Could we be "ghosts" also?

[Lookingglassman]

I was watching a show called The Universe about parallel universes a while back. One of the theories is there are an infinite number of these universes, but they all overlap, but we can't see what is in these universes.

One scientist, said we could have dinosaurs from another universe walking through our living room right now and we would even know it.

It got me to thinking, what if ghosts are really folks living in another universe who somehow are seen briefly in ours?

Perhaps we are seen as ghost in another universe. Right now as I type this, I could be freaking out some little girl in another universe as she is reporting to her mom she is hearing funny noises that sound like typing.

What do you think?

 

[All Seeing Eye]

The Mothman was from an alternate universe where evolution went a different path.

That is all.

 

[Lookingglassman]

The Mothman movie scared the crap out of me.

 

[Amaris]

I was watching a show called The Universe about parallel universes a while back. One of the theories is there are an infinite number of these universes, but they all overlap, but we can't see what is in these universes.

One scientist, said we could have dinosaurs from another universe walking through our living room right now and we would even know it.

It got me to thinking, what if ghosts are really folks living in another universe who somehow are seen briefly in ours?

Perhaps we are seen as ghost in another universe. Right now as I type this, I could be freaking out some little girl in another universe as she is reporting to her mom she is hearing funny noises that sound like typing.

What do you think?

For a number of years, I've always thought that ghosts were nothing more than echoes, shadows of former people, places and things that occurred in our past. That there was a hiccup or maybe some of the frames in our ever moving timeline got stuck together.

J.

 

[archeryguy1701]

I was watching a show called The Universe about parallel universes a while back. One of the theories is there are an infinite number of these universes, but they all overlap, but we can't see what is in these universes.

One scientist, said we could have dinosaurs from another universe walking through our living room right now and we would even know it.

It got me to thinking, what if ghosts are really folks living in another universe who somehow are seen briefly in ours?

Perhaps we are seen as ghost in another universe. Right now as I type this, I could be freaking out some little girl in another universe as she is reporting to her mom she is hearing funny noises that sound like typing.

What do you think?

It's certainly plausible. Most ghosts are usually associated with a location somehow. One could argue that as timelines/ universes become more and more different,they become "farther and farther apart" for a lack of a better term. So, since the ghosts are usually people in this universe that was associated with a location, one could think that they are from very similar universes to our own that are just briefly overlapping.

 

[JNG]

I have to think a mechanism that let light in from another universe or something would have been recorded by scientific instruments by now. The fact that it's always people seeing the seemingly impossible thing, measured against the bewildering complexity of the brain and its memory and perceptive systems, leads me to believe your scientific solution is there and not in the outside world. If there are truly other universes, they lie forever beyond the possibility of contact with ours, essentially by definition.

 

[QCzar]

All this parallel universe stuff makes Janeway's head hurt.

As for the ghosts, given the wide variety of incarnation, I don't think any one explanation could suffice. If they are real, in any sense, then I think the alternate people "out of phase" theory is as plausible as any others I've heard (including J.'s).

So far we have:

• There are no such things as ghosts. Period. (the generally accepted scientific view)

• Specters. Literal postmortem manifestations of the once living human beings. Your basic, all around 'ghost'.

• Electro-Magnetism. Changes in the EM field that cause neurological anomalies in human perception, which our minds process through environmental and cultural stimuli as ghosts or revenants.

• Electro-Magnetic/Static Discharge(s). Similar to the Auroras, these are visual, auditory and thermal anomalies caused by interaction between the Earth's magnetic field and other sources of EM/ES energy, including the sun. Possibly related to the above.

• Imprinting. Literal snapshots of moments in time, caused by passing EM field and other forms of radiation. They act like a kind of film exposure, capturing visible light, as well as other forms of energy (including some that can produce sound). When other specific conditions are met, these apparitions can be seen and/or heard by humans.

• Demonic. A supernatural explanation, one usually derived from highly religious societies (though not necessarily from related theology) and their accompanying folklore. Basically fallen angels or evil supernatural beings who torment humans for either some unholy scheme or just for sick pleasure. This is the most commonly suggested source for seemingly malevolent spiritual presence.

• Psycho-Kinesis. A kind of physical telepathy, it has been posited by some as the cause for certain ghostly phenomenon. A highly stressed person, who may be some kind of psychic or medium, can "project" their own stress into the real world in physical form.

• Mass Hysteria. A lot of people are convinced that they cannot all be "hallucinating" the same thing, when in fact science has proven this is altogether possible. Take a common source of information, a common culture and the expectation of encountering specific types of ghostly phenomenon, and multitudes of people can in fact "see" something that is not there.

• Hoax. Not surprisingly, many ghostly phenomenon, even some in purportedly haunted dwellings, have been proven to be nothing more than cleverly produced stagecraft. In many ways, such scheming can play on the above tendency by groups of people to "suspend disbelief" when in such environs.

• Temporal/Spacial Anomaly. Not too different from the OP's suggestion, but less dependent on any specific mechanism. This theory basically suggests that a distortion can occur in the fabric of normal space-time, causing people to become aware of things that have occured in a different time or are occurring someplace else.

There are many, many others, some of which include a kind of science. The one thing this list conveys most clearly is that ghosts cannot be dismissed altogether. Regardless of whether it's a restless spirit or a trick of light and shadow, people are experiencing something and have been since we've been here.

 

[Holdfast]

It got me to thinking, what if ghosts are really folks living in another universe who somehow are seen briefly in ours?

Perhaps we are seen as ghost in another universe. Right now as I type this, I could be freaking out some little girl in another universe as she is reporting to her mom she is hearing funny noises that sound like typing.

What do you think?

I think there's something funny going on in your neighborhood, and that you should call someone.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

The ghost of Old Spock appeared to me this afternoon through the ultimate awesomeness of quantum mechanics and explained that our timeline needs to be brought into line with his universe or we're all fucked.

Oddly, he looked just like an aged Zach Quinto.

 

[trekkerguy]

The ghost of Old Spock appeared to me this afternoon through the ultimate awesomeness of quantum mechanics and explained that our timeline needs to be brought into line with his universe or we're all fucked.

Oddly, he looked just like an aged Zach Quinto.

On subject; original poster. I watched the same show a week ago and agree.

 

[melancholymecha]

I havent seen the Universe ep but I have seen the film Parallel Universe, Parallel Lives, about the guy who came up with the theory & the whole Shrodinger's Cat thing. Fascinating stuff, even though I dont quite understand how all of it works...

 

[RJDiogenes]

One scientist, said we could have dinosaurs from another universe walking through our living room right now and we would even know it.

In a parallel universe, we are all Dino Sapiens. Brain the size of a walnut, my spiky ass.