tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43388160958808829242024-03-05T21:15:02.769+01:00TIME SLIPSWhere DOES time go?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338816095880882924.post-654530197045754492015-06-05T20:59:00.000+02:002015-06-09T22:45:04.837+02:00Phasing through time<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The following fascinating account comes from a reader, Susan.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">(Thank you, Susan. As great as all those famous "reality hiccup" stories are, nothing beats first hand accounts of direct experience.)</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My name is Susan O. I am 52 years old and in reasonably good health
both physically and mentally. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I experienced a recent incident that I
described to my family as a sort of phasing through time. Here are all
the facts, both objective and subjective that happened on May 9th, 2015
in Williamson County, highway 96, just outside of the city of Franklin
Tn., traveling toward that city from the direction of Murfreesboro Tn. </span></b><br />
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was close to 11:30 am. The day was clear, sunny and the temperature
was around 78 Fahrenheit with low humidity. I have traveled this
highway many times in the past, to take my daughter to horse shows,
though that was ten years ago. I probably haven't driven to Franklin
on this road for several months at least.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was driving my car about 40
mph. I was not listening to the radio or any music. I was in a very
good mood, on my way to deliver flowers for a wedding. I am a wedding
and event florist. I am also a photographer and I have learned to be
very observant. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was passing a large brick house with a stone front
and archway leading to the front door. The yard was large and open.
The house was on my right. Then suddenly, I was standing under an
archway made of stone. It was cold and damp, very overcast. I could
feel the cold wind blow around my ankles, so I must have been wearing a
dress of some sort. I could also feel the cold wet stone of the arch
underneath my right hand, I was leaning against it for support. There
was a man present to my left, and a woman beside him, and a little
behind me. I didn't look at them. I was looking out at a landscape of
rolling hills, rocky and the vegetation looked like it was late fall,
early winter. The wind was blowing, it was very overcast and gray. I
felt like the building behind me was a church. there were people
inside, I could hear voices faintly. I was extremely sad, it felt like
grief. I think I was crying. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The next thing I knew i was
back in my car, still passing the house, barely further than I was when I
found myself in another place. Not much real time has elapsed. It was
very unsettling. I felt like I should go back, but I didn't know how
to do that. Then I finished driving to the wedding, I set up the
flowers and the reception, stayed to help with the wedding, cleaned up
and drove home that night along the same road about 10:45 pm. I was a
little spooked, so talked on my cell phone with a friend until I got
close to Murfreesboro. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is what happened
to the best of my knowledge and recollection I have spent time talking
this over with my husband , my daughter, and her boyfriend. I tried to
search on the internet to see if I could find any information. Finally
I got directed to several sites which describe incidents of something
called "time slips". Then I found your site.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Let me know what you make
of this. I have always experienced deja vu since i was very young, and
have had a few dreams where I saw locations of children kidnapped, but
never enough to tell me where they were, mostly like I was seeing
through their eyes. These happened in my teens, and I was scared of
them, so I stopped watching the news for several years.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I don't know about other readers, but I find this type of event among the most interesting timespace-perception-transcending experiences. It deserves much deeper an analysis than I am going to attempt right now (but I might edit this entry in the future to add more thoughts, so stay tuned).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Based on a few other similar experiences I have heard or read about, I think what MAY have happened is that - assuming information really isn't local (as modern physics seems to suggest) - you accessed fully that reservoir of collective experience that Sheldrake (among many others) talk about, and "picked up" the full experience of someone else. Perhaps it was someone's "memory field". Perhaps it was something else entirely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For the sake of (relative) completeness I should also mention the possibility of an image-triggered memory of a long-forgotten film scene or even a dream. (In other words, there is a possibility that many years ago you saw a film scene like the one you described, one that you identified strongly with; or perhaps you had a dream like the scene your experienced. For some reason - probably quite specific, but forgotten almost instantly after the association was made - the image of that house, which you had seen before, had become associated to that memory. Seeing it again triggered - for some reason - the memory of the film scene or dream.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That COULD happen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But do I really believe that happened in this case?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well, no, not really.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As I said earlier, I may edit this entry in the future, as more thoughts come along, so check back from time to time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">P.S. If Carl Grove (see the comments section in: <a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2008/11/have-you-seen-this-house.html" target="_blank"><i>Have you seen this house?</i></a>) happens to read this... Carl, we would appreciate your help with this one. ;)</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com44tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338816095880882924.post-90307920338304544742015-01-21T21:49:00.003+01:002015-01-21T21:52:18.043+01:00Deja vu: caught in a "time loop"<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There is a report making the rounds about <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11356853/Student-trapped-in-bizarre-deja-vu-time-loop-for-8-years.html" target="_blank">a student "caught in a bizarre time loop"</a>, having suffered constant <i>deja vu</i> <u><b>for eight years</b></u>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Or so he says. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I mean - how do you verify that?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We decided to include it here because time, after all, is all about <i>perception (</i>of duration). That makes this story totally relevant to the purpose of this humble blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The responses by the "baffled" medical professionals are interesting but typically limited in scope. (As for the readers' comments... no comment.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you're interested in similar phenomena, you may want to read <a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2008/03/deja-who.html">Deja...who?</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And if you read Dunne's famous book <a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2012/09/an-experiment-with-time.html" target="_blank">An Experiment with Time</a>, you'll find that the experience described in that post may be much more common than most people dare suspect.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On <i>deja vu</i> proper, be sure to read Henri Bergson's <i>Matter and Memory</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">(And if you read French, here is an interesting <a href="http://www.lyber-eclat.net/lyber/virno/1phenomene.html">text</a>.)</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338816095880882924.post-66414198354237777972015-01-10T18:48:00.001+01:002015-01-10T18:57:49.174+01:00Where DID time go? An essay on the science of multiple realities<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What better way to start a year than with a fresh new report - or in this case, a veritable article - from a reader?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well,
here is one for you to enjoy: a very long one, very well written,
complete with extensive thoughts on the possible reasons for perceived
"timeslips".</span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Many thanks to <b>Scotty Matthews</b>, its author.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Timeslips, Altered Timelines, </b></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>and the
Science of Multiple Realities</b></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There are numerous accounts of people
experiencing places and events from other times... from years or
decades before, to hundreds of years in the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">These accounts are often ridiculed with
the same skeptical fervor too often directed at those who report UFO
sightings, or encounters with Sasquatch. But there is a very real
potential that these experiences are real. First, I'll relate a
couple experiences from my life, and then I'll explain a few key
concepts from Einstein's Relativity, and from quantum physics, that
fully explain how this phenomenon could be all too real.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Near where my father used to live, not
far from Monticello, Illinois, there is a very unusual place called
Allerton Park. It was once the 17,000-acre country estate of a
wealthy industrialist named Robert Allerton. When he died, he gave
the whole place to the University of Illinois, which turned it into a
public park, self-supported by several working farms on the property.
