Pucc-H:Physics:crl@CS-Mordred.UUCP (01/18/84)
Psychic warfare??? Who could ever believe that ESP is within the realm of possibility??? Some people out there are willing to believe anything--like a round earth, a heliocentric solar system, that a 50 eV electron can tunnel through a 100 eV potential barrier, that I can travel at 99.99999% the speed of light for long periods of time without aging appreciably . . . . Oh, you mean all the above is true??? (These too were once considered insane beliefs. ESP might be just wishful thinking, but you never know.) Charles LaBrec UUCP: pur-ee!Physics:crl, purdue!Physics:crl INTERNET: crl @ pur-phy.UUCP
emjej@uokvax.UUCP (01/23/84)
#R:pur-phy:-115200:uokvax:3800011:000:516 uokvax!emjej Jan 21 17:01:00 1984 The difference between alleged psychic powers and the items which, by citing, people try to put into the same equivalence class, is that the people who proposed a round earth/heliocentric solar system, etc. could propose repeatable experiments to test their propositions. Moreover, they were not fashionable beliefs the way Velikovskianism, astrology, and ESP are now. (Galileo risked his neck for his beliefs; the cranks risk fame and fortune among the gullible who are all too ready to believe.) James Jones