Weird Scientist: Michael Persinger
Boarding pass please! It's that time again to hop on Looney Airlines for a flight to Screw-loose Island.
Now I haven't a clue if God exists, but I'm pretty sure most people, religious or not, have at some point wished they could sit the big man down for a cosy chat.
If I had the chance I'd ask him why shirts are so hard to iron and how come he forgot to mention the dinosaurs in the Bible.
Anyway, I digress.
As prayer seems to be a one-way conversation, scientist Michael Persinger decided he wanted to host the Almighty on a chat show.
The cognitive neuroscience researcher lost the senses he was studying when he made the madcap choice to turn a snowmobile helmet into a doorway to God Himself.
Pop the 'God Helmet' on and you could be have tea and biscuits with our creator or his right-hand man, Jesus.
Persinger was out to recreate the out of body experience people close to death have reported, as well as the walk to the 'light'.
The helmet uses magnetic fields to mess with your head. Eighty per cent of those who have dared to don the strange device say felt an ethereal presence in the room which they say is either God or a dead loved one.
As you would expect the scientific community has frowned upon the idea of zapping people's minds until they feel like The Lord is 'in the house'.
A team of Swedes were unable to replicate Persinger's findings and God-basher Richard Dawkins was not impressed when he had a go.
Still, at the very least it seems more of a laugh then gathering round a Ouija board.
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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1. ed hardy shirtsLet's hope they don't turn on us.