From the time of their beginnings in North America, indigenous stories described a tall, hairy creature considered by them to be a brother, a guardian neighbor, even a protector, and capability of communication with its human brethren. Then and now, it was and is considered a part of indigenous culture. The ever-increasing presence of European colonizers changed all of that with descriptions of an enormous, people-devouring servant of the unholy that announced its presence with horrible noises.
There are many ideas floated around concerning Sasquatch/Bigfoot, boiling down to basically two contentions... it's an indigenous animal or it's not of this world or dimension. The proof so far of its existence or appearance on this planet consists of unclear photos, isolated, ambiguous footprints of large size, strange vocal calls from densely and distant forested regions and the ever growing number of stories by those who claim to have witnessed it. Immature animals have not finished bone development and may have rear track falling exactly behind front track, leading to the misconception of one large print. Keep in mind large cats and bears use "direct register" walking patterns, that is, when as the front foot is lifted up the rear foot on that side drops directly into the front track, giving the impression of a bipedal animal.
Even though it is the prevailing consensus, it's pretty tough to accept Sasquatch/Bigfoot as an animal based on such sketchy, alleged evidence. No definitive hair samples, bones, bodies, etc. One could argue its existence "till the cows come home." With most people possessing a cell phone today, it becomes incredible to believe absolutely no one can present a decent photo or video. What I find more intriguing than choosing sides of belief or non-belief, is putting forth hypotheses that explain its ability to remain so elusive. Aside from the "interdimensional being" idea, no real theory has been proposed to explain Sasquatch/Bigfoot's forest parkour and ability to retreat from view as quickly and completely as it has been reported to do.
Lately, a few alleged eyewitnesses have described where the creature does not flee, but simply vanishes while in direct view, whether involved in visible or infrared observations. This opens the door to a hypothesis of my own. It involves a discussion of the various frequencies of light, an idea borne of Sasquatch/Bigfoot encounters sometimes being associated with the presence of orbs. These diffused balls of light have been said to appear before, during and after a sighting. What I find lacking in such reporting of balls of light is description of the immediate environment where the orbs were noticed. If there is water nearby, Water Sonoluminescence can be a possibility. It is by definition, "the energy of a sound wave in a fluid can concentrate by 12 orders of magnitude to create flashes of light."
My personal hypothesis is based upon the following data about vibrational frequencies, inspired by this fact: "The Law of Vibration states that anything that exists in our universe, whether seen or unseen, consists of pure energy or light and exists as a vibrational frequency or pattern."
Human eyesight ranges roughly from 400 nanometers (violet) to 700 nanometers (red). The frequency of light from 400–700 nanometers (nm) is called visible light, or the visible spectrum that humans can see. Visible light makes up just a small part of the full electromagnetic spectrum. Light outside of this range may be visible to other organisms but cannot be perceived by the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths that are just longer than we can see is called "infrared (IR)" and radiation with just shorter wavelengths than we can see is called "ultraviolet (UV)". Most people are somewhat familiar with the concept of infrared light being visible with the use of cameras designed to detect this part of the electromagnetic spectrum, from about 700 nanometers to 1 millimeter. Detected as heat, infrared emissions are especially useful for use in dark areas, although they can just as well be used in daylight. Bees and other insects can see ultraviolet light, which is commonly reflected by flowers. Birds also can see into the ultraviolet range (300–400 nm). Cats see into the UV range, but not beyond 320 nm with their maximum similar to humans at 750 nm. Dogs also see into the UV range from about 300 nm to 750 nm. You get the idea. Humans suck at seeing most of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Now lets cover some vibrational frequencies of hearing... Examples: hummingbird from 18 hz to 200 hz - cats from 20 hz to 30 khz - dogs from 40 Hz to 60 khz - humans from 20 hz to 20 khz. Once again, humans suck when compared to nature!
What I am suggesting as a hypothesis is a camouflage ability natural to Sasquatch/Bigfoot, based on their ability to change their vibrational frequencies, but with a twist. This cryptid does not change into something invisible, but rather it is invisible to begin with and alters its vibrational frequency to become visible!
