Round about the accredited
and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud
of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and
seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to
attend to... Anyone will renovate his science who will steadily
look after the irregular phenomena, and when science is renewed, its
new formulas often have more of the voice of the exceptions in them
than of what were supposed to be the rules. - William James
The Institute is
engaged in two principal activities: fundamental theoretical development
and pragmatic experimental studies. Each of these activities stands
on its own, but the greater value is in their synergy.
Theory:
We
are developing and testing new theories and descriptions of physical
reality.
This includes physical and mathematical modeling based on quantum
effects, exploration of the consequences of time-symmetry in classical
and quantum systems, and application of a theory of relational composition
known as Link Theory.
Experiments:
We are
using a variety of experimental methods to study randomness, and to determine how related anomalous phenomena
can be further validated and enhanced, and ultimately explained.
This research asks questions about tasks, interfaces, and factors such as
personality, physiology, and environment that determine these phenomena,
the limits of this functioning, the distribution of this talent
in the population, and so on. Our primary experimental tool is a group of experiments
available on the World Wide Web at www.boundarylab.org.