Most of the park is forested land, along the Sangamon River,
surrounded by corn and soybean fields... it represents the forested
prairie before all the trees were cut down for farmland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The place is well known for it's
English Formal Gardens. Far off on one side of the park, there is a
place which is known as “The Lost Garden.” It is no longer
cultivated as a garden, and consists of a small parking area off a
country road, that connects to a 40-foot wide path which traverses a
shallow valley for about an eighth of a mile, where it ends in
pristine oak woods.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was 17 years old, and one Saturday, I
went to Allerton Park. I liked to go there to quietly commune with
nature, and I went to the Lost Garden. There were no other visitors
around that part of the park that day. I arrived there about 1:45 in
the afternoon, and hadn't visited this particular location in years.
I walked alone all the way to the end of the clearing/path, to where
it rose into the woods. At the end, there was a small, old concrete
slab, about six feet square, and next to it was an old tree stump,
about 24 inches tall, and easily 2 feet across... It appeared to
have been cut like that long ago. I sat on the stump to have a
cigarette and enjoy the breeze and the sunshine filtering down
through the Oak Leaf canopy of trees.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I remember it got very quiet and still.
And at that moment, a large barred owl came swooping from above the
trees, following the clearing toward me. It did not flap it's wings.
As the ground curved uphill, the owl swooped upward and landed
somewhere in the trees directly above me. It was an amazing moment.
I an still recall it vividly, because at the time, it barely seemed
real. It was just about then that the breeze picked up, and it
appeared that clouds had moved in, because the sun was no longer
shining down through the trees as it had been. It began to feel
chilly, so I began to walk back, which was about a six minute walk.
The entire time I spent there could not have been more than 45
minutes, and that's being generous. But as I came back into the
clearing, out from the area that is enclosed by trees, I noticed that
the sun was much further down on the horizon. I looked at my watch,
and it was 5:45 P.M. In what I had experienced as no more than 45
minutes, it seemed that four hours had passed. But my watch was
correct, nonetheless.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now, there are stories of “missing
time” associated with UFO abduction reports, and in Whitley
Strieber's books on his abduction experiences, he describes some
events becoming covered with “screen memories,” sometimes
involving visions of owls. (Apparently, our subconscious can
substitute an owl's face for the face of an alien with big eyes. As
to the veracity of that information, I cannot comment, but I include
it as a footnote, because for many weeks thereafterward, I suspected
that something strange had happened to me in the woods that day, and
maybe it had something to do with UFO's.)
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But about two months later, I decided
to go back to the same place. When I had again walked to the far end
of the clearing, where it ends in the wooded area, I discovered
something that was quite impossible. The old concrete slab was not
there, nor was the ancient stump. It's not that they had been
removed... there was no appearance that anything there had been
disturbed, nor indeed had the grass of the clearing been recently
mowed... They simply didn't exist. But they had existed in a
reality I experienced only weeks before.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Another experience I had took place in
the early 90's when I was living and working in Cookeville,
Tennessee. At the time, a new road, called Interstate Drive, had
just been built. It ran alongside I-40, and at the time, there were
only a couple of car dealerships on one end, and the rest had not
been developed. Near the middle of this road was a little gravel
drive that went about 40 yards off toward the treeline, where there
was a small park pavilion, next to a small old fenced-in historic
cemetery... having maybe 10 or twelve headstones that appeared to
date from the 1800's to the early 1900's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One day, on my lunch hour, I went to
the brand new Subway Sandwich Shop, got a Tuna Sub, and went to this
isolated pavilion to enjoy my lunch in the open air, and in solitude.
I remember it quite distinctly. Then, only a few months later, I
decided one day to return there, but the location was not the same.
There was no gravel side-road, no pavilion, no cemetery. Just
overgrown grass. So, where exactly had I enjoyed that Tuna Sandwich
on that warm Spring day?
