(2017-08-23, 08:55 AM)Max_B Wrote: Do you believe there is some anomalous phenomena going on here?
No idea. The experiment was pretty informal. There may be something interesting going on but I don't have sufficient elements to come to any conclusions. I find the movement of the lady on the chair pretty strange. Her feet don't touch the floor and her posture doesn't suggest any effort in her arms and hands, suggesting she's not pushing or pulling.
There could be fraud going on: the chair might have been modified so that it takes little effort to be pushed around (by reducing its friction somehow). Then again why inviting scientists to check the room, the table, the chair etc...? It would have been spotted immediately.
Right now I am sitting on an office chair with 5 wheels and in front of a table. I can put both hands on the table, rest my feet on the chair's legs and try to push myself back and forth like in the video, but it's not that easy. I have to plant my palms very firmly on the table and I must use the strength in my arms and shoulders to move. Even with a slippery floor the motion is not very smooth and my hands and arms look tense.
I would need a way to reduce the effort by 50% at least to make it less obvious that I am pushing and pulling. Especially the pulling back towards the table is very obvious.
The correlation between anomalous EEG activity and the table/chair movement seems to corroborate the comments of the parapsychologist who admits there might be something anomalous going on.
I've seen the "table fight" experiment done in multiple occasions (see b/w video posted earlier) and it looks even more difficult to fake. I can't exclude fraud there too but on every instance they invited an expert to check the setup and the environment, before proceeding.
Generally speaking Muti has always been very open to all sort of instrumental tests and verifications of his feats. He was actually the one who was pestering physicists, parapsychologists and the like to participate to his demonstrations and find ways to document the reality of the phenomena. As far as I know he's never been caught cheating in those demos.