Psychokinesis

Telekinesis ( from Ancient Greek: τῆλε tēle " far" and κίνησις kinesis " movement "), even psychokinesis, refers to a movement or movement of objects that supposedly occur in connection with spiritualistic phenomena or by spiritual forces of certain people. The parapsychology deals with the search for evidence of telekinesis. A scientifically verifiable proof or causal relationship has not been provided.

Term

Often a distinction is made between the Makropsychokinese be visibly deformed or moved in the objects, and the Mikropsychokinese, electronic circuits or radioactive decay should be affected in the. In retro Psychokinese data to be affected, which have been produced in the past. Be used rarely, the terms pyrokinesis for the alleged ability to ignite fire by thought alone, Kryokinese for that caused by thought alone freezing water, Aerokinese for influencing air, Ferrokinese for manipulating magnetically impressionable metals and Biokinese for influencing biological systems.

Research

Although stories about telekinetic phenomena have been handed down, no scientifically accepted proof of their existence has yet to be provided. In the 1970s, the German - American physicist Helmut Schmidt experimented with a self-developed random on the basis of radioactive decay, the pulses of which were converted into light signals (ie, either shone a red light or a green on ). Subjects had the task to influence these light signals through the power of thought (eg, the green light should come on more often than the red ). And indeed, there was a constantly recurring deviation.

A 2006 meta-analysis of 380 studies were evaluated via psychokinesis, came to the conclusion that psychokinesis has not been established. The effect of psychokinesis was - inversely proportional - very much dependent on the respective experimental scale and also extremely heterogeneous. That is, psychokinesis could only for small sample sizes and are only occasionally observed. With carried out Monte Carlo simulations, the authors come to the conclusion that the relationship between the respective test scope, the observed effect and the ( very small ) size of the effect is the result of publication bias.

Reception in the media

Telekinesis (or psychokinesis ) is often found as a psychic power in movies, on television, in computer games, in literature, comics and other forms of entertainment. In the television series My Favorite Martian from the year 1963, the alien protagonist dominates the movement of things by pointing to it. In the film, Carrie (1976 ), based on the novel by Stephen King, Sissy Spacek presented a distraught student with telekinetic powers dar. For this role she was nominated for an Oscar as best actress. In the Anglo- French film The Medusa 1978 with Richard Burton and Lino Ventura in the lead roles, it 's about a man who can bring disaster to the power of his thoughts. In the "Star Wars " films and based thereon short stories and computer games, the Jedi have the ability to control objects mentally by the power. Various psychokinetic abilities can be found in fictional characters such as Jean Grey (X -Men ), Andros (Power Rangers), Piccolo (Dragon Ball), some Pokémon, The Doctor (Doctor Who), Pucky ( Perry Rhodan ), Prue Halliwell and Christopher " Chris " Perry Halliwell ( Charmed - magical witches ) or Sylar and Peter Petrelli ( Heroes ).