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Dr. John Hasted, professor of experimental physics at Birkbeck College, University of London, crowded with many other scientists, including Dr. David Bohm, Birkbeck's physics professor, and writer Arthur Koestler into a 15 by 15 foot lab as his test subject arrived.

The Doctor used a Geiger counter upon the subject to check for presence of radioactive materials. There were none. Backround radiation was also checked and documented, and those present confirmed it was impossible to manufacture a reading from the Geiger counter by manhandling it or the cable it was attached to.

The subject was then handed the Geiger counter and asked to produce a reading by paranormal means. After two minutes, the chart recorder registered two large pulses, one of around 25 counts per second. At the same time, the subject (who could not see the chart recorder) reported "feeling a shock". After a further 16 minutes of concentration there was another pulse registered on the recorder and again 5 minutes later, during which the subject claimed to feel "prickly". During the experiment, a second chart recorder connected to a gaussmeter (for measuring magnetism) registered two large pulses which happened at the same time as the two large pulses on the Geiger counter.

The experiment was repeated again the next day under similar conditions. During a 25 minute session, another four abnormal pulses of around ten counts per second were produced by the subject, on demand. At the end of this second session all observers were asked to leave except for Dr. Hasted and Arthur Koestler so the subject could concentrate fully on producing an abnormal reading by paranormal means. Within three minutes, the subject produced a reading which was off the scale of the Geiger counter, but, according to Dr. Hasted, could have been as high as 200 counts.

This subject also has a name, but I'm not going to tell you that yet. What do you guys think of all this?

Well that's the thing. No-one knows. It could be the electromagnetics of the brain playing about with the electronics in the Geiger counter, and this is the most supported theory. Either that or the subject was producing an amount of radiation dangerous to everyone around him.

Well, quite.

However, Giorgio Piccardi, Directer of the Institute for Physical Chemistry in Florence in 1960 found that water is influenced by fluctuations in the Earth's magnetism and solar eruptions to such a degree that it could change how certain chemical reactions would take place in water (in his particular case, the rate at which bismuth oxychloride formed a cloudy precipitate when introduced to H^2O).

This research suggests that water is susceptible to changes in electromagnetic radiation. Research in Brussels University has confirmed this. The human body is at least 80% water, meaning our chemical reactions will be influenced by electromagnetism also. Until 1960 when these results were published, such things would have been dismissed as sheer lunacy.

The experiment was replicated by a different scientist, Dr. John Taylor of King's College, London.

I don't understand what you mean by "lack of trials"?

Maybe it'd be a good investment for the Guild to try a similar experiment?

OH damn the name escapes me...Isn't it Uri Something? Uri Gellar? Bah I dunno.

Well, in most cases, they do a ton of trials with psi experiments to help give it more weight. I guess I skimmed over the part about somebody else replicating the experiment.

I've read this post so many times, and I still find it interesting. Is there some sort of primary source you have access to? One that you could perhaps link us to?