According to the American Association - Electronic Voice Phenomena (or AA-EVP), a possible explanation for EVP is contained in the Survival Hypothesis, which states, "...we are nonphysical entities who are able to exist in the physical aspect of reality because of our physical body, but that when our physical body dies, we as Self, change our point of view to nonphysical reality. In effect, we exist before and after our current lifetime. The working hypothesis supported by AA-EVP is that these messages are, indeed, nonphysical in orig ...

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Electronic voice phenomena, Electronic voice phenomena - History, Electronic voice phenomena - Modern EVP, Electronic voice phenomena - Raudive voices, Electronic voice phenomena - Spiricom, Electronic voice phenomena - ITC, Electronic voice phenomena - Recording EVP, Electronic voice phenomena - Theories, Electronic voice phenomena - Classification, Electronic voice phenomena - EVP in fiction

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Fortean Phenomena:

Strange phenomena, especially those that challenge conventional scientific knowledge. Named after the American researcher and writer Charles Fort. Fortean phenomena include those generally considered paranormal, but also bizarre non-paranormal events such as monsters and prodigies, extraordinary coincidences, and unusual rains.

(See also: Fortean Phenomena, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)

Luminous Phenomena:

The experience of strange lights or glows, often around objects or people.

(See also: Luminous Phenomena, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)

The Aerial Phenomena Research Organization was a UFO research group started in 1952 by Jim and Coral Lorenzen. The group, which was based in New Mexico but had many state branches, remained active until 1988. APRO stressed scientific field investigations, and had a large staff of consulting Ph.D. scientists. A notable example was Dr. James E. McDonald of the University of Arizona, a well-known atmosphe

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Electronic Voice Phenomena

Juergenson was a film producer in Sweden who, in 1959 while making a documentary, had decided to tape bird songs. As he began recording, little did he realize that what was to follow would change the course of not only his earthly life but of that he would lead in the world beyond after his death. When he played the tape back he was startled to hear, in among the tweeting and chirping, his mother's voice say in German, "Friedrich, you are being watched. Friedel, my little Friedel, can you hear me?"

An in-depth article about Electronic Voice Phenomena.

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A phenomenon (plural: phenomena) is an observable event, especially something special (literally something that can be seen from the Greek word phainomenon = observable). Phenomenon - Kant's use of phenomenon. Phenomenon has a specialized meaning in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant who contrasted the term 'Phenomenon' with 'Noumenon'. Phenomena constitute the world as we experience it, as opposed to the world as it exists independently of our experiences (thing-in- ...

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• Phenomenon - Kant's use of phenomenon
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• Phenomenon - Quotes

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Please remove this notice after the article has been expanded. Details are on this talk page or at Wikipedia:Requests for expansion. A physical phenomenon is a phenomenon that is describable by physics and involved with some form of matter, energy, or spacetime. Physical phenomena are usually regarded as, at least in theory, subjects of observation - Niels Bohr, one of the fathers of quantum mechanics, is quoted with saying the "no pheno ...

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Electricity is a property of matter that results from the presence of electric charge. Together with magnetism, it constitutes the fundamental interaction known as electromagnetism. Electricity is responsible for many well-known physical phenomena such as lightning, electric fields and electric currents, and is put to use in industrial applications such as electronics and electric power. Electricity - Concepts in electricity. In casual usage, the term electricity is applied to several related concept ...

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• Electricity - SI electricity units
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Chengdu (Chinese: 成都; Hanyu Pinyin: Chéngdū; Wade-Giles: Ch'eng-tu) is the capital of Sichuan province and a sub-provincial city, located in southwest China, and bordering Tibet. Its exact location is between 102°54' - 104°53' east longitude and 30°5' - 31°26' north latitude. Chengdu has an area of 12 300 km². The GDP per capita was ¥20625 (ca. US$2503) in ...

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A New Theory of the Earth was a book written by William Whiston, in which he presented a description of the divine creation of the Earth and a posited global flood. It was published in 1696 and was well-received by Isaac Newton and John Locke. The book is organized as follows: Introduction, discussing the text of Creation according to Genesis Book I: Lematta, discussing the premises and assumptions on which his argument is based; Book II: Hypotheses, discussing his model for t ...