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The final experience I'll relate here
was in 1991, when I drove, with a friend, from Cookeville, Tennessee
to Washington, D.C. It's a long straight drive along I-40 going
east-northeast. And I calculated that it would take just over 9
hours. We set out around 10 AM on Friday morning, with sandwiches
and a cooler of drinks so we wouldn't have to stop on the way, except
for gas. We arrived in Washington D.C. A little after 3 in the
afternoon. This baffled me. We would have to have been traveling
the whole route at well over 100 miles per hour to make it in five
hours, and that certainly had not been the case. We had a big event
to attend in Washington on Saturday, so we met up with the friend we
were staying with, and didn't give it much more thought. We departed
after the event on Saturday, and the drive home took nine and a half
hours, which is exactly how long the trip there should have taken.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There is a famous story from around the
turn of the 20<sup>th</sup> century about two ladies, who were
friends and academic colleagues, who had traveled from Britain to
visit the Palace at Versailles.[<b>This,
of course, is the story of Charlotte Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain
which, in a way, prompted the creation of this very blog. See, e.g., <i><a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2008/03/another-garden-another-time.html" target="_blank">Another garden, another time</a>. Note by Myosotis</i></b><b>.</b>]<i><b> </b></i>But what they encountered when they
were there was visiting the palace as it had been hundreds of years
before, and interacting with people from that time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> There is also a
famous story of four British travelers going by car through the
French countryside in the late 1970's, when they stopped for the
night at a roadside inn. They had a wonderful meal together, and
were somewhat puzzled by other people at the inn, who all appeared to
be in historical period attire. They stayed the night, had breakfast
there the next morning, were charged only 19 Francs for their entire
stay and meals, took three photographs, and drove on to their
destination. On the way back, they decided to stay at the same
place, but when they got to the location, there was no inn, only the
crumbling foundations of an old building. When they got the photos
of their trip developed, all of the pictures came out perfectly,
except the three they had taken at the inn (with two different
cameras!) There was apparently nothing on the negatives at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Several Internet postings on similar
phenomenon include people recalling that the continent of Australia
used to be shaped a bit differently, and was also in a different
position, further from the islands of Southeast Asia. I just looked
at a map, and it certainly seems to me that when I was a kid in
school, studying geography, Australia was nowhere near as close to
those islands to the north.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So... what's happening here? Is it
just shared hallucinations, delusions, misremembered events, or is it
even remotely possible that we could experience events from another
time, or have the physical world itself appear to have a history
different from what we distinctly remember?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It turns out that not only are these
things distinctly possible... they're almost inevitable. And this is
because space, time, and matter are substantially much more bizarre
than we generally experience in everyday life.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It's time for a few observations from
proven experimental physics, along with some current theory, that
play a role in the explanation. Don't worry, there won't be any
equations involved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">According to Einstein, time and space
are part of the same thing. You can't travel in space without
changing the rate at which time moves for you, relative to a
stationary observer. I won't go into why this is... it's basic
Relativity Theory, and it was proven with paired atomic clocks in
1971, and many times since. But the important thing to understand is
this: Everyone experiences an individual timeline, unique to them
and their passage through space. Portions of that timeline will be
in sync with others who are moving at the same relative speed in the
same direction simultaneously, but as soon as those other move in
different directions and at different speeds, our experiences of the
passage of time also diverge slightly. In this way, time is elastic,
literally passing at different rates for different people, and for
all the matter in the universe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We know from experiments in particle
physics that fundamental particles, like photons, can become
“entangled.” That is to say, if quantum entanglement is
established between two like photons, they will share a equal and
opposite “energy state,” no matter how far apart they are. They
could be on opposite sides off the Universe, but so long as they
remain entangled, they are, in a very real sense simultaneously
physically connected. Einstein had a couple of problems with this
idea from Quantum Physics, but it has been proven in many many
laboratory experiments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One problem is... the particles, being
entangled, remain in the same inertial reference frame (a term from
Relativity which describes a common frame of reference in spacetime
in which a stationary observer would be able to witness events
occurring simultaneously, and the events themselves (such as the
behavior of an elementary particle at any given time) would agree
with it's entangled particle that the behaviors happened at the same
time. But! What if those entangled photons actually are a great
distance, say, many many lightyears apart? The forces of gravitation
and electromagnetism would be different in different regions of
space, and (Einstein again) different amounts of gravity will distort
spacetime in different ways... which means that the local “time”
for each of the particles would have to be different. The time in
that region of space could not possibly be ticking at exactly the
same rate... so how could the particles possibly experience
“simultaneous” events? Ah, now we're getting somewhere! Stay
with me. It's about to get very very weird.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We now know that whole groups of
particles... photons, electrons, even whole clusters of atoms, can
become mutually entangled at a quantum level. By natural extension,
it is reasonable to assume, that for short periods of time, very very
large pieces of matter can become quantum-entangled with other very
very large pieces of matter. Large pieces of matter such as humans,
for instance. I know I'm stretching entanglement just a bit, but as
I said, stay with me, because this gets really good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Back to Einstein... if two “observers”
are stationary in space relative to each other, then their common
“now” instant will be—for lack of a better analogy—a
straight-line slice across the “present” moment, that they would
agree is simultaneous. However, if one of them begins to travel in
space relative to the other, they would no longer agree on what time
it is, and would not agree on what is “simultaneous.” In fact,
the “slice” for the one who is moving would appear to be a
diagonal “slice” across spacetime, compared to the stationary
one's “straight across” slice. What is the present for one, is
the past for the other.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Ahem... however, if the topography of
the Universe is even half as strange as we think it is (it is almost
certainly several orders of magnitude stranger than that) then even
in our own personal timelines, there are multiple parallel
possibilities brought on by the potential of massive quantum
entanglements. Quantum entanglements are a “rip” through the
fabric of spacetime, forcing simultaneous frames of reference in
far-flung distant points in space and time. This entanglement will
remain stable until it is “observed”, at which point, the
entanglement collapses. I won't go into the Quantum Mechanics
definition of “observation,” but for our purposes, it means
basically what you think it means. The entangled particles have to
interact with another particle in order to “collapse” the
entanglement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When they are observed, the
entanglement collapses, and their simultaneity is discontinued, at
which point, they would “pop” into the Relativistic frame of
reference common to the surrounding space they occupy, independent of
the frame of reference occupied by their formerly entangled twin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And so, somehow, if you happen to be
the “observer” who breaks the quantum entanglement, you would
briefly see two contradictory frames of reference merge around the
formerly entangled matter, as the time frames drift back into sync.
