A Multi-Modal Experimental Protocol for Investigating Non-local Bioelectromagnetic and Biophotonic Correlates of Collective Motor Synchrony in a Traditional Lifting Task

This paper presents a rigorous, falsifiable experimental protocol to investigate whether a traditional collective lifting game (“light as a feather, stiff as a board”) is associated with non-local biological correlations that cannot be explained by classical biomechanics or known physiological synchrony. Rather than presupposing a specific quantum mechanism, we propose a laboratory-based study to test whether successful lifts correlate with measurable anomalies in bioelectromagnetic fields (SQUID magnetometry), biophoton emission (EMCCD imaging), and inter-brain EEG synchronization beyond what classical models predict. To isolate genuine non-local effects from mechanical artifacts, we introduce three advanced controls: (1) a 70 kg anthropomorphic mannequin augmented with vibrotactile respiration and an inflating corset to simulate human postural locking; (2) an auditory delay loop (200–500 ms) to disrupt conscious motor entrainment; and (3) a semantically neutral sham chant. The primary hypothesis is that successful human lifting will produce a significant increase in phase coherence across participants’ magnetocardiographic (MCG) signals and a narrowing of fingertip biophoton spectra, while these effects remain absent in all control conditions. A strict falsification criterion is provided. This protocol is theory-neutral regarding underlying mechanisms but is designed to challenge the classical observer-effect paradigm by testing whether collective intention can produce empirically detectable field anomalies