One such question would be "WHERE, ON A UNIT CIRCLE, IS A POINT FIVE UNITS TO THE RIGHT FROM THE CENTRE"?

Pythagoras gave an answer. The hypotenuse is a unit, so you square it. The square is still a unit. Now you look at position to right. It is five units. You square it to twenty-five and take it away.

Then you find square root.

But one minus twenty-five is MINUS TWENTY-FOUR. What is root of a negative number?

There is no answer!

But common sense tells you that nothing can be on a circle if it is further from centre than radius. The answer "NOT ON THE CIRCLE" leaps to mind.

Girolamo Cardano was a mathematician who was even consulted by Leonardo da Vinci. He was also a gambler, but used his knowledge of probability to get better of his opponents. He decided that he had solution.

You split up problem into two parts. The root of 36 is 6. However, one can try root of 4 times 9 - in which case one has root of 4 times root of 9. The answer is same.

So you look for root of -1 times root of 24.

The root of any negative number will be root of -1 times root of absolute value of that number.

So root of -36 is root of -1 times six.

The root of -1 is defined as IMAGINARY, so root of -36 is IMAGINARY SIX. And answer to position on a unit circle of point X=5? That will be Y=IMAGINARY ROOT 24.

Cardano was scoffed at. He died. The years went by, and slowly mathematical community began to realise that idea was not quite so bad after all.

It was a NEW TECHNIQUE. To solve problems, you simply follow rules slavishly. These rules began to be taught in universities. People were taught that old numbers - REAL ones - had to be kept separate from imaginary ones. They learned to describe a two-part number having real and imaginary as a COMPLEX NUMBER.

The rules say that whenever you multiply real by real you get real. Multiply real by imaginary (of imaginary by real) and you get imaginary. Multiply imaginary by imaginary and you get MINUS real.

Simple rules, easy to apply.

But how does this impact upon whole of mathematics? What happens to sines, cosines, logarithms and other things when you use complex numbers in place of real ones? A host of great mathematicians - including legendary Leonhard Euler - worked on this question. Complex mathematics was becoming established as a standard tool.

Problems began to become apparent. The simplistic concept of ROOT -1 was actually wrong. It should have been "ONE OF THE ROOTS OF -1". There are actually two.

Then problem of multiple solutions appeared. As I wrote at http://www.wehner.org/euler/ , this problem can be visualised by considering antilogarithm of an imaginary number as a SPIRAL IN COMPLEX SPACE. What is lowest point? One for every turn of spiral. Therefore multiple solutions.

The public perception of Remote Viewing should not be dictated by opportunistic story tellers but history needs to be recorded by factual events and actual people. It all began between years of 1982 and 1983 while a prominent psychic who was working with a world-renowned physicist realized a breakthrough discovery in psychic phenomenon. The discovery was existence of a set of protocols which could produce accurate psychically derived data on a consistent basis using only a trained mind and a stack of plain white paper. The psychic research project was initially funded by CIA and then later picked up by DIA. This was military's competitive response to alleged Soviet psychic warfare program during cold war. Even though there was a hope for psychic performance, nobody really expected results that were discovered and put into motion. The most astounding fact was that they (we) had proven that this new psychic technique could be taught like a language and anyone could learn it.

This was beginning of something very substantial - a technology that turned psychically derived data from a happenstance gift into a skill that anyone could learn. And just like any other skill, personal performance improves with practice. For first time in human history, this not only proved existence of sixth sense but forever changed what was possible to achieve with human mind. And for those that actually practiced and mastered this new skill, they foresaw opening of a completely new era of consciousness, a place where only a few would feel comfortable with knowledge and even fewer would want to tread.

The discoverers named this new technology Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) and kept it a tightly held secret throughout eighties. There were only five people initially trained and only two out of five served in Defense Intelligence Agency's (DIA) newly formed Remote Viewing unit. The other three left and did not continue to practice their new learned skill. However, two officers who were trained CRVers trained others and for a short time they enjoyed a working environment where CRV could strut its stuff - but it didn't last long. The coming of Desert Storm and rotating fabric of institutional umbrella of government caused this very curious top secret unit to become a revolving door where people were passed off for lack of assignments or to wait out their retirements.

By 1995 unit had passed through hands of a number of military and civilian administrators who, either for ego or just sheer ignorance, turned it into a psychic circus. They brought in tarot card readers and channelers to work with only one partially trained remote viewer who was left. Secretaries were being solicited to channel and street witches were performing readings. It's no wonder that this group lost its government funding and was picked back up as a research program by CIA in early nineties. This was sketchy group that two civilian researchers were sent to evaluate and finally served in putting a final kibosh to with their "1995 CIA/AIR Report." It's surprising that report was as positive as it was considering there were no remote viewers left. But they claimed that they were evaluating "remote viewing" and that "the program" had spanned throughout a twenty four year period of time. Unbeknownst to two researchers, they had no access to DIA's RV operational unit which had been utilizing phenomenal breakthrough discovery for almost a decade.

In 1995, CIA hired most powerful publicity agency in country to announce its grand declassification of their "Remote Viewing program". The reason they declassified their program at this time was because PSI TECH had launched a book deal and was about to go public with its Technology in a big way.

The CIA set up several interviews on national TV news shows and brought out one of their natural psychics and two researchers to tell public that such an experimental psychic spy program did exist BUT that it could not be taught to others or scientifically proven. The CIA's declassification campaign was clever in that it used just enough truth wrapped around several mistruths and omitted pivotal breakthrough discovery that ANYONE could be taught to do this.