Now, as unlikely as it is that an entire French inn from the 1900's
could exist in 1979 long enough for British tourists to spend the
night, and as unlikely as it is for a pair of travelers to experience
the entire Palace at Versailles to be hundreds of years out of place
for several hours, and as utterly unlikely as it is that I could
drive a 1989 Chevy Blazer from Cookeville, Tennessee to Washington DC
in just five hours... it is absolutely POSSIBLE for these things to
happen, given our understanding of how very strange spacetime and
matter really are in the way they relate to each other.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And, with another tip of the hat to
good old Al Einstein, he famously said “Anything in the universe
that is not strictly prohibited by the laws of physics, is absolutely
necessary... (however, practically everything is prohibited!)”
What he meant was, that in a functionally infinite universe,
everything that ever possibly could happen, no matter how improbable,
must happen somewhere, sometime. And given our understanding of
physics (which is still woefully incomplete, but getting very very
interesting lately) this means it is absolutely possible to
experience events which happened in the past, or in the future as if
they were in your present moment. It is absolutely possible that on
either side of that event, the past of some timelines, or the future
of some timelines could be altered. Like... a tree stump that had
been in a particular spot for a hundred years might turn out, when
you look for it again, never to have been there at all.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I could have gone into the science in
much greater technical detail, and not cut corners with some of the
explanations, but I didn't intend this to be a physics textbook. I
just wanted to point out that we already understand that time is NOT
simultaneous for any two particles in the universe, throughout their
entire timeline. No two particles in the Universe can have the same
quantum “state” at the “same time”. So, once in a while,
under very special circumstances, some separate frames of reference
which span huge swaths of space and time MUST become merged through
collapsing quantum entanglements, and temporarily break “the
present” in a localized area. Anything on the timeline of any bit
of matter that exists on one of the merging frames of reference would
experience a fractured simultaneity, experiencing an overlap between
two “different” times, or physical change in the universe that
had to happen in order for the merging frames to become mutually and
causally consistent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Could this explain ghosts? Could this
explain UFO's? Could this explain how an entire gravel road and
historic cemetery could simply disappear?
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Absolutely. No doubt about it. In
fact... these sorts of things are inevitable. If you've witnessed
anything like that, then consider yourself lucky, because even though
the Earth is a big place, events like this are still very
improbable... but they are not only possible: they are inevitable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: orange;"><b>IF YOU LIKED THIS, YOU MIGHT LIKE</b></span>:</span><br />
<a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2010/07/is-it-fault-lines-fault.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></a>
<a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2010/07/is-it-fault-lines-fault.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Is it the fault-lines fault?</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2010/01/out-of-mind.html" target="_blank"><br /></a></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2010/01/out-of-mind.html" target="_blank">Out of Mind?</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2008/03/ultimatetourist.html" target="_blank">The Ultimate Tourist</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2011/04/yet-i-did-not-wonder.html" target="_blank"> Yet I did not wonder...</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">(with links </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">in each of them </span>to many other relevant posts)</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338816095880882924.post-33953420630440530252014-06-08T17:29:00.000+02:002015-05-31T16:45:24.536+02:00Another vanished house<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For the following story - and the mention of the book from which it comes - I am indebted to Michael Graeme (whom I do not know, either personally or via the internet), whose story about a <a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-disappearing-roads.html" target="_blank">disappearing road</a> was (partially) published here some time ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Since the book in question - G. N. M. Tyrrell's <a href="https://archive.org/details/personalityofman029580mbp" target="_blank"><i>The Personality of Man</i></a> (1947) - is freely available on the Internet Archive (just click on the link above), I see no reason to omit the story as it appears in the book, including Mr. Tyrrell's highly valuable comments on it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, here it is, in its entirety, as it appears on pp. 65-67 of Tyrrell's book. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Pye were on holiday in Cornwall in 1933 and were travelling by bus from Wadebridge to Boscastle. As they neared Boscastle they both kept a good look-out for a suitable hotel in which to stay, and just before they reached the point at which the road drops steeply down into the village the bus stopped to set down a passenger. </span></b></blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Mr. Pye writes: "It had come to rest almost outside the gates of a rather substa</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">ntial house, standing on
the left-hand side of the road. It stood back from the road
some twenty yards or so, there being a semi-circular drive
from the gate outside which we had stopped to another gate
twenty-five yards further on. The garden front was
screened from the road by a hedge over which we could
just see from our seats in the bus. The house was double-
fronted, and of a style of architecture which I judged to
date from the late 1860s or early 1870s. It had a fresh,
trim appearance, and seemed to have been recently painted,
the woodwork and quoins of the house being of a rather
reddish, light chocolate colour. The most striking feature,
however, was on the lawn, where, amongst beds of scarlet
geraniums, there were several wicker or cane chairs and
tables over which there were standing large garden umbrellas of black and orange. No person was seen, nor
do I recollect having seen any sign notifying that it was a
guest-house, though I had no doubt that such was the
case. I called my wife's attention to the place and she
immediately replied that it was 'just what we were looking
for' but, before we could come to any decision, the bus
moved off and in two or three minutes we were down in
Boscastle." </span></b></blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Mr. and Mrs. Pye were not very attracted by the village
of Boscastle, so, while Mr. Pye stayed with the luggage, his
wife walked back up the hill and tried to book rooms at the guest-house they had seen from the bus. After nearly
an hour and a half Mrs. Pye returned, looking considerably
heated, and said she had not been able to find it. She had
climbed various gates looking for it and had walked all the
way back to Trevalga, and had finally succeeded in booking
rooms at the guest-house there. She seemed much
astonished, and Mr. Pye said he would point out the guest-
house to her as they returned along the road. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">On the
returning bus, just as they reached the top of the hill, Mr.
