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SUMMARY:Fringe Physics
DESCRIPTION:March 7 – 22\, 20266 two-hour sessions \n\n\n\n10am PDT/1pm EDT/5pm GMT/6pm CET \n\n\n\nWith Jonathan Allday\, Bernard Carr\, Jeff Dunne\, Gwyneth Moss\, Dean Radin.Curated and Chaired by Jonathan Allday. \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live\, and include Q & A\, and all participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA webinar series discussing topics at the edge of conventional physics. \n\n\n\nPhysics has something to say about reality. It would not have survived as an approach to the world for so many centuries if that wasn’t the case. Yet we have to be careful. Physics has bought its success by narrowing its focus and developing a specific approach. We shouldn’t think of it as a ‘catch-all\,’ capable of accounting for everything that we experience. \n\n\n\nThat’s a hard lesson for a physicist to learn.  \n\n\n\nIt may even be an aspect of the ‘ontological shock’ that Jeff Kripal warns us about in the context of anomalous phenomena. It certainly seems that there’s a ‘trickster’ element in everything from UAPs\, NDEs and other weird acronym-experiences. The phenomenon seems to be deliberately defying explanation. \n\n\n\nPerhaps it’s time to push back.  \n\n\n\nPerhaps it’s time to start thinking about how physics can be extended to accommodate (not ‘explain away’) stranger aspects of the world. It’s possible that physics it not equipped to do this\, but also possible that an extended and revised physics might help people integrate their experiences. \n\n\n\nIn this series of talks\, we’ll take on some of these topics. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday March 7Mind and Multiverse: Part 1Jonathan Allday and Bernard Carr in conversation about the Multiverse \n\n\n\nSunday March 8Mind and Multiverse; Part 2Jonathan Allday and Bernard Carr in conversation about Mind \n\n\n\nSaturday March 14 Experimental Tests of the Consciousness: Collapse HypothesisWith Dean Radin \n\n\n\nSunday March 15 The Emergent Physical Universe: The Psychology of Subatomic ParticlesWith Jeff Dunne \n\n\n\nSarturday March 21The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Physics of QiWith Gwyneth Moss \n\n\n\nSunday March 22Beyond the PaleWith Jonathan Allday
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/fringe-physics/
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SUMMARY:Fringe Physics - Mind and Multiverse (Session 1 and 2 of 6)
DESCRIPTION:Mind and Multiverse \n\n\n\nFringe Physics\, Session 1 and 2 of 6 \n\n\n\nWith Jonathan Allday and Bernard Carr. \n\n\n\nSaturday and Sunday March 7-8\, 202610am PDT / 1pm EDT / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\nThese events are LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUp to around the 1970s\, cosmology was not a subject that a well-brought up young physicist would get involved with. It was dangerously close to philosophy\, and worse\, theology. Now\, cosmology is not only a respected branch of science\, it’s one of the fastest growing. However\, it’s also an area where some of the ideas involved (speculative to be sure) are the weirdest. The community accepts conversations about higher dimensions\, parallel worlds\, and a multiverse. \n\n\n\nThis topic is split into two parts: \n\n\n\nSaturday March 7\, 2026Mind and Multiverse – A conversation between Bernard Carr and Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nWe will discuss the evidence for the Big Bang and various topics to do with the Multiverse. \n\n\n\nSunday March 8\, 2026Mind and Multiverse – A conversation between Bernard Carr and Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nIn this conversation we’ll venture into higher dimensions and where Bernard sees mind fitting in to an expanded physics. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Allday is a retired teacher with 30+ years’ experience teaching physics working in a range of boarding and day schools in the UK. He was a head of department\, head of faculty and an academic Deputy Head. His last post had the gloriously pompous title ‘Director of Digital Strategy\,’ although this did not make the IT work any better for him. \n\n\n\nAfter attending the Liverpool Blue Coat School\, he took his first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge\, then in 1989 a PhD in experimental particle physics at Liverpool University. During that time\, he found one of David Peat’s books in the University Bookstore. Discovering that David was also a Liverpudlian fostered Jonathan’s ambition to write about physics. \n\n\n\nShortly after his PhD\, Jonathan started work on his first book Quarks Leptons and the Big Bang\, now published by Taylor & Francis and available in its third edition. It has been in print for over 25 years. \n\n\n\nSince then\, he has also written Apollo in Perspective\, Quantum Reality (now in its second edition)\, Space-time\, and Introduction to Entropy: The Way of the World\, written with an old school friend\, Professor Simon Hands. In addition\, Jonathan is co-authoring a successful textbook (Advanced Physics) and a volume in the Oxford Encyclopaedia for Young Scientists. Most recently\, Jonathan contributed to the updated edition of the Looking-Glass Universe by F. David Peat and John Briggs. \n\n\n\nIn various other projects\, Jonathan has produced