stackyFACTSNothing screams "hard science" quite like taking meticulous notes while a table levitates.
Nothing screams "hard science" quite like taking meticulous notes while a table levitates. French astronomer Camille Flammarion decided that psychical research needed a glow-up, so he attended the 1857 Paris séances armed with scientific documentation methods. Instead of just swooning like the rest of the Victorian public, he treated mediums as biological experiments, trying to calculate the exact physics required for a ghost to aggressively hurl a chair.
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