Two weeks ago, the Western scientific world was ablaze with excitement over the announcement by the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences that the Nobel Prize for physics this year was awarded to Serge Horoche of France and David Wineland of the United States, “for finding ways to observe and measure quantum particles without destroying them,” which had previously been regarded as impossible.
There are certain natural phenomena that can be observed but cannot be explained by current or commonly accepted scientific laws.
Peeping into the world of sub-atomic particles of matter is like Alice going into Wonderland, where everything is not what it’s supposed to be, where the bizarre becomes ordinary, and the ordinary bizarre!
Until I was furnished copies of their correspondence, I didn’t know that a debate, or more precisely, an intellectual discussion, has been going on between American theoretical physicist Dr. George Weissman of the University of California Berkeley and Dr. Jacqueline Romero, a Filipino physicist, at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom.
In last week’s column, I discussed the inadequacy of conventional science in explaining various paranormal phenomena. Dismissing these as mere anomalies of nature or plain trickery does not really help explain how or why they occur.
In my 1999 book, “When the Impossible Happens: Confessions of a Reluctant Psychic,” in which I revealed, for the first time, the many strange paranormal and psychic experiences I have undergone, I wrote in the epilogue that “we need to develop a new science that will take into consideration the strange occurrence of phenomena that could not be explained by conventional science.”
Here's a look at the achievements being honored by this year's Nobel Prizes, the $1.2 million awards handed out since 1901 by committees in Stockholm and Oslo:
Last week, I discussed teleportation, a paranormal phenomenon where a person disappears from one place and simultaneously appears in another...
My attention was called to a Letter to the Editor (Inquirer, July 14) written by Dr. Mary Jacquiline T. Romero of the School of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. In that letter, Romero stated that my article about quantum physics, Eastern mysticism and ESP was “terribly misleading.”
Whenever I talk about quantum physics in this column, I usually get the same reaction from some readers saying, “It...
