20 Theories That Might Freak You Out.
Nathan Johnson
Published
01/02/2021
Scary stuff that could be true.
- List View
- Player View
- Grid View
Advertisement
-
1.
“As Artic permafrost melts, it will release diseases that have been frozen in the ground for thousands or tens of thousands of years, and life on Earth will have no immunity to them.” -
2.
“There’s a theory that says that there is a point that no intelligent life can get past, no matter what they do. Diving deeper into this, some people claim this is why we haven’t found any other intelligent life forms. I think the truly scary part about it is that we won’t know we are at that point until we are living it.” -
3.
“It is speculated that there are over 2000 active serial killers in the US alone. It makes you realize that many of the serial killers we know of today— Bundy, BTK, Gacy, are ultimately failed serial killers. It’s like that Usual Suspects line— ” the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist.” -
4.
“We don’t know whether the universe is in a true vacuum (lowest possible energy state) or a false vacuum (a local low, but not the lowest). If the universe is a false vacuum, at any point, at any moment, a quantum tunneling event could occur where that point spontaneously decays to a true vacuum. If that happened, a bubble would expand from that point at the speed of light that radically altered physics, instantly annihilating everything down to the subatomic level. Since it travels at c, there’d be no warning, no way to see it coming, when it reached us you’d just instantly blink out of existence. Even if we are in a false vacuum, such an event doesn’t become likely for at least 10139 years, but it could happen at any moment at any point. It could have already happened and the bubble could be heading straight for us, about to end us at any time.” -
5.
“That, after decapitation, you may still be conscious and somewhat aware for at least a few seconds.” -
6.
“The Uncanny Valley. You know, the sense of unease and discomfort you feel when you look at a near-realistic animation of a human face, like imperfect deep fakes or flawed CGI faces in movies. It implies that there might have been a point in our species’ evolution where we had legit reasons to be afraid of something that looked almost human, but wasn’t.” -
7.
“The Butterfly Effect kind of freaks me out because it suggests that every little action could be part of a series of events that leads to something much more impactful. For example I could drop a pencil, which distracts someone for a few seconds, causing them to miss the bus, and after a few billion seemingly insignificant events World War 3 begins.” -
8.
“I saw one about the potential of a specific type of supernova that would essentially fire out beam of radiation (or some other kind of energy) if it hit earth we would see the entire sky covered with auroras, this is the ozone layer burning off and the last thing we would see before we all die, guess at least we get a pretty light show to end on.” -
9.
“That AI, self-replicating, and immortal, has a better chance of colonizing this galaxy that biological life does. Think about it. It took hundreds of millions of years for life to get to this point. From a ball of proteins to multi-cellular creatures to plants and animals….took an incredible amount of time. Back in the late 1970’s, I was playing with computers that had 4K of RAM. 40 years later we have incredible computing power in the palms of our hands, hundreds of gigs, and terabyte micro SD cards. Robotic manufacturing of everything from circuit boards to vehicles is the norm. Where will this tech be in a couple hundred years? Will AI be able to design and launch spacecraft that are capable of self-maintenance for the hundreds, maybe thousands, of years it would take to reach the nearest exoplanets? Once they arrive, will they be capable of self-replication? Machines don’t need food and water. Machines aren’t susceptible to disease, or mental health issues. Machines don’t seek power, or authority, and don’t victimize each other for amusement. What if the purpose of human life in The Universe is to facilitate the creation of AI and launch its spread into the wild?” -
10.
“The possibility that I am just a brain in a jar and my entire life is just something my brain fabricated to keep itself entertained. Everything and everyone I have ever known is a figment of imagination. Every method I can conceive to prove this idea wrong is also just part of the dream-logic my brain has created to make sense of the illusion that is my existence.” -
11.
“That the Big Bang is just a never-ending cycle. Each time the Universe explodes into existence it will inevitably end then the Big Bang restarts. Each iteration of existence is just a re-run of the Big Bang. The theory is likely called Big Bounce.” -
12.
“The hypothesis that human life was seeded by another civilization. What if they come back?” -
13.
“There’s nothing after we die. All of our memories, experiences, thoughts, feelings, etc just immediately blinked out of existence. And this seems like the most likely and realistic possibility to me.” -
14.
“The fact that if aliens do exist, they are either billions of years ahead of us, or we are billions of years ahead of them. It would be virtually impossible for them to become sentient around the same time as us, especially if you consider how old the universe actually is.” -
15.
“Fractalization theories. Everything that exists is a tiny part of a bigger thing. In a brief summary, our galaxy is a part of space but is space a small part of something larger? Think of a smaller object containing its own galaxy. A speck of a rock may contain its own microscopic cosmos that we cannot see. It may be composed of its own organisms smaller than a single electron and that civilization is more advanced than we are. We know all matter contains their own gravitational force but we don’t exactly know why.” -
16.
“Not so scary but some people say we are all dead now but our consciousness keeps repeating memories of our lives like an endless loop and it’s the reason we experience deja vu sometimes.” -
17.
“It’s debatable and contentious. Free will versus determination, and evidence from neuroscience that suggests people’s actions occur before their thoughts. This would suggest that we have no control over our actions and are merely pawns in a bigger picture. Que sere, sera. It’s both comforting, and scary.” -
18.
“100 years from now the majority of us will be dead. We will just be another page in the history book. We may think that our life was very valuable, but we are just another century passing by. Just like how a lot of us don’t think about how the 19th century as much. It will be impossible to remember all 7.5 billion of us living in this century. The next century will just remember the ones that help advance our species.” -
19.
“Just knowing the sun will eventually expand and envelop the planet leaving a burnt and blackened french-fry behind is upsetting enough. Even if all these other things never happen, that eventually will. Imagine being around as that slowly becomes reality…” -
20.
“One day the Grand Canyon will no longer exist. There will be no physical trace of us ever having existed at all.”
“As Artic permafrost melts, it will release diseases that have been frozen in the ground for thousands or tens of thousands of years, and life on Earth will have no immunity to them.”
20/20
1/20
0 Comments