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From: martin@ism780.UUCP
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Subject: Dancing Wu Li Masters
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Date: Fri, 31-Aug-84 00:08:07 EDT
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Nf-From: ism780!martin    Aug 23 10:32:00 1984

I read in a book by Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Bantam
1979, about an experiment being prepared in France to test for
the existence of faster-than-light connections between space-like
separated events.  (One event is space-like separated from
another event if there is insufficient time for a light signal to
connect them).  The person preparing the experiment was Alain
Aspect, a physicist at the Institute of Optics, U. of Paris in
Orsay.

Does anybody know what the results of the experiment were?  Or if
it hasn't been performed yet, is it still in the works?

The book also talks about a theory put forth by Jack Sarfati,
which he called "superluminal transfer of negentropy without
signals."  (Negentropy is another word for order).  Sarfati
postulates that the connections being tested for by Aspect can be
controlled and used to communicate.

I'm not a physicist so I have no idea what the current state of
physics is.  Is the idea of faster-than-light communication being
scoffed at by mainstream physicists?  Or is there some real
research being done here?

It would sure be nice to be able to beam up someday.

			martin smith, INTERACTIVE Systems