Did you know that a possibility of alternate realities exist? Since the beginning of the age of science fiction, there has been endless speculation about the possibility that the world you live in right at this moment, can change in the blink of an eye by a sudden quantum shift of electrons that make up the existence you now live in.
Wait, what?
Imagine you're looking into a seemingly infinite mirror in a mirror in a mirror. Now imagine taking a step forward so that you're nose to nose to nose to nose with your reflections. Close your eyes--or don't--then take another step forward.
What if the solid mass of the mirror, for an incalculable tiny fraction of a second, disobeyed all the known laws of physics, and you stepped through into the next mirror. You spin around, and the mirror that was behind you is no longer there, but there still seems to be the same amount of infinite mirrors ahead of you.
You decide there are better ways to spend your day than looking in the mirror, even though you like to fancy yourself as God's gift to humankind. So you put on your hiking boots, grab your credit card, and buy a plane ticket straight to Montana.
You sit back, rather stiffly, in your main cabin seat, and pull out your favorite book-- The Berenstein Bears.
Reaching in your Chic-Fil-A bag, you pull out your chicken sandwich and take a bite, then immediately gag and spit out the ketchup-laden hunk of lightly battered fowl onto your fold-down tray. "Since when does Chic-Fil-A put ketchup on their sandwiches?"
But you dismiss it as some crazy fluke, although you'd like to cry because you don't get to enjoy your sandwich while looking at those silly bears.
You land in Montana, excitement bubbling inside you as you picture the singularly unique rock formation you're sure holds the answer to the location of a fabulous treasure.
Out on the trail, your feet are sure, heading for a spot you've been to a thousand times before.
But when you get to "the spot," it's not there. Instead, you find the lair of a giant unicorn. And it's not a pleasant, silky-white unicorn of fairy tales and Scottish Highlands, but a ferocious coal-black unicorn with blaring red eyes that burn into your soul.
What has just happened? Where are you? Certainly not in the world you once knew, where the picnicking Berenstain Bears frolic in the grass, or where Chick-Fil-A's sandwiches contain nothing extra but a little butter and perhaps a pickle.
The reality you woke up to this morning, is not the reality you're facing right now, and you just peed your size 22 jeans.
When you stepped through the mirror, you stepped through at the exact moment the electrons that formed your world intentionally decide to alter their normal behavior and do something different.
Wait, what? How can electrons decide anything? Physics tells us that there are rules or laws -- motion, force, and all that, right?
Well, no, not really. It's pretty weird actually, but it appears that electrons know when you're watching them. And when they realize you're right there, nose to nose with them, they can decide to act in a different, more unpredictable way...in mid-stride.
How can that be? How can something without a conscious, without a real "brain," know when you're watching them? How can they change how they move at the precise moment when they discover they're being watched?
Heck, I don't know. But they do.
In what's called the "Double-Slit Experiment," physicists expect that electrons move toward and through a slit cut into a screen onto a detection screen behind it in a predictable fashion--the electrons will be detected on the screen as a single band. When a double-slitted screen replaces the single slit screen, the electrons move through each band and form not the expected two bands on the screen, but a wave pattern, where the band in the middle is the most intense, and the bands radiating out from it are less intense. Now, that's sorta crazy in itself. Physicists theorized that the electrons somehow passed through the slits, bounced off each other after they passed through the slits and created the characteristic interference wave pattern.
But, dang, when they thought they could predict what would happen when they fired electrons one at a time, it would make interference impossible, and surely the electrons would go through one slit or the other, and appear on the screen as the two bands they initially expected.
Nope! To their amazement, the matter still created an interference pattern and appeared as a wave on the screen. Mathematically, they'd just witnessed something theoretically impossible--each electron somehow went through both screens while at the same time going through neither screen, and at the same time going through one slit while at the same time, going through the other.
How in the world (or worlds) is that possible? How can a single electron interfere with itself? And how do the single electrons know where to land on the detector screen to form a final uniform wave pattern? How do they know where the previous electrons have landed, and how do they choose where they will land? How can single electrons land on the screen as particles, but as each successive electron is fired, form a final wave pattern? They call this wave-particle duality, but how can that be possible?
I don't know. It's a problem, though. And it gets more complicated.
When the physicist placed a measuring device to observe the electrons, the electrons changed their behavior, and all the electrons hit the screen as particles, appearing on the screen as two bands! It appeared that the electrons were aware they were being watched, and purposely wanted to startle the bejeebus out of the physicists! It's like when you approach a dead body in the woods, and as you get your face right up to theirs, they snap open their eyes and rip off your face.
And that's not even as spooky as it gets! Physicists again tried to predict what would happen when the observer didn't watch until the electron had already passed through the slit...of course, the electron wouldn't be able to change it's motion after it went through the slit, right?
Well, wrong.
As the electron passed through the slits in a wave pattern, once they were observed, they again changed their behavior to hit the screen in a particle pattern. The implications are just plain crazy. It suggests that once the electrons know they're being observed after passing through the slit, they can travel back in time to correct their already set motion!
Physicists could come to no other conclusion but infinite potentialities. That's freaking amazing, because it opens up the possibility that there is a black unicorn out there...somewhere.
I think my alternate reality would be more pleasant, though:
And this sh*t right here is why the aliens won't speak to us, ROFLMAO!