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Slender Man, The Quantum Theory
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J.Fawkes
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 		Slender Man, The Quantum Theory
My own little theory on how Slendy operates
This is a theory I have been holding on to for a while now. It's a collective of a couple of things I have read, and some of this has been previously presented. Most of it is pretty wacky and out of there, but coupled with the entity that is The Slender Man, this theory may explain how He acts, how He travels, how to manipulate Him, and how to escape Him. Note this is not an explanation of why He acts, that still remains a mystery. I'm here to present the physical, or more accurately, quantum physical.

First, the very basics of Quantum physics for those who might not know. There is an experiment involving waves and particles, in an attempt to determine the properties of a quantum element. Imagine a wall with a slit in it. When particles are fired at the wall, it creates a single line where the slit was on the other side of the wall. When a wave is created behind the slit, the area there the wave is strongest is in line with the slit. Now moving up to two slits; when particles are fired through, it created two lines where the slits are, but when a wave is generated, there is a distortion pattern and where the wave behind the wall is strongest appears as many lines. When a quantum element is through the the same two-slit wall, it creates the aforementioned distortion pattern, as if it was a wave. But when observed, it created the double-line pattern, as if it were a particle. The mere act of observing disturbs the object being disturbed.

This wave-particle duality is the first connecting point to the Slender Man. The Slenderman exhibits this duality quality. Only when he is observed (by somebody, or by a camera) does he become visible. When he is no longer being observed, he retakes the quantum quality, which explains his normally sudden disappearances. By observing him, we are able to slow him down, almost as if to a stop. What he can do when we are not observing him is unknown.

Taking a little tangent to explain his appearance is this idea of time-stretching. The Slender Man has shown an ability to make his victims travel through time as well as to seemingly travel through time himself. I think this is what gives him the Slender appearance. When we see him, what we may be seeing is the thing at different intervals. His feet may be in a more present time than his head, and this causes a "time-stretch" visual effects, making him seem significantly taller and in-human.

Quantum physics does not necessarily follow time the way we count it. There are such things as quantum leaps and quantum seconds, which I understand to be the seconds in between seconds. An object, if it could exist in quantum space, could move through the third dimension without disturbing anything within the dimension, and can travel miniscule or great distances without as much effort as it takes in the third dimension. This could explain how the Slender Man travels. When we're not observing him, he can take quantum leaps and move anywhere in the world (or possibly this universe) and then reappear as soon as someone else observes him.

Similarly, there is the idea of quantum super-positioning. When an object is unobservable, it is impossible to prove an object is actually there. Say there is a ball sitting outside of your room. There is no way to see, smell, hear, taste, touch, or otherwise observe the ball. It is impossible to prove the existence of the ball, and while it doesn't exist, it can move to a place where it will be observed. Obviously the ball can't move on its own, and when you look outside, the ball exists. But for a creature that could move on its own will, this is a different story. By moving into the aforementioned quantum dimension, he can move anywhere and everywhere, though like anything that exists in the third dimension, there is one and only one.

But quantum elements have a property that solidifies their existence a little more. They can only exist in certain places. This is because of the wave-particle duality mentioned earlier. In the wave, there are highs and lows, like a sine wave on a graph. The quantum element can only move to and exist in the places where there are peaks in the wave, and cannot exist in the places where there is 0. If the Slender Man continues to exhibit signs of being a quantum creature, that means this property possibly applies to him too. He can only appear in certain places of the world. If we could somehow "measure" the Slender Man, we could possibly figure out where his waves cannot reach, and therefore find a way to escape him.

Lastly, waves have a property where they cancel one another when collided. Not just any waves, but the waves must be similar. This is how noise-cancelling headphones work: using sound waves similar to that of the ambient noise you don't want to hear and projecting them to cancel the waves coming at you. Of course, when we observe the Slender Man, he becomes physical, and we know no physical way of killing him, but in his "wave state", if another wave of similar properties were to hit the Slender Man, he would disappear. The only downside to this is that means the only way to kill a Slender Man is with another Slender Man.

Of course, this is all just theory and speculation, but I hope this little essay helped to enlighten you about the physical and quantum physical properties of the Slender Man and maybe inspires you to find ways to study and ultimately defeat the Slender Man (if that is your goal).

Feel free to pick my theory apart for errors in facts, I am by no means an expert on quantum physics and most of this is my own speculation on how quantum physics works (I've never taken a class or formally read a book on it).

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 		Re: Slender Man, The Quantum Theory
My own little theory on how Slendy operates
J.Fawkes wrote:



The Slender Man has shown an ability to make his victims travel through time as well as to seemingly travel through time himself. I think this is what gives him the Slender appearance. When we see him, what we may be seeing is the thing at different intervals. His feet may be in a more present time than his head, and this causes a "time-stretch" visual effects, making him seem significantly taller and in-human.



So would this imply that the Slender Man is actually, in some way, human? For some reason, that makes him scarier to me. The fact that someone can manipulate time/space/whatever the hell, and he's an ordinary human...

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 		I didn't mean to say the he IS human but he certainly does have a human-form, as all observers have perceived. More than likely he only has a human figure, and outside of the whole Quantum thing, I've heard theories that he simply takes this form in order to lure us in. Of course, he could also be completely human and have some supernatural abilities to manipulate time-space.

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 		my thoughts......
I've always thought that Slendy must operate on some sort of quantum level in order to do the things that he does. My theory was always that he existed in some other universe or dimension and he couldn't exist in this universe unless he was being observed (similar to your theory proposed above). Slendy only exists in this universe because we are thinking about him. So, for example, he somehow puts the idea of Slenderman in Victor Surge's head, Victor "invents" Slenderman for the paranormal images contest on SomethingAwful, and now that everyone knows and acknowledges Slenderman, he is able to exist in our universe. At least thats they way I look at it. But yes, from a scientific standpoint he definatley operates on a quantum level when using his slenderpowers.

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 		We should do some kind of Mythbusters SlenderScience style

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The only downside to this is that means the only way to kill a Slender Man is with another Slender Man.

We need to get Victor on the phone. Right now.

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 		Wait a second....Does this all mean slendy can LEAK INTO OUR UNIVERSE? :O

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TheFallenenvoy wrote:
Wait a second....Does this all mean slendy can LEAK INTO OUR UNIVERSE? :O


And here I thought I'd reached my paranoia threshold for this year.

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 		This is an amusing topic... Maybe the Silence from Doctor Who implanted the idea into Victor?
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