Welcome to the P.S.I. Website! The Paranormal Scientific Investigators (PSI), a nonprofit organization, was founded on October 15, 2005. We are a group of regular guys and gals with daytime jobs and share a common interest in the paranormal. When we first began we had only a few scientific instruments. We began by investigating where some of the local folklore indicated paranormal activity had occurred in the past. As we grew in members, we also grew in our methodology, as well as in our scientific instrumentation. We learned from our earlier investigations and later redefined what our goals are. PSI has matured considerably from those initial investigations. We are located in southwest Ohio with our base in Greenfield, which is located at the northeast corner of Highland County. Because we are non-profit we are doing all of this at our own expense and so must coordinate to do this after hours. Unlike many other groups we will only present factual evidence and under no circumstance provide false, incomplete, or uncertain evidence. We use the scientific method of inquiry in our investigations, looking for natural explanations first, then consider the actual evidence, allowing it to speak for itself. Research and experimentation is encouraged. Our group has been to a dozen private residences more than once, a number of public investigations, including the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio. Our investigations have taken us to a number of Ohio counties including Highland, Fayette, Clinton, Richland, Green, Muskingum, Fairfield, and Lucas. PSI has set up a booth at the Wheels of Progress festival in Greenfield, Ohio, gave a public presentation at a public library, was contacted by WCPO-TV Channel 12, from out of Cincinnati, Ohio, interviewed by The Intelligencer & Wheeling News (West Virginia), and interviewed by The Chronicle Cluster. PSI has also participated in a raffle for a television set. Members past and present have included Donnie Shepherd and Mark Stewart (co-founders), Kendra Frank, Scott Fulkerson, Miranda Stewart, Ron Fulkerson, Michelle Dunn, Beth Cameron, Joette Hesler, Joni Gilliland, Jonda Lombardo, and Mike Livingston.
Haunted Ohio Where Are You Hey everyone we are currently trying to create a page of haunted places in Ohio, if you know of one e-mail us and we'll post it. Feel free to contact us through e-mail at the address at the bottom of the page with your story. Please leave anything out that you don't won't posted. Thanks for your help.
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The second of Einstein's two relativity theories, his general theory of relativity, is a theory of gravitation. Its wide acceptance and his original fame may be attributed largely to the presumed verification of predictions that he made relative to three effects in astronomy. As it turns out now, all three of these effects should have been expected from other considerations: they can be shown to follow from more conventional physical analyses without the need for his theory and its rather drastic "nonphysical" concepts. This theory of electromagnetism follows the same analytical form as that which has proved to be so successful in electric theory, namely the form of Maxwell's four field equations in this electromagnetic theory of light. This theory yields all of the applications known from Newton's theory of gravitation plus the "expected" dynamical effects of gravitational waves and radiation, minute effects that Newton failed to provide for. Although the predicted gravitational radiation effects have the same order of magnitude of Einstein's, there is enough difference in value that if these effects are ever measured with sufficient accuracy, these ideas will be vindicated. Many of these ideas are still being explored to this day; nevertheless it appears to be a satisfying alternative to Einstein's general theory of relativity, with much greater physical plausibility. The universal law of gravitation developed by Sir Isaac Newton is the law that is employed in practical problems related to gravitation. For example, it is the law that has been used so successfully in space flights, accurately predicting the trajectories of spacecrafts in their flights to the moon, and beyond. However, without detracting from the genius of Newton, nor of the applicability of his law of gravitation, it appears that this law is a limited one. It is an action-at-a-distance law, meaning that its force is supposed to act throughout space instantaneously. Whereas it is believed that this gravitational effect is propagated through space with a finite velocity, not an infinite velocity. Action-at-a-distance laws in other areas of physics have been shown to be limited laws, holding only for those cases where the travel time can be neglected. The effects have been found to be propagated with the speed of light. After developing his special theory of relativity, from which the useful concept of equivalence of mass and energy was deduced, Albert Einstein developed a second theory of relativity known as the general theory of relativity, a theory of gravitation. It is not a simple extension of his special theory, but a complete venture into new concepts. These new concepts associate gravity with accelerated frames of reference and include the concept of "curved space". This concept of "curved space" appears to be a "nonphysical" and inconsistent concept in relativity; because the special theory of relativity is based on the assumption that space is not a measurable physical quantity, that there is no fixed frame of reference in space. Even though the general theory of relativity appears to be "nonphysical", this theory gained wide acceptance and gave Einstein his first fame. His fame came when observations apparently verified predictions that he had made. He predicted three effects in astronomy, but these Einstein effects can now be accounted for by other means. The general theory is not needed to produce any of these effects. Nevertheless Einstein's general theory of relativity is still used as a foundational principle upon which modern cosmology rests. The three effects predicted by Einstein are: 1) A slight revolving motion of the elliptical orbit of a planet (the advance of its perihelion), 2) A slight curving of light rays by gravitational attraction, and 3) A red shift in the spectral lines of light emitted from very massive stars, or even from the Sun. All of these effects considered to have been observed: 1) the orbital motion effect has been measured on Mercury. 2) The bending of light rays from stars by the gravitational field of the sun are believed to have been observed during solar eclipses when observational conditions were optimum. 3) The red shift associated with some stars has been interpreted as a gravitational effect. Several scientists have deduced these three effects by other theories. One of the most impressive demonstration of an alternate means of deducing the three effects, without recourse to general relativity is developed in the paper by L. Rongved entitled, "Measurements in Euclidean terms giving all three Einstein effects" Il Nuovo Cimento, XLIV B (2): 255-271 (1966). The authors of this paper have deduced these effects in still another way. Hence there is ample evidence that one does not need the general theory of relativity to predict these effects and they are not "proofs" of that theory. The theory developed by Dr. Thomas G. Barnes is from the same type of physical concepts that have been successful in electromagnetic theory. It employs the same form as that in Maxwell's four field equations. There are four field equations in gravitation and they contain four field vectors that are analogous to the four-electric and magnetic field vectors of Maxwell's electromagnetic theory. This gravitational theory yields, besides the three things mentioned, all the "expected" dynamical effects that Einstein's theory yields, such as transverse gravitational wave radiation from accelerated masses and a finite propagation speed. More will be said on this and eventually how this applies to ghost theory. But the above and the next several articles will the lay the foundation of my thoughts regarding electromagnetism and ghost theory.