RAYS FROM THE EYES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 10 September 1921, Page 4

RAYS FROM THE EYES

A REMARKABLE INSTRUMENT.

A remarkable instrument* is to be shown at a Forthcoming English medical congress, winch appears to show that rays proceed from the eye which are capable of being registered, just as wireless" messages are detected, writes a scientific correspondent .of the Daily Mail. Is there more than the old weaning in the phrase, "I fixed him with my eye"? The instrument is. somewhat in the nature of an electroscope—the delicate apparatus which is usually used to neasure the minutest electric currents dealt with by physicists. On concentrating the gaze upon the electroscope a rt.orement takes place which indicates that there is something in sight whuh radiates outwards and can cause mechanical movement. This remarkable discovery and its possible significance can hardly be enlarged upon until the instrument has been demonstrated, but it will certainly cause something of a sensation in the scientific world. , It may foreshadow a time in the Leaf ruture when it will be possible to re-gister■thought-indeed; it may he the tact that thought accompanies n concentrated gaze that causes #*.c new^ instrument to make the registration. ♦*. I\ c&n "c definitely established that thought^ causes a wave motion in the «ilt A■-n ty'yrW nolongerbe wOMlerjul that a person in India rv Australia for instance, is conscious of tj c influence of some other person's thoughts in .London. The ether waves vary &o enormously in length; X-ray wav^s aie so snort that many millions of tnam ar o crowded into thY space of ooe inch• wirefess telegraph waves, on the other hand, are often five miles -6i-j» Pernaps, the thought wave is a ihousand miEes .in 'length—it is fust as '.kely as not; in which case a wave-motion pet up by concentrated thought might easily^travel across the world before it was dissipated', and so find a response m a receptive iriftid.