Telekinesis: Pseudoscience or a Real Psychic Ability?

Telekinesis or psychokinesis define a supposed psychic ability by which humans could influence, alter and move physical objects through the mind. Science fiction? Pseudoscience and superstition, as the beloved Carl Sagan would say? Possibly.

However, beyond that This theme inevitably takes us back to cinematographic scenes such as Star Wars and the Jedi, the character of Carrie White from Stephen King’s novel or the character of Eleven in Stranger Thingsthere is an important detail that we must consider.

This topic began to attract the attention of scientists throughout the Cold War. More than thirty years of the most varied investigations in which he could not evidence is found that mind has power over matter. However, today, an interesting possibility opens up.

With the development of so-called neurotechnologies such as Neuralink, figures such as Elon Musk show us that, Soon, human beings will be able to interact with different devices through the mind…and an interface. As Arthur C. Clark once said, sometimes, Magic is just science that we still don’t fully understand…

Telekinesis, what do we know so far?

Telekinesis was first coined in 1914, but It was not until 1934 when the parapsychologist JB Rhine began to investigate this phenomenon on an experimental level.. Unfortunately, and to this day, it has not been proven that human beings are capable of mentally influencing external objects or events without the use of physical energy.

The truth is that over time the phenomenon of telekinesis or psychogenesis has aroused a lot of interest. However, The greatest boom in research on this topic emerged especially during the Cold War.. Thus, the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine carried out the most notable research in the 1980s at the request of the United States Army Research Institute.

The conclusions they reached are the same ones that are maintained today by experts. We analyze them.

Why is telekinesis not a sustainable or valid psychic ability?

One of the figures who has currently investigated the phenomenon of telekinesis the most is the British physicist John G. Taylor. According to him, currently, there is no physical mechanism that makes psychokinesis possible for the following reasons:

To move objects with your mind, a new form of highly powerful energy would be necessary.. It would be a kind of “fifth force”, one capable of overcoming the electromagnetic forces that hold atoms together.Telekinesis goes against the established laws of physics such as the second law of thermodynamics, the conservation of momentum or the inverse square law.

The curious case of Nina Kulagina

Nina Kulagina was one of the most well-known and studied figures in the field of telekinesis. He was born in Russia in 1926, at the age of 14 he entered the Red Army and during World War II he was part of the tank regiment. It was during the post-war period, when she, already a housewife, began to show something out of the ordinary…

Nina moved objects without touching them. Soon, she began to be studied by a committee of Soviet experts, who subjected her to endless tests and experiments. Her case is one of the best known during the Cold War period; there are even curious black and white recordings in which she could be seen separating the yolks from the whites in eggs submerged in water and moving matches with her hand. mind.

As she herself explained, this faculty appeared more intensely when she was angry. After these experiences, she also declared that she was exhausted and experienced pain in her spine and eyes… Now, finally (and according to her declaration) ended up losing this ability due to stormswhose electrical phenomena diminished that (apparent extraordinary faculty).

Now… was Nina Kulagina really a person with telekinetic powers? It is suspected that It was the Soviet Union itself that popularized and manipulated women’s abilities for clear propaganda purposes.…

Telekinesis will be possible in the future (but through other mechanisms)

If we say at this very moment that telekinesis will be a reality in the near future, many will doubt it. How can we not do it if we have been demonstrating for decades that such a capacity is improbable and defies known physics?

Well, very recently Elon Musk introduced us to his company Neuralinkan organization oriented, neither more nor less, than develop technology that can create bridges between the brain and machines. With what purpose? The main one, the medical one: treating blindness, movement problems, neurodegenerative diseases…

Now, the goal is to go further and, of course, challenge many of the things we take for granted. One of them could be create autonomous cars that we can drive with our minds. This form of telepathy will be mediated by small interfaces that will enable communication between us and the car’s computer.

Apparently, the psychic and biological universe was missing only the alliance of technology to make something that human beings have been dreaming of for decades a reality…

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