Pye remarked: "'It's just here on the right about fifty yards further on ', but to my astonishment there was
no house. Just empty fields running across to the cliffs
by Blackapit. During our stay at Trevalga, we made a
thorough search of the locality, but failed to find any place
even remotely resembling what we had seen. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">On a subsequent visit to the Trevalga guest-house, I told our
experience to the proprietor, who assured me that from
his knowledge there was in the neighbourhood no such
house as I had described." </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">There seems to have been no telepathic agent in this
case apart from Mr. and Mrs. Pye themselves; but there
certainly was telepathy between them. Possibly hopeful
expectation of finding a suitable hotel was the primary
cause of the incident. But the important point is that the
subliminal impulse, whatever its cause, acted psychologically
on both percipients so as to make them see the same thing.
It is very important to know that this can happen. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Those
who hold that, if two or more persons see the same thing,
that thing must have an independent existence, are wrong if
by "independent existence" they mean independent existence in space. But they are not wholly wrong, for the
psychological pattern which creates t</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">he two co-incident hallucinations may exist independently "of the percipients in the mind of a third party: or it may, as apparently in this case, be merely the common subliminal possession of the two percipients. It might conceivably extend to more than two percipients. In Canon Bourne's case [ibid., p. 46 ss.] it extended to three. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">If one can imagine a pattern, originating in some mind, extending to a large number of percipients, then all those percipients might be telepathically impressed to see the same scene. The scene would have no physical reality ; but it would have a single cause which would be independent of all the percipients. And if their hallucinations were complete enough and sufficiently well correlated, they would almost certainly believe that the common cause resided in space and not in a psychological operator acting on their minds.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">These facts are worth pondering because, as we shall see presently, there are states of consciousness in which created sense-imagery becomes extraordinarily full, complete and vivid.</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Tyrrell's explanation of the incident seems to tie in with Carl Gustav Jung's views about<a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2008/03/ultimatetourist.html"> his own similar experience</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On the other hand, it doesn't seem to explain the shifty house we wrote about in <a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2008/11/have-you-seen-this-house.html">Have You Seen This House?</a> To begin with, there was no perceivable "hopeful expectation" to find the house - or any house - in any of the purported witnesses to its apparition. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But then... What do I know?</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338816095880882924.post-11347648306287652352013-11-26T16:38:00.000+01:002013-12-01T21:44:17.459+01:00For the Love of Truth - Weed Out Untruth<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From time to time -</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> quite often - we get requests to do a write-up on specific stories. Some of them are quite famous and oft-quoted on other similarly themed websites and blogs as "evidence" for dimensional anomalies- and their absence makes appear this blog woefully inadequate in terms of coverage of such material.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of course we haven't covered yet all - or even most - of the reasonably well-documented stories of the kind (this blog is only a little hobby, not a life mission). But many famous stories of "time slips" haven't been covered here for the simple reason that</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, upon closer inspection, their sources appear to be dubious at best.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We here have the great advantage of being able to read - and therefore, search in - quite a few Indo-European languages, so we do not rely on English-language material alone.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nevertheless, one of the original purposes of this blog was precisely to "unmask" urban legends or stories of the kind that are simply not factual, being fiction, or their facts have been misrepresented. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In fact, w</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">e have discussed some of these stories in the past. Two notable examples are the stories of <a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2008/04/vanished-in-vermont.html">David Lang, Oliver Lurch & Co</a>. and the famous story of <a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2009/11/into-thin-air.html">Benjamin Bathurst's disappearance</a>. (You can find more of these stories by searching the blog for the tag "possibly explained".)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But, in light of certain requests for "famous cases", we thought it might be a good time to collect a few of the stories that have been making the rounds, bouncing from website to website, with no shred of evidence that they were ever anything more than a figment of someone's overheated imagination.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We won't be discussing them; it's just a simple roll-call.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://paranormal.about.com/od/humanmysteries/a/Vanished-Unexplained-Disappearances_2.htm">Lincoln Tunnel (Jackson Wright)</a> disappearance</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://paranormal.about.com/od/humanmysteries/a/Vanished-Unexplained-Disappearances_2.htm">Stonehenge Hippies'</a> disappearance</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.ghosttheory.com/2013/05/22/mysterious-arrival-the-man-from-taured">Man from Taured</a> </span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Featuring a mysterious man in Tokyo's airport, in 1954 or thereabouts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Apparently it started as an anecdote in Paul Begg's <i>Into Thin Air: People Who Disappeared,</i> and then, by virtue of the mighty internet, it just took off.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We conducted a totally informal "research" with the help of a few Japanese friends, and apparently none of them could find any mention of the incident in the Japanese media... with the exception of a few forum posts that had been translated from the English versions. In other words, copy & paste strikes again. Even in Japanese.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For other versions of basically the same story, see <a href="http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread830881/pg14#pid14136310">this forum post</a>.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are also discussed in </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0906671272/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0906671272&linkCode=as2&tag=mybethbetigi-20">The Directory of possibilities</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=mybethbetigi-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0906671272" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /></span><br />
