VIEWING MAGNETIC FIELD

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VIEWING MAGNETIC FIELD
BY
G. B. HOUCK
J. G. LAIRD
C. C. WHIT[.
PROBLEM
Most individuals have never seen a magnetic field even though they are aware
of the effect of one. During this past year, the authorsbecame aware that
some people were reported to be capable of actually seeing what they thought
to be magnetic fields. In fact, they reported seeing bloc, coing from, one end
and red coming from the other end of a magnet. Because this phenomenon does
not fit in the authors' understanding of current models of our physical reality,
we decided to carry out a simple, controlled, scientific experiment to determine
if this phenomenon was repeatable or statistical in nature.. Also by learning
__from the subject who could see magnetic fields, it is hoped that some day our
physics models will be expanded.. This paper is the documentation of that experi-
ment and some recommendations for further experimentation-
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
On November 11, 197.9, the authors conducted an experiment where a subject attempted
to correctly identify the polarity of an electromagnet. whose polarity was controlled,
upon demand, by a computer random number generator. When the subject was ready
for another trial, she would so indicate and one of the experimenters would press
a button which instructed an Apple II computer to select either a "0" or "1"
from an ordered array of 0's and l's initially established from a uniform random
number generator. When an 0 was selected, the power was applied to the electro-
magnet so that the end which the subject was viewing would have the polarity of
a north pole. Similarly, when the computer selected a 1, the polarity was switched
to that of a south pole. The subject would see red for the north pole and blue
for the south pole determined using a compass. The color she called out was then
recorded on a piece of paper by another experimenter. One hundred trials were
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made. The experiment seemed to require a lot of the subject's energy and made
her thirsty. She had to take several breaks during the 100 trials. It took
approximately two hours to complete the 100 trials using the electromagnet
After the completion of the 100 trials, the authors had the computer display the
sequence of O's and l's that it had-used. A direct comparison of the subject's
record with the computer record resulted in a 55%_ correlation... However, the first
nine out of nine- rials were correct and the first 12 out of 14 trials. were
correct.
If the five trials proceeding the beginning of the full TOO trials are
considered, the subject obtained 16 out of 19 correct answers. These five trials
were under the identical conditions of the full 100 trial experiment.
To check the possibility of the subject somehow reading the internals of the
computer, the subject was asked to repeat the experiment without the power attached
to the electromagnet and simply guess whether the computer had an 0 or 1 for each
trial. This took approximately one hour. The results showed the subject correctly
guessed 51% of the trials (100 trials) with no apparent time displacement (i.e.-,
the percentage was not markedly improved by displacing the sequence either forward
or backward).
The full extent of this subject's physic functioning has not been explored. It
is not claimed that this subject actually sees the magnetic field., but she does
see something which is related to the polarity of the magnetic field, and she has
a color discriminate. This ability seemed to go in streaks during the first 50
trials and then became random thereafter. There may be many factors such as
fatigue, boredom, etc., which had an effect on this experiment's outcome.
The subject also described the nature of the "magnetic field" which she sees
around a bar magnet and how that changes when magnets are placed in various
positions relative to each other. These descriptions are included in, this paper.
The overall results of this experiment are not statistically significant. However
this could be a result caused by the conduct of the experiment, and more research
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needs to be accomplished to understand what is going on. At this time, the
authors know of two other potential subjects who claim to have a similar ability
as the subject tested. Many tests could be performed to begin to understand this
phenomenon and its sensitivity to many parameters such as magnetic field strength,
lighting conditions, atmosphere and physical surrounding of the magnet, the --
biomedical state of the subject, etc.
This paper is submitted merely as a beginning into what may be one path to
improving the model of our reality.
BACKGROUND
The authors are engineers. Jim Laird is a radar designer at McDonnell Douglas
Astronautics Company (MDAC), in Huntington Beach, California, with 26 years of
experience in designing and developing all types of electronic systems. Jack Houck
is a system analyst with MDAC, with 18 years of experience in advanced engineering
developments of all types of defense systems. Chick White worked with Jack and
Jim at MDAC for several years. (until 1977) as a specialist in electronics. He
invented a waterbed-vibrator system and formed his own company (Electronic Design
and Development Engineering, Inc.).
