Brain Worlds

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(STARpod.org) -- Mr. Smith has left me wondering once again about brain worlds.

That's not a typo. "Brain worlds" are the Multiverse of Many Worlds forming the mental landscape experienced by the gray matter that inhabits your head. On a potentially related topic, some physicists are proposing 'brane worlds' -- as in membranes, or sheets of spacetime floating in a higher dimension. What I am anticipating is a combination of both of these ideas in a new synthesis where brain meets brane.

Lisa Randall, physicist and author of the book "Warped Passages," appeared on the "Coast to Coast" talk radio program with host Art Bell. We have to give Lisa credit for her reasoned and conservative answers to Bell's questions. Randall's responses highlight the core problem with any kind of weird and exotic phenomenology. She was very careful not to tread into areas that she knows cannot (as yet) be falsified, but are too far flung from the comfort zone of her peers in science. The fear of flying too far, too fast, and too high keeps the mainstream crowd with seatbelts fastened to the middle of the scientific curve. It was the thrill of flying higher, going farther, and progressing faster than the enemy, that drove the radical intelligence community on a grail quest for the strange and weird in the black world of psi versus spy.

The hard problem for any paraphysical research is how to discriminate between purely mental phenomenology and allegations of the physical manifestation of weirdness that might be amenable to genuine scientific inquiry. A good example was an observation reported to me several years ago, of knives lifted by an invisible force and slammed into a wall. The problem with these kinds of events -- if they are real -- is that their transient nature doesn't translate into scientific repeatability in a laboratory.

Some of the effects might be explainable as brane-world coupling, involving unknown interactions between our brane world and the alien brane floating in the universe next door. It's an interesting possibility, and is certainly worth considering. Most of the time what happens on our brane should be independent from events in an alien brane that might literally exist right in front of your nose. We know from the present state of the experimental art of physics that if alien brane worlds exist, they must be closer than a millimeter to our own brane. That presents the possibility of a sandwich of realities with the gravitational force passing between them. The problem for paraphysical phenomenology is that our familiar large scale reality is mostly a product of the electromagnetic force. The electromagnetic force is thought to be confined onto our brane world, like a tiny piece of string with both ends stuck to the brane like bugs on flypaper. The force of gravity, which is free to pass between brane worlds, is far too feeble to interact strongly enough to produce the kind of localized effects often reported in paraphysics.

As new scientific possibilities appear -- such as brane worlds next door, or invisible alien nanotechnology -- closer examination finds that the real roots of the phenomenological core story are dug even deeper into metaphysical ground.

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Copyright (c) 2006 Gary S. Bekkum -- All Rights Reserved.

For the rest of this story, see SPIES LIES and POLYGRAPH TAPE -- Knowing the Future: The UFO Spy Games Book. To read more about the book, click here.