THE FORMATION OF PERCEPTION DESPITE THE NON-EXISTENCE OF STIMULI
     
Michael Posner, a psychologist, and Marcus Raichle, a neurologist from Washington University comment on the issue of how sight and other senses occur, even in the absence of an external stimulus:

     "Open your eyes, and a scene fills your view effortlessly; close your eyes and think of that scene, and you can summon an image of it, certainly not as vivid, solid, or complete as a scene you see with your eyes, but still one that captures the scene's essential characteristics.

     In both cases, an image of the scene is formed in the mind. The image formed from actual visual experiences is called a "percept" to distinguish it from an imagined image. The percept is formed as the result of light hitting the retina and sending signals that are further processed in the brain. But how are we able to create an image when no light is hitting the retina to send such signals?" (Michael I. Posner, Marcus E. Raichle, Images of Mind, Scientific American Library, New York, 1999, p. 88)

      
      IN OUR BRAIN THERE EXISTS NEITHER SOUND, NOR TASTE, NOR IMAGES

Science writer Rita Carter describes in her book, Mapping The Mind, the way we perceive the world:
"Each one [of the sense organs] is intricately adapted to deal with its own type of stimulus: molecules, waves or vibrations. But the answer does not lie here, because despite their wonderful variety, each organ does essentially the same job: it translates its particular type of stimulus into electrical pulses. A pulse is a pulse. It is not the color red, or the first notes of Beethoven's Fifth-it is a bit of electrical energy. Indeed, rather than discriminating one type of sensory input from another, the sense organs actually make them more alike. Alsensory stimuli, then enter the brain in more or less undifferentiated form as a stream of electrical pulses created by neurons firing, domino-fashion, along a certain route. This is all that happens. There is no reverse transformer that at some stage turns this electrical activity back into light waves or molecules. What makes one stream into vision and another into smell depends, rather, on which neurons are stimulated." (Rita Carter, Mapping the Mind, University of California Press, London, 1999, p.107)

      
      DR. LIJUN WANG'S EXPERIMENT THAT ASTONISHED THE WORLD OF SCIENCE

     Dr. Lijun Wang and his colleagues from Princeton University NEC Research Institute shocked the scientific community when they announced the results of an experiment they carried out in 2000.

     The team carried out the experiment by sending a light pulse into a cesium cell specially designed for this experiment.

     In this study, in which very delicate time measuring equipment was used, the light pulse re-phased before it entered the cesium cell. It was established that after the light pulse left the cesium cell and covered a distance of 20 meters, it also entered the cesium cell at that exact moment.

     In other words, Wang states that the light pulse appears in two different points at the very same time. That is, the light pulse exits the cesium cell before it enters it.

     Raymond Chiao, professor of physics at Berkeley University, who examined the experiment states that the test results reveal an incredible situation. According to the laws of physics, all forms of data can be transmitted at a maximum speed of 300,000 kilometers per second. Time is also calculated relatively by this speed of light.

     In the event the validity of Wang's experiment is confirmed, one of the main principles of physics, the "law of cause and effect," which can be summarized as, "Cause precedes the result, or the end of a phenomenon appears after its beginning" will no longer be true. In this respect, the result of a phenomenon precedes the cause that creates it. This makes it possible for a process to end before it begins. The experiment results signify that our familiar concept of time will "collapse."
Dr. Guenter Nimtz from Cologne University states this is confirmation that "information" can be transmitted faster than light. For further information on this experiment >> Click

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