A strange experiment conducted by a person who believes in paranormal, makes you think about how much each of us perceives this world differently. We know that faith can blind people, but can unbelief do the same?
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Arthur Allison (second from left)
Arthur Ellison, professor of electrical engineering and a joke lover, decided to finish the lecture with a game. He asked a group of volunteers (some of them are his fellow professors) on an iron flower vase on the table. They should have looked at her, repeat “ohm” and try to force the vase to force the vase levitate. And they succeeded: a vase soared above the table. True, immediately crashed when the group because of great surprise stopped singing.
Allison was not surprised – he helped the vase levitate with electromagnet. He was actually not interested in levitation, but in reaction participants. One man came up and told him that when the flowers are already soared in the air, the gray substance rose from the floor, crawled along table and climbed under a vase. Another participant claimed that nothing happened, and the vase did not budge. Both were wrong.
True, one can relate to this story with some distrust. Allison, despite his achievements in science, was a supporter theory of paranormal phenomena – he believed that science is too narrow, to explain some things.
This story suggests that disbelief can also make we are biased to judge things. It doesn’t matter what is based on erroneous opinion – on faith or on skepticism. To know something for sure, you need to analyze all the facts, all available information – such an analysis, at least, will allow a sober take a look at things.
Convinced skeptic, if he had given himself the trouble to analyze I would find out about the magnet and say: “Yes, I was wrong, a vase can levitate. “And the one who unconditionally believed his eyes and saw some gray substance, I could understand that it was not and in sight, and at the same time try to realize why I saw just that – if I thought a little, of course.
