Here I found another article in Russian about the Princeton lab where psyleron:
http://www.scorcher.ru/journal/art/art194.php
Date of publication: 13.02.2007 G.
In Princeton is closed, the laboratory of telekinesis
At Princeton University at the end of this month should be closed at the PEAR laboratory (Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research), which for 28 years has been research in the field of extrasensory perception and telekinesis. According to the Associated Press, the founder and head of the laboratory of Robert G. Yang (Robert G. Jahn), a former Dean of the engineering school of Princeton University and a recognized expert in the field of rocket engines, said that the laboratory has fulfilled its mission. In the laboratory since 1979, attempts were made to create electronic devices that are capable of detecting the special state of the human psyche — for example, strong emotions and direct the will.
PEAR is not the only laboratory in Princeton, where attempts of research in the field of "transcendental" phenomena. The project GSP (Global Consciousness Project), in the framework of which investigates the correlation between the readings of random number generators that are installed around the globe, continues to work.
The PEAR laboratory at Princeton University supernatural performance: total $10 million expenditure over the 28 years of continuous research and almost 2.5 million experiences over the past 12 years. It turns out that every experiment scientists cost approximately $1.5 - caretaker of any research Institute after learning about it, sign of the cross would be: not another not without evil forces. But understood, would have sighed with relief - PEAR experiences look accordingly price.
Experiments (in eng. - pear) - well-known Princeton engineering studies laboratory abnormalities was outrageously simple. On an old couch planted "operator" - the person trying to influence the power of thought the material world - and conduct simple measurement. For many years the work of the laboratory had gone through it hundreds of "operators" - this was a huge experimental base on telekinesis and psychic abilities. However, over the 28 years of quite serious scientists who received grants from large companies, including defense and are unable to draw any conclusions. Now aged laboratory staff (there were only two) say that didn't you try to find out and explain, but only "accumulate statistics for further study." And accumulating tons of material, they decided to close the lab. With the departure of these Ghost hunters, it seems that attempts to explain the unexplainable will be permanently abandoned.
PEAR on its last legs - last week it became known that the laboratory will close at the end of February. The main American fighter against pseudoscience Paul Kurtz in an interview with Newsweek called it the sunset parapsychological laboratories: "This is a trend worldwide, because they discredited the weak success." In the very same laboratory, which was visited by the correspondent of Newsweek, argued that the task of the PEAR made and it is now for interpreters. The latter, however, do not rush to precious materials.
At Princeton University, where at one time worked for Einstein, PEAR tried not to notice, but did not dare close, the benefit of a special occasion it did not give the laboratory lived only on grants and sponsorship without spending a dime of the University budget. "Our results were interested in the military, but we never asked for money to government organizations. This was done in order that our work always remained open and we were able to publish any of the results", - says head of laboratory, 76-year-old Robert Jan. He took the decision to close, citing his advanced age and the fact that all the work is already done.
Jan, a recognized authority in the field of rocket engines, turned into a researcher of the paranormal, as usual, by accident. The student asked the scientist to become a scientific leader, his work on parapsychology, Jung was fascinated by the subject and created the PEAR. Soon she had wealthy patrons, for example, founder aircraft Corporation "McDonnell Douglas" James McDonnell and billionaire in the third generation of Lawrence Rockefeller. In the best years in the "Pear" worked constantly 5-6 people and no lack of volunteers - neighbors, friends and friends of friends shaft was on mysterious experiments: parapsychology in those years was at the peak of popularity. Basement Jana (laboratory hidden in the basement) became a club and a platform for simple, but looks mysterious experiments.
The first measuring tool of Jana was the most basic. This is a huge, covered by a transparent plastic cuvette, in the lower half of which numerous grooves in the upper 330 straggling pins and the hole where sleep 9000 identical plastic balls. Falling down, they were faced with the pins and got into the various grooves. The photosensors in each trench was calculated, where and how many were balls. Such devices are used in the institutions in the beginning of the course of probability theory. With their help, the students explain what a normal distribution is one of the laws of distribution of probabilities in nature. Beads of different fill the grooves in the Central gets the maximum amount of, and in an extreme - almost nothing.
