Pauli effect

[3] He corresponded with Carl Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz about the concept of synchronicity and did so as well with Hans Bender, lecturer at Freiburg university Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene, the only parapsychology chair in Germany.

An expensive measuring device, for no apparent reason, suddenly stopped working, although Pauli was in fact absent.

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,[7] where it is also claimed the more talented the theoretical physicist, the stronger the effect.

[9] 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.

"[11] Tatsuhisa Kamijō (Lucidien Kallister in the English version) is a self-claimed 'demon-embodied' human who can randomly cause electronic devices such as phones and drones to malfunction or self destruct with his hands in the series Yu-Gi-Oh!