The Mandela Effect refers to a situation in which a large mass of people believe that an event occurred when it did not. It applies to the occurrence of false or distorted memories. I categorized it as a ‘Binary System’, as it’s not necessarily technological, and doesn’t actually have any logic other than a natural human flaw of memory loss leading to filling in our own interpretations. What’s interesting is when the masses believe or remember such events or memories or visuals the exact same way.

Humans who’ve lived through the same events often remember them differently. Could quantum physics be responsible? Ethan Siegel explores the argument that parallel universes could be at play, with the key takeaway that the ‘Mandela Effect’ is used as a catch-all term when people have different, arguably false memories of the same historical events, and if each possible outcome exists somewhere, in some parallel Universe, could quantum mechanics be at the root of what we experience as the Mandela effect? Examples are questioned such as the color of different flavor packets of Walker’s crisps, the spelling of Looney Tunes (vs. Looney Toons) and Febreze (vs. Febreeze), and whether the “Monopoly Man” has a monocle or not.

Reference:

Siegel, E. (2022) Could quantum mechanics be responsible for the Mandela effect?, Big Think. Available at: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/quantum-mechanics-mandela-effect/ (Accessed: 08 November 2023).