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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Re: Re: More Uri Stuff
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Date: Fri, 7-Jun-85 16:28:28 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  7 16:28:28 1985
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> Your statement about Nitinol is interesting.  Uri was once requested to bend
> a Nitonol bar (this is shortly after the alloy's discovery if I remember
> correctly.)  Nitonol can be bent but will resume its shape once heated to a
> certain temperature.  Uri bent the metal allright, but when heated instead of
> reverting to its normal straight shape it actually contorted into a far
> more complicated shape instead - something the investigators could not
> duplicate.  (I may be able to look this up in my files if there is more
> interest in this experiment.)  Thus Nitonol seemed to indicate something
> unusual indeed was going on.  Again, this is a test you won't see a magician
> pass.  The bar was specially marked so Randi would be helpless to replace the
> it with a surrogate (as was Uri.)

Since Randi has a standing offer of $10,000 to anyone who can demonstrate
anything like that that he cannot reproduce, I am inclined to believe
that Geller has a good reason for not letting Randi try.