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Why is it acceptable to believe in quantum mechanics, or Einstein’s ‘spooky action at a distance’, and yet it is considered folly to believe in extrasensory perception? I use belief in its truest form, for it takes faith to persist in the multi-billion-dollar search for fragments such as the God particle. Why is entanglement of subatomic particles admissible to physical scientists and yet precognition is described as pseudoscience?
If you look up subatomic particles on Wikipedia, you’ll find dozens of them, each with bizarre names like muon and neutrino. Some of them have been named despite the fact that there is no categorical evidence to support their existence. This is said to be because quantum mechanics is still an in its infancy. Much of the suppositions are based on advanced mathematical probability, and the missing linkages between particle behaviour and waveforms. There is still much to be learned. That is a fair assessment.
Why it is okay to fabricate the existence of particles in an imaginary sub-atomic realm, and spend billions in the search for proof, but it is not scientific to examine the possibility of telepathy? Millennia of anecdotal evidence are dismissed as superstition and folklore. Stories from every religion, race, country and hemisphere, acknowledge human extrasensory perception in one form or another. Many of the incidences may form myth and legend, but…