GIANT DISCOVERIES OF FUTURE SCIENCE -- SELECTED PORTIONS OF AN INFORMAL TALK

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SELECTED PORTIONS OF
"THE GIANT DISCOVERIES OF FUTURE SCIENCE"
AN INFORMAL TALK PRESENTED BY
by
DR. BOB WOOD
MCDONNELL DOUGLAS ASTRONAUTICS COMPANY
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA
on
9 JUNE 1982
to
THE NEWPORT-BALBOA ROTARY CLUB
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THE GIANT DISCOVERIES OF
FUTURE SCIENCE
^ Introduction And Definitions
^ Discoveries Of The Past
^ Discoveries Of The Future
^ Paradigms In The Making
^ Action
PARADIGMS
"..... Universally Recognized Scientific
Achievements That For A Time Provide Model
Problems And Solutions To A Community Of
Practitioners."
....Thomas S. Kuhn
From
"The Structure Of
Scientific Revolutions"
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GIANT DISCOVERIES OF THE PAST
DISCOVERY
I DISCOVEROR I DATE IAGE
^ Earth Goes Around Sun .
I Copernicus
1543
40
^ Understanding Of Astronomy,
Galileo
1600
34
Gravity
^ Motion, Gravitation, Calculus
I
Newton
1665
23
^ Burning Is Uniting With Oxygen I
Lavoisier
1774
131
^ Earth Evolved Gradually
I
Lyell
11830
133
^ Bacteria Cause Disease
Pasteur
1852
30
^ Natural Selection For Evolution
Darwin
1858
49
^ Field Equations For Light
Maxwell
1864
33
^ Transmutation Of Elements
Curie
1896
34
^ Relativity, Quanta, E = mc2
Einstein
1905
1 26
^ Quantum Theory
Schroedinger I 1926
139
^ Chemistry Of Life (DNA)
Watson +
I 1953
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GIANT DISCOVERIES OF THE FUTURE
Probability by
Year 2002
? Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life
0.9 to 0.99
? How to Begin Life
0.9 to 0.98
? The Origin of Man
0.9 to 0.95
? The Processes of the Brain and Mind
0.7 to 0.9
? The Confirmation and Basis of ESP
0.7 to 0.8
? Control of Radioactive Decay
0.6 to 0.9
? Unified Physical Theory
0.5 to 0.8
? Wide Range Psychic Discoveries
0.5 to 0.8
? Cosmic and Planetary Evolution
0.4 to 0.7
? The Nature and Control of Aging
0.3 to 0.4
? Teleportation Principles
0.01 to 0.1
? Time Travel Principles
0.001 to 0.1
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NICAP. 1
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 "AMMONIA! AMMONIA!"
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"BUT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! I HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN EUROPE YET!"
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"IT'S A FLYING OBJECT,
BUT IT'S NOT EXACTLY
AN UNIDENTIFIED
FLYING OBJECT."
"I assure you, Madam, if any such creatures as you describe
really existed, we would be the first to know about it."
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THE BEST
OF THE
JOURNALS
UFOs OVER CHINA
CONVENTIONAL ESP CATEGORIES
(PLUS PRECOGNITIVE EFFECTS)
MIND
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PSYCHIC CATEGORIES REPORTED
Time-Independent? 1 Time-Dependent?
? Psychic Photography I ? Remote Viewing
? Dowsing ? Ordinary Ghosts and Spirits
? Aura Photography I ? Reincarnation
? Levitation ? Prophecy
? Out-of-Body Experience I ? Witchcraft
? Mind-Plant Communication ? Miracles
? Psychic Healing
LONG DISTANCE
REMOTE VIEWING EXPERIMENT
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TARGET-TRANSCRIPT COMPARISON
"IT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING THIN AND
LONG. WITH A'NAIL HEAD AT THE
SPOOL AND PIN
END . . . SILVERED COLORED."
CURLED UP LEAF
"A NAUTILUS SHAPE WITH A TAIL."
TARGET-TRANSCRIPT COMPARISON (CONT)
^
LEATHER BELT KEYRING
"THE STRONGEST IMAGE I GET IS LIKE A BELT."
CAN OF SAND
"LIKE A MINIATURE TOWER . . . SCALLOPED
BOTTOM . . . LIGHT BEIGE."
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TARGET-TRANSCRIPT COMPARISON (CONT)
"LIKE A PENGUIN . . . GREY AND BLACK AND
WHITE . , . POINTED OR SLIGHTLY ROUNDED
OFF AT THE TOP . . . OPEN OR POINTED AT
THE BOTTOM."
FILM CAN SERIES
Distribution of Judge's Rankings
Transcript Letter
Target
A
B
C
D
E
Belt Keyring
1)
5
3
4
2
Quill
5
1
2
4
3
Leaf
4
3
J)
5
2
Spoon and Pin
5
4
3
1)
2
Can of Sand
4
3
1
5
(a) First Five?Trial Subgroup
p = 0.017
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PRESENT PARADIGM DEBATES
OLD NEW?
