Ghosts: Parallel Worlds Theory

Some ghosts may be glimpses into parallel worlds...



I'll never forget the experience I had many years ago. It was the middle of the night when I accidentally knocked over a glass of water from my nightstand.

Reluctantly, I climbed out of bed, grabbed a towel and sopped up the mess. After I walked out of my bedroom, tossing the towel into a hamper, I turned around and faced the room. There were no lights on, but I could see the well-defined shadow form of a man overtop of the window blinds across the room from me.

I paused for a moment and just observed the man - I didn't think it was my shadow, but I had to check. As I walked into the room and toward it, the shadowed form slowly sunk downward and disappeared. Quickly, I moved to the window and looked outside of the blinds to make certain that there wasn't somebody outside my window casting the shape. Nothing. I surveyed my fenced-in yard and found it vacant. Had someone been there, I would have caught them scaling or hurdling the 4' chain link barrier.

Puzzled, I backed up to the doorway to see if the shadow would reappear. Was it my own shadow? Nope. I could not recreate the 'shade' even after turning lights on behind me to attempt to cast a long shadow. The silhouete was dark and distinct - not something I could create from where I stood at a distance.

The thought I was left with at the time, though strange, was that it was me, another me from a different plane of existence. I have no idea why I thought that as such thinking seemed foreign to me at the time.

Parallel Worlds Theory And Entanglement

In October 2014, a new parallel worlds theory was published by three scientists from the United States. Dr Dirk-Andre Deckert from the University of California, Professor Howard Wiseman and Dr Michael Hall from Griffith's Centre for Quantum Dynamics proposed in their paper submitted to Physical Review X that parallel worlds interact with one another, sharing a connection, an influence upon one another through the force of repulsion. These 'worlds' may be very similar to one another or drastically different.

It's interesting to think that parallel worlds might become entangled, at times, through this 'connection' or certain types of interactions. It is well known in physics that entanglement of quantum systems can occur when particles (e.g. photons, electrons, molecules) interact. When one entangled particle is affected in some way, the other is also affected in some fashion at the same time, independent of distance, revealing their invisible link with one another. Could a similar effect occur between parallel universes? I wonder.

Parallel Worlds and Ghosts

The traditional idea is that ghosts are the spirits of deceased people; and that theory may be correct in some cases. We know ghosts exist because people see them. But what they are, and how many different types there are, is yet to be understood (e.g. some ghosts may be hallucinations, mental imprints, time slips, etc.).

What if some ghosts are created by the crossing of universes, a brief entanglement of parallel worlds? Are we, at times, glimpsing ourselves or others who are living and interacting in another realm of existence?