articles and teaching materials on the philosophy of science and the interface between science and religion. He has contributed to Physics Review magazine and has been an editor of Physics Education. \n\n\n\nDuring COVID\, Jonathan started researching what the Pari Center was up to and made his first trip to Italy for the ‘Enchanted Universe’ conference in 2022. Since then\, he has adopted Pari as a spiritual home. His physical home is with his wife Carolyn in Worcestershire. They have three grown boys\, one of whom actually did a degree in physics at Bristol University\, (not a bad strike rate…) and is now a software engineer. The others read psychology and philosophy and fell to the dark side and became accountants. All of them can do sport\, which Jonathan can’t but his wife could (very well). \n\n\n\nIn January 2026\, Jonathan became Director of the Pari Center. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBernard Carr is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. His professional area of research is cosmology and astrophysics and includes such topics as the early universe\, dark matter\, black holes and the anthropic principle. For his PhD he studied the first second of the Universe\, working under the supervision of Stephen Hawking at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology. He was elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College\, Cambridge\, in 1975 and moved to Queen Mary College in 1985. He has also held Visiting Professorships at Kyoto University\, Tokyo University\, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics.  \n\n\n\nHe is the author of nearly three hundred scientific papers and the books Universe or Multiverse? and Quantum Black Holes.  \n\n\n\nBeyond his professional field\, he is interested in the role of consciousness in physics and in an expanded paradigm which accommodates mind. He also has a long-standing interest in the relationship between science and religion. He was President of the Society for Psychical Research in 2000-2004 and is currently President of the Scientific and Medical Network.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/fringe-physics-mind-and-multiverse-session-1-and-2-of-6/
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SUMMARY:Fringe Physics - Experimental Tests of the Consciousness: Collapse Hypothesis (Session 3 of 6)
DESCRIPTION:Experimental Tests of the Consciousness: Collapse Hypothesis \n\n\n\nFringe Physics\, Session 3 of 6 \n\n\n\nWith Dean Radin. \n\n\n\nSaturday\, March 14\, 202610am PDT / 1pm EDT / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\nThese events are LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe role of observation in quantum mechanics remains one of the most persistent and intriguing open questions in science. From the earliest formulations of quantum theory\, it was clear that measurement plays a special role\, yet precisely what that role entails is still debated. Among the more provocative responses to this puzzle is the proposal\, associated with von Neumann and others\, that conscious observation itself contributes to the collapse of the quantum wave function. While this idea has long occupied a marginal position within physics\, it continues to attract interest at the intersection of quantum theory\, philosophy of mind\, and consciousness studies.  \n\n\n\nThe title Fringe Physics is intended in a double sense. It reflects both the unconventional status of the consciousness-collapse hypothesis and the fact that many of the relevant experiments involve interference fringes in quantum-optical systems. In this talk\, I review known experimental efforts that have explicitly or implicitly tested observer-dependent collapse\, including optical double-slit studies. Although the range of experiments differ widely in methods and interpretations\, they collectively form a small but coherent body of empirical work that has not been widely known outside specialized communities.  \n\n\n\nA central aim of the talk is to clarify distinctions that are often blurred in discussions of this topic. One is the difference between the strong claim that consciousness is necessary for wave-function collapse and the weaker claim that conscious observation may\, under certain conditions\, measurably influence quantum outcomes. Another is the distinction between establishing the existence of a small observer-dependent effect versus demonstrating practical or technological significance. The experimental literature bears only on these weaker claims\, yet the evidence is frequently criticized as if it were advancing the strongest possible versions of the hypothesis.  \n\n\n\nI will also discuss a recent analysis by Chalmers and McQueen\, who examined consciousness-based collapse models from the perspective of both philosophy of mind and quantum theory. They argue that while simple versions of the consciousness-collapse hypothesis are unlikely to be correct\, more sophisticated formulations remain empirically open and\, in principle\, testable. Their work provides a useful framework for assessing whether such proposals should be regarded as legitimate scientific hypotheses rather than as purely metaphysical speculation.  \n\n\n\nThe talk concludes with cautious\, provisional conclusions. I do not claim that the consciousness-collapse hypothesis has been established\, nor that it provides a superior solution to the measurement problem. Rather\, I suggest that the existing experimental record\, though limited\, is sufficiently structured to justify continued\, careful investigation. At minimum\, these studies serve as informative probes of our assumptions about measurement\, observation\, and the relationship between consciousness and the physical world. Whether they ultimately point toward new physics or help refine existing theories\, they occupy a scientifically legitimate\, and still unresolved\, fringe. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDean Radin is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)\, Associated Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies\, and cofounder and chairman of the neuroengineering company\, Cognigenics. He earned a BS and MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign. In 2022 he was awarded an Honorary DSc from the Swami Vivekananda University in Bangalore\, India.Before joining the IONS research staff in 2001\, Radin worked at AT&T Bell Labs\, Princeton University\, University of Edinburgh\, and SRI International. He has given over 830 talks and interviews worldwide\, is co-inventor on 12 patents\, and is author or coauthor of 350+ scientific and popular articles\, book chapters\, and five books\, all of which have been translated into foreign languages\, 15 so far: The Conscious Universe(1997)\, Entangled Minds (2006)\, Supernormal (2013)\, Real Magic (2018)\, and The Science of Magic (2025).  
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/fringe-physics-experimental-tests-of-the-consciousness-collapse-hypothesis-session-3-of-6/
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SUMMARY:Fringe Physics - The Emergent Physical Universe: The Psychology of Subatomic Particles (Session 4 of 6)
DESCRIPTION:The Emergent Physical Universe: The Psychology of Subatomic Particles \n\n\n\nFringe Physics\, Session 4 of 6 \n\n\n\nWith Jeff Dunne \n\n\n\nSunday\, March 15\, 202610am PDT / 1pm EDT / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\nThese events are LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe world according to classical physics was a gentle cage\, for it allowed (perhaps even encouraged) us to revel in the idea of an objective universe\, i.e. a universe having form and structure with no dependence on us as observers. Then came the fathers of modern physics and quantum mechanics\, who royally screwed everything up.  These inglorious bastards forced us to consider that consciousness itself might be playing a role in the structure of reality\, a completely unheard-of concept except for the tens of thousands of years that people had held that belief prior to the rise and subsequent dominance of the western scientific worldview. \n\n\n\nIn this session we will explore the possibility that the external\, so-called “objective” world has the form it has not as an absolute and neither by accident\, but because that form is a construct of consciousness. We will contemplate the implications that arise from the idea that the laws of physics are not an external prison that dictates our lives\, but rather a natural expression of humanity’s consensus agreement on how to express our experiences—to others and to ourselves. We will examine the as-above-so-below parallels between what we see in the universe and what we see in ourselves\, and entertain the possibility that the laws of physics are really just an expression of our own psychology.  \n\n\n\nAnd we’ll have cake – but you have to bring your own because\, you know\, we’re meeting online. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Jeffrey Dunne is the President of the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL)\, a charitable research organization established in the late 1990’s to build upon the foundation established by the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Laboratory. In this role\, Dr. Dunne runs a variety of research and outreach activities focused on exploring the nature of consciousness\, particularly as it relates to space\, time\, and language\, as well as events for sharing such understanding with people from all backgrounds.  \n\n\n\nIn addition to his role with ICRL\, Jeff is a researcher and Chief Scientist at the Johns Hopkins University\, working over the past thirty years in a variety of fields ranging from acoustics and cybersecurity to data science and artificial intelligence. He is also an award-winning author and playwright\, with nearly two hundred plays performed over four continents. In his 2023 novel\, Nexus\, Jeff unites three decades of scientific experience with four decades of pursuits in philosophy and metaphysics to weave a story introducing the scientific principle of syntropy and its importance in finding balance at every scale – personal\, societal\, and global.  \n\n\n\nDr. Dunne holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering\, as well as a M.S. and Ph.D. in Experimental Physics.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/fringe-physics-the-emergent-physical-universe-the-psychology-of-subatomic-particles-session-4-of-6/
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SUMMARY:Fringe Physics - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Physics of Qi (Session 5 of 6)
