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information about the target is extracted. Assuming electronmagnetism to be the most reasonable field for experimental investigations, they carried out some experiments. By taking (i) spatial resolution, (ii) penetration depth of the skin, (iii) power and wavelength and (iv) wavelength required for the detection of objects which are being claimed to have been perceived during the ESP experiments, Taylor and Balanovskii have concluded that electromagnetic interaction is not involved in the ESP phenomena.
If we now believe that microscopic particles of matter can be perceived through ESP and also assume that electromagnetic interaction is quite reasonable for ESP phenomena then to view an atom, one must require electromagnetic waves of wavelength 10-8 Cm. 10-13 cm. wavelength in order to view nuclei. Now these waver are so energetic that it is hopeless to assume that such waves can be generated in our body and are involved in the ESP phenomena. Thus we conclude that electromagentic interaction may not be involved in the ESP phenomena but they may be still occurring in nature.
We conclude this paper with 3 remarks. First of all we do not wish to make big claims. Secondly our main objective of this paper is to present the ancient theory of the Jainas in a scientific
ective for further investigation in an attempt to have new ideas. Thirdly we feel that the space-time invariance condition, valid for all physical laws should be carefully probed as far as ESP phenomena are concerned because here we are encroaching into space and time domains themselves. This condition should be rather contrasted to the condition of positive inter-action among human beings which seems to play a very mysterious role in these phenomena. 7.0 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am grateful to Prof. B. D. Josephson. (Noble Laurett) of Cambridge University, Prof K Ramakrishna Rao, Director. The Institute for Parapsychology, Durham Univ., USA, Prof J. B. Hasted of Birkbeck college, London, Prof. John Taylor, Imperial College,
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