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September 22, 2006
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William Tiller dances around on the edge of reality. Most times, he comes back to the solid terra firma of mainstream science. We know he's mainstream because he's an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
He also has a PhD in Physics. Worked in the Westinghouse Research Labs, then retired as Professor Emeritus at Stanford's Department of Materials Science. He published literally hundreds of scientific papers and 3 books. All along this path, he was curious about human potential. He thought about stuff like how much influence we have in a universe of many dimensions.
He decided to test the conventional materialistic approach to space-time.
William built a couple of simple electrical oscillators, a device that creates an electrical signal. That's all an oscillator does. Nothing more, nothing less. He put one aside as the control unit to use later as a comparison. Then he stepped back out there to the edge of reality.
The other oscillator went onto a table surrounded by four people. These folks meditated for about an hour, imparting an instruction to the oscillator. They wanted it to raise the pH level of purified water by one unit. In other words, make the water more alkaline. Later, they opted to make the water more acid, also by one unit. Using sealed containers, without adding chemicals.
That oughta do it. But there's one more thing. The oscillator was at the Stanford campus in California. The water was in Minnesota.
The water was monitored for several weeks to establish a baseline for any changes. Then the oscillator was FedEx'd to the Minnesota lab and placed about six inches from the water, plugged in and switched on. It radiated less than 1 millionth of a watt. In the space of 1 to 3 months, the pH levels changed to within 1/100th of the specification.
Everyone knows it ain't science if you can't repeat it. Dr Tiller's experiment was replicated in 8 American and 2 European laboratories.
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