Position Paper introduction; The Mathematical Basis for Evidence of Paranormal Phenomena as Electromagnetic Reactions Reproducible in a Laboratory Setting.

(Notes taken by Dr Tim Hacker, Sunday, February 1, 2037)

— Finding; on the interaction between electromagnetic fields to explain paranormal phenomena.

It’s easy to think the prevailing ‘tape recorder’ theory is now obsolete, but it actually forms the basis for this finding.

It works when an event occurs at a particular point in spacetime. It doesn’t matter what it is, at the atomic level every event shares the same basis – the vibration of particles according to the strong and weak nuclear forces, gravity and electromagnetism. That’s true for the collapse of a star, the flight of a bird and even a human emotion, which is nothing in the physical world but a series of electrical sparks.

If an inordinate amount of energy is released from collective high emotion when we suffer or are involved in an emotionally intense event, the outflow of electromagnetic energy is anchored to that point in spacetime and will affect the physical world repeatedly according to the energy that interacts with it in the future. We see the paranormal when the energy of our own brain activity interacts with fields that already exist.

Manifestations of apparitions or paranormal phenomena result when the two fields react, sometimes in the environment and sometimes in our own brains. It’s therefore very hard to say whether apparitions and other instances of the paranormal are merely in our mind or actually exist in the world because when it comes to electromagnetism there’s no physical difference, only an experiential one.

Sometimes the manifestations are particular to the past event and sometimes they’re particular to us as individuals. The reason is because they’re interacting with the electromagnetic fields that make up our memories, experiences and sense of self (see further note ‘– Finding; on the manifestation of images and artefacts within paranormal phenomena specific to the experiential memory or cultural awareness of witnesses, and the consequences of the electromagnetic field they seem intended to generate growing in magnitude’ below) just like we’re interacting with them.

So the original instance of spacetime that contained such high amounts of energy can reappear at any time, to anybody’s perception or any measuring instrument and in any form. The manifestation of it is what we call a haunting, and in most cases, it’s simply like watching a film of what’s come before.

Manifestations of energy could even appear from what we know as the future. Extrapolated from Relativity Theory, all instants of history theoretically exist at the same moment, spacetime simply a field that keeps events separate according to the local gravitational environment. When such manifestations appear from elsewhere in history, be they the past or the future, a sort of intra-time, intra-space field transposes echoes of the event across time as we experience it.

— Addendum; application of the findings to one particular subset of the paranormal – poltergeist phenomena

Poltergeists consistently centre on households with pre-pubescent or young teenaged children. According to the new theory this case has helped me formulate, electromagnetic fields already at or near to the location of children are likely to be stimulated into manifestations to a more heightened degree than normal.

The reason is because the initial firing of the pituitary gland, which sparks the onset of puberty, involves the strongest electrical activity the individual human brain will ever produce. Colossal power surges associated with hormone production and rapid growth as well as the mental turbulence of accompanying emotional and sexual development overshadow any normal levels of local electromagnetic fields. The subject of the poltergeist ‘attraction’ becomes a human conductor.

In the same way lightning can’t strike until the charge overcomes air resistance, the path across spacetime between an event and the associated paranormal phenomena usually offers heavy resistance, but it’s no match for the electrical powerhouses of the comparative electrical overactivity of young, developing brains.

— Conclusion

The key to the paranormal or supernatural is the human brain and the electromagnetic power it’s capable of interpreting and producing.

The stronger the activity in the brain we perceive as emotion, the more power is produced, and the more chance the resulting electromagnetic field will somehow imprint aspects of the event upon the spacetime field.

— Finding; on the manifestation of images and artefacts within paranormal phenomena specific to the experiential memory or cultural awareness of witnesses, and the consequences of the electromagnetic field they seem intended to generate growing in magnitude.

As this case has shown, paranormal manifestations (be they poltergeists, apparitions or simply a room where flowers consistently die for no apparent reason) aren’t restricted to the physical proximity of the event, though that’s usually where they’re strongest. The disturbances we’ve seen associated with the Harbour Bridge have appeared over 20 kilometres away.

When the bridge collapsed hundreds of people were directly involved, along with millions of terrified witnesses. In an environment like the bridge and city centre, with so much electrically conductive material, the entire area became a giant battery, the power in which was produced by trillions of volts quite literally generated by human fear.

The energy produced was undetectable at the time – it was potential rather than active energy. But according to the theory it was ‘anchored’ electromagnetically to the site, which continues to store it like a battery.

Perceptions of the phenomena have not only been sensory but interactive in the immediate environment. Though most paranormal phenomena are by nature frightening simply because of their unexplained nature, the objects or entities depicted in them are normally no more mysterious than the behaviours we see in human or animal life.

But in this case, the phenomena have consistently manifested in forms specifically intended to invoke fear in witnesses – using representations of fears particular to the individual viewer him or herself. The personalisation or anthropomorphism of the phenomena produces stronger fear, so the field is interacting across the electromagnetism in all our brains to isolate and present images of what affects us all as individuals.

Though the reason why is fraught with the tendency to apply human-like intent to physics, it seems the only explanation can be to produce more electromagnetic energy. As astrophysics tells us, every field of energy is finite, and those that grow reach an inevitable endpoint of instability when they can’t grow any more on the resources available. A common example is a star, which will collapse or eject its outer layers with incredible violence when it exhausts its own internal fuel.

If the field is growing and producing more electromagnetism by interacting with the brains of witnesses, it will either reach the physical expression of the potential energy in the system or destabilise. Just like the raw material that both powers and is consumed by a star, the question isn’t whether the field will reach such a point but how strong it will be when it does.

If it’s strong enough to selectively target objects over 20km away, that would make it at least powerful enough to create an electromagnetic blackout across the local area from an EMP burst, maybe even the entire metropolitan Sydney basin. Could it grow powerful enough to affect the whole world, or beyond it?

By the time it reached such a strength any expression of electromagnetic power would be enough to disrupt the magnetic field of the Earth and cause massive shifts to continental crusts and tides. It might even be enough to affect the electromagnetic force to the extent all atomic structure would spontaneously decouple on a local basis, effectively disbanding matter itself.