Some people claim that the strange behavior of sub-atomic particles predicted by quantum mechanics and confirmed in physics laboratories (i.e. information appearing to move backwards in time or faster than light) is proof that human beings have psychic powers. After all, the reasoning goes, if sub-atomic particles know what will happen in the future, we should be able to predict the future, since we are made up of sub-atomic particles.
But this is extrapolating much too much to be reasonable. What appears to occur at the sub-atomic level does not necessarily happen at the macro-atomic level. One might speculate that it does, but then it is up to the advocate of that idea to demonstrate in the laboratory that these strange sub-atomic occurrences really happen at the macro-atomic level. The extraordinary claims of quantum mechanics about the behavior of sub-atomic particles have met the burden of extraordinary proofs through laboratory experiments. Through repeatable experiments this behavior can be repeatably observed.
In addition, no one has ever been able to use this so-called faster than light phenomenon to communicate information. While the evidence appears to show faster than light or future predictive properties of sub-atomic particles, the evidence is only found by comparing the communication at either end. The "signal", at least so far, is so buried in the noise that the correlation is only seen by comparing the sender's to the receiver's "data" stream.
Attempts to use Quantum Mechanics to prove the abilities of psychics at our own macro-atomic level have not met the burden of proof. They may appear to work in one laboratory, but fail the test of reproducible results in other laboratories. The notion that Quantum Mechanics proves that human beings have "psychic powers" is unsupported by scientific evidence.
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