Our experience with the Internet suggests that a huge number of potential subjects could quite easily be reached in a relatively short time. Furthermore, the almost unlimited numbers of people who could potentially participate in the experiment simultaneously, without the need for careful supervision, should speed the research process up considerably. Our making everything needed to conduct these experiments freely available on the Web will permit a variety of researchers to perform these standardised experiments on subjects of their own choosing, at this site or on Web sites of their own. This in itself raises many important questions. The will's influence has been discussed in some details by the emminent parapsychologist J. Beloff in an article on teleology vs. mechanism.
Many peripheral issues are also worthy of consideration.
For if the phenomenon is real, it suggests that such distributions can effectively be warped through the exertion of poorly understood psychic faculties. Finally, the purported results can be very simply adapted to demonstrate what can only be interpreted as an instantaneous transmission of information. This in itself, we believe, is sufficiently important to justify the experiments. The scenario described at the beginning of this document, involving strangers with envelopes, numbers printed on pieces of paper, etc. was only intended as a metaphor.