>>However, as you said, the biggest brains have no idea right now of how
>>to use it, while crackpots run around claiming breakthroughs galore that
>>they can never prove
>
>The mathematical complexity of the theory involved would generally discount
>most crackpots based on their education alone. And the physicists involved
>have been making slow, but productive progress.
It depends on yr definition of crackpot. Dr Hal Puthoff, one of the leading
lights in this research, is the (former?) Scientologist who did all that
great paradigm-busting work with Uri Geller. I don't *necessarily* have a
problem with that (I've published a book favourable to rigorous
parapsychology, after all) but then again--
Damien Broderick