^ Nothing Can Ever Exceed (^ The Speed of Light Is Not An
The Speed of Light Important Vehicle Limit
^ Biological Aging Will Not I ^ Aging Can Be Slowed
Change Its Rate I Enormously
^ Nothing Is Certain But Death ^ Benign Weapons Abound In
(,War) And Taxes The Universe
^ Psychics Are Frauds. Those I ^ Psychic Processes Are
Who Study PSI Are Just I Reliably Amplifiable With
Misguided Equipment, Chemicals, Or
Both
^ Man Evolved From Apes I ^ Convergent Evolution Yields
Hominoids On Many Planets
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CONVENTIONAL
EXPERIMENTAL
DATA
PRESENT
USEFUL
THEORY
DATA -- THEORY RELATIONSHIPS
NEW
USEFUL
THEORY
UNCONVENTIONAL
EXPERIMENTAL
DATA
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QUOTATIONS
"When a scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly
right; when he states that something is impossible, he is very probably
wrong."
...Arthur C. Clarke
"This talk of going to the moon is all rot, and space travel is utter bilge."
...British Astronomer Royal, 1958
"But to place a man in a multistage rocket and project him into the con-
trolling gravitational field of the moon, where the passenger can make
scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth ...
all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough
to say that such a man-made moon voyage will never occur, regardless of all
future scientific advances'."
...Dr. Lee deForest, 1958
"Science is not always what scientists do."
...Dr. J. Allen Hynek
"They laughed at Fulton; they're laughing at me. Therefore, my idea is as
good as Fulton's."
...Adapted by Dr. Bob Wood
"Eminence does not necessarily correlate with significance."
... Dr. Otto Schmidt
"A genius is a nut whose ideas were proven correct."
A Univeristy of Colorado History
Professor
"While prudence is the mother of security, it is on the audacious that
fortune smiles."
...Lee de Broglie
"I been readin' bout how maybe they is planets peopled by folks with ad-vanced
brains ..... on the other hand, maybe we got the most brains .....maybe our
intellects is the universe's most ad-vanced ..... either way, it's a mighty
soberin' thought."
...Walk Kelly (Pogo Comic Strip)
"The story of unidentified flying objects is the story of credible people
seeing incredible things."
...Dr. James E. MacDonald
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"Creativity is to see what everyone else has seen and think what no one else
has thought."
...Charlotte Wood
"I have never met an informed skeptic."
...Dr. James E. MacDonald
"The more eminent you are the less you feel you have to read the literature
in order to say something about it."
... Dr. Bob Wood
"Just because you are paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you."
...Targ & Puthoff
"The essence of science is doubt."
...Richard P. Feynman
"More harm is done to the progress of science by skepticism than by
gullibility."
...Dr. Bob Wood
"Anything which is not prohibited is mandatory."
...Murray Gell-Mann
"Any sufficient advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
...Arthur C. Clarke
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THE GIANT DISCOVERIES OF FUTURE SCIENCE
References
1. Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future, Harper & Row, New York, N.Y. 1962.
2, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, deForest Predicts Man Will Never Be Able to Reach
Moon, Monday, February 25, 1957.
3. Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, University of
Chicago Press, 1961.
4. J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Henry Regnery Co., Chicago, IL., 1972.
5. World Book Encyclopedia, Field Enterprises Educational Corp., Chicago, IL.,
1966.
6. James D. Watson, The Double Helix, Atheneum, New York, New York, 1972.
7. Charles H. Townes, Quantum Electronics and Surprise in the Development of
Technology, Science 159, 1968, P. 699.
8. I. S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan, Intelligent Life in the Universe, Holden-
Day, 1966.
9. L. Frank Baum, The Royal Book of Oz, Reilly & Lee, 1921.
10. David M. Jacobs, The UFO Controversy in America, Indiana University Press,
Bloomington, Indiana, 1975.
ll. E. U. Condon, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, Bantam Books,
New York, New York, 1969.
12. Flying Saucer Review, FSR Publications Ltd, West Mailing, Maidstone, Kent,
England, Ma_r5-T-5-8 -2.
13. The APRO Bulletin, Vol: 30, No. 3, April 1982.
14. International UFO Reporter, May/June 1982.
15. Ostrander and Schroeder, Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain,
Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1970.
16. Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, The Secret Life of Plants, Harper &
Row, New York, New York, 1973.
17. Russell Targ and H. E. Puthoff, Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psych!.
Ability, Delacorte Press, 1977.
18. Robert G. Jahn, The Persistent Paradox of Ps chic Phenomena: An Engineerin(
Perspective, Proceedings of the IEEE 70, No. 2, Feb. 982.
19. John Baxter and Thomas Atkins, The Fire Came By--The Riddle of the Great
Siberian Explosion, Doubleday & Co., 1973.
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