Nature's camouflage is more common that one would think, considering how much of nature we humans take for granted in the first place. Here are some examples.
Light Scattering is something that can be observed in some birds. While a brilliant red bird like the cardinal gets its red feathers from red pigment, birds like the Blue Jay and Magpie appear to have blue feathers. They really don't. Due to light scattering, light that hits its brown feathers is absorbed and refracted at certain angles of perception by humans in the blue wavelength. Remember, the sky isn't actually blue either. Our eyes perceive an object in front of us as being a certain color dependent upon what wavelengths of light the object can absorb and reflect. Birds such as blue jays and magpies possess no blue pigment. Research also reveals birds probably see the rapid flickers of fluorescent lights or individual frames of images on the TV. A good example of flicker can be found by capturing video of fluorescent lights at 30 frames per second. When viewed at a higher fps speed, the 30 frames-per-second video will show the lights flickering on and off, even though to your human eyesight they were on steady.
Transparency in nature is exemplified by the example of the Glass Frog with its semi-transparent skin on their back and see-thru skin on their abdomens. The scientific way of explaining this effect is that these photons don't have the needed vibrational energy to be absorbed. The frog's atoms are of an arrangement that discourages reflection, which is how we pretty much see everything that doesn't emit light of its own. Thus, the photons energy passes from atom to atom, emerging on the other side of the object they are striking... transparency.
There is a problem with this idea, though. The effect of transparency is ruined by light scattering and the more barriers light has to move through, skin, muscle, bones, etc., the more scattering there is. Considering this, transparency really doesn't seem plausible for Sasquatch/Bigfoot. So, based on this, is my hypothesis dead? No! Scientific research has shown that by developing processes that more or less soak into a cell, they create a kind of uniformity that photons are able to pass through. Quoting from a science article, "researchers can bump electrons out of aluminum and iron using lasers, making them transparent to certain frequencies of light." Did you catch that last bit of info... "certain frequencies of light." Maybe this hypothesis isn't so far-fetched after all!
Nature has shown us that an animal will not evolve to develop a type of camouflage that doesn't aid in its concealment and survival. If Sasquatch/Bigfoot has been around for so-called eons and is as smart as we allege it to be, and we are as smart as we think we are, over time it would have evolved a way to utilize maximum avoidance. Never underestimate nature as it is always a step ahead of us and not afraid to remind us in the process.
The ability of Sasquatch/Bigfoot doesn't have to be extraterrestrial or outside the known laws of physics. Take the OCA2 gene, as an example. Description: "The OCA2 gene contains instructions for melanin production. (Melanin is a brown pigment that is also responsible for the color of your skin and hair.) You may look at it like a recipe for melanin production. As we all know, sometimes there is an unexpected change in part of a gene. This is called Mutation. It results in an altered or damaged gene. Some mutations are severe, such as "growing an extra leg." Other mutations are unnoticeable, such as those for green or blue eyes. Mutation in the OCA2 gene can cause melanin production to shutdown completely, such as in albinism. Or it could be less severe, only reducing the production down to a minimum, such as for green or blue eyes."
You can see where I am going with this and the ability to seemingly disappear. Again, by rule: "complimentary colors come into play, i.e. red and green, blue and orange, etc. One wavelength of light is absorbed and will reflect the other wavelength. You will see the wavelengths that are not being absorbed. To repeat, the color that you see with visible light spectroscopy is the complimentary color of the wavelength that is actually being absorbed. The color that you see, the observed light, is the light that is being reflected. That means it is not the light that is being absorbed." The angle of reflection will always be the same as the angle of incidence.
"Infrared spectroscopy exploits the fact that molecules absorb frequencies that are characteristic of their structure. These absorptions occur at resonant frequencies, i.e. the frequency of the absorbed radiation matches the vibrational frequency." It is this kind of statement that my hypothesis opinion is based upon. Another possible mechanism for Sasquatch/Bigfoot detection might be by the use of a spectrophotometer, which would measure the light absorption of the target, especially one that doesn't seem to be there in the first place.
