A Pilot Study of Distant `Mind-Matter' Interaction with Digital Photography

This pilot study explored the possibility of (a) mentally producing, at a geographical distance, predefined images on digital sensors within modern professional-grade photographic equipment, and with (b) sufficient resolution to be objectively verified via a Structural Similarity Index by specialized software for pattern recognition. Three participants, expert in distant ‘mind-matter interaction’ techniques, completed a total of 49 trials. In 6 out of 49 trials (12.2%), the Structural Similarity Index of the ‘target’ image, chosen by the participant for the distant mental influence trial on the camera’s sensor, was greater than that obtained when the target was different. These preliminary results suggest the possibility of using modern cameras to study the putative effects of distant ‘mind-matter’ interactions

Can Our Minds Emit Light at 7300 km Distance? A Pre-Registered Confirmatory Experiment of Mental Entanglement with a Photomultiplier

With this pre-registered confirmatory study, we aimed at replicating the findings observed in two previous experiments where the focused mental entanglement (ME) with a photomultiplier located approximately 7300 km far from the location of a small group of selected participants, showed an increase in the number of photons with respect to the control periods. In particular, we aimed at replicating the increase of approximately 5% of photons detected in the ME periods with respect to the control periods in the bursts of photons above 10. The results observed in this study confirmed this increase replicating what observed in the two previous experiments. We discuss the characteristics of these photons which energy is estimated in approximately 65 eV at 788 THz and how ME can generate them at distance

Synthesis, characterization and low temperature self assembling of (\u3b73-allyl)palladium complexes with 2-pyridyl-1,2,3-triazole bidentate ligands. Study of the catalytic activity in Suzuki-Miyaura reaction

The cationic complexes [Pd(\u3b73-C3H5)(2-((4-propyl-1H-1,2,3-triazol-1-yl)methyl)pyridine)](X) (2: X=BF4 12, 3: X=ClO4 12), and [Pd(\u3b73-2-CH3-C3H4)(2-((4-propyl-1H-1,2,3-triazol-1-yl)methyl)-pyridine)](BF4 12) (4) have been synthesized by reacting the appropriate palladium-allyl precursor with 2-((4-propyl-1H-1,2,3-triazol-1-yl)methyl)pyridine in the presence of AgBF4 or AgClO4. The solid-state structure of 2 has been determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. According to 1H NMR spectroscopy the allyl protons undergo syn-syn, anti-anti exchange. 1H NMR spectroscopy reveals that in acetone at temperatures lower than 223 K these complexes form aggregates the stability of which is attributed to solvophobic interactions. Complex 2 is a active catalyst for the S-M coupling of aryl bromides with phenylboronic acid; good reaction rates are obtained only with activated substrates, whereas with deactivated substrates catalyst decomposition to palladium black occurs