Is telekinesis real? many websites claim it exists. has there been any experimental proof?

Question

Is telekinesis real? many websites claim it exists. has there been any experimental proof?

Answer 1

yes it is. i promise.

Answer 2

Since Nina has been dead since 1990 we will never know for sure if she had paranormal abilites although I doubt that she did.

"As for Nina Kulagina, the conditions under which she operated were far from acceptable from the view of basic scientific standards. Tests were frequently carried out at her own home or in hotel rooms; no tight controls were ever applied, owing to the fact that a demonstration might take several hours of preparation (i.e. concentration by Nina) and even then, there was any guarantee of success. Also, when anyone who has a background in magicians' techniques watches these films, they cannot avoid the feeling that she is using standard conjuring techniques: a magnet hidden on her body to move the compass needle; a thread or a thin hair to move objects across the table; a small mirror concealed in her hand to read signs with numbers and letters being held behind her. Unfortunately, no expert in conjuring techniques was ever present at Kulagina's demonstrations"

Answer 3

I'm having a psychic vision someone on here will point you to these websites.

http://www.parapsych.org/

http://www.rhine.org/main.shtml

http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=psy...

http://www.parapsych.org/members/h_schmi...

No real scientist believes it though.

I'm having another premonition that this answer will be reported as a violation

Answer 4

Absolute proof is awful hard to come by in science, but evidence on the other hand is what science is all about. Some research has been done to try and accumulate evidence for telekinesis (psychokinesis or PK), and research is ongoing today. Unfortunately, the evidence so far hasn't turned the world upside-down. The best evidence gathered to date is still mired in controversy and debate and beset with difficulties in methodology and analysis. So, while the believers believe it to be good evidence, non-believers remain unconvinced. See the link below on kinesis.

What's amusing is that sometimes someone might bring up an old magician and try to claim that it is evidence of telekinesis by shifting the burden of evidence (a logical fallacy of reasoning) and argument by elimination (another logical fallacy). Nina Kulagina is one common example. Since magicians can duplicate her tricks under far more challenging conditions than she ever performed under (having a scientist standing somewhere in the room isn't exactly what modern science would call a "controlled experiment"), there is already a highly likely and natural explanation for her tricks. There is more about Kulagina in my blog (link below)

Answer 5

Maybe after you die you can become a poltergeist & move things. They seem to have a lot of telekinetic powers. Till then...don't stress your brain trying to do it. You could have a stroke or something.

Answer 6

they are watching too much Mindfreak

Answer 7

of course it's not

Answer 8

Not only no proof, but not even any reasonable evidence.

Since it would violate several known laws of physics it seems a little unlikely, except in fiction and fairy stories.

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Answer 9

There exists no experimental proof of this or any other supernatural claim.  For the last decade, the James Randi Educational Foundation has had an open challenge to anyone claiming to have supernatural abilities to demonstrate them in a controlled experiment.

Answer 10

Yes, there is scientific experimental evidence (science provides evidence not proof) for the existence of psychokinesis (newer term for telekinesis).

The evidence shows that humans can influence (not control) objects in flux like thrown dice, random number generators, and decaying radio active particles at levels very slightly above chance (this is sometimes known as Micro PK). These findings require statical evaluation to even find and are unimpressive until considered collectively with meta-analysis for hundreds of experiments over more than 27 years of research with odds anywhere from 4000 to 1 to a trillion to 1. The accepted standards of evidence is that there is less than a 5% probability that results were due to chance.

There is no scientific evidence (or claims) that anyone can levitate their friends, stop a speeding car, or throw a fireball.

I have provided you links that will allow you to locate and review some of the scientific evidence if you wish to examine it.

While controversial I have included a video of Nina Kulagina from the former Soviet Union that demonstrated psychokinetic abilities in a controlled laboratory setting in front of trained scientist.  Her abilities can be replicated using magic tricks but no skeptic or magician has EVER replicated her demonstrations under the same conditions imposed upon her. Thus, her cheating remains an untested and unsupported (no evidence) assumption.

Many argue that it was a set up by the Soviet Union to show the United States that soviets had a psychic weapon of sorts. However, no documents have ever been produced that even suggest evidence for this claim.

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