Princeton Global Consciousness "Egg" Project

Can it predict global events?

I have heard those involved with this project talk at length about it and it is very fascinating. I am no scientist, but judging by all of the info I have heard from them and read about the project, this can one day be a great forecasting tool for mankind. The numbers should all be random, but often they are not. For instance, there was a HUGE spike just before 911 and other events. Very interesting stuff. Full Story: http://noosphere.princeton.edu/ The Global Consciousness Project, also called the EGG Project, is an international and multidisciplinary collaboration of scientists, engineers, artists and others. This website introduces methods and technology and empirical results in one section, and presents interpretations and applications in another.

We have been collecting data from a global network of random event generators since August, 1998. The network has grown to about 65 host sites around the world running custom software that reads the output of physical random number generators and records a 200-bit trial sum once every second, continuously over months and years. The data are transmitted over the internet to a server in Princeton, NJ, USA, where they are archived for later analysis. Individual data create a tapestry of color. The dot below shows coherence.

The purpose of this project is to examine subtle correlations that appear to reflect the presence and activity of consciousness in the world. The scientific work is careful, but it is at the margins of our understanding. We believe our view may be enriched by a creative and poetic perspective. Here we present various aspects of the project, including some insight into its scientific and philosophical implications.