You start your post with a personal attack. That doesn't really help your argument. This is ad hominem and it's a logical fallacy. Whether or not I'm an expert doesn't change the validity of what I am saying, as I'm not the one who researched it. I don't suppose you are an expert in these fields either, and you are arguing your side like I am arguing mine, which makes the attack hypocritical.
I'm not really sure why you are laughing. This is a known fact. There are four and only four fundamental forces in the universe:
- The gravitational force
- The electromagnetic force
- The strong nuclear force
- The weak nuclear force
I quote you below as asking for sources. Well for this one you can see Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Paul A. Tipler fourth edition page 91, or any similar physics text book. Or just check out Wikipedia.
The fact that there are only four fundamental forces is not debated at all by anyone, it's universally accepted.
I think what you were requesting a source for was my assertion that there is a huge amount of evidence against telepathy and dream sharing.
Well this is a pretty general statement. I don't know of any scientific literature specifically addressing telepathy, but there's probably some around somewhere.
What I had in mind really was the following couple of points. Seeing as we know all the forces that exist in the universe, we would be able measure any wave or energy coming from someones brain that would enable something like this. Nothing like this has been measured, and before you ask for a source for that, let me just say this. The claim here would be that such forces
do exist. The null hypothesis would be that they do not. So for the claim to be accepted, evidence needs to be provided to support it, and not the other way around. I'll leave it up to you to find a source for your claim if you like.
My next point was mainly that neurologists will tell you that such things are impossible. I'll quote a blog entry by Dr Steven Novella, an assistant professor of neurology at Yale:
The rest of the blog entry can be found
here if you are interested.
And my final point would be this - extraordinary claims, require extraordinary evidence. Claiming that people could communicate telepathically is a very extraordinary claim, and because of this, the responsibility isn't for opponents to disprove it, it is for proponents to provide evidence to support it.
jatoo