On the couch sat opposite the cell "operator" and thought, trying to violate this fundamental law. As told by the laboratory Manager Brenda Dunne, first before the test task was "to contrive" as many balls as possible into the right grooves, and then (it was a "test" session of telekinesis) - about anything not to think and, finally, to concentrate on left-hand grooves of the tray.
The effect, according to Robert Jan, was. But small - a fraction of a percent. Same results from experiments on more "modern" equipment is electronic random number generator. "Operator" is "negligible" effect on him, thinking about numbers either greater or less than 100.
Another experience that really like visitors to the laboratory, was more colorful. Circle moved miniature robot, the movement of which is also determined by the random number generator. The operator had to hold the robot in a particular segment of the circle. Jan said that the results obtained did not depend on the distance at which there is "operator". But the observed sex differences - men have to control balls and the robot did it better. But if the "operator" were a married couple, the effect was manifested most clearly.
These statements, as the method of research, surprised even scientists who have studied telekinesis. "It seems to me that the experiments in which a person has little influence on physical processes of the "power of thought", unfortunately, are not serious. It is impossible to speak about the deviation of, say, two events from the tens of thousands. There can be thousands of reasons that lead to the same results: from the rise of voltage to magnetic storms and changes in atmospheric pressure", - says Alexander Taratorin, a former employee of the laboratory for the study of the psychic possibilities of the person of Institute of Radioengineering and electronics, USSR Academy of Sciences.
The Institute is engaged in "inexplicable" at the same time with the Americans - in the late ' 70s. At that time academician Yuri Kobzarev and corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences Yuri Gulyaev examined the woman who showed unusual ability. Today, this history is widely known - it was Inna Kulagina, who could move light objects without touching them. And a few years of the CPSU Central Committee instructed the experts to "expose" the healer Eugenia Davitashvili, better known under the name of June.
"To every phenomenon we approached only from the point of view of possible physical mechanism," explains Eduard Godik, the former head of the laboratory of the Institute of radio engineering and electronics, now a consultant for several American firms for the development of highly sensitive sensors. In the case of the medical phenomenon of the June was discovered contactless interactive heat massage power of approximately ten milliwatts. In the process of telekinesis Kulagina - injection of charged trickles of sweat glands - charge of droplets of sweat was enough to move a small object, and on the skin of the hands remains the charge of the other sign. "It was more, for example, skin vision, says a Year. - During carrying arms, for example, to the newspaper its thermal infrared radiation different reflected from the paint and the paper, creating thermal contrast required to distinguish the header of the newspaper “Pravda”. Many such phenomena, we managed scientifically "to ground"". According to him, after landing, many of these "anomalies" could be replicated "if it had to be someone with money".
But not all his colleagues are so confident in such low-lying nature of the mysterious phenomena. "I try to be skeptical to the limit and you know that many mysterious effects can be explained by the normal physical phenomena. However, it seems to me that to completely dismiss everything that is not explained until the "fingers", not" - says Taratorin. This thesis gladly to the founders of the PEAR. "Science cannot exist without skepticism. But a situation where a scientist refuses experimental material just because it does not fit into existing theories, as well as impossible," fervently persuades Jan.
His farewell "lecture" is in a sad situation - all four rooms of the hospital, littered with rolls of packing materials and cardboard boxes, which are stacked books and laboratory notebooks. The ancient setting-the cell is sent to the University of Colorado, where it will be used for its intended purpose - to demonstrate the laws of probability. Himself Jan is retiring. "It turns out that now in the United States seriously to this subject, no one does. Remained a group of parapsychologists at the Stanford - she's already dissolved, Yes, these two old man in Princeton," says Alexander Taratorin. But retirees of PEAR do not give up. "Around the lab has grown "pear tree", but some of its "leaves" are keeping their origin secret," - mysteriously said goodbye to the second employee of the laboratory - Brenda Dunn.<