Mental Moving of Flowers - A Non-Local Mind Fluctuation Sensor
Technical Paper by Edmond Chouinard
E-Mail: edme...@aol.com 4-30-98
Overview:
The mind is found to influence the movement of flowers, back and forth on their
stems, in accordance to the content of associated visualizations. This experimental reality has now been confirmed and reconfirmed many times again in
a specially designed electro-optical and plasma physics laboratory. A multi-dimensional laser metrology system is setup to automatically monitor movement of flowers to resolutions and accuracies of small fractions of a micron and/or a few arc-seconds. The precision laser metrology setup measures a
mixture of five spatial coordinates (2-position and 3-angular) of a flower, an
18-inch long Carnation, which is gently clamp mounted at stem bottom and 6-inches up from bottom in a specially constructed water holding vessel. Instrumentation chains being used in these measurements have been "certified true" in that they are subsystems of instrumentation packages that have long been supplied to the US Air Force for precision measurements and alignment procedures on the ultra high speed Gatling guns of the F-16 Fighter Aircraft. Unique data gathering protocols provide for "floating", self referencing, dynamic "zero" baseline calibration. This is done through effectively canceling-out drift and random movement problems by simulating differential measurement techniques in the sequential measurement protocols themselves. Two
data streams are rapidly developed: one set of data from target flowers as they
are being moved back and forth, sequentially, and a second set of data from the
same target flowers when they are NOT being moved back and forth, sequentially.
The magnitudes of the moving target measurements are found to be greater than the magnitudes of the NON moving target measurements.
Protocol Definitions:
Four Distinct Events Defined:
Four Events are defined in these flower experiments: Move flower to the left (mentally); Move flower to the right (mentally); Do NOT move flower to the left
(a completely passive and meditative state, unconcerned with anything about the
flowers); and do NOT move flower to the right (also completely passive as above).
Event Structure:
Each Event occurs in precisely 128 seconds (hereafter referenced as simply 2-minutes), contains 1024 data points, and is available through its own file designator. The time interval of 2-minutes was initially chosen as a best compromise: among range-resolution trade-offs of computer technology; among the
many natural mental response times in meditative and focusing type experiences;
and among minimum response times which seemed plausible for flower movements. The 1024 number of data points per measurement was chosen as a high practical limit (as 32 Events can be monitored simultaneously). Therefore, the sampling rate is 1024\128 = 8 Hertz, considered more than adequate for time being. The number 1024 was chosen (say instead of 1000) because it is a power of 2 and files can therefore be directly loaded without further ado to do Fast Fourier Transforms, thus providing the accuracy of full Fourier Transforms but at speeds up to 100 times faster.
Trial Defined:
Each Trial is composed of 12-Events, 6-Events of Mental-Moving and 6-Events of
NON Mental-Moving. A Trial constitutes the minimum Data Elemental for these experiments. The 12-Events of a Trial follow each other rapidly and sequentially, over a time period of a half-hour, (128 seconds)x(12 Events)/(60
secs/min) = (25.6 minutes), plus a few seconds of non recorded free time between Events to satisfy human needs such as the scratching of itches or the moving to a more comfortable sitting position.
The 12-Events of a Trial are:
0 - Move Left
1 - Move Right
2 - Move Left
3 - Move Right
4 - Move Left
5 - Move Right
6 - Null Left
7 - Null Right
8 - Null Left
9 - Null Right
10 - Null Left
11 - Null Right
The first six Active Move Events of a Trial moves and tilts a flower on its stem, to the left and then to the right, for three complete round-trip cycles,
over a time frame of roughly 15-minutes. Immediately following, for the next six Passive Null Events, the flowers are not touched (mentally) but the data collection routines proceed precisely as in the first six Active Move Events. The numbering system of Events forming a Trial starts with a zero instead of a
one because of software design constraints. It is advantageous for us to stick
to this system, even if momentarily inconvenient. The final two digits of all file names associated with these experiments (and there are hundreds of such files, each containing 32 columns of 1024 points of simultaneously associated Events) automatically identify the type of file and its location within a Trial. A particular measurement sensor is chosen by identifying its column number.
Run Defined:
A Run is defined as some number of Trials that follow each other consecutively.
