Ganzfeld experiment - Ganzfeld experiment The ganzfeld ("total field") experiment uses audio and visual sensory deprivation to test for extra-sensory perception (ESP). There are claims that this experiment yields results that deviate significantly from randomness, and represent some of the strongest experimental evidence for psi phenomena to date. As with all purported psi phenomena, these claims are highly controversial within science in general and even within parapsychology. The debate is well-documented in parapsychology journals and in articles such as those referred to below. The ganzfeld experiments are among the most recent in parapsychology for testing the existence of and affecting factors of telepathy, the ability to communicate information from one person's mind to that of another without resorting to normal means. After the initial success of the forced-choice card-guessing.
Remote viewing - identify a target to the viewer. Originally suggested by Ingo Swann and developed at SRI. This technology was the basis which allowed remote viewing to be taught to non-psychics. Technical Remote Viewing (TRV), which is a trademarked term of one company's offered training, based upon CRV, incorporating advanced tools developed in the latter years of the DIA operational unit and in the private sector Associative Remote Viewing (ARV) is a variant which adds a level of indirection, specifically proxy targets are associated to events in order to answer binary (yes/no) questions. Often applied to predicting future events. Applications Remote viewing was originally developed under a US government-sponsored program, with an eye toward intelligence-gathering applications for the CIA and military clients. Some RV proponents state that they suspect that some US government.
Kennedy-Thorndike experiment - Kennedy-Thorndike experiment The Kennedy-Thorndike experiment, first conducted in 1932, is a modified form of the Michelson-Morley experimental procedure. This experiment tests whether c, the speed of light, depends on the velocity of the laboratory. Special relativity states that the speed of light is the same no matter how fast an observer is travelling. The Kennedy-Thorndike experiment tests this prediction by monitoring the oscillations of a light source as it accelerates and decelerates. In this experiment, the path lengths of a split beam are made unequal. If correct, the Fitzgerald-Lorentz contraction hypothesis would then be unable to explain the null result from this experiment. Current (as of 2003) Michelson-Morley experiments' precision is higher than the current Kennedy-Thorndike experiments' precisions..
Kuleshov Experiment - Kuleshov Experiment Lev Kuleshov was an early Russian filmmaker who believed that juxtaposing two unrelated images could convey a separate meaning. In his experiment he filmed Mozhukhin, a famous Russian actor, and shots of a bowl of soup, a girl, a teddy bear, and a child's coffin. He then cut the shot of the actor into the other shot; each time it was the same shot of the actor. Viewers felt that the shots of the actor conveyed different emotions, though each time it was in fact the same shot. Kuleshov used the experiment to indicate the usefulness and effectiveness of film editing..
Japanese Experiment Module - Japanese Experiment Module The Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) Kibo (Hope) is the Japanese contribution to the International Space Station. It consists of 4 components: The Pressurized Module (PM) is the core component. It is of cylindrical shape, 11.2m long and 4.4m in diameter. It contains 10 standard payload racks (ISPRs). The Exposed Facility (EF), also known as 'Terrace' is located outside the port cone of the PM (which is equipped with an airlocked hatch). Experiments are fully exposed to the space environment here. The Experiment Logistics Module (ELM) contain a pressurized section to serve the PM and an unpressurized section to serve the EF. It is placed atop the port side of the PM, and is highly movable. It is intended as a storage and transportation module..
Haughley Experiment - Haughley Experiment The Haughley Experiment was the first scientific comparative study of organic farming and conventional chemical-based farming, started in 1939 by Lady Eve Balfour and Alice Debenham, on two adjoining farms in Haughley Green, Suffolk, England. In the words of Lady Eve, from her address to the IFOAM conference in Switzerland, in 1977[1]: "[The Haughley Experiment] was started in 1939 on my farm and taken over by the Soil Association in 1947 which for the next 25 years directed and sponsored it. This pioneering experiment was the first ecologically designed agricultural research project, on a full farm scale. It was set up to fill a gap in the evidence on which the claims for the benefits of organic husbandry were based. It was decided that the.
Hershey-Chase experiment - Hershey-Chase experiment In 1952, Alfred Hershey and Marsha Chase conducted a series of experiments that identified DNA to be the genetic material of phages and, ultimately, of all organisms. A phage is a small virus that infects bacteria. It consists of a protein coat that encloses the genetic material. When a phage infects a bacterium, it inserts its genetic material into the bacterium, while its coat remains outside. In a first experiment, T2 phages with radioactive 32P-labeled DNA infected bacteria. In a second experiment, T2 phages with radioactive 35S-labeled protein infected bacteria. In both experiments, bacteria were separated from the phage coats by blending followed by centrifugation. In the first experiment, most radioactivity was found in the infected bacteria, while in the second experiment most radioactivity was found.
