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A scientific test relies on running an experiment again and again under nearly identical conditions, and testing all possible outcomes based on adjusting a controlled variable. Yet the types of simple daily situations we describe in synchronicity cannot be repeated. In life, we cannot truthfully say 'if only this or that had been different, everything would have turned out differently', because we cannot repeat 'experience', with the exact same conditions, to test it.

The photograph of me here was taken shortly before Barack Obama arrived to speak at the University of Reno campus. At the end of his speech, as he came around to shake hands of people along the front edge, I handed him a copy of the music video for my song "We Are the Ones (We've Been Waiting for)". I called out "Barack, Barack, here's a video to motivate the volunteers!", to which he replied "OK" and took it from my hands (see an incredibly lucky video of the experience here!). From beginning to end, from sitting at home pondering how I might get the video in the hands of the campaign, to ending up in Reno two weeks later as a volunteer, to Senator Obama (by random chance) visiting Reno that same weekend, to me being in the front row, this experience was an experience in learning about expecting synchronicity. Of course I cannot repeat the experience, so I cannot prove it, but if I had not had faith in synchronicity at this point in time, you can be sure I would not have met Barack Obama. The theories on this site are an attempt to explain reality as I experience it, through the language that I know, physics.

Experience, and the coincidences that happen on a daily basis, cannot be exactly repeated in order to be tested.

As a man of science, with an avid dislike for pseudo-science, I submit these ideas from a deep conviction that science can explain, literally, everything. In order to do so, it must be willing to question its own processes, and pay attention to the confounding answers of its own experiments. The assumptions of tomorrow's science will be unrecognizable to us today, and our current assumptions about the nature of reality will seem childish in retrospect.