A machine to talk with God?

[Brian-M]

So very, very silly. :)

Apparently the creator of this YouTube video had a friend who worked out that by using a particle detector or Geiger-counter to trigger a random character generator he could communicate directly with God.

He admits that he never actually saw the device, and the friend is now dead, but it's really, really, really true.

Oh, yes... And kowledge of this discovery was suppressed by the Department of Defense. :rolleyes:

KmU-Tu9NIO4

The sad part is that he really seems to believe it. :(

[Brian-M]

I just got a reply to a comment I left on the YouTube page...

Yes, I agree, it sounds like an urban legend sorry. I am not lying, my physicist friend really told me of his device. Anyone with enough knowledge should be able to re-create one if it were true. I am sure there are many people who would like to put this to the test. I have a copy of his random program in basic if anyone needs to dissemble it. Maybe he was just a quack. Maybe he was a genius. We will never know unless someone else does the same experiment. I would be happy to assist anyone.

Here's the link if you want to leave comment of your own...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmU-Tu9NIO4

[Ririon]

I am 100 % sure that there are many people here on the forum who can read basic. Why not get the code and post it here? If this was as much of a hack as it seems, there shouldn't be that much code. Who knows? There might be something clever in there?

[ServiceSoon]

Please ask God where I left the remote control.

[godofpie]

My dad used to have an Osborne portable computer. It weighed about 50 lbs. Osborne used MBasic.http://forums.randi.org/imagehosting/thum_2279248f566c5e7b4c.jpg (http://forums.randi.org/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=14068)

[Galaxie]

Wow. An overly complex random letter generator. How incredibly...er...useful.



The video link doesn't work anymore, BTW.

[Brian-M]

It looks like he's removed the video.
I've asked him for the program, but I won't hold my breath.

[Ron_Tomkins]

Mankind is bored

[Popsicle]

It looks like he's removed the video.
I've asked him for the program, but I won't hold my breath.

Google "Dr. Sbaitso." I didn't get to view the original video, and have no idea how his program works, but I'm guessing you won't be disappointed. Or you might be disappointed, but I'm guessing the difference between his program and Dr. Sbaitso is slim.

[Brian-M]

I remember playing around with Dr. Sbaitsio on my old 486. :) This is nothing like that.

The creator of the video was claiming that light and electrons, etc, were all part of a vast intelligence (using quantum entanglement and the two-slit experiment as examples of intelligent behavior of these particles).

He then went on to claim that a physicist friend of his attached a particle detector to his computer, and wrote a character generator program that would select a letter depending on the exact moment the detector detected a particle emitted from some radioactive material (I forget the name, apparently the same stuff used in smoke detectors).

Although he never saw this machine, he claims it communicated coherently with his friend.

[Cuddles]

The creator of the video was claiming that light and electrons, etc, were all part of a vast intelligence (using quantum entanglement and the two-slit experiment as examples of intelligent behavior of these particles).

Getting fired at high speed through a narrow slit and then smacked into a wall doesn't sound that intelligent to me.

[rickps]

Sounds like something out of Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials".

[Moochie]

I just got a reply to a comment I left on the YouTube page...


Quote:
Yes, I agree, it sounds like an urban legend sorry. I am not lying, my physicist friend really told me of his device. Anyone with enough knowledge should be able to re-create one if it were true. I am sure there are many people who would like to put this to the test. I have a copy of his random program in basic if anyone needs to dissemble it. Maybe he was just a quack. Maybe he was a genius. We will never know unless someone else does the same experiment. I would be happy to assist anyone.


Here's the link if you want to leave comment of your own...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmU-Tu9NIO4


Does he know what dissemble means?


M.

[leon_heller]

He should have used a quantum-based RNG:

http://www.idquantique.com/products/quantis.htm

Leon

[Loss Leader]

Once again, a paranormalist who needs to generate massive amounts of junk data in order to postdict an apparant pattern match.

[Chris H]

I hope they're not expecting a response...

Wonder if it's a PC or a Mac...?

Chris