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• A New Theory of the Earth - Introduction
• A New Theory of the Earth - Book 1: Lemmata
• A New Theory of the Earth - Book 23 and 4: Phenomena

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Chongqing (Simplified: 重庆; Traditional: 重慶; Hanyu Pinyin: Chóngqìng; Wade-Giles: Ch'ung-ch'ing; Postal System Pinyin: Chungking) is the largest and most populous of the People's Republic of China's four provincial-level municipalities, and the only one in the less densely populated western half of China. The municipality of Chongqing has a population of 32,355,000 (2004), most of them living outside of the urban area of Ch ...

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Interest in EVP apparently began in the 1920s. In a Scientific American interview, Thomas Edison was quizzed on his views regarding contacting the dead. Edison (who seems to have held no strong religious belief), opined that no one knows if "our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere" but he also speculated that "it is possible to construct an apparatus which will be so delicate that if there are personalities in another existence or sphere who wish to get in touch with us in this existence or sphere, this apparatus will ...

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Electronic voice phenomena, Electronic voice phenomena - History, Electronic voice phenomena - Modern EVP, Electronic voice phenomena - Raudive voices, Electronic voice phenomena - Spiricom, Electronic voice phenomena - ITC, Electronic voice phenomena - Recording EVP, Electronic voice phenomena - Theories, Electronic voice phenomena - Classification, Electronic voice phenomena - EVP in fiction

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Charles Hoy Fort (August 6, 1874 - May 3, 1932) was an American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena. (According to some sources he was born on August 9.) Fort is best known for his books, in which he compiled — with his characteristic wry, tongue in cheek sense of humor — many accounts of odd, inexplicable or strange events, usually taken from newspapers or scientific journals. Fort's books sold well, and remain in print. The term Forteana is sometimes used to describe various anomalous phenomena.Including:

• Charles Fort - Overview
• Charles Fort - Fort and the unexplained
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This page is about the phenomena of crop circles. For information about the music band, please see Crop Circles. Crop circles are areas of cereal or similar crops that have been systematically flattened to form various geometric patterns. The phenomenon itself only entered the public imagination in its current form after the notable appearances in England in the late 1970s. People who study crop circle phenomena sometimes humorously call themselves "cerealogists", after the usually known name for the pseudoscience that studies crop circles: cereology. ...

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Although Yahoo! Inc. maintains non-US versions of Yahoo!, such as http://www.yahoo.co.uk (Yahoo! UK & Ireland), http://www.yahoo.de (Yahoo! Deutschland), the following trolling phenomena mostly apply to Yahoo.com, the US site, as it receives the greatest amount of visitors and, therefore, the greatest exposure. Yahoo! provides two types of message boards for public use. One set is organized into a topical hierarchy, and is located at http://messages.yahoo.com/index.html. The other message boards are for Yahoo! News articles. Yahoo ...

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Yahoo! trolling phenomena, Yahoo! trolling phenomena - Overview, Yahoo! trolling phenomena - Yahoo! trolls and their habits, Yahoo! trolling phenomena - Racist and bigoted trolls, Yahoo! trolling phenomena - Sick post trolls, Yahoo! trolling phenomena - US political trolls, Yahoo! trolling phenomena - Regionalistic nationalistic and USA vs. The World trolls, Yahoo! trolling phenomena - Rec whores, Yahoo! trolling phenomena - Yahoo! profile trolls, Yahoo! trolling phenomena - Idiosyncratic trolls, Yahoo! trolling phenomena - Other trolling phenomena

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The correlation length diverges at the critical point: as , . This divergence poses no physical problem. Other physical observables diverge at this point, leading to some confusion at the beginning. The most important is susceptibility. Let us apply a very small magnetic field to the system in the critical point. A very small magnetic field is not able to magnetize a large coherent cluster, but with these fractal clusters the picture changes. It affects easily the smallest size clusters, since they have a nearly paramagnetic behaviour ...

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Critical phenomena, Critical phenomena - The critical point of the 2D Ising model, Critical phenomena - Divergences at the critical point, Critical phenomena - Critical exponents and universality, Critical phenomena - Ergodicity breaking, Critical phenomena - Mathematical tools, Critical phenomena - Bibliography

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The quality, volume and durations of recordings are said to be increased by using a sound source placed within audible distance of the microphone during recording. Typically this would be a radio tuned to between stations so only white noise is audible; the theory being that this provides an acoustic basis for the voices to be constructed from, similar to vocoder technology. An alternative explanation is that the white noise provides random sounds that may be interpreted as voices by people who expect or want to hear voices. This expl ...

