at least this time Pauli was innocent. However, it turned out that Pauli had been on a railway journey to Zürich and had switched trains in the Göttingen rail station at about the time of the failure. The incident is reported in George Gamow's book Thirty Years That Shook Physics, where it is also claimed the more talented the theoretical physicist, the stronger the effect. R. Peierls describes a case when at one reception this effect was to be parodied by deliberately crashing a chandelier upon Pauli's entrance. The chandelier was suspended on a rope to be released, but it stuck instead, thus becoming a real example of the Pauli effect. In 1934, Pauli saw a failure of his car during a honeymoon tour with his second wife as proof of a real Pauli effect since it occurred without an obvious external cause. In February 1950, when he was at Princeton University, the cyclotron burnt, and he asked himself if this mischief belonged to such a Pauli effect, named after him. Cultural references Philip K. Dick makes reference to "Pauli's synchronicity" in his 1963 science fiction novel The Game-Players of Titan in reference to pre-cognitive psionic abilities being interfered with by other psionic abilities such as psychokinesis: "an acausal connective event." Tatsuhisa Kamijō is a self-claimed 'demon-embodied' human who can randomly cause electronic devices such as phones and drones to self destruct with his hands in the series Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens. It is not explained why but the main character Yuga attributes this to the Pauli Effect. See also Feynman sprinkler Gore effect Jinx Street light interference Further reading Roth, Remo, F., Return of the World Soul, Wolfgang Pauli, C.G. Jung and the Challenge of Psychophysical Reality [unus mundus]. Pari Publishing, 2011 References External links Wolfgang Pauli and Parapsychology The Pauli effect at the foundation of the C.G. Jung Institute, Zürich 1948 The Pauli effect, a sonnet by Peg Duthie published in Contemporary Rhyme The Pauli effect anecdotes Technology folklore Experimental physics Psychokinesis Parapsychology