GHZ experiment - GHZ experiment GHZ experiments are a class of experiments which arise in quantum mechanics, in discussion and experimental determination of whether local hidden variables are required for, or even compatible with, the representation of experimental results; and with particular relevance to the EPR experiment. The GHZ experiments are distinguished by involving more than two observers or detectors. They are named for Daniel M. Greenberger, Michael A. Horne, and Anton Zeilinger (GHZ) who first analyzed certain measurements involving four observers [1], and who subsequently (together with A. Shimony, upon a suggestion by N. D. Mermin) applied their arguments to certain measurements involving three observers [2]. Frequently considered cases of GHZ experiments are concerned with measurements obtained by three observers, A, B, and C, who each can detect one.
Gold foil experiment - Gold foil experiment The Gold foil experiment was an experiment done by Ernest Rutherford to determine the layout of the atom. Until that time, the prevailing theory was the Plum pudding model of the atom. Rutherford determined that the true shape is, in fact, the Bohr model of the atom. (Bohr was his top assistant at the time) Methodology He determined this by bombarding gold foil with alpha particles, and observing the scattering of these particles, a procedure requiring many hours in a darkened room watching for tiny flashes of light as the scattered particles struck a scintillant screen. Rutherford was surprised to observe that most of the particles passed through the foil without any deflection; under the plum pudding model, charge would be distributed thickly in the.
Griffith's experiment - Griffith's experiment In 1928, Frederick Griffith conducted an experiment that showed the transformation of living cells by a transforming principle, which was later discovered to be DNA. Griffith used two strains of Pneumococcus (which infects mice), a S (smooth) and a R (rough) strain. The S strain covers itself with a polysaccharide capsule that protects it from the host's immune system, resulting in the death of the host, while the R strain doesn't have that protective capsule and is defeated by the host's immune system. In his experiment, bacteria from the S strain were killed by heat, and their remains were added to R strain bacteria. It turned out that the formerly harmless R strain now was able to kill its host. It had been transformed into.
Karl Friedrich Bahrdt - gave a handle to his enemies by a change in his public attitude towards religion. The climax came with the publication of his Neueste Offenbarungen Gottes in Briefen und Erzählungen (1773-1775), purporting to be a "model version" of the New Testament, rendered, with due regard to enlightenment, into modern German. The book is remembered solely through Goethe's scornful attack on its want of taste; its immediate effect was to produce Bahrdt’s expulsion from Giessen. He was lucky enough at once to find a post as principal of the educational institution established in his château at Marschlins by the Swiss statesman Ulysses von Salis (1728-1800). The school had languished since the death of its founder and first head, Martin Planta (1727-1772), and von Salis hoped to revive it by reconstituting it as.
Kavka's toxin puzzle - substance that will make you violently ill for a few hours. However, it has no long term effects of any kind. As an experiment in psychology, I'm offering you a million dollars if tonight at midnight you fully intend to drink toxin X by tomorrow at noon. You don't actually have to drink the toxin; all you have to do is to intend to drink it. Your intention will be tested by a device similar to a polygraph which my people have developed and which has been shown to be 100% accurate. If at midnight you have the intention, a million will be wired to your bank account. The only other conditions are that you are to make no bets, do anything that will cause you to become irrational, or arrange.
Kaon - apparently differentiated them was their decay processes and the fact that the two different sets of decay products had different parity. Particle decays by the strong or electromagnetic interactions had been observed to conserve parity in their decays. Theoretical physicists T. D. Lee and C. N. Yang proposed in 1956 that parity need not be conserved in weak interaction decays. In 1957 Chien-Shiung Wu showed this violation of parity conservation in the beta decay of cobalt. Even with the violation of parity, it was thought that the combination of charge conjugation and parity would leave the system invariant (CP invariance). An experiment by Cronin and Fitch in 1964 showed that there was a small CP violation in the kaon decay, so the kaon has played a central role in the discussions.
