I’m not sure what to think about this far-fetched, but seemingly well-documented research into randomness at Princeton University.

Since 1998, the Global Consciousness Project at Princeton University has been monitoring the outputs of up to 40 random number generators (RNGs) around the world. Each of these RNGs sends 200 bits of randomly generated data every second to a server at the GCP in Princeton. The generators are based on physical devices considered fundamentally random, not merely deterministic computer algorithms.

Preposterous though it may sound, significant deviations have been noted in the randomness of data from these RNGs around times of major events in the world.

When the data from September 11 was analyzed, very significant deviations from randomness were observed beginning several hours before the attacks.