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Thursday, January 3, 2019


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

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