Jack and Jim have been conducting research related to unexplained phenomenon such
as "remote viewing" as defined by Targ and Puthoff. In. this research on remote
viewing, several examples have occurred where their subjects have: described.
phenomena which seems to correlate to electromagnetic effects which are not normally
visible. For example, one subject described smoke rings coming up from a. large.
dish antenna which was radiating S-band (2 to 4 GHz) electromagnetic pulses.
Another subject observed a brillant light and. particles being thrown out (i.e.,
like a sparkler) from,a nuclear reactor. Some individuals claim to see auras,
others claim "out-of-body" experiences where they "see" their own body... The
parapsychological, occult, and psychology literature. is full of descriptions of
these phenomena. The authors speculate that perhaps these subjects are observing
some unknown aspect of magnetic energy which actually takes on the appearance of
being. solid in whatever dimension or reality these subjects slip into when they
perform these paranormal functions.
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In the summer of 1979, Jack was describing some of the observations he had made
from the remote viewing experiments to Chick. Chick then mentioned that his wife,
Janet, had once demonstrated the ability to correctly identify the end of a. bar
magnet as he attempted to randomly present different ends of the magnet to her..
In the uncontrolled environment, a whole host of explanations were possbile from
her seeing imperfections in the ends of the magnet, receiving the answer telephathi
cally, to her being able to see the magnetic fields. In October 1979 during a
meeting of Jim and Jack with Hal Puthoff these observations were discussed. Hal
suggested that Janet be the. subject in a controlled experiment. This, paper
documents the initial effort in implementing these experiments.
EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS AND EQUIPMENT
The Sunday evening prior to the actual experiment, Jack met with.Chieck and Janet
in their residence, The experimental procedure and equipment was discussed.
Chick provided all the equipment for the experiment. During this meeting, Janet
demonstrated her ability using several small bar magnets and a small electro-
magnet. It was apparent that. this activity required intense concentration and
--energy for Janet. She was unusually thirsty. She found. that placing. the magnet
on a white piece of paper with dim lighting aided her. She also observed that
her digital watch seemed to interfer so she removed it.. Also, when anyone was
within approximately 10 feet from where she and the magnet were located;: she felt
that their "fields" also interfered, making polarity sensing more difficult..
With the bar magnet on a piece of white paper on the kitchen table and, aligned
parallel with the earth's magnetic field, Janet described the magnetic fields. which
she saw as an hour glass (3 dimensional) as shown in Figure 1. The hour glass
shape seemed to neck down at the center of the bar magnet. The interior of the
hour glass shape was red near the north pole and blue. near the south pole. The
fields had sthe greatest concentration of color at the center and faded out further
away from the magnet (in terms of inches). Figure'1 was drawn to scale as Janet
drew what she saw. When the magnet was rotated 90 degrees such that it was
aligned perpendicular to the earth's magnetic field, both ends of the magnet.
became white, even though the hour glass shape remained.
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Figure 1. Field Created By Magnet
When holding two bar magnets so that they attracted each other,, Janet saw the
fields intersecting as shown in Figure 2 with a white region in between where
the fields intersected. When she held the two bar magnets such that they repulsed
each other, the fields seemed to become collapsed lines, as shown in Figure 3
with a pitch black area in between. The authors feel this data might be valuable
to other researchers. There seemed to be some distortion depending on which pole
of the magnet was pointed toward the earth's north pole. Further work needs to
be performed to understand what Janet is seeing.
During the actual experiment, the subject, Janet, sat at the kitchen table looking
at one end of the electromagnet placed on a. piece of white. paper. The electro-
magnet consisted of a coil of 28 gauge wire which had approximately 12,000 turns,
estimated to have-an inductance of 10 Henrys. The coil for this experiment had
no iron core. The two wires from the coil were connected to a 1 1/2 volt DC. power
supply which was located approximately 10 feet from the location of the coil in
another room (bedroom). The polarity of the coil was switchable using relays
which were set by an Apple II computer. The relays were also located in the
bedroom. The door to the bedroom was closed. The wires.ran under the door.
