posted on Nov, 17 2011 @ 11:11 AM
This is my first attempt at starting a thread. I hope that I have gotten it right. It seemed to me that this was the most appropriate forum to post
this in, although I suppose that there are a few categories this topic could fit under. If it needs to be moved, so be it. I was not able to find
anything else that says what I have said here, however, if this has already been covered, I apologize in advance. Please enjoy my ramble…
Ghosts, spirits, time slips, premonitions, aliens and various other related phenomena have been reported since time immemorial. Every culture the
world over, throughout time, has legends regarding these things. Every religion contains references to these phenomena. Even today, in our present
world of enlightenment, thousands upon thousands of people believe in these things. So why is that? Why does the human mind yearn to believe? Is there
some strange, hardwired desire in the most primitive reaches of our minds that drive us to reach for the seemingly unreachable? Or is it possible that
these things are indeed real? Is it possible that these things can be explained scientifically?
As children, we don’t question the whys and hows of the world. We accept them at face value. In fact, even the most mundane things that occur in a
small child’s life can be “magical.” As we grow, our quest to quantify, control and explain our world narrows our viewpoints. We wish to know
why a thing is, how it works. It is only when we do this that we feel we have some measure of control over ourselves and our surroundings. Anything
that cannot be explained according to the rules we have constructed around our minds simply cannot be. And yet, there are many things in our world
that we cannot explain. Most are swept to the fringes. Out of sight, out of mind.
In my own life, I have experienced things that I could not explain. Some when I was a child, when I did not feel the need to understand my experience,
I only needed to experience it to understand. Some when I was older that left me wondering and uncomfortable because I was unable to fit the
experience into the box I had created for my world.
As an adult, I entered a career that was heavily centered on hard evidence. If you cannot see it, it does not exist, and if it does not exist, well,
move onto the next thing that you can see, feel and explain.
Despite that, I still have a curiosity. Do I believe that these things exist? Short answer: yes. Do I know how and why? Short answer: no. Do I have a
theory? Short answer: yeah, I do. Do I believe that my theory explains some, or even all, of these things? Short answer: maybe. But it is only a
theory, after all. I’m hoping that I can lay it out for all of you to pick at and poke holes to see if it can hold any water at all.
Some time ago, I watched a television program featuring theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, during which he discussed that possibility of time
travel. One method he described was the use of a wormhole. Simplistically, it is a conduit that exists outside of normal space-time that connects two
different points in space-time.
I have heard it explained like this: a sheet of paper is normal space-time. Make two points on that sheet of paper; to get to one from to the other,
you must travel across the paper. We experience the passage of time and space on the face of the paper. Although we perceive the paper as flat, it
could in fact be folded over itself and touching at various places. It is possible, under the right conditions that our two points maybe touching one
another outside of space-time. It is also possible, again, under the right conditions, that a hole could be punched through the paper, connecting our
two points, outside of normal space-time. There is your wormhole. A short cut outside of space-time, from one point to another. Where I able to step
through such a wormhole, I would in essence travel through time and space, or rather, outside of time and space.
Mr. Hawking, however, made it clear that at our present level of understanding and technology, it would be impossible to open such a wormhole.
Where am I going with this? Please bear with me…
Mr. Hawking went on to say that everything is porous. Something that we perceive as solid and smooth is at the atomic and subatomic levels rough and
full of tiny holes. Even our bodies, if you look close enough, are not truly solid. Time is the same way. We perceive time as smooth and seamless,
traveling on into the future. But if you could look at it closely, very, very closely, it, too, is full of holes. Tiny wormholes opening and closing
all around us. Infinitely small and infinitely fast. Much too small for us to pass through them or see through them.
It seems to me, though, given that there are these tiny openings all around us, connecting our space-time to other points in space-time, outside of
space-time, it is possible, and even plausible, that sometimes something must bleed through and that there are some of us who, by luck or chance, are
able to perceive these tiny bits coming through. These bleeds maybe showing us things past, things future and things from across the universe, or even
from other realities or dimensions.
Our brains accumulate these tiny bits of information and construct them into something we can understand.
Ghosts and spirits maybe flashes of the past, the future, or even another timeline in another parallel universe. Time slips maybe just that, tiny bits
of time sucked away, leaving us with that stutter in our journey. Premonitions maybe our unconscious perception of our future selves or events. Aliens
maybe from the other side of the universe, or from a parallel universe. The possibilities are endless.
That’s my theory. I don’t believe that this is the only explanation; I think it could be one explanation. Food for thought.
Anyway, have at ‘er. I’m curious about what other people think about my little brain storm.
Cheers.