2. Experimental Questions

Our essential concern is to make reliable, veridical, and scientific assessments bearing on several fundamental questions that have a natural order of priority:

Of these questions and many more of a similar nature, only the first two are readily assessed with the full force of scientific rigor, and it is upon these that our methodological concerns will be focused. Thus, the methodology is designed to discover (1) structure within the REG data and (2) correlations of this structure with Global Events in the world. At the same time, we will try to design our inquiries to address the larger issues and implications of the latter questions.

The continuous database of well-defined nominal random events lends itself to correlations with a variety of other variables in addition to those based on the consciousness and global events. For example, it will be possible to assess possible effects of naturally fluctuating variables such as seasonal change, local sidereal time, geomagnetic field fluctuation, and gravitational variations dictated by lunar and solar cycles.