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What Scientists say about Uri Geller
Wernher von Braun (NASA scientist) 'Geller has bent my
ring in the palm of my hand without ever touching it. Personally,
I have no scientific explanation for the phenomena.'
Dr Wilbur Franklin (Physics Department, Kent State University)
'The evidence based on metallurgical analysis of fractured surfaces
[produced by Geller] indicates that a paranormal influence must
have been operative in the formation of the fractures.'
Dr Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ (Stanford Research
Institute) 'As a result of Geller's success in this experimental
period, we consider that he has demonstrated his paranormal, perceptual
ability in a convincing and unambiguous manner.' (The results
of these experiments were published in the respected British journal
Nature, Vol. 251, No. 5)
Dr Friedbert Karger (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics,
Munich) 'Based on preliminary investigations of Uri Geller, I
cannot establish fraud. The powers of this man are a phenomenon
which theoretical physics cannot yet explain.'
Dr Albert Ducrocq (Telemetry Laboratory, Foch Hospital,
Suren, France) 'The bends in metal objects [made by Geller] could
not have been made by ordinary manual means.'
Professor John B. Hasted (Birkbeck College, University
of London) 'The Geller method of breaking steel is unlike anything
described in the [metallurgical] literature, from fatigue fractures
at -195 degrees to brittle fractures at +600 degrees C. Why is
metal bending important? Simply because we do not understand it.'
Eldon Byrd (US Naval Surface Weapons Center, Maryland)
'Geller altered the lattice structure of a metal alloy in a way
that cannot be duplicated. There is no present scientific explanation
as to how he did this.' (This is the first research related to
parapsychology conducted at a US Government facility to have been
released for publication by the US Department of Defense.)
William E. Cox (Institute of Parapsychology, Durham, North
Carolina) 'I have failed to conceive of any means of deception
in the static PK tests with Geller, nor have magicians I have
consulted.'
Dr A. R. G. Owen (New Horizons Research Foundation, Toronto,
Ontario) 'Metal objects were bent or divided [by Geller] in circumstances
such as to prove conclusively ... that the phenomena were genuine
and paranormal.'
Dr Thomas Coohill (Western Kentucky University, Physics
Dept., Bowling Green, Kentucky) 'There is no logical explanation
for what Geller did here. But I don't think logic is what necessarily
makes new inroads in science.'
Dr Walter A. Frank (Bonn University) 'The Geller Effect
is one of those "para"-phenomena which changed the world
of physics. What the most outstanding physicists of the last decades
of this century could grasp only as theoretical implication, Uri
brought as fact into everyday life.'
Professor Helmut Hofmann (Department of Electrical Engineering,
Technical University of Vienna, Austria) 'I tested Uri Geller
myself under laboratory-controlled conditions and saw with my
own eyes the bending of a key which was not touched by Geller
at any time. There was a group of people present during the experiment
who all witnessed the key bending in eleven seconds to an angle
of thirty degrees. Afterwards we tested the key in a scientific
laboratory using devices such as electron microscopes and X-rays
and found that there was no chemical, manual or mechanical forces
involved in the bending of the key.'
Professor Erich Mittenecker (Professor of Psychology, University
of Graz, Austria) 'Uri Geller is extraordinarily gifted in telepathy.'
Professor Charles Crussard (Professor of Metallurgy, School
of Mines, Paris and Scientific Director of Pecheney, France) 'Uri
bent a strong heat-treated alloy bar held by myself and my assistant
at each end. There was absolutely no pressure exerted by Uri while
the bar was bending. All the controlled experiments I conducted
with Uri Geller have been described in Sciences et Avenir.
no. 345. pp. 1108-1113.
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