{"id":1962,"date":"2010-05-11T19:45:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T23:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stacyhorn.com\/unbelievable\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2010-05-12T09:03:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:03:50","slug":"letters-to-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/?p=1962","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now and again I think about this one paragraph from an August 30, 1944 letter of J. B. Rhine&#8217;s.  I wish I could research it more.  Apparently Rhine was having some sort of exchange with one of his donors about Thomas Edison.  (I posted about Edison and the afterlife <a href=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/?p=1128\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/?p=1161\">here<\/a>.)  But it&#8217;s not the part about Edison that haunts me.  Here is the paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I did not make myself clear about Edison.  I am satisfied about the facts.  There is a man named Fitzgerald in Detroit who is doing something similar.  He is a young physicist.  He claims to have read Edison&#8217;s notes, as well as those of Steinmetz [famous inventor and engineer who worked with Edison] and Tesla [another famous inventor and engineer].  I have only talked with him over the long-distance telephone.  He claims to be able to register electric wave transmission given off by the action of a muscle twenty-five feet across the room.  He wants to investigate mediums to discover whether they can transmit some physical force which his machine can pick up.  I have a friend in Detroit investigating him.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder what happened to Fitzgerald.  I didn&#8217;t copy the entire letter, and I&#8217;m not sure why I didn&#8217;t.  I must have been tired.  I&#8217;m completely ignorant about things like this though \u2014 does the body emit electric waves?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/tesla2.jpg\" alt=\"tesla2\" title=\"tesla2\" width=\"521\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1966\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[That&#8217;s a picture of Tesla that I found while googling.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now and again I think about this one paragraph from an August 30, 1944 letter of J. B. Rhine&#8217;s. I wish I could research it &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piV6u-vE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}