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Experiments in Telekinesis. 549
tion to the right and paused again. I waited perhaps three minr
utes and not another stir. I then suggested that Mrs. Chenoweth
take my place and try it. I summarized the results as follows :
Rotations. Direction. Rotations. Direction.
Wavered
Three and a half Right. Pause. Fraction Left.
One half Left. Pause. Fraction Left.
Three fourths Right. One fourth Right.
Pause. One third Left. Pause. Fraction Right.
Pause. One fourth Left. Fraction Left.
Pause. One eighth Right. Fraction Right.
Fraction Left.
The rotations were slow Wavered
and the interruptions by pauses One fourth Right.
were suggestive that air cur- Pause and wavered.
rents did not affect the action Three fourths Right.
of the cylinder. Pause. Three fourths Left.
Three fourths Right.
I then tried causing motion by holding a lighted match on
one side of the cylinder, and there was no motion for a short
time. Then the cylinder rotated part of a revolution. I tried
a lighted match on each side and it rotated with every appearance
of having done so under the influence of air currents caused
by the heat. But I was not able to prove it, as I could not continue
the experiment sufficiently long.
But I tried causing air currents by my hands and failed. I
placed one hand beyond the cylinder, with fiat of palm vertical
to the table, and the other on this side of it and then drew the
one hand quickly toward me and thrust the other out in front
of me. The motion was intended to create an air current on one
side of the cylinder toward me and the other away from me.
Hut there was not the slightest rotation of the cylinder. I repeated
this several times without any success, rather showing
that it was difficult to suppose that air currents affected its motion
when the hands were held still near it.
I then showed why we could not suppose it was electricity
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