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In this article, the theory proposed is not a thoery, but indeed a hypothesis.

But where is the science? It cannot be measured, it cannot be seen, etc, therefore how is science supposed to study it?

It exists because some guy wrote out a hypothesis for it?

This might as well be labeled "what is the "force"?

Use the force Luke.

You are correct, this is not science, this is new age stuff trying to make itself look somehow scientific.

I think it's great fun to think about, but until such a thing can be measured, observed, and repeated, then it will not be considered science.

Until we have the technical knowhow to do that, it will sit on the fringes and perhaps someday, it will be able to join science, but somehow I doubt it.

We shall see.

Actually, a resonance type theory could be easily tested, far less easily understood. Take your standard deck of psi-cards (cards with a picture of a circle, a triangle, wavy lies, whatever). Then, create another deck that simply has numbers on it. Show the psi card and the same numbered card to a thousand individuals, (when you show them the cirle card, show them the card numbered one), ask them to try to impress their feelings of the circle on the numbered card.

Then, show only the numbered cards to people. See if there is any statistical hits.

You are correct, this is not science, this is new age stuff trying to make itself look somehow scientific.

Aric2000, the "New Agers" that I know -- and I have met many -- would be, in all likelihood, completely incapable of handling the science that Grandpierre lays down, in elaborate detail, in support of his postulate of the universal vacuum field. Plus all fields are universal -- the size of the Universe itself. We are comprised of such fields. Add to that quantum superpositioning and entanglement, and you realize that "local" quantum events may "spread" to any place in the universe, instantaneously.... There must be some field or matrix that facilitates this. Its properties are mainly unknown to us right now; but that's why you develop a theory -- to come up with a logical "macrolevel" framework whose identified elements/relations are capable of being tested. I think it would be a "good guess" to say that, in the universal vacuum field, superluminal velocities are achievable.

All of which is to suggest that what you call "new age stuff" may, in fact, be a very serious speculation on solid scientific grounds. Stay tuned!