Question on Fatima/Comment! (Main Forum)

by Brian Coyne , LINDEN, NSW, Thursday, July 26, 2012, 14:06 (329 days ago) @ desi

It is interesting Desi that over the last couple of nights I've seen these programs, from memory on the Seven Network, that are all into this psychic and ghosts stuff. This phenomenon has been around for a while where commercial television is heavily into this sort of stuff. Personally I think it belongs with this whole "secret formula" that Rupert Murdoch has found by which anyone can assemble a massive pile of money (and a lot of power) in the world — essentially by exploiting the gullibility of people and playing on their emotions. That's the real "miracle" involved here — the "secret formula" of Rupert and these cynical commercial network owners who'd sell their own grandmas if there was a buck to be made out of it.

The psychics brought in on a police murder investigation in New Zealand was interesting. In the hard sciences there is still this huge unknown of how elementary particles are able to exchange information over enormous distances without any physical connection and seemingly in defiance of the Einstein-discovered understanding that the upper limit of speed is the speed of light. I've written about this on the forum. I am not a complete sceptic about psychic or paranormal phenomenon. I speculate that there might be some connection between the abilities some people have and this knowledge we have that there seem to be some forms of communication — as in those exchanges that have been observed in elementary particles where twinned particles at large distances from one another can swap this quality they have called "spin" without their seeming to be any connection between them. How all this might be related I haven't a clue. It is a challenge at times to remain sceptical of this sort of stuff that obviously charlatans and snake oil salesmen are trying to foist on society to make money for themselves and the genuine curiosity we ought have to the true mysteries of creation. This is why human society spends so much money on experiments like the Large Hadron Collider at Cern. Those experiments might eventually give us insight into these great mysteries of communication.

The other program, which I didn't watch but was running in the background as I was doing other things, was about experiments to detect ghosts in some stadium.

Brian Coyne
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