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<a href="http://moonlightinvestigation.blogspot.com/2008/10/another-slip-in-time-in-france.html"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The French Hotel time-slip</span></b></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(In truth, we cannot ascertain - nobody can - that this beloved story IS a hoax; however, there is simply no evidence of it being the truth, except the word of those who claim that it happened to them. For all we know, it could have been a joke that got out of hand. It happens more often than you might think.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's a very, very simple rule of thumb to discern the veracity of a story. Search for it on the internet, then compare the wording of the results. If you see a story repeated in basically the same (often identical) wording over and over again, that's a big red flag. Copy & paste material is usually highly suspect. </span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Some cases, predating the internet, are found in very differently worded versions, simply because they first appeared in books and/or TV programmes. That alone does not necessarily signal authenticity; it simply signals better narrative skills in those who read books.</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>One such case is the famous French hotel story mentioned above.)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you're truly interested in any given story, find it in reasonably respectable books about the subject - searching them (online) one by one, if necessary.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you find a mention, look for the source referenced by the author. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(A book with no reference notes - making it clear where <b><i>exactly </i></b>the material discussed came from, citing the publication and the page number - is a book unworthy of your time and attention.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After you have identified the source, try to verify the accuracy of the source itself. Often you will find that reference notes take you to ever earlier sources, because authors, naturally, borrow material from earlier authors. You have to find the <i>original </i>source - and then verify its credibility, if possible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It takes time, yes - and considerable critical thinking.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>That's</i> research.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The benefits of such an approach should be self-evident, but weeding out falsehoods that obscure the beauty of <i>real </i>mysteries and smear the credibility of unorthodox lines of thought in general is not the least among them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br />If you want to report a perceived dimensional anomaly, please do, but read <a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/p/time-slips.html">this </a>first.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338816095880882924.post-83117301452503198972013-11-25T15:50:00.000+01:002013-11-27T00:00:08.738+01:00Time and Consciousness: Two Faces of One Mystery<br />
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<i>What, then, is time?</i></div>
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<i>If no one ask of me, I <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08673a.htm">know</a>;</i></div>
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<i>if I wish to explain to him who asks, I <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08673a.htm">know</a> not.</i></div>
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St Augustine, <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/110111.htm"><i>The Confessions</i>, book XI</a></div>
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(HIGHLY recommmended!)</div>
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A scholarly - highly readable - article by Gregory M. Nixon on the role that consciousness may (or may not) play in the human perception of time.<br />
Love of philosophy (would that be <i>philosophiophilia?</i>) required.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.academia.edu/296619/Time_and_Consciousness_Two_Faces_of_One_Mystery_JCER_1_5_">Time and Consciousness: Two Faces of One Mystery</a></b></div>
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Because, let's face it, most of us here aren't really dreaming about mechanical time machines, are we? :-)<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338816095880882924.post-68704669659206448752013-07-25T01:58:00.000+02:002015-01-21T18:00:49.879+01:00The Bohinj Triangle<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's a "triangle" that is not really a triangle, but may be just as mysterious and perhaps dangerous as the one purportedly devouring ships and planes in the Bermudas. It is the name the locals give to a densely wooded area covering about 40 - 50 km2 around the lake Bohinj (pron. BAW-Hin) in the heart of the Julian Alps, in Slovenia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, there is very little information about the mysterious goings-on to be found online, and practically none in languages other than Slovene. That means we can only offer you a very brief "briefing" on the place, based on what we know from reliable local sources. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Apparently quite a few people have vanished in this area. Not really surprising considering the terrain: lots and lots of unpredictable twists and turns and holes in the ground, some possibly leading to subterranean caves, not to mention the extensive woods themselves. And it is significant that most of the vanished seem to have been visitors, i.e. people foreign to the area. But not all of them. Some were reputed to be very familiar with those woods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And while the remains of some were found, years later (and in some cases unusually far away from the place they had been last seen), there seem to be quite a few cases where no trace of the vanished was ever found.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>(Among the latter is - so far - a British minister, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/7478734.stm">Rev. David Fox</a>, who disappeared in 2008. There are much older disappearances that remain unsolved, with no leads or traces.)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What caught my attention most of all was the following story. (It seems to be at least two decades old, possibly much older.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A couple - husband and wife - were walking along a path in the woods. Suddenly they encountered a rock barring their way. They walked around it - the wife from one side and the husband from the other. In doing so the husband allegedly vanished into thin air. Just like that. According to his wife, he never emerged from the other side of the rock. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Naturally the area was searched, but apparently no trace of the husband - or his remains - was ever found.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Does it sound familiar?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you've been reading this blog, it must have rung a bell. Exactly the same is said to have happened in the famous case of <a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2008/04/vanished-in-vermont_07.html">Paula Welden's disapperance</a> in the "Bennington triangle", in Vermont, USA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Alps, as mountains in general, can be notoriously "voracious" when it comes to unsuspecting - and reckless - humans roaming around. (Read about <a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2010/01/time-portal-found.html">the Untersberg</a> if you dare.) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But some disappearances truly are baffling.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is there something in the composition of the rocks - their geo-magnetic forces, perhaps - that messes with people's minds and/or obstructs the search for them afterwards?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Magnetic fields can do such things. See <a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2010/07/is-it-fault-lines-fault.html"><i>Is it the fault lines' fault?</i></a> for more on this.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More on the possible causes for such phenomena on some other occasion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, if you know </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">specific </i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">stories of unexplained disappearances in this area, please do let us know.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This stone-faced pretty gal gazing languidly on the hikers below - a wonderful <a href="http://geology.about.com/od/geologyandculture/a/greatstonefaces.htm">mimetolith </a>that nature carved into the face of a mountain (Prisojnik) - is not actually visible from Bohinj, as far as I know, but it is so picturesque, and relatively nearby, that I just <b>had </b>to include it here. It is the so-called Heathen Maiden (Ajdovska deklica), and there is a legend attached to it. Of course. However, the legend transcends the scope of this blog.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>If you want to report a perceived dimensional anomaly, please do, but read <a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/p/time-slips.html">this </a>first.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is a puzzling little story from one of our readers, J. K.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This happened to my mother and a friend in the early 1980s, in Moscow, USSR. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They went on a trip there with a group of other tourists.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One day they fancied some fur hats, so they found a shop that sold them. My mother doesn't remember if she was told about it by a hotel receptionist (that's what she thinks) or somebody else told them about it. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, they found a shop and bought some nice, cheap fur hats.