Team Bio

Our team consists of an expert in precognition but a newcomer to QM and QR (Julia Mossbridge), an expert in classical physics, QM, and retrocausality but a newcomer to precognition (Daniel Sheehan), and an expert engineer and newcomer to QM (Loren Carpenter). Together we are well-equipped to address the empirical and theoretical questions posed by these effects.



Julia Mossbridge

My focus is on teaching and learning about love and time, and I pursue this focus by leading research and tech development projects related to love and time.

My interest in how time works has led me to examine aspects of both cognitive and perceptual timing (e.g., order effects on reading comprehension, perceptual integration across senses) as well as controversial reverse-temporal effects (covered in ABC News 20/20, Wall Street Journal Ideas Market, Fox News and other mainstream media outlets). I am also the 2014 winner of the Charles Honorton Integrative Contributions award for this work.



My Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders is from Northwestern University, my M.A. in Neuroscience is from the University of California at San Francisco, and I received her B.A. with highest honors in neuroscience from Oberlin College. I invented and patented Choice Compass, a physiologically based decision-making app, and am also the co-author, with Imants Baruss, of Transcendent Mind: Re-thinking the Science of Consciousness (APA Books 2017) and the co-author, with Theresa Cheung, of The Premonition Code (Watkins Media 2018).

Loren Carpenter

Loren Carpenter revolutionized the entire film industry through inventing rendering and modeling algorithms for image synthesis and visual effects. In 2001 he and two colleagues were awarded the only Oscar statuettes ever given for computer science. He recently transitioned from his position as Senior Research Scientist in Disney/Pixar’s research division to that of an IONS visiting scholar.

His groundbreaking work began at the Boeing Company where, while pursuing his master’s degree in computer science at the University of Washington, he started experimenting with computer animation as part of an effort to improve the company’s computer-aided design and modeling tools. That work inspired and led to his creation of the world’s first fractally-generated animation piece, a short film titled Vol Libre, which is available on Vimeo.

In 1980 he presented the two-minute film at the SIGGRAPH Conference, and his film career took off when the Lucasfilm Computer Division immediately offered him a job. There he further perfected his software to create the fractal planet for the Genesis sequence of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, a visual effect that worked so well it was used in the next three Star Trek movies. His division at Lucasfilm eventually grew into Pixar Animation Studios, where he became the studio’s first Senior Scientist, and where his software algorithms still beat in the heart of every Pixar movie.

In addition to his award-winning work in computer animation, Loren and his wife Rachel have explored new concepts in interactivity and computer art through their own company, Cinematrix, Inc.

Daniel P. Sheehan

Daniel P. Sheehan is a Professor of Physics at the University of San Diego and has had a lifelong interest in the phenomenon of time.

He received his B.S. in chemistry from Santa Clara University in 1981 and his Ph.D. in physics from University of California, Irvine in 1987. His research interests include exotic plasmas, planetary formation, nanotechnology, and chemical physics. Over the last 25 years he has been investigating theoretical and experimental challenges to the second law of thermodynamics. He co-authored the first scientific monograph on the subject (2005) and also organized the first international conference devoted to it (2002). Over the last ten years he has become involved in the physics of time, particularly retrocausation, the proposition that the future can influence the past. He organized three AAAS symposia on this subject (2006, 2011 and 2016), and plans to host another in 2021.