There is a scientific explanation for "noisy spirits" and it is very exciting.
Furniture can run by itself, "from my mother's bedroom", not only in children's poetry. In the winter of 1833, Alexander Pushkin made the following entry in his diary: “In one of the houses belonging to the department of the court stables, they decided to move and jump; business went to the authorities. Book. V. Dolgorukov dressed up the investigation. One of the officials called for the priest, but during the prayer the chairs and tables did not want to stand still."
The phenomenon is called "poltergeist" (literally - "noisy spirit"), and is under the authority of magicians, psychics and other dubious public, in a word, is not really studied. But - check and checkmate, little faith. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have observed the poltergeist in the laboratory, and now it is clear where it comes from. Researchers have long been worried about such a thing as the energy of a vacuum, that is, complete emptiness. What can this energy do? Can she move, for example, a 40-kilogram mirror? No sooner said than done. Scientists have come to a laboratory where they study gravitational waves. It's very quiet there, nothing bothers you. And they watched the test subject move by itself. Let it be for tiny fractions of a meter, but the fact itself! Now physicists assure: everything around us moves and fluctuates a little. We just don't notice it. And sometimes we notice. But first, let's figure it outwhat kind of vacuum energy is that.
Physicists have long understood that the vacuum is not empty. Back in 1947, they saw how the energy of the void moves the energy levels in the hydrogen atom. Not very spectacular? As early as the next year, 1948, experimenters observed how two metal plates were drawn to each other; they are drawn not by electricity, not by magnetism, but by the force of emptiness. They began to understand.
It turned out that the entire Universe is permeated with a certain unified field. It is even where there is nothing. Matter - stars, planets, you and I are only tiny lumps, the tops of an iceberg hidden in the depths of a silent ocean. This energy of emptiness never, for one millisecond, remains at rest. It throbs constantly. The so-called virtual particles are born in a vacuum. That is, matter all the time, everywhere and everywhere, arises from nothing, from emptiness! But virtual particles cannot live long. That's why they are virtual. They immediately disintegrate and return back to energy. It is like boiling water in a saucepan. Imagine that you cannot see the water, say, because it is completely transparent. All you see is bubbles. You will notice that bubbles appear here and there as if out of nowhere and disappear instantly. The vacuum "boils" in the same way.
An important clarification needs to be made here. When we talk about the energy of a vacuum, we do not mean that we must first pump out the air, and thus obtain energy. The term "energy of emptiness" emphasizes that energy is EVEN in emptiness. It is everywhere. This field connects you and the most distant galaxy in the universe. And there’s no point in pumping out the air, you still don’t get a space vacuum. It turns out that virtual particles are born not only in some abstract vacuum on the ISS or on the Moon, they appear everywhere. As I write these lines, I have a nuclear reactor under my fingers.
The thing is, these virtual particles can move even something as heavy as a 40-kilogram mirror in an experiment by scientists from the Massachusetts Institute. Virtual particles hit the object, and it slowly creeps. Let's go back to our boiling water experience. Put something floating and light on the surface of the water, some kind of children's boat. Bubbles will throw it here and there. Now you fully understand the essence of the incredible experiment that the Americans made.
Now we go into the area of assumptions - but where in physics without assumptions. Researchers from Duke University (USA) suggested back in 2008 that the poltergeist could be caused by the condensation of vacuum energy. But can the energy of the vacuum thicken so that tables and chairs start flying around the room? Until recently, scientists would have said "no", or began to talk about distant stellar systems and black holes, where, they say, everything is possible. They are far away, fly, check. But the new experiment shows that the mysterious quantum world can directly affect the objects of our familiar world, and is constantly present with us, here and now, and this completely changes the situation.
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However, we do not yet know exactly how and why the vacuum energy can be concentrated. It was easier for the ancestors. Noisy spirit, and all the cases. From the spirit of what demand. In the 90s, it was thought that some socially disadvantaged children provoke the poltergeist. There were many of them then, there were hungry and wicked times. They say, these children throw energy out of themselves so much that the spoons bend and the soup, salted by the stepmother, flies off the stove by itself. A clear influence of Stephen King's popular then “Eye-catching”.
What's in reality? Computer analysis of all reliable cases of poltergeist showed that 58% of cases occurred at night, half of the events lasted about a day, a quarter - a year or more. Thus, we have before us some signs of when and for how long the vacuum energy is condensing in us, on Earth, but why and why, we do not yet know. But nothing should be surprised. If we once and for all affirm that we are connected through the energy "field of emptiness" with the entire universe, who knows: maybe the bad apartment about which Pushkin wrote was in superposition with a supernova millions of light years away.
There is something to think about! And physicists are throwing us more and more strange, but irrefutable facts to think about.