A friend of mine was talling me that back in the 70’s, Uri Geller Went on a radio show and while he was talking, he made all the clocks in London stop for 30 seconds. I’ve looked and i havent been able to find anything on this so i was wondering if any one out there could help.
wait…i mean Telling…my bad
Yep, every single one.
Even the atomic clock at Greenwich, (that’s in London, just in case you are unfamiliar) stopped for 30 seconds. It’s kept time perfectly to the nearest millisecond before and since, but it just up and stopped.
But it’s barely worth talking about really. Which is why you can’t find anything about it. I mean after all, some dude being able to stop every single clock in London remotely, it would hardly make the news now, would it?
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I doubt it.
The only way he could stop a clock is to unplug it or remove it’s batteries.
fogmage, you are sooo narrow minded.
A friend of a friend’s brother’s friend of mine told me that some guy once ate an entire house, every bit of it, right down to the plumbing.
It must be true because he told me! He wouldn’t lie!
Well I once ate the Empire State Building. But they built an exact replica just after.
I don’t know about stopping clocks, but he often did a trick of starting clocks - asking the TV audience to hold dead or stopped watches etc. Some people always rang in to say the watch started again. Of cause, the fact they were moving and warming the watch, causing the mechanism to give a few last ticks of an almost unwound watch, or similar seemed too obvious
Besides, how could anyone prove that he stopped ALL the clocks in London? Did Uri have his “believers” at every single household and business in the entire city, monitoring the clocks?
I’d believe he “started” (cough, cough) maybe one clock - the clock he brought with him to the radio show, perhaps, or the one he was left alone in a room with - but it would be nearly impossible to prove he stopped all the clocks (despite the fact that he didn’t, because it’s impossible.)
I donno. Having seen Geller’s face, I figure it could stop any clock.
This is fighting ignorance? Let’s treat the new folks with a bit of respect. The OP doesn’t seem like a troll to me. Maybe the OP will learn from us if we aren’t rude jerks rather than be turned off by the truths in which we believe.
fallapart, Geller is a fraud. He does appear to have psychic abilities but really he is a magician. All legitimate magicians will tell you that what they are doing is a trick. They use slight of hand techniques to make it look like something is happening that really isn’t. Geller, much to his discredit, scams people by telling them that his tricks, which any half rate magician can do, are accomplished by psychic abilities.
James Randi, a personal hero of mine, made statements like mine above and was sued by Geller in U.S. courts. Geller lost. Here’s a great book that Randi wrote on the subject.
Haj
What is Geller up to these days?
Yes yes, Lets not be rude to new members like fallapart . Hey I’m with Hajario, Geller’s simply a magician. And James Randi proved Geller a fraud and Geller tried to sue him…utter disappointment … So-sad-too-Bad…
Thank you, and by the way, Princhester, im well aware that Uri Geller did not make all the clocks stop, i was simply looking for a reference to cite when arguing about it. and Phlosphr and hajario
thanks for being patient with me.
Hey, that’s nothing. I can make all of the clocks in the Universe stop for thirty seconds. Not only that, but I’ll reach into the mind of every living thing, and stop their perceptions of time for the same amount!
scrunches up forhead
strains really hard
–POP–
There, I did it!
I’m going to tell James Randi on you! 
Two things.
First, you are looking for a cite for a negative. Often very difficult. Find a cite to say that on the 29th of December 2000 I did not turn myself briefly into a cow, and then back to human form. Pretty hard to find. When friends come up with such drivel as in your OP, respond by asking them to prove a positive. Don’t let them assert some crap and then demand that you prove a negative.
Which leads me to my response to my other critics. OK, so I was a little smartass. As one of the mods once said, being a bit smartass on these boards is a style we learned from the Perfect Master himself. And besides which it is not possible to fight every instance of ignorance piecemeal. Perhaps my rather harsh response will have taught someone how to respond to such trash as fallapart’s friend came up with. Simply spoonfeeding fallapart a factual answer (“Geller did not make all the clock’s stop”) would not have been nearly as broadly applicable as my style of answer, which can be applied to any such trash, and which fallapart could have used on his friend in the first place.
