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Old 4th February 2008, 06:45 PM   #1
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Real psychic energy ?

If you put s a psychic in an insulated box and have them predict a future event, does that constitute the creation of information, a decrease of entropy and therefore a temperature change? Also- do they actually have to be in the box, or can they just astrally project there? I began by assuming a perfectly spherical psychic, but the equations for chi conservation seem to create a multi-dimensional null infinity of the third kind. If this works, we can lock *all* the psychics in a large, insulated box and use them to power say, an iPod? wouldn't this be considered psychic energy?
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Old 4th February 2008, 07:14 PM   #2
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I'd love to lock all psychics into a box.

But seriously, are these angels doing a waltz or is it a modern contempary piece?

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Old 5th February 2008, 03:14 AM   #3
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A decrease of entropy?
I would burn them to heat water to drive a steam-turbine.
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Old 5th February 2008, 09:29 AM   #4
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Well, ....

Considering that psychic powers have never been proven, let alone analyzed, I expect that it would be quite difficult to construct something that would be able to insulate and/or isolate someone from psychic powers.

Therefore, it will be impossible to do any sort of blocked psychic powers test.
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