Rare & Bizarre Phenomena
Posted: Tue May 25, 2021 7:27 pm
I love anomalies. Anything which falls outside the standard (often greatly) is like candy.
But what do I mean by rare & bizarre phenomena? I'm talking about those quirks at the edge of reality, the things that are about as close to the paranormal as it's possible to get without crossing over into pseudoscience.
It's those things that are pseudos/mimics of normal phenomena— things where the ends are the same or similar but the means by which it gets there are totally different from how we normally perceive them to develop.
Or perhaps entirely alternative versions of normal things.
Or things that require the perfect amount of things going right at the perfect possible time.
Or technologies that are so far beyond the normal human condition that it goes beyond science fiction into pseudo-fantasy.
Or things that are just so rare that getting a chance to see them in person is nearly impossible.
Or things that just look cool but don't happen often.
When we were a species of ape wandering the East African savannas, we had no way of knowing things like ball lightning, Bose-Einstein Condensates, vantablack, acoustic black holes, convergent evolution, red sprites, superfluids, tetraneutrons, the Placebo effect, the Meissner effect, and so on.
Artificial ball lightning in a vodka bottle
Description: "Spherical and toroidal plasmoids in rarefied xenon inside an empty vodka bottle, powered by 30 MHz 50W wireless generator."
But what do I mean by rare & bizarre phenomena? I'm talking about those quirks at the edge of reality, the things that are about as close to the paranormal as it's possible to get without crossing over into pseudoscience.
It's those things that are pseudos/mimics of normal phenomena— things where the ends are the same or similar but the means by which it gets there are totally different from how we normally perceive them to develop.
Or perhaps entirely alternative versions of normal things.
Or things that require the perfect amount of things going right at the perfect possible time.
Or technologies that are so far beyond the normal human condition that it goes beyond science fiction into pseudo-fantasy.
Or things that are just so rare that getting a chance to see them in person is nearly impossible.
Or things that just look cool but don't happen often.
When we were a species of ape wandering the East African savannas, we had no way of knowing things like ball lightning, Bose-Einstein Condensates, vantablack, acoustic black holes, convergent evolution, red sprites, superfluids, tetraneutrons, the Placebo effect, the Meissner effect, and so on.
Artificial ball lightning in a vodka bottle
Description: "Spherical and toroidal plasmoids in rarefied xenon inside an empty vodka bottle, powered by 30 MHz 50W wireless generator."