QUANTUM
POSSIBILITIES
Now
that we’ve discovered how difficult it is to view our everyday world in less
than three dimensions, let’s return to the fourth spatial dimension.
Let’s
allow for a moment that there is a fourth spatial dimension just outside our
senses. Sight and tactile senses allow us to recognize the three dimensions
with which we are familiar. I wonder what, if there are objects or beings
inhabiting all four – or less – dimensions, what they might sense.
A
few years ago, I read a review of the yeti/sasquatch/bigfoot/yowie
(Australia)/chiye-tanka (Lakota Indian) reports and associated musings. (I
mentioned in a previous post that I’m into cryptozoology.) One party in the
article suggested that perhaps the species resided in another dimension and
visited, intentionally or not, our three spatial dimensions. Don’t hang up – I
didn’t say that I bought into that hypothesis.
However,
that hypothesis suggests that other natural phenomena might occur because of
the fourth dimension. Michio Kaku, PhD, in a YouTube video, suggests that some
cases of déjà vu could possibly be experiences that resonate from another
universe or dimension.[1]
Not known as an eccentric, Dr. Kaku is considered a down-to-earth, rational
physicist along the lines of, in my mind, Dr. Carl Sagan. Also known as a
futurist, Dr. Kaku’s imagination serves him well to present to the public
possible futures.
Probably not uncommon, when sitting in a meeting or a conference
in past years and a presenter approached the subject of some numbers, be they
financial, inventory, production, etc., the numbers presented would be
those that I sensed would be cited. I tend to attribute the events to
subvocalizing of notes by the presenter. My wife asks why I don’t use that
precognition, if that’s what it is, to pick lottery numbers. Maybe I’ll try it
one day. Anyway, my point is that precognition or clairvoyance might be events
that spring from a fourth dimension.
Telepathy is another candidate. Over many decades, I have seen
or read about results from studies wherein universities or other interested
organizations tested subjects for possible telepathic powers. If memory serves,
no definitive, iron-clad evidence has been presented, but it’s a thought to be
entertained.
A friend once told me his Uncle Harold visited him in his
bedroom after midnight, sat on the corner of the bed and spoke to the younger
man about his wife’s health. The uncle had been dead for seventeen years. I
know a postmistress who swears she saw the spirits of a family of three sitting
in a dimly lit room in her mother’s house. While working on a passageway
flooring of an old house – this old house – sixteen years ago, I lost my
balance enough to cause me to fall between the floor joists when I felt a force
– that’s the only way I can characterize it – on my chest that pushed me back
to an upright position. The force was fleeting and unquantifiable. A friend,
whose house I had worked on for several years had died about two weeks earlier
and my immediate thought was that, if what I experienced was real and not
imagined or a self-correction, it could have been Audrey helping me with my
house.
Okay, so we all have ghost stories to recite. Besides the purely
anecdotal, stories of spirits and ghosts have yet to be confirmed with
certainty. My own feeling is that such manifestations are real and will someday
be found to be consistent with scientific principles. The plethora of stories
about ghosts – and, by the way, sasquatch – sometimes appear to be believable
and, in many cases, from rational observers. If we consider only 1% of the
stories to be factual, that should compel us to consider the possibility that
some of the events above involve another dimension.
[1]
Kaku, Michio.
“What is Déjà Vu?” YouTube, uploaded by Big
Think, 15 Nov. 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks_UHmaZcSg
