E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
You had the Princeton Engineering and Anomalous Research Lab, which was started by Bob John, who was dean of their general engineering school and was like a plasma propulsion guy.
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
So you had a lot of these elite universities looking into parapsychology and basically looking at whether the mind interacted with what are conventionally thought of as random quantum mechanical things, phenomena.
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
a photon bouncing around a little box or whatever, or, you know, you could do like a double slit experiment where you have a 50-50 expectation of one slit or the other slit, you know, if an observer is present or whatever.
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And basically, so you have like a known statistical distribution, you hook that up to these random, or sorry, to these basic computers, binary computers that produce ones and zeros.
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And you have an observer present and you see if there's some sort of observational effect on, again, you're seeing it on a graphical interface, but it's tied to something that's conventionally thought of as random in quantum mechanics.