William A. Tiller (Toronto, Canada, September 18, 1929 – Scottsdale, Arizona, February 7, 2022) was a professor of materials science and engineering at

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. He wrote ''Science and Human Transformation'', a book about concepts such as subtle energies beyond the four

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, which he believes act in concert with human consciousness. Tiller appeared in the 2004 film ''

What the Bleep Do We Know!? ''What the Bleep Do We Know!?'' (stylized as ''What tнē #$*! D̄ө ωΣ (k)πow!?'' and ''What the #$*! Do We Know!?'') is a 2004 American pseudo-scientific film that posits a spiritual connection between quantum physics and consciousness. The ...

''.

Education and career

Tiller gained his academic reputation for his scientific work in the field of

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. He studied at the University of Toronto and obtained his B.A.Sc. in 1952 with a degree in Engineering Physics. He also obtained M.A.Sc. and a Ph.D. degrees from the same university. Altogether, he worked nine years as an advisory physicist with the Westinghouse Research Laboratories and 34 years in academia.Biography of William A. Tiller
the Tiller Foundation From 1964 to 1992 William A. Tiller was a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University, and during this time he held the position of department chairman from 1966 to 1971. In 1970, he was awarded a

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grant in Natural Sciences – Engineering. In 1992 he became professor emeritus. Tiller was a Physics Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Pigasus Award

In his 1982 book,

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identified Tiller as the 1979 "scientist who had said the silliest thing" relating to parapsychology in that year; for this Tiller was awarded the

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for 1979.

Psychoenergetics

After his retirement in 1998, he pursued

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concepts in psychoenergetics.

Selected publications

He has published several books, over 250 conventional scientific papers and further 100 topics on psychoenergetics.

Books

* ''The Science of Crystallization: Macroscopic Phenomena and Defect Generation'', Cambridge University Press, 1991, * ''The Science of Crystallization: Microscopic Interfacial Phenomena'', Cambridge University Press, 1991 (reprinted 1995), * ''Psychoenergetic Science: A Second Copernican-Scale Revolution'', Pavior Publishers, 2007, * ''Some Science Adventures with Real Magic'', Pavior Publishers, 2005, * ''Conscious Acts of Creation: The Emergence of a New Physics'', Pavior Publishers, 2001, * ''Science and Human Transformation: Subtle Energies, Intentionality and Consciousness'', Pavior Publishers, 1997, * Foreword to ''Matrix Energetics: The Science and Art of Transformation'', Atria Books, 2007, Richard Bartlett

Selected papers

The effects of emotions on short-term power spectrum analysis of heart rate variability
McCraty R, Atkinson M, Tiller WA, Rein G, Watkins AD. – ''

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'', 1996 Feb. * Laplace-transform technique for deriving thermodynamic equations from the classical microcanonical ensemble. Eric M. Pearson, Timur Halicioglu, and William A. Tiller – ''

Physical Review ''Physical Review'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1893 by Edward Nichols. It publishes original research as well as scientific and literature reviews on all aspects of physics. It is published by the American Physical S ...

'', 1985 Nov., * Corona discharge photography. DG Boyers, WA Tiller – ''

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'', 1973.
What are subtle energies?
WA Tiller – ''

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'', Vol. 7, No. 3, 1993.
Electronic device-mediated pH changes in water
WE Dibble Jr, WA Tiller – ''

'', Vol. 13, No. 2, 1999.

References

External links

www.tillerfoundation.com
– the Tiller Foundation
Biography of William A. Tiller
the Tiller Foundation *
The Life and Career of Professor William A. Tiller (Part Three Series 2010)
Interviewed by David William Gibbons
William Tiller Emeritus
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