l_b, will be

This will be the smallest possible size (wavelength) in the observable universe.

Incidentally, the value for the mass M_U of the observable universe which was used here is somewhat bigger than the current estimated value, for reasons exposed in my document.

The notation l_b, instead of λ_b, was used in accordance to the notation for Planck length  l_P (instead of  λ_P), because the values  m_b and l_b do not necessarily refer to the same particle, but to a range of values for different particles. Thus, the particle (l_b, M_U) will be the smallest but heaviest particle, while the particle (R_U, m_b) will be the biggest but lightest particle in the universe. In this sense, all such ‘particles,’ from the lightest of them, to the universe itself, may be considered brachistons (thus the index ‘b’). [3]

Now using the simple formula relating the wavelength λ and frequency f to the speed of light c

we take for the corresponding frequency f_b of a particle with wavelength l_b

This will be the highest possible frequency in the universe.

On the other hand, if we take the highest possible value for a wavelength (which incidentally can be identified with the radius of the observable universe) by using the smallest possible mass mentioned before, we take

and the corresponding lowest possible frequency will be

9. Such values for the maximum or minimum possible frequency are far beyond what is currently acceptable or comprehensible. For example according to quantum mechanics the highest possible frequency (Planck frequency) is

where l_P is Planck length.

Thus Planck frequency will be 60 orders of magnitude lower than the highest possible frequency mentioned earlier.

10. Is the human mind at some state of deep concentration able to produce such imperceptibly high (or low) frequencies, currently undetectable by scientific instruments? According to my previous analysis this is not only possible but also mathematically provable. After all if something can happen will happen. If something is happening then it is happening (no matter if we accept it or understand it).

[1]: [https://www.google.com/search?q=illusion+defintion]
[2]: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrasensory_perception]
[3]: [https://archive.org/details/CrossingTheBrachistochrone_201804]

7/6/2019

Image: [http://humanityhealing.net/2013/04/extrasensory-perception-telepathy/]