A Run may contain only one Trial or many Trials. No changes in setup are allowed in a Run. If instrumentation setup changes are made, a new and uniquely identified Run is called off. The first four digits of file names call off the Run number. This number also corresponds to the month and day that the Run occurred. Hence, each Run is uniquely identified by a single day.
(If two Runs occur on a single day, one of the Runs is identified with some closely preceding or following day.) The numbering system of Events continues consecutively when there is more that one Trial in a Run, which is usually the
case. Hence, if there are two Trials in a Run, the Event files number from 0 to 23, where Trial#1 is composed of Events 0 to 11, and Trial#2 is composed of
Events 12 to 23. A 3rd Trial in a Run would thus be composed of Events 24 to 35, and a 4th Trial in a Run would similarly be composed of Events 36 to 47, etc. For example, a typical file name might look like, 0216YY13.XXX. This is Run number 0216, created on February 16 (the year and precise daily time can be
obtained from a directory command). This file contains 32 columns of data associated with Event 13. Event 13 is the second Event of Trial#2, a Move Right mental command. The YY and XXX contain further alpha-coded information which does not concern us at this time.
Defining Valid Information:
Location numbers define a flower's Left position and its Right position. Whatever the absolute values of the numbers, those indicating "Left" are different from those indicating "Right". The difference between "Left" numbers
and "Right" numbers should be greater when the flower is being manipulated to the Left and to the Right, than are the differences between the "Left" numbers
and "Right" numbers when the flower is left alone, when the affecting human sources assume a passive mental state. In fact, if the flowers were completely
left alone, the differences between "Left" numbers and "Right" numbers should be zero, null. However, since ever so slight a wind draft can move a flower (even a faint, carefully directed puff-of-air whisper at a 6-foot distance can
be measured as a flower movement) and since the flower itself sometimes has a tendency to continued drooping or relaxation by the pull of gravity, we will undoubtedly see some fluctuations even when the flower is left alone. Thus, it
is most important to minimize such inevitable "experimental noise" influences.
This is the primary reason for having formulated the specific 12-Event sequence
of a Trial.
Trial Event Sequences:
Six numbers initially define a Trial: Three numbers that are the difference between Left and Right Moves and three numbers that are the difference between
Left and Right Nulls.
MoveDIF0001 = <0MoveLeft> - <1MoveRight> = (difference of average "left1024" and "right1024" positions)
MoveDIF0203 = <2MoveLeft> - <3MoveRight> = (difference of average "left1024" and "right1024" positions)
MoveDIF0405 = <4MoveLeft> - <5MoveRight> = (difference of average "left1024" and "right1024" positions)
NullDIF0607 = <6NullLeft> - <7NullRight> = (difference of average "left1024" and "right1024" positions)
NullDIF0809 = <8NullLeft> - <9NullRight> = (difference of average "left1024" and "right1024" )
NullDIF1011 = <10NullLeft> - <11NullRight> = (difference of average "left1024"
and "right1024" positions)
The second set of 3-numbers, NullDIF0607, NullDIF0809, and NullDIF1011 in general should be close to zero, null(as the time interval between Null Left and Null Right measurements is quite short). Though small, these numbers are always finite and they represent overall system noises (undesired anomalies), whether electronic noises, from wind, gravity, or other unknown physical or mental disturbances, or from asuras, ghandarvas, or other angelic types of subtle, and as yet, unseen influences. The point is, these Null Numbers should
be smaller or much smaller than the corresponding first set of 3-numbers, MoveDIF0001, MoveDIF0203, and MoveDIF0405. Whenever the Averaged Move Numbers are considerably larger than Averaged Null Numbers, then it is safe to postulate that flowers are found to move according to mental stimuli.
