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Thursday, September 11, 2008

Scientists Explain Poltergeist Activity

I was wandering around the web last night, and came across a story that is interesting enough to share. You are no doubt familiar with the concept of a poltergeist - a spirit who manifests itself by moving objects, sometimes even hurling them around the room. Such hauntings are often associated with children, a fact which prompted two Italian scientists to theorize that the activity may not be supernatural in form, but may actually be a by-product of adolescence. I'm certainly not saying whether they're right or they're wrong, but if you have ever watched the movie "Down the Rabbit Hole" (an interesting look at quantum physics, BTW), it fits exactly into some of the theories about matter and how it can be controlled by the brain. Anyway, the article is at least worth a read. Here's the link:

'They're here': The mechanism of poltergeist activity

2 Comments:

Blogger sophia said...

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Blogger glenisha said...

Poltergeist, the word comes from German, and it literally means 'noisy ghost', which is a pretty accurate description of what seems to be happening. The researchers note that poltergeist encounters have been reported around the world and across different cultures, but tend to have one thing in common. Poltergeist disturbances often occur in the neighbourhood of a pubescent child or a young woman. These disturbances would be similar in character to the quantum mechanical fluctuations that physicists believe occur in the vacuum, in which "virtual" particle and antiparticle pairs pop up for a fleeting moment, before they annihilate each other and disappear again.
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