Another set of wires controlled the switch on the power supply and the button
which Chick pushed each time Janet said she was ready for the next trial. During
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Figure Z. AtpactioR Fisids
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EARTH MAGNETIC
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initialization the computer selected a set of random numbers equal to the number
of trials to be run and stored them in an array. Each time the button was pushed
to indicate a new trial, the computer selected a random number from the array of
preselected random numbers (either 0 or 1). The number was not displayed on the
TV screen. The trial number (e.g., T = 5) was displayed on the TV screen during
the time the electromagnet coil was activated. Based on the selected number (0
or 1), the-computer selected the desired polarity for the electromagnet. The
power was removed between trials. When Janet gave the indication of color she
saw at the selected end of the magnet, Jack recorded her response. After 100 trials
were completed the computer displayed the random number sequence which was then
compared to the list of Janets responses. Figure 4 1:. a: schematic. which summarizes
the test setup during the experiment.
Before the actual experiment was run, several groups of 5 and 6 trials were made
to check on the experimental conditions. Thirty-six trials were made during the
hour before the actual experiment (100 trials). During that time, a 60 volt DC
power supply was used and resulted in the coil heating up. Janet began to report
red most of the time and indicated that the blue was very weak and hard to see.
.Jack and Chick suspected the thermal environment may be affecting what she was
seeing. Thus; a 1 112 volt DC power supply was used for the actual experiment
after the coil had cooled down. Five trials were made just before the full 100
trials were started on which Janet scored 4 out of 5 correctly.
TEST RESULTS
The results of the 100 trial experiment with the electromagnet are shown in Table 1.
The overall result was 55 correct identifications of'the- magnet polarity with a
computer 0 corresponding to Janet seeing red, and a computer 1 corresponding to
Janet seeing blue. These results are also plotted in Figure 5, with the times she
took a rest or had a drink 'of water noted. It is'part cularly impressive that
she correctly identified the first nine trials successfully and 12 out of the first
14 trials. If the five trials accomplished just preceding the experiment were
considered, then it would be 16 out of 19 trials. Janet needed a rest after 13
trials of the official experiment and as seen in Figure 5 seemed to have streaks
of hit and misses until around trial 55. After that, her performance seemed to
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Table 1
Experiment with Janet White
(With the Magnet)
Janet
Computer
Janet
Computer
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Compu er
Janet Cu
1
Red
0
26
Blue
51
Red
1
76
Blue 0
2
Red
0
27
Blue
52
Blue
1
77
Blue 1
3
Red
0;
28
Red
53
Red
1
78
Blue 0
4
Blue
1
29
Red
54
Red
1
79
Blue 1
5
Red
0
30
Red
55
Red
0
80 Blue
6
Red
0
31
Blue
,6
Red-
I
81
Blue
7
Red
32
Blue
0
57
Red
0 .
82
Blue
8
Red
0
33
Blue
0
58
Red
1
83
Red
9
Blue
1
34
Red
1
59
Red
0
84
Red
10
Blue
0
35
Red
0
60,
Red
0
85
Red
11
Blue
1
36
Blue
1
61
Red
1
86
Red
12
Blue
0
37
Blue
0
62
Blue
1
87
Red
13
Blue
1
38
Red
1
63
Blue:
0
88 Blue
14
Blue
1
39
Blue
0
64
Blue
1
89 Blue
Blue
0
40
Blue
0
65
Red
1
90
Blue
16
Blue
1
41
Blue
0
66.
Blue
0
91
Blue
17
Red .
1
42
Blue
0
67
Blue
1
92
Red
18
Blue
0
43
Red
0
68
Red
1
93
Red
19
Blue
0
44
Red
1
69-
Red
1
94 Red
20
Red
0
-45
Red
1
70
Blue:
1
95 Blue
21
Red
0
46
Red
0
71!