DESCRIPTION:The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Physics of Qi \n\n\n\nFringe Physics\, Session 5 of 6 \n\n\n\nWith Gwyneth Moss \n\n\n\nSaturday\, March 21\, 202610am PDT / 1pm EDT / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\nThese events are LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Hitchhiker’s Guide is written from observations\, experiences and conversations and intended as helpful advice for fellow travellers. This journey begins with experiences that make no conventional sense and evolves into a quest that explores both modern physics\, particularly the work of David Bohm\, and the ancient metaphysics of the Dao de Jing\, seeking to bridge the divide between two tribes that both use the word energy with completely different meaning.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGwyneth Moss grew up steeped in materialist science: raised by research chemists she followed a Cambridge Physics degree with worldwide experience as an oil exploration seismologist\, project manager in smart card cryptography and organisational consultant. At the age of forty she ran away from the corporate world and now has twenty five years of experience as a Meridian Energy Psychology therapist. She is recognised internationally as an innovator and an expert practitioner and trainer of EFT Tapping. She is the founder of The EFT Guild community of learning.  \n\n\n\nGwyneth lives in Yorkshire and enjoys walking\, talking\, thinking and drinking.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/fringe-physics-the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-physics-of-qi-session-5-of-6/
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SUMMARY:Fringe Physics - Beyond the Pale (Session 6 of 6)
DESCRIPTION:Beyond the Pale \n\n\n\nFringe Physics\, Session 6 of 6 \n\n\n\nWith Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nSunday\, March 22\, 202610am PDT / 1pm EDT / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\nThese events are LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStored in the cathedral of Turin is a strip of linen cloth. On one side of the material is the faint image of a crucified male. Contextually\, it appears to be a rendering of Christ after being taken down from the cross. Carbon dating of a sample taken from the cloth places it as medieval in origin. Its documented provenance also fades away in that era. Yet\, it’s remarkably difficult to explain how an image of that nature was formed. There is also good scientific reasons to be doubtful of the carbon date. \n\n\n\nIn this talk we’ll examine the image characteristics\, identifying the key features that must be accounted for in any explanation of how it was formed. We will also take a look at the raw data from the carbon tests and discuss some of the curious anomalies that were revealed when the information was finally released. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Allday is a retired teacher with 30+ years’ experience teaching physics working in a range of boarding and day schools in the UK. He was a head of department\, head of faculty and an academic Deputy Head. His last post had the gloriously pompous title ‘Director of Digital Strategy\,’ although this did not make the IT work any better for him. \n\n\n\nAfter attending the Liverpool Blue Coat School\, he took his first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge\, then in 1989 a PhD in experimental particle physics at Liverpool University. During that time\, he found one of David Peat’s books in the University Bookstore. Discovering that David was also a Liverpudlian fostered Jonathan’s ambition to write about physics. \n\n\n\nShortly after his PhD\, Jonathan started work on his first book Quarks Leptons and the Big Bang\, now published by Taylor & Francis and available in its third edition. It has been in print for over 25 years. \n\n\n\nSince then\, he has also written Apollo in Perspective\, Quantum Reality (now in its second edition)\, Space-time\, and Introduction to Entropy: The Way of the World\, written with an old school friend\, Professor Simon Hands. In addition\, Jonathan is co-authoring a successful textbook (Advanced Physics) and a volume in the Oxford Encyclopaedia for Young Scientists. Most recently\, Jonathan contributed to the updated edition of the Looking-Glass Universe by F. David Peat and John Briggs. \n\n\n\nIn various other projects\, Jonathan has produced articles and teaching materials on the philosophy of science and the interface between science and religion. He has contributed to Physics Review magazine and has been an editor of Physics Education. \n\n\n\nDuring COVID\, Jonathan started researching what the Pari Center was up to and made his first trip to Italy for the ‘Enchanted Universe’ conference in 2022. Since then\, he has adopted Pari as a spiritual home. His physical home is with his wife Carolyn in Worcestershire. They have three grown boys\, one of whom actually did a degree in physics at Bristol University\, (not a bad strike rate…) and is now a software engineer. The others read psychology and philosophy and fell to the dark side and became accountants. All of them can do sport\, which Jonathan can’t but his wife could (very well). \n\n\n\nIn January 2026\, Jonathan became Director of the Pari Center.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/fringe-physics-beyond-the-pale-session-6-of-6/
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