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Thousands of would-be psychics will attempt to use their psychic powers to locate a roving psychologist this week in a mass experiment into the paranormal.
The volunteers will use Twitter’s direct messaging service, to try to pinpoint the whereabouts of Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire, in a supernatural version of hide and seek.
The experiment will test what believers in the paranormal call "remote viewing", the ability to describe what is happening at a distant location they have never been to by simply using a form of psychic projection.
“Remote viewing” – first experimented on by the CIA in the 1970s to try and help gather information about the military ambitions of foreign nations. The $20m project was forced to shut down 25 years later after government officials concluded that the experiment failed to come up with concrete evidence in its research.
Wiseman remains skeptical of the claims made in the project in regards to remote viewers being able to zoom in to specific locations using only their mind and recalling in detail of what was happening in that location at that time.
Wiseman plans to travel to a different location each day between Tuesday and Friday, and will invite people to describe where they think he is by sending "tweets" over the internet. Wiseman will then post five photos of places on a website and ask people to decide which one he is at.
Wiseman says that the instant nature of tweets allows thousands of people to take part in real time, making it perfect for an extra-sensory perception experiment.
To pass the test, Wiseman says the psychic participants must get his location right on three of the four days. The results of the experiment, which is being run with New Scientist magazine, will be announced daily.
To take part in the experiment, visit https://twitter.com/RichardWiseman.
Source: Guardian News and Media 2009
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