The Haunted Universe

The invisible dust that possesses our computers, a signal from space that bleeds into our televisions, a compass that always tells the truth, and the ways our universe can haunt us ✨🕯️ Watch my videos ad-free, before anyone else, by joining Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/sarahdavisbaker Gift a Nebula subscription: https://go.nebula.tv/gift?ref=sarahdavisbaker Watch *this* video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/sarahdavisbaker-the-haunted-universe Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sarahdavisbaker I run a weird book club over there! Recommended reading: Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art edited by Robert Cozzolino Additional sources: The “Haunt” project by French, Christopher C.; Haque, Usman; Bunton-Stasyshyn, Rosie; and Davis, Robert. 2009 Where the Universe Began, Dennis Overbye https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/04/science/astronomy-holmdel-antenna-microwaves.html Deja-Vu: A Glimpse on Radioactive Soft-Error Consequences on Classical and Quantum Computations https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021arXiv210505103N/abstract PBS Spacetime’s entire channel (god bless you) https://www.youtube.com/@pbsspacetime Sabine Hossenfelder’s entire channel (you’re the best & if you ever see this, I apologize for my woo-woo summations of physics) https://www.youtube.com/@SabineHossenfelder One thousand thanks to my research assistant Hannah Skibbe. Please direct your thoughts toward sending Hannah a psychic thank-you!!! Thank you to John Wander for helping me with After Effects to create particle text for the title sequence, and Dust’s text for Mary’s computer! Footage: Kirlian photography courtesy of https://www.youtube.com/@PlasmaChannel and https://www.youtube.com/@HyperspacePirate Ted Serios footage from Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers - Ep. 6 - Fairies, Phantoms and Fantastic Photographs Séance from Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922) MRI vision reconstruction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FsH7RK1S2E Kinect Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oAu0fsuVZ4&t=750s Timelapse of the ATLAS big wheel from CERN Additional footage from the Prelinger Archives, the Internet Archive, NASA, Storyblocks, Artgrid, and Getty Images Shoutout to the Griffith Observatory for their cloud chamber Music from Epidemic sound unless noted with an asterisk Music, in order: My Sleeping Giant (DEX 1200), Stay Here (Cody High), *The Moon (Thistle), *Something Beyond Self (Thistle), *The Sound of Glass (Thistle), *Let Me Rest For Awhile (Audible Dread), *Blurry Glowing Lights (Clement Panchout), Nectar (Aerian), End of a Dream (Hanna Lindgren), Sight of the Unseen (Jay Taylor), Tvivel (Hanna Ekstrom), Rest (Elin Piel), Fever Dream (Eva Hummingbird) Thistle’s music: https://tinythistle.bandcamp.com/music