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aliases:
- Gerald Feinberg
born: 1933-05-27
category: Psychics & Remote Viewers
died: 1992-04-21
location: New York City, New York
summary: Gerald Feinberg was a physics professor at Columbia University.
tags:
- Person
- RemoteViewer
---

Gerald Feinberg was a physics professor at Columbia University. He was working on hypotheses involving a subatomic particle called a [Tachyon](/concepts/tachyon/), which is proposed to be superluminal, or faster-than-light[^1].

His work, along with that of [Yakov Terletsky](/people/yakov-terletsky/), attracted the attention of [Hal Puthoff](/people/hal-puthoff/), who was interested in whether the tachyon flow could account for an "extra field" or force that physics couldn't yet see, potentially explaining [ESP](/concepts/extrasensory-perception/) and other anomalous mental phenomena[^1].

[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.