Katherine Heigl - when the bomb ends up in the hands of a terrorist. Unfortunately, the telefilm, directed by Eric Laneuville, written by Tom Vaughan, and based on the bestseller, “The Seventh Power,” by James Mills, was shelved when its storyline was deemed too close for comfort to the terrible events of September 11, 2001. Katherine recorded a passionate public service announcement for the American Red Cross in an effort to help raise money for victims of the atrocity. "Ground Zero" re-surfaced in 2003 under the new title of "Critical Assembly". The film premiered on NBC on July 12th almost two years after its original release date. Since the Fall of 2002, Katherine has continued to work prolifically on an amazing variety of projects. "Romy and Michele: Behind The Velvet Rope", Katherine was cast.
Kevin Warwick - similar chip in his wife's arm and -- at her insistence -- attempt to transmit signals from one nervous system to another. If successful, he claims that this arm-twinge-inducing experiment will produce a primitive form of technologically assisted sensory telepathy or empathy. Notwithstanding the prior existence of interactive electronic muscle, heart and brain implants in thousands of human beings worldwide, Warwick has claimed that this will somehow make him into a "cyborg". As of March 22 2002, Kevin Warwick has now actually had a chip implanted. See the Ananova story below. Professor Warwick has made dramatic claims about the importance of his research and the threat of increasing machine intelligence. Many view Warwick as a self-publicist, and regard his claims with extreme skepticism. Warwick has been nicknamed as Captain Cyborg in.
Key of Solomon - purpose of the texts that those spirits are demons), and to protect the conjurer (called exorcist in the book) from them and against an attempt of possession. There are also curses to oblige reluctant spirits to obey. The book gives details on how to prepare the ink to draw the magic symbols necessary for the experiments [sic] the magician is going to perform, using animal blood mixed with other substances. All substances needed for the magic drawings and amulets are detailed, as well as the means to purify and prepare them. The conjurer must also purify himself before intend an experiment, and these rituals are also detailed, as well as the clothing he must use, the colours, etc. According to the Key of Solomon animals must be sacrificed as offerings to.
Kite flying - forms, to modern sparless inflatable designs.: These kites shaped like giant squids are more than 40 feet long. These kites are about 50 feet long each. The rainbow color wind sock near the bottom of the picture spins like a turbine. Modern acrobatic kites use more than one line to allow fine control in the kite's angle to the wind. In recent years, multi-line kite flying has developed into a sport, with competitions for precision flying and artistic interpretation of music. Kites have been used militarily in the past, both for observation by lifting an observer above the field of battle, and for delivery of munitions. They have also been used for scientific purposes, for example Benjamin Franklin's famous electrical experiment. Kites are the precursors to aircraft, and were instrumental.
Kim Stanley Robinson - many alternative lifestyles (including ones where non-monogamous relationships are commonplace). Some reviewers (including, for instance, many of the reader reviews at Amazon.com) have criticised these aspects of the books on the basis that it is Marxist and Green propaganda, and completely unrealistic. Other reviewers have categorised such people as wanting to read "Young Christian Republicans Go To Mars", and have suggested that the point of science fiction is to explore new ideas. Other novels His other novels include Icehenge (1984), The Memory of Whiteness (1985) -- a musican's tour through the solar system --and the alternate history The Years of Rice and Salt (2002), a thought experiment about a world without Christianity, featuring Muslim, Chinese and Hindu culture and philosophy. Not only because of the long time scale, but because of.
Killology - the number of loaded weapons recovered from the battlefield. Modern military training overrides this instinct, by: instilling rote reflexes training to view the enemy as non-human dispersing responsibility for the killing throughout the group displacing responsibility for the killing onto an authority figure, i.e. the commanding officer and the military hierarchy. (See the Milgram experiment) By the time of the Gulf War, says Grossman, 90 per cent of American soldiers would fire their weapons at other people. The act of killing is psychologically traumatic for the killer, even more so than constant danger or witnessing the death of others. Grossman further argues that violence in television, movies and video games contributes to real-life violence by a similar process of training and desensitization. External Link [[1].
Klingon - Klingon values center around honor. Those who die honorably are said to join the spirit of Kahless in Sto-Vo-Kor. Dishonorable deaths hold the destiny of the underworld of Gre'thor, guarded by Fek'lhr. Gre'thor is reached by passage on the Barge of the Dead, eternally piloted by Kortar, over the River of Blood. The dead are not mourned, but celebrated, and the body is viewed as an empty shell to be disposed of. History of the Klingon Empire The Klingon Empire was founded around 500 C.E on the Klingon homeworld of Qo'noS by Kahless the Unforgettable. The Empire went through several dynasties of rulers, experiencing a period between the 2nd and 3rd known as the "Dark Time," a 10-year experiment in democracy. Around the 14th century, Qo'noS was invaded by the Hur'q,.