On rare occasion, some kind of fast step change in signal level occurs, indicating a sudden jerk in position of flower, usually settling in its new position, quite in analogy to a momentary human muscle spasm. Though possible instrumentation spikes or an occasional rise of aperiodic aliasing has not absolutely been ruled out, it is highly doubted. In any event, it is an anomaly which can occasionally contaminate the data of an Event. To minimize the effects of such phenomena, without plucking out such seeming aberrations from the raw data (especially as this may yet be something of an unexpected find to yet look at), the 3-MoveDIF numbers are averaged and the 3-NullDIF numbers are averaged. Doing this, the data from one Trial (the above summary of the twelve designated sequential Events) reduces to two numbers:
Trial Results Indicated by Two Numbers:
For a single Trial:
3MoveDIFtrial#X = <0+2+4MoveLeft> - <1+3+5MoveRight> and
3NullDIFtrial#X = (6+8+10NullLeft> - <7+9+11NullRight>
Similarly, if two Trials are averaged together, we get:
6MoveDIFtrial#X = <0+2+4+12+14+16MoveLeft> - <1+3+5+13+15+17MoveRight> 6NullDIFtrial#X = (6+8+10+18+20+22NullLeft> - <7+9+11+19+21+23NullRight> Regardless of the number of Trials (y) averaged together, if yMoveDIFtrial#X is
greater than yNullDIFtrial#X, then the flower is considered to move according to mental stimuli. The more Trials in a Run, the more stable is the averaged data.
S/N Ratio - Signal to Noise Ratio:
The ratio of Average Move Numbers to Average Null Numbers for any given Trial is defined as:
(yMoveDIFtrial#X)/(yNullDIFtrial#X) = S/N = Signal to Noise Ratio.
S/N is a dimensionless, self normalized quantifier which indicates the degree of flower movement according to mental stimuli. If S/N = 1, there is no distinguishing features between Move Events and Null Events. When S/N > 1, Move Events are greater than Null Events, giving significance to the Move Events. When S/N is 2 or greater, we have a powerful (even if yet noisy) Non-Local Mind Fluctuation Sensor, an viable analog sensor which can detect signals in real time like any other physical analog sensor. There may not even
be need, necessarily, of making multiple measurements and applying these simple
statistics while using this new sensor, less to enhance the quality of data, as
we are presently doing.
Run Summary:
A Run summary is a useful data block entity because a Run is usually performed
at a single sitting with one or more subjects performing one or more Trials on
one or more flowers. It is an in-tact grouping where the status of both human operatives and flower sensors remain relatively constant. A Run takes place within a maximum time period of a few hours. Variations in Mental Protocol may
be applied to the separate Trials of a Run, as most or all other variables are
being held as constant as is likely possible. The differences in Mental Protocol might then be seen in variations of data among the individual Trials of a Run. Similarly, if there are several flower sensors responding to the same mental stimuli, in principle, the difference in response among the flowers
might be seen. However, the single purpose of this paper is to elaborate on a flood of Data which seems to indicate beyond any reasonable doubt that flowers,
in fact, do move in response to homologous mental stimuli from humans.
Actual DATA:
RUN 0403: 5-Trials; Setup 32E8M2 32MEA77P&Q; 1-Person
Run 0403 contains 5-Trials, thus 60 files. The file names run from 0403YY00.XXX to 0403YY59.XXX. Each file has 32 columns of 1024 points each. The data contained in each column is concerned with the measurement of some variable among the mental sources, the local environment, and the targets. (Note that at some later time, these three variable types, the sources, the environment, and the targets, are to be associated with floating relationships
between the seer, the process of seeing, and the seen, as put forth in a preliminary theoretical world model developed in "Holographic Mind", cited below, which incorporates the floating states of consciousness along with these
physical measurements.)
