In a world first using Twitter, the world’s hottest growing social website, is going to have a public, psychic remote viewing experiment thanks to the University of Hertfordshire in the UK. The aim of the experiment is to get a large experimental test group of remote viewing enthusiasts (and perhaps Psychics of other paranormal abilities) to predict a remote location where someone was standing.
The World’s First Twitter Psychic Remote Viewing Experiment
Members of the public will be asked to “tweet” their impressions of a randomly chosen spot in the UK visited by one of the researchers.
Then they will vote for which of five photographs on a website shows where the visitor was standing.
The trial will be repeated with visually different locations four times.
If at the end of the experiment the votes correctly identify at least three targets, it will support the existence of extra-sensory perception.
Study leader psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman, from the University of Hertfordshire, who specialises in investigating psychic phenomena, said: “Personally, I’m sceptical, but three hits would be against odds of one in 125, which would be quite impressive.”
He hopes as many as 10,000 people will take part in the research, being conducted in collaboration with New Scientist magazine.
Prof Wiseman will travel to each target location and send a message to thousands of participants to “tweet” their thoughts about his surroundings.
Twenty minutes after sending this message he will transmit another containing a website address on which participants can view photographs of the actual location and four decoys. They will then cast their votes.
“I have staged several mass participation studies over the years, but this is the first to use Twitter,” said Prof Wiseman.
“The instant nature of tweets allows thousands of people to take part in real time, making it perfect for an extra-sensory perception experiment.
“If the effect does exist then having so many people participate will help detect it.”
Personally, I can see flaws in this experiment as any Tom, Dick, and Harry can pretend to be a remote viewer and just randomly click or tweet on a random location. On the other hand, if us real remote viewers all work together to prove that remote viewing does work, we can prove to the world that remote viewing does work.
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I've been a remote viewing enthusiast who has been blogging about this field for the last 2 years. More recently I've had the opportunity to personally meet and interview many of the leaders in this field including Ed Dames and Gerald O'Donnell. I share my stories, my interviews and interesting articles I've found on remote viewing here on this blog. Enjoy Reading. 
Michael, I believe this Wiseman is just running a marketing ploy. He will have 10,000+ Twitterers following him at the end of his little experiment? How many business people wouldn’t like that? IF this wiseguy proves anything, it’s how to get 10,000+ people following him on Twitter. Otherwise, why not do a properly controlled scientific experiment?
That’s a really good point you bring up there, HealingMIndN. Richard Wiseman and his study group at the University should definitely have a proper controlled scientific experiment to prove whether or not remote viewing works, which is why I mentioned that there was a flaw in his studies that anyone could just pretend to be a remote viewer and randomly choose a location and tweet back to him. Perhaps it is just a disguised Twitter experiment.