Find out, with your friends or class mates, if you can read someone's mind. 

Read the instructions before you start!

Materials:

• at least 10 people (your class for instance),
• a room you can close (Place A),
• a second room you can close (Place B), from where you cannot see or hear Place A,
• paper and pencil,
• a telephone directory and
• 2 stopwatches.

Experiment (20 minutes):

The purpose of this experiment is to investigate if telepathy is possible. In other words: if people can read other people's mind.

Instructions for all participants:

1. Propose to your class (or any other group of at least ten people) to participate in this telepathy experiment. They can only participate if they agree to follow all your instructions in order to guarantee ‘the proper experimental conditions’.
   One instruction is that, except for two volunteers, no one leaves the room (Place A) for the duration of the experiment, which is 20 minutes at most.(When in doubt go to the bathroom now.)
   Tell them this experiment may be repeated once or twice.
2. Ask someone who believes in telepathy and/or believes to have telepathic powers to be Volunteer number 1.
3. Ask someone else who is believed by most to be trustworthy and who is not very close to Volunteer-1 (say close friend, brother or sister) to be Volunteer-2.
4. Find a place in or outside the building (Place B), which can be reached in 5 minutes. From there it must be absolutely impossible to see, hear or in any other way observe what is going on in Place A.

Instructions for volunteers:

1. They must leave their mobile phones or any other communication devices in the room.
2. They will be frisked to make sure no such device is hidden.
3. Bring paper and pencil.
4. They have 5 minutes from the word GO to go straight to Place B.
5. Explain that during minutes 6 through 10 the group in Place A will concentrate on any number  between 0 and 1000 (including 0, excluding 1000; just one for the entire group!). This will be a 3-digit number: 000, 001, 002, ..., 010, 011, ..., 098, 099, 100, etc. up tp 999.
   
6. In Place B Volunteer-1 will write down the 3-digit number – only one! - he or she thinks the group has in mind.
7. Volunteer-1 hands the paper to Volunteer-2 and together they return straight to Place A, within minute 11 through 15.
8. Volunteer-2 will observe Volunteer-1 from GO until return to Place A to make sure Volunteer-1 will follow all instructions and not do anything that may interfere with the experiment.

Now start the experiment:

Give the GO-signal and start both stopwatches. Give one stopwatch to Volunteer-2, who will keep an eye on the time-schedule. The other stopwatch stays with the group in Place A.
Volunteers move to Place B.

Instructions for group in Place A after volunteers have left:

1. Determine which person in the room is the youngest (oldest, tallest, shortest, or any other characteristic not shared by the others).
2. Ask this person to close his or her eyes, give her or him the phonebook, ask to open it on any page on which phone numbers appear (do it again if the page does not list phone numbers). Ask to open his or her eyes, find the phone number in the upper right hand corner of the right page, and read the last three digits aloud.
3. Write this number on the blackboard (or any other surface) large enough for everyone to see.
4. Ask the group to concentrate on that number during minutes 6 through 10 after GO.
5. Wait for both volunteers to return.
6. Ask Volunteer-2 if he or she has observed anything which possibly could have interfered with the experiment.
7. If this is the case, the experiment has failed and should be stopped right then.
8. If not, ask Volunteer-2 to hand over the piece of paper with the number and read it aloud.
9. See whether both numbers are the same.

In case they do not match, no proof of telepathy was found. In case both numbers match, this means either there is telepathy at work or the match was a coincidence. This coincidence occurs every 1000 times on average. If the experiment is done, for instance, in a thousand schools, on average one will come up with matching numbers.

When a match is found: repeat the experiment (with another Volunteer-2 and another phonebook person). If a match is also found the second time, the odds were one in a million. In that case one should repeat the experiment one more time, with yet other helpers.

If a match is found the third time in a row, the odds were one in a billion. In order to satisfy most if not all sceptics it is advisable to do it a fourth time in a row, since then you have an occurrence which only happens once in a trillion (a million times a million times).

Tell us about your results 

Good… eh… luck!

Comments

ofcourse NoT!! Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2008-08-25 12:36:39   haha ofcourse,that cant be..    i mean hello.....thats so impossible     only who is satanic can do that,,and oly ecept w/ the help of God..

MAYBE SO Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2007-11-12 18:00:34 I dont think rap music is a bad influence maybe on people who have no a short intention spand. People drinkj because they want to not be cause rap music tells them to.

About your message Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2007-04-20 08:46:25 Fully agree with author. And thx for a post.

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