The 5-Trials of Run 0403 are reported out as three sets of numbers. Trials 1 and 2 are summed together and are associated with Normal Mental Stimuli; Trials
3 and 4 are summed together and associated with Normal Mental Stimuli plus Heavy Prana (one of many possible esoteric extensions to normal visualization);
Trial 5 stands alone and is again associated with Normal Mental Stimuli only. Our concern here is with data files of columns #7 and #8 only, the data from two laser metrology system sensors indicating a grouping of linear changes in position and angle as discussed above. (The column identification number is inserted just in front of the DIF operator.) Hence:
1 S/N(0403Trials#1&2c7) =
(6Move7DIFtrial#1&2)/(6Null7DIFtrial#1&2) =
(0.004198)/(0.000984) = 4.266 (from file 0403M1DC.PDW)
2 S/N(0403Trials#1&2c8) =
(6Move8DIFtrial#1&2)/(6Null8DIFtrial#1&2) =
(0.014157)/(0.004415) = 3.207 (from file 0403M1DC.PDW)
3 S/N(0403Trials#3&4c7) =
(6Move7DIFtrial#3&4)/(6Null7DIFtrial#3&4) =
(0.000793)/(0.006078) = 0.130 (from file 0403M2DC.PDW)
4 S/N(0403Trials#3&4c8) =
(6Move8DIFtrial#3&4)/(6Null8DIFtrial#3&4) =
(0.017562)/(0.006753) = 2.600 (from file 0403M2DC.PDW)
5 S/N(0403Trial#5c7) =
(3Move7DIFtrial#5)/(3Null7DIFtrial#5) =
(0.007006)/(0.003152) = 2.222 (from file 0403M3DC.PDW)
6 S/N(0403Trial#5c8) =
(3Move8DIFtrial#5)/(3Null8DIFtrial#5) =
(0.010114)/(0.002107) = 4.800 (from file 0403M3DC.PDW)
Calibration:
The DIF numbers creating the S/N Ratio are the differences of actual averaged voltages from unmodified raw data. For this Run 0403 and for Run 0402 below, 0.01 volts linearly equates to a flower movement of approximately 1.5 micron. Hence the average value of random fluctuations of the test flower is few tenths
of a micron. The average distance that a flower moves between its Left Move position and its Right Move position is a couple of microns. One micron is equal to 0.000040 inch = 40 micro-inches.
RUN 0402: 3-Trials; Setup 32E8M2 32MEA77P&Q; 1-Person
Run 0402 contains 3-Trials, thus 36 files. The file names go from 0402YY00.XXX
to 0402YY35.XXX. The 3-Trials of Run 0402 are reported out as a single set of numbers. Trials 1, 2, and 3 are summed together and are associated with Normal
Mental Stimuli. Hence, with the same procedures as discussed above:
7 S/N(0402Trial#1&2&3c7) =
(9Move7DIFtrial#1&2&3)/(9Null7DIFtrial#1&2&3) =
(0.014630)/(0.007768) = 1.883 (from file 0402M9DC.PDW)
8 S/N(0402Trial#1&2&3c8) =
(9Move8DIFtrial#1&2&3)/(9Null8DIFtrial#1&2&3) =
(0.007586)/(0.003689) = 2.056 (from file 0402M9DC.PDW)
RUN 0219: 2-Trials; Setup 32E8L2 32MEA77N&O; 1-Person
9 S/N(0219Trials#1&2c25) =
(6Move25DIFtrial#1&2)/(6Null25DIFtrial#1&2) =
(0.014910)/(0.001069) = 13.948 (from file 0219M&SM.PDW)
10 S/N(0219Trials#1&2c26) =
(6Move26DIFtrial#1&2)/(6Null26DIFtrial#1&2) =
(0.057610)/(0.008828) = 6.526 (from file 0219M&SM.PDW)
11 S/N(0219Trials#1&2c27) =
(6Move27DIFtrial#1&2)/(6Null27DIFtrial#1&2) =
(0.409077)/(0.157734) = 2.593 (from file 0219M&SM.PDW)
Calibration:
The column 25 and 26 sensors of Run numbers 0219, 0218, and 0217 are uncalibrated but their response is approximately the same as the calibration values given in Run 0403, probably to within a factor of two. The additional column 27 sensor in these Runs are also uncalibrated, and in addition to centroid position, this c27 sensor is simultaneously sensitive to the opening and closing of flower petals, another variable that we had not initially taken
into due consideration. There are many ways to mentally move a flower to the Left or to the Right, including pushing and pulling on its petals.