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Electronic voice phenomena, Electronic voice phenomena - History, Electronic voice phenomena - Modern EVP, Electronic voice phenomena - Raudive voices, Electronic voice phenomena - Spiricom, Electronic voice phenomena - ITC, Electronic voice phenomena - Recording EVP, Electronic voice phenomena - Theories, Electronic voice phenomena - Classification, Electronic voice phenomena - EVP in fiction

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Often, trolls are created with the purpose of tricking the reader into viewing offensive or misleading information, or to deceive them in some way. Slashdot trolling phenomena - Karma whores. Slashdot trolling phenomena - Comment plagiarism. Although comment plagiarism is an underappreciated trolling technique, this form of trolling can still waste many karma points. The troll will search for a highly moderated post a few pages down from the beginning of the discussion, reword ...

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Slashdot trolling phenomena, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Disruptive trolls, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Crapflooding, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Page widening/lengthening, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Offensive trolls, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Homosexuality and racism, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Anti-semitism, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Nationalistic insults, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Deceptive trolls, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Karma whores, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Comment plagiarism, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Article text alteration trolls, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Web vendor referral trolls, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Signature trolls, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Movie spoiler, Slashdot trolling phenomena - 300 Dead in Sri Lanka Tsunami, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Idiosyncratic trolls, Slashdot trolling phenomena - First post, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Netcraft confirms it, Slashdot trolling phenomena - HELLO WORLD, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Stephen King is dead, Slashdot trolling phenomena - First Obituary, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Hot grits/Natalie Portman, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Reigniting flamewars, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Minor trolls, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Related Links

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The purpose of disruptive trolls is to cause the pages of Slashdot to display in an undesirable way or to otherwise bring attention to themselves. The two major categories of disruptive trolls are crapflooding and page-widening. Slashdot trolling phenomena - Crapflooding. Crapflooding is the posting of many nonsensical or gratuitously offensive messages in order to disrupt th ...

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Slashdot trolling phenomena, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Disruptive trolls, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Crapflooding, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Page widening/lengthening, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Offensive trolls, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Homosexuality and racism, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Anti-semitism, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Nationalistic insults, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Deceptive trolls, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Karma whores, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Comment plagiarism, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Article text alteration trolls, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Web vendor referral trolls, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Signature trolls, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Movie spoiler, Slashdot trolling phenomena - 300 Dead in Sri Lanka Tsunami, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Idiosyncratic trolls, Slashdot trolling phenomena - First post, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Netcraft confirms it, Slashdot trolling phenomena - HELLO WORLD, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Stephen King is dead, Slashdot trolling phenomena - First Obituary, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Hot grits/Natalie Portman, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Reigniting flamewars, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Minor trolls, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Related Links

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Trolls that don't fall into the other three categories are idiosyncratic, and their existence is a result of an inside joke related to the workings of Slashdot culture or history or of geek culture itself. Slashdot trolling phenomena - First post. Whenever a new story is posted on Slashdot, comments may be added discussing it and there is often competition between Slashdotters to be the first to post such a comment. Some first posters try to make a short insightful comment to avoid being moderated down. Th ...

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Slashdot trolling phenomena, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Disruptive trolls, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Crapflooding, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Page widening/lengthening, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Offensive trolls, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Homosexuality and racism, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Anti-semitism, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Nationalistic insults, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Deceptive trolls, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Karma whores, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Comment plagiarism, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Article text alteration trolls, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Web vendor referral trolls, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Signature trolls, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Movie spoiler, Slashdot trolling phenomena - 300 Dead in Sri Lanka Tsunami, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Idiosyncratic trolls, Slashdot trolling phenomena - First post, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Netcraft confirms it, Slashdot trolling phenomena - HELLO WORLD, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Stephen King is dead, Slashdot trolling phenomena - First Obituary, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Hot grits/Natalie Portman, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Reigniting flamewars, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Minor trolls, Slashdot trolling phenomena - Related Links

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