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That same afternoon or maybe the day after, soon thereafter in any case, they decided to go back and buy some more fur hats as gifts for friends and family, so they went back to the shop. </span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They walked the street up and down searching for the shop, they asked people, including a man standing on the doorway next to where the shop had been, but they were told there was no shop and there hadn't been one there for many years.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">TBH, I don't think this was a timeslip but rather some fishy business in very fishy times in a very fishy country. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But my mother still puzzles over this incident today.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you, J. K.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What a lovely - and oddly amusing - story this is!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I must say, I agree with your "fishy" assessment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Assuming they didn't mistake the street and the location of the shop, my first thought was: was it an illegal shop, perhaps - one that only operated when they knew customers were coming? (The hotel receptionist could have informed the "shop" owner that customers were coming.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But, as logical as this may seem, it does strike me as odd that such a highly risky operation could be performed - and in Moscow, of all places.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If any of our readers have an idea of what may have happened, please let us know what you think.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338816095880882924.post-4039327850601332902013-05-17T07:15:00.000+02:002014-08-15T01:40:26.967+02:00Miss Morison's Ghosts<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strike>At last, you can watch - for the time being - the entire film based on the <a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2008/03/another-garden-another-time.html">first story in this blog</a>, the so-called "Moberly-Jourdain incident", starring Wendy Hiller and Hannah Gordon.</strike></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>EDIT (May 25, 2013):</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sorry, the video has been removed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was fun while it lasted, wasn't it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, do not miss our last post, </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-disappearing-roads.html">The Disappearing Road</a></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, about another very real trip in slightly surreal circumstances. :)</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>EDIT (June 19, 2013):</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's another version of the video (and there's a transcript available on Youtube).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many, many thanks to G. J. for bringing it to my attention! :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's gone again - to "private" this time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>EDIT (August 15th, 2014):</b></span> With many thanks to our reader, Patricia, who alerted us to it (see the comment below), here is the original book by Misses Moberly and Jourdain:</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338816095880882924.post-20795804141031311742013-03-15T12:52:00.000+01:002013-03-17T01:44:36.270+01:00The Disappearing Road<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(HAPPY 5th ANNIVERSARY TO US!</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">*</span><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Where <i>does</i> time go? :))</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We don't usually borrow other people's stories. But from time to time we happen to find delightful stories, delightfully written.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is one of them - with a whole lot of extra goodies (comments) for good measure.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It happened to Michael Graeme, in 1981, between Windermere and Coniston, in the Lake District: the perfect place for romantic escapades out of time and space. (It is often mentioned as a "hotspot" of anomalies, possibly of geomagnetic origins; see, e.g., the video in <i><a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2010/07/is-it-fault-lines-fault.html">Is it the fault lines' fault?</a></i>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In short: a road that <i>should</i> have been there because it <i>was </i>there in the past (marked on the roadmap) and <i>was </i>there in the future, suddenly was nowhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is not the first such occurrence to be noted in this blog. We've had </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(see the links below) </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a disappearing road in Japan, Barbara's disappearing cottage, a wandering Georgian house, complete with flower beds and a frightened horse, and many others.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Michael Graeme's story only reaffirms the fact that you don't have to be a stupid-ignorant-senile-blind bat for such things to happen to you, as many self-styled "sceptics" (who are no such thing) would have you believe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Enjoy the road... while it lasts</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">*</span> I've been kindly reminded that the anniversary was actually on the 7th... </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All right then: happy 5-and-7/365-th anniversary to us.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>IF YOU LIKED THIS, YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2010/08/moving-house.html"><i>Moving House</i></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2008/11/have-you-seen-this-house.html">Have You Seen This House?</a></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">If you want to report a perceived dimensional anomaly, please do, but read </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"><a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/p/time-slips.html">this </a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">first.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338816095880882924.post-88477794059321375752013-02-02T09:57:00.002+01:002013-02-02T10:01:05.297+01:00First multiverse created... in a lab<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br />That's right. That's what scientists from the University of Maryland, College Park and Towson University are reporting.<br /><br />You can read about it here:</span><br />
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<i><a href="http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/147110-physicists-create-worlds-first-multiverse-of-universes-in-the-lab"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>PHYSICISTS CREATE WORLD'S FIRST MULTI-VERSE</b></span></a></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No time to comment right now - too busy creating multi-verses of our own.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(And I am not even kidding.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But we'll be back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, make sure you read the comments, too. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most of them are considerably better than the article itself.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338816095880882924.post-74985553397333330072013-01-03T09:22:00.002+01:002013-01-26T20:57:18.473+01:00The 33 Cosmic Portals<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This information comes from Diana Cooper's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1844091821/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=mybethbetigi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1844091821">2012 and Beyond: An Invitation to Meet the Challenges and Opportunities Ahead</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=mybethbetigi-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1844091821" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. <b>ATLANTIS.</b> The portal is already opening. (As of 2009, when the book was published.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. <b>HOLLOW EARTH.</b> A portal in the centre of the world; it "will profoundly affect the leylines". It is supposed to be "an elongated oval in the U.S.A. covering Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and southern North Dakota". It will "reach its full glory" in 2035.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. <b>MU.</b> A portal in the Pacific ocean. Closed until 2012, when it supposedly reopened.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. <b>ULURU </b>(AKA Ayers Rock), Australia. Opened in 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. <b>FIJI</b>. Opened in 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7. <b>SEDONA</b>, U.S.A. Opened in 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8. <b>The BERMUDA TRIANGLE</b>. Sometimes closed, sometimes open.