RUN 0218: 3-Trials; Setup 32E8L2 32MEA77N&O; 1-Person
12 S/N(0218Trials#1&2&3c25) =
(9Move25DIFtrial#1&2&3)/(9Null25DIFtrial#1&2&3) =
(0.016516)/(0.006325) = 2.611 (from file 0218M&SM.PDW)
13 S/N(0218Trials#1&2&3c26) =
(9Move26DIFtrial#1&2&3)/(9Null26DIFtrial#1&2&3) =
(0.043274)/(0.027438) = 1.577 (from file 0218M&SM.PDW)
14 S/N(0218Trials#1&2c&3c27) = (9Move27DIFtrial#1&2&3)/(9Null27DIFtrial#1&2&3) =
(0.196791)/(0.006019) = 32.695 (from file 0218M&SM.PDW)
RUN 0217: 2-Trials; Setup 32E8L2 32MEA77N&O; 4-Persons
15 S/N(0217Trials#1&2c25) =
(6Move25DIFtrial#1&2)/(6Null25DIFtrial#1&2) =
(0.021234)/(0.016606) = 1.279 (from file 0217M&SR.PDW)
16 S/N(0217Trials#1&2c26) =
(6Move26DIFtrial#1&2)/(6Null26DIFtrial#1&2) =
(0.050143)/(0.066094) = 0.759 (from file 0217M&SR.PDW)
17 S/N(0217Trials#1&2c27) =
(6Move27DIFtrial#1&2)/(6Null27DIFtrial#1&2) =
(0.190223)/(0.155331) = 1.225 (from file 0217M&SR.PDW)
DATA Summary:
Summing up the above data and weighting the corresponding S/N Ratios according
to the number of Trials in a Run:
1 S/N(0403Trials#1&2c7) = 4.266 x 2 = 8.532
2 S/N(0403Trials#1&2c8) = 3.207 x 2 = 6.414
3 S/N(0403Trials#3&4c7) = 0.130 x 2 = 0.260
4 S/N(0403Trials#3&4c8) = 2.600 x 2 = 5.200
5 S/N(0403Trial#5c7) = 2.222 x 1 = 2.222
6 S/N(0403Trial#5c8) = 4.800 x 1 = 4.800
7 S/N(0402Trials#1&2&3c7) = 1.883 x 3 = 5.649
8 S/N(0402Trials#1&2&3c8) = 2.056 x 3 = 6.168
9 S/N(0219Trials#1&2c25) = 13.948 x 2 = 27.896
10 S/N(0219Trials#1&2c26) = 6.526 x 2 = 13.052
11 S/N(0219Trials#1&2c27) = 2.593 x 2 = 5.186
12 S/N(0218Trials#1&2&3c25) = 2.611 x 3 = 7.833
13 S/N(0218Trials#1&2&3c26) = 1.577 x 3 = 4.731
14 S/N(0218Trials#1&2&3c27) = 32.695 x 3 = 98.085
15 S/N(0217Trials#1&2c25) = 1.279 x 2 = 2.558
16 S/N(0217Trials#1&2c26) = 0.759 x 2 = 1.158
17 S/N(0217Trials#1&2c27) = 1.225 x 2 = 2.450
Total value of far right column = 202.154
Total number of Data-Sensor Trials = 37
Grand Average S/N for ALL Data = 202.154/37 = 5.464
Since the very highest and the very lowest values of S/N Ratios may not be representative of simple unbiased data (for the many reasons cited previously)
we remove the two smallest S/N values (rows 3 and 16) and two largest S/N values (rows 9 and 14), all of which can be considered aberrations of data, at
least for the moment, and we obtain:
Grand Average of S/N for CENTROID Data = 74.755/28 = 2.670
Conclusions:
It would appear that we really have a Mental Moving of Flowers - A Non-Local Mind Fluctuation Sensor. We have a Signal to Noise Ratio of at least 2.670 Averaged over 37 Trials. The Trials contain 444 separate Events where each Event is an Average of 1024 Data Points. This amounts 16,822,272 Data Points. It would be difficult to imagine how a Grand Average S/N => 2.670 could ever be
considered anything less than being most overwhelmingly significant.
There is yet an equal amount again of earlier data which point to the same conclusions stated above. The Setup and Operational Protocols have evolved with
heavy "growing pains", through a series of potentially confusing and sometimes
incomplete data structures, formats, and documentation. Since they would not add to this paper, they are not included.
Based on these experiments, we are now in a position to move forward in delineating the many variables (relative to sources, environment, and targets)
affecting the general operation of this extraordinary detector sytem and to find a greatly increased S/N Ratio to generate a practical Non-Local Mind Fluctuation Sensor.
A universal experientially realized and physically plausible theoretical model
of a physical world order which can easily include such rather amazing experimental findings is briefly presented in "Holographic Mind" by Edmond Chouinard at ftp or http://members.aol.com/edmeasure.
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