Quick dose of facts for anyone interested…
Geller often makes claims to have stopped or started watches or other timepieces. I’m not aware of any precise example of a radio talk show where he claimed to stop all the watches in London. He has, however, done many similar stunts where, while participating in a live TV or radio show, he would invite viewers / listeners to call in if any strange phenomena happened, such as watches starting or stopping or cutlery bending, and invariably many such calls were received.
More typically, when working with one individual (such as a reporter) or a small group, Geller will demonstrate an ability to make a ‘broken’ watch start again, or to make a functioning watch stop temporarily. There is no doubt whatsoever that the watch genuinely stops or starts. The only question is whether it is psychic power in action or a deceptive trick.
Geller maintains in public that it is psychic power in action. No-one can prove that this is not the case, and no-one ever has. There is, however, no reason to necessarily take the view that this a true claim rather than good entertaining talk. Other performers and magicians know a wide variety of methods for achieving precisely the same effects under precisely the same conditions.
Geller and/or his supporters tend to point out that Geller has been tested under laboratory conditions whereas magicians have not. This is true up to a point, but the fine details are usually omitted. There was only one time when Geller was subject to a series of scientific tests, the results of which were published in a peer-reviewed and respected scientific publication. This was in the 70s when he was tested at the SRI institute by Targ & Puthoff, and the results were published in ‘Nature’. The tests only concerned Geller’s ‘telepathic’ abilities, wherein he had to ‘psychically’ guess which of a series of test drawings was the ‘target’ over many trials.
His ability to bend spoons, stop watches etc. was not tested, and did not feature in the results. When ‘Nature’ submitted the paper for peer review, 1 reviewer recommended aganst publication, but 2 supported it. ‘Nature’ did, however, take the unusual step of publishing an editorial ‘rider’ suggesting that readers did not jump to unwarranted conclusions based on one set of results which no other lab had replicated or investigated. The editor at the time, John Beloff, felt there was more to gain by publishing the paper, and at least generating a potentially useful debate, than by simply rejecting it.
The results did offer slight evidence supporting Geller’s telepathic claim. However, the design and methodology of these tests has been seriously criticised. It can be tricky to get at the facts of the matter.
James Randi, a vociferous critic of Geller’s claim to have ‘real’ psychic powers and of scientists who ‘pronounce’ on subjects they know nothing about, wrote in his book, ‘The Magic of Uri Geller’ (aka ‘The Truth About Uri Geller’) that Targ & Puthoff had not used the services of a suitably trained magician to guard against fraud. Targ & Puthoff said this was wrong, and they had. In fact they had consulted Milbourne Christopher, an eminently well-qualified magician. He had studied the plans for the tests, and had offered some suggestions that would preclude trickery. However, he was not present when the tests were under way, and it is a matter of debate whether Targ & Puthoff implemented MC’s recommendations properly, or whether the tests were conducted in such a sloppy way that Geller could have used trickery. The truth will now never be known.
It is worth noting that Geller’s brother in law, and some would say aide and accomplice, Shipi Strang, was present in the lab when the tests were being conducted. Randi suggests maybe Shipi could have signalled info to Geller. More on this in his book. Targ & Puthoff flatly deny this.
Apart from the SRI tests, Geller has never successfully submitted himself for any other independent tests which resulted in any scientific evidence supporting his claim. There are, however, some scientists who think he is for real, or at least said so during the peak of the ‘psychic’ boom in the 1970s. More illuimination can be found in ‘The Geller Papers’ edited by Charles Panatti.
Did he stop watches? Yes. By psychic power? I doubt it, personally. As a magician myself, I’ve never seen Geller do anything of a supposedly ‘psychic’ nature which looked to me as if it was not accomplished by deceptive means. As to ‘how’ these things are done, I’m not going to say, but fogmage is, with all due respect, wrong.