A little black box that tells the future

\<!\[CDATA *There are more things in heaven and earth … than are dreamt of in your philosophy.* [There are about 65 black boxes around the world that can see into the future.](http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=126649#121)  Really. 

They’re called “random event generators” and they churn out a random 1 or 0 several times per second. The law of averages says that they ought to turn out an equal number of 1s and 0s over time. Most of the time, this is the case. However, there have been some fairly odd things happening with the boxes.

For example, the scientist that started this, Professor Robert Jahn of Princeton University, would ask random people in the street to thing really hard and “convince” the box to produce more 1s than 0s. And it would. Not a lot more, but more than usual. He was stunned, and tried all he could to prove it wrong, but couldn’t.

The boxes were left running. They went nuts during Princess Diana’s death, when millions of people around the world were watching her funeral. They also fluctuated during the 2000 US election, and they regularly register New Year’s celebrations with more wildly fluctuating numbers.

Now here’s the freaky part. On September 11 2001, the machines went berserk. But nothing had happened yet. A full four hours before aeroplanes hit buildings on the US East Coast, the machines somehow “knew” something was going to happen. They also predicted the recent earthquake and resulting tsunami in southeast Asia.

Take a deep breath here, gentle reader.

The article goes on to talk about the very nature of time – we see time as going forward. But there’s nothing in physics to indicate that time doesn’t go backwards, or that time is in itself another dimension. When something disturbing happens in what we perceive to be the future, there’s nothing stopping these waves of feeling to hit us in the present. Rather like waves from a rock dropped into a pond, repercussions from major events can travel in all time directions.]]>