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Scientists at Princeton, New Jersey, have set up a vast experiment with random number generators (RNGs) to prove the effects

of mind on matter. Computer RNGs are a kind of electronic device for flipping coins - they churn out endless streams of 1s and 0s, or 'heads' and 'tails'. Because the computers are wholly random, no patterns should emerge.

But at key moments in recent world history, the RNGs have converged to produce patterns described as "small, but very highly

significant," by Richard S Broughton, the former director of the Institute for Parapsychology in Durham, North Carolina.

The effect was first visible during the funeral of Princess Diana. It was repeated during the first hour of Nato bombing in Yugoslavia, around midnight on each New Year's Day, and at the moment of several major earthquakes.

Most dramatically, the 38 RNGs worldwide became aligned at 10.12am, New York time, on 11 September - the instant that a second airliner hit the Twin Towers. Roger Nelson, an experimental psychologist at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory, says such an alignment would happen by chance only once every two-and-a-half years.

Scientists are baffled. Dean Radin, a parapsychologist in Nevada who has studied the effects of a full moon on gamblers' luck

in Las Vegas, admits he can't explain the incredible results: "What does it mean? It is still basically a giant experiment. It points in

the direction of some connection between mind and matter, but we don't really know."