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Letter: Letter

Published 20 March 1999

From Tony Rossiter

The offer by Australian Skeptics to pay A$80 000 for proof of ESP,
telepathy or telekinesis has never been taken up
(This Week, 27 February, p 19)
and never will be.

You see, it is well known that paranormal phenomena are large-scale quantum
effects. The act of observation by a sceptic immediately causes the system to
collapse to a “classical” or normal state.

Sydney

Issue no. 2178 published 20 March 1999

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