Tearing the Social Fabric: Terrorists Attack Civilians and Diplomats Nato Bombs Kosovo to End Ethnic Cleansing Taliban Destroy Ancient Buddhist Treasure September 11 Enters History of the Earth
Major disasters that engage us powerfully Often correlate with big deviations
The Buddhas of Bamiyan Before March After
The destruction of a world treasure Approximate time, noon in Afghanistan
The World Trade Center Fall, 2001 Carol M. Highsmith Al Dove
The World Trade Center September Tamara Beckwith
The destruction of the World Trade Towers Sept A 50-hour trend followed the attacks
What is there to say?
Sept 11 Formal prediction: Inter-egg Variance Red is real data, Green is Pseudorandom
Context: Variance on Sept Departure begins ~4 hours before attack
Independent Analyses Radin: Odds against chance For variance excursion on Sept 11 The real data vs pseudorandom data Data from EGG networkPseudorandom clone data
Shoup: examining a larger context Comparing Sept 11 vs four months of days
Bancel: Autocorrelation on Sept 11 Structure where there should be none
Treating the nodes like EEG electrodes we reduce 35 dimensions to 3 and plot the combination Real data Pseudo data
Summary of statistical measures for Sept 11 MeasureProbability estimateComparison standard Composite deviation0.003Resampling: 400 days Inter-node correlation0.0002Student t: 400 days Device variance peak0.0009Permutation: control p = Autocorrelation control days: p > 0.05 News correlation0.002Student t: 365 days Diurnal variation 0.30Time series: 365 days
Repairing the Social Fabric: Meditations Prayer Vigils Ceremonies Holidays
Chicago, Moment of Silence September
Three Minutes of Silence September
Focused Siddhi Meditation September 23 to 27, 2001
A Substantial Agreement on Getting our Ecological Act Together