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PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, January 2, 2002: Intriguing research suggests that the collective horror across the globe on September 11, 2001, was so great it was recorded by machines. Evidence from a worldwide experiment that has been running since 1998 has lent credence to the belief that electrical energy generated by the human brain is powerful enough to exert an influence on objects — in essence, that mind can move matter. The experiment, based at Princeton University, New Jersey, is known as the Global Consciousness Project (GCP). The research involves computers at 40 places across the world, producing a steady stream of random bits — the digital equivalent of flipping a coin 200 times a second at each site. Normally the outcome will be about 50:50. But, field research in situations where large groups of people become integrated, such a concerts, shows a reduced randomness of the bits. Significant events in the last two years, such as the 2000 US presidential election, the NATO bombing in Yugoslavia and the Sydney Olympics opening ceremony have created blips on the data collection system large enough to hint that the combined focus of large numbers of people on the event produces an effect detectable on appropriate instruments. But these incidents were dwarfed by the extraordinary findings of September 11, when instruments recorded a marked aberration from the usual random data. Across the world, the project’s machines remained less than random for three days. GCP director Roger Nelson said, ” We do not know how the correlations that arise between electronic random event generators and human concerns come to be, and yet the results of our analysis over the past three years repeatedly indicate such correlations”.

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