And now, a word from a group of scientific researchers and their project, "Light Scattering from Human Hair Fibers." [[https://doczz.net/doc/1974790/light-scattering-from-human-hair-fibers]]
Stephen R. MarschnerCornell UniversityHenrik Wann JensenUniversity of California—San DiegoMike CammaranoStanford UniversitySteve WorleyWorley LaboratoriesPat HanrahanStanford University
BUSTARD, H.,ANDSMITH, R. 1991. Investigation into the scattering of light by human hair. Applied Optics 24, 30, 3485–3491.
A fiber of human scalp hair is composed of two main parts: the cuticle and the cortex. The cuticle is a thin protective outside sheath that surrounds the inner cortex. The cuticle is of particular importance for light scattering, since it forms the interface between the fiber and the air. It is composed of flat cells that overlap like roof shingles and make the fiber appear as a nested set of cones. Because of their overlapped arrangement, the surfaces of the scales deviate slightly but systematically from the overall normal of the fiber’s surface, tilting their surfaces toward the root end of the fiber by approximately 3 [Bustard and Smith 1991; Robbins1994]. The cortex forms the bulk of the fiber. At the center is a pigmented core, the medulla. The pigments in the cortex and medulla determine the hair color. In this paper, we approximate the optical properties of the interior of the fiber with two quantities: an index of refraction of approximately 1.55 [Stamm et al. 1977] and an absorption cross section, which is assumed to be uniform throughout the fiber.
"Reflection of a directional beam from a cylinder produces several distinct components of reflected light, all directed into a cone of outgoing directions. Reflection from the surface produces a component that is spread fairly uniformly around the cone. Transmission through the hair produces a very bright component that is focused toward directions on the opposite side of the hair. Light that reflects off the inside of the hair surface produces a back-scattering component. This component is more complicated and, depending on the shape of the cylinder and the angle of incidence, may spread the energy over the whole cone or focus it into one or more caustics."
This next part brings to mind the countless, blurred photos of Sasquatch/Bigfoot:
"The most important implication of this work is that realistic rendering of hair needs to account for the multiple modes of scattering that occur in cylinders. The standard assumption that the color comes primarily from diffuse scattering is not supported by the evidence in the case of fibers." (This result implies a concentrated area and not scattering over a wider area.) This concentration of light scattering is further explained in testing results of 5.1 stating "The longitudinal scattering functionM, the analysis of a smooth cylinder predicts that the reflected light will stay exactly in the specular cone. Our hair model includes two features that cause deviations from this behavior. First, the interfaces are rough. As rays propagate through the cylinder, thoroughness will cause their directions to deviate randomly from the directions predicted by the model. The overall effect is to blur the scattered distribution, with the different scattering modes blurred to different degrees." A significant added result concerning a hair model under different illumination angles states, "As the relative strengths of the primary and secondary highlights change, they alter the color, brightness, and sheen of the hair."
SUMMARY:
These results, done on human and synthetic hair, are in my opinion, an important observation to be considered as to possible Sasquatch camouflage abilities. Awash in the countless opinions included in the endless, related TV shows on the topic, I prefer going this route of hypothesis rather than the pseudo-scientific explanation of "dimensional travel ability or having to do with aliens." The feasibility of Sasquatch/Bigfoot being an animal is not out of the realm of possibility but until empirical evidence such as fecal matter, body or bones is discovered, it remains nothing more than a perpetuated folklore. Probabilistic population projections through "Population Viability Analysis" requires also predicting the very factors against the chances of survival of such a creature. They include longevity of the species, the reproductive age and rate, all the while requiring genetic diversity, fragmented populations, sex-biased dispersal, dispersal distances, mortality rate within reproducing age groups, and habitat affected by encroaching human development. These are just a few of the issues that would complicate a thriving, ever-increasing population. It sure doesn't seem likely to exist when you do the math.
Maybe, just maybe, life isn't as complicated as we humans are making it. Does Sasquatch/Bigfoot actually exist? As of yet, no definitive answer is evident. Is seeing believing, or is belief enough to satisfy us.
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