Red,
0
96 Red
22
Red
0
47
' Red
0
72'
Blue
1
97 Blue
23
Blue
0
48
Red
0
73
Red
0
98 Red. l
24
Blue
1
49
Red
0
74
Red
1
99 Red 0
25
Blue
1
50
Red
1
75
Red
100 Red 0
Red 0
55 Correct
Blue 1
Red 1
Blue 0
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behave randomly. Is this due to fatigue? What was she seeing during the latter
half of the experiment? There were times late in the experiment where she did
have a hard time differentiating the colors and may have guessed. There seemed
to be after-images of red and black squares getting in her vision some times.
Because the experimenters had not programmed the computer to allow her to pass,
she was forced to make a decision when she may have preferred to-paass--:
After the experiment (100 trials) was completed, another, 100 trials were made when
Janet was asked to guess whether the computer had.,.a.zero.or one. For this, the
electromagnet was disconnected. The results of this experiment is recorded in
Table 2 and also plotted in Figure 5. The overall experiment-resulted in 51 correct
answers (hits) out of the 100 trials. Also, this series seemed to behave more
randomly than the results when she used the magnet. This series went faster (l hour)
than the series of trials when using the magnet (2 hours). Janet said whatever
number came to her.
The experimenters became curious about the behavior of the random number generator
which seemed to put out a string of either zeros or ones for these. two experiments.
The number of times a one came up is shown in Figure 6 as a function of the trial
number for both of these series of 100 trials. It can be-observed in Figure 6that during the first 55 numbers the random number generator seemed to output more
zeros than ones but became more random thereafter. Because these were generated
at the beginning of each experiment (i.e., all 100 were determined before trial
number 1), the possibilities of a bad random number generator or a PK effect on
the random number generator were considered. Subsequent analysis. of the Apple II
random number generator showed that this behavior was common with or without Janet
in the room. This particular random number generator did seem to output a larger
number of strings of zeros or ones than would normally be expected. For large
numbers of trials, the random number generator did perform well. For example,
many times the random number generator was made to select 10,000 samples and usually
produced between 5,000, plus and minus 25, ones. Thus, it was concluded that no
PK was affecting the computer and that further study of the random number generator
performance was necessary.
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Experiment with Janet White
(Without the Magnet)
Janet Computer Janet Com uter
Janet Computer
1
1
26
0
1
51
0
2
0
27
0
1
52
1
3
0
28
1
53
1
4
1
29
0
0
54
1
5
1
30.
0
0
55
1
6
0:..
31
0
1
56
1
7
0
0
32
0
0
57
0
0
0
33
0
0
58
0
9
0
1
34
1
0
59
0
10
0
0
35
0
1
60
0
11
1
36
1
1
61
0
12
1
37
.0
1
62
0
13
1
38
1
1
63
0
14
0
0
39
0
0
64
1
15
1
1 .
40
0
0
65
0
16
1
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0
0
66
1
7
1
0
42
0
67
0
18
0
1
43
1
0
68
1
19
0
44
1
0
69
1
20
0
1
45
0
0
70
0
21
1
0
46
1
0
71
0
22
0
0
47
1
0
72
0
23
0
1
48
1
0
73
0
24
1
1
49.
0
1
74
25
1
1
50
1
0
75.
51 Correct
1
1
Janet Computer
76 0 0
77 1 1
78 1 0
79 0 1
80 0 1
81 1 1
82 0 0
8
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
0
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RECOMMENDATIONS
The speculations of the experimenters were that Janet would obtain a much higher
success rate when using the magnet than actually resulted. Because-her- perfor-
mance was so good at the beginning, the authors suspect that she can see a color
discriminate between the polarities. of a magnet and the experiment itself may
have been improperly designed to demonstrate this phenomenon. Fatigue and boredom
with this type of-replicate experiment are probably major factors.
Clearly more experimentation is required. Several other subjects will be tested.
The computer program will be modified to allow the subject to pass if he or she
does not have a clear response. Many variables need to be examined. This is a
simple experiment to implement. No human knows the sequence of numbers contained
within the computer until after the total number of selected trials is completed.
Therefore, no telepathy or ESP from any other person involved in the experiment
enters directly into the results.
This paper documents the beginning of experimentation with a phenomenon which
is not understood.
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Appendix
A schematic of the wiring used for this experiment is included in~ th event
that other researches might duplicate it. This schematic is presented in Appendix
Figure A.
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