Late Night Physics and UFOs
A Story of Quantum Rabbit Holes
Mindlessly scrolling Facebook. That’s where this story begins. Yes. I still have a Facebook account. I’m an Elder Millennial. I’ve accepted it. I started out looking for turkey prep videos and plotting a course for my spatchcocked bird to land on the table at precisely the right time on Thanksgiving. I ended up going down a rabbit hole, researching quantum physics while streaming some Netflix show about UFOs in the background. Yes. This is me.
At some point my mind blew a tire and I went rogue, clicking on yet another Neil deGrasse Tyson video… I know I know… This dude is everywhere on the internet. But I can’t help myself. It was a physics lecture about the nature of electrons. Maybe not your typical late-night entertainment, but something about it grabbed me. The group was talking about a mind-bending idea: what if everything we think we know about particles is wrong?
Let me try to explain what happened next without sounding like I've completely lost it. Though honestly, maybe I have. You be the judge.
So there I am, turkey prep forgotten, watching Tyson and his co-hosts explain how reality isn't what we think it is. And not in that woo-woo, crystal-healing kind of way. In that actual, peer-reviewed physics kind of way. Here's what broke my brain:
You know how magnets work? (Great, now I sound like an ICP song.) But seriously - you can't see the magnetic field, but you know it's there because it can move things without touching them. Now imagine everything - and I mean everything - works like that. Your coffee mug, your phone, your spatchcocked turkey - they're all just patterns in these invisible force fields that make up reality.
I know. Stay with me here.
It's like reality is running on a graphics engine, but instead of pixels, it's using these things called quantum fields. And just like your video game character is really just a pattern of pixels, everything we think is "solid" is actually just a pattern in these fields.
This is where the UFO show playing in the background suddenly got interesting. Because what if some of those unexplained crafts people see aren't actual metal ships?
What if they're more like... glitches in reality's graphics engine?
I mean, think about it. We're out here building aircraft like cavemen stacking rocks, while maybe - just maybe - future humans figured out how to edit reality's source code directly. Those impossible maneuvers UFOs make? Maybe they're not breaking the laws of physics. Maybe they're just operating on a more fundamental level, like a game developer accessing debug mode while the rest of us are stuck playing by regular game rules.
And then it hit me - what if it's not just UFOs? What about all the other weird stuff people experience? Those ghost sightings your aunt Karen swears are real? That déjà vu moment where you KNOW you've lived through this exact instant before? That dream that came true a week later?
Maybe they're all just different ways our primitive monkey brains are interpreting these reality hacks. Like trying to explain technological advancements to a medieval peasant - they might see the pop-up notification as a divine sign or a demon, when really it's just game mechanics they don't understand yet.
I'm calling my idea the "Temporal Wake Theory." Because why not name it something that sounds science-y? I’m not a physicist, but when future humans mess with these quantum fields, I’m convinced they have to leave ripples in reality. Sometimes we see these ripples as physical objects (UFOs), sometimes as weird energy phenomena, and sometimes they mess directly with our consciousness, causing those unexplainable moments we all pretend don't happen.
Is this completely crazy? Probably.
Am I going to keep thinking about it anyway? Absolutely.
And hey, at least it's more interesting than another turkey prep video. Though I should probably get back to that spatchcocking situation before Thanksgiving becomes its own temporal anomaly.
Stay weird.
-Jeff
What do you think? Have you experienced something strange that could be future humans messing with reality's code?