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9. <b>BANFF</b>, Canada. Opened in 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10. <b>ALASKA</b>, the Arctic. Opened in 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">11. <b>The SOUTH POLE</b>. Opened in 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12. Mayan settlement in <b>HONDURAS</b>. "Already opening" (as of 2009).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">13. <b>PERU </b>(all of it). Opened in 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">14. <b>MALI</b>. Opened in 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">15. <b>The SPHINX</b> at Giza, Egypt. Opened in 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">16. <b>MESOPOTAMIA</b>. "Opening after 2012".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">17. <b>The SOURCE OF THE GANGES</b>, India. "Ready to open in 2012".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(N.B. The Ganges has at least two sources: the Gangotri glacier and the Satopanth glacier.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">18. <b>VARANASI </b>(AKA Benares), India. "Beginning to open now" (as of 2009).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">19. <b>MANILA</b>, the Philippines. Opened in 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">20. <b>MONGOLIA</b>. Opened in 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">21. <b>ANGKOR WAT</b>, Cambodia. "Slumbering" as of 2009 and preparing to open"before 2012".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">22. <b>The SILK ROAD</b>. Opened in 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">23. <b>WUHAM</b>, eastern China. "Opening in the period from 2012 to 2014".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">24. <b>ANSI</b>, northern China. Opened in 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">25. <b>YORK</b>, Great Britain. Supposed to be a "huge portal"; opened in 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">26. <b>ANDORRA</b>. Opened in 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">27. Underwater portal off the coast of <b>MARSEILLES</b>, France. Opening "soon after 2012".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">28. <b>OMSK</b>, the Urals, Russia. Opened in 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">29. <b>SIBERIA</b>. Opened in 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">31. <b>OPALA</b>, Kamchatka, Russia. Opening in 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">32. <b>CHEN </b>mountain, the Kerkeyansk range, Russia. "Already beginning to open" (as of 2009).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">33. <b>NORTH POLE</b>, Antarctic. "Beginning to open now" (as of 2009).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All these portals, except the Hollow Earth one, will "rest after a few years" and then re-open. For more information about them, as well as other "sacred" points, see the book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you live in any of the areas, or have recently visited any of the places listed above, do give us your impression of what, if anything, is going on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you are interested in the actually demonstrated "portals", as the NASA itself calls them, you may want to read this: <i><a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2012/07/about-those-magnetic-portals.html">About those magnetic portals...</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Failing that, may it be merry.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Failing even that, may it be the end of <i>something</i>. (Preferably of something bad.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, keep your heart upright and light, like a plant reaching for the Sun. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See you on the other side of Time.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338816095880882924.post-70514398665648371352012-11-13T20:45:00.005+01:002015-05-22T20:06:32.206+02:00On the "Mystery Spot" of Lake George<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A reader contacted us yesterday clamouring for the inclusion of a story on a "mystery spot" on Lake George, New York. He found the mention of this apparent anomaly on another website and thought we should investigate it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you, reader, and we mean it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time-space anomalies are indeed what we like the most. Well, at any rate we like the subject enough to maintain this blog about them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are presently nowhere near Lake George or its mysterious spots, but in this WWW-age some investigation can be conducted via the internet.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But first, read the story, by a Dr. Seymour O'Life, plucked (gratefully, needless to say) from the <a href="http://www.weirdus.com/states/new_york/ancient_mysteries/lake_george_mystery_spot/index.php">very same website</a> where our reader found it. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After you have read it - preferably ALOUD - perhaps you will venture a guess about the conclusions to which our brief investigation led us.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;">A number of years ago, while at a round table discussion of Acoustical Anomalies and Decibel Equations in Munich, I had the good fortune to met Professor Gregory Mauch. Mauch is well known for his radical theories on Atomic Distillation and the accompanying Gravitational Tempest. But during dinner he told me of a spot in New York State that the known laws of spatial time and acoustics did not apply.<br /><br />“Balderdash,” I exclaimed!<br /><br />Mauch smiled and poured another tequila.<br /><br />He insisted that not only had he heard of such a place, but could give me the exact location. I was all inebriated ears. After telling me the coordinates, and I did the calculations, I realized that not only was this place in New York, but actually in downtown Lake George. I was stunned. This past year, following the tipsy bar napkin scribblings of Professor Mauch, the I went in search of this amazing spot. And, believe it or not, found it.<br /><br />How could we miss? Walking up to the spot I saw a compass cut into the ground. A huge circle, it was obvious where one was to stand. Being the brave guy that I am, I told my friend to walk into the center first.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;"> “Do you feel anything strange?” I asked. “If you do, get the hell out of there.”</span></span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;">“I don’t feel anything—wait, holy s%$t!, she blurted. “Come in here. You gotta hear this!”<br /><br />I walked into the center and asked her what she’d heard, then I heard it as well. A glorious echo filled my ears. I yelled at the top of my lungs. A huge echo returned. Those standing outside the circle just heard my voice. The mysterious echo could only be heard from the center of the ring. How wonderful. Professor Mauch was right. Son of a gun!<br /><br />I have done some research, but no one in Lake George is talking about this spot. Local Indian legend says that it was the spot that an ancient god called Katchalototail had appeared at a long time ago and since then his wisdom still echoes around the lake. Indian gods, spatial displacement, weird acoustics...whatever causes this strange ringing reverberating sound, it is pretty amazing.<br /><br />So if your ever in the Lake George area, take a walk to the Mystery Spot. To find it you just have to head to where Canada Street and Million Dollar Beach come together. Walk east, along the lakeside of Million Dollar, for about a hundred feet or so and turn into the left, where the small stone wall offers a view of the lake. Look on the ground and you’ll see a giant ring that has a compass etched into it.<br /><br />Walk to the center and start yelling your head off. –Dr. Seymour O’Life </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now, where would you start your armchair investigation if you were us?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Perhaps by trying to find out more about the erudite, tequila-drinking Dr. Mauch?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or the no less erudite, whimsically spelling Dr. Seymour O'Life himself?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Perhaps you would try to gather more information about said round-table discussion in Munich?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Surely, at the very least, you would investigate the mythical life and times of that endearingly named god, <i>Katchalototail?</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you're from the area of Lake George, or are planning to visit it, by all means try and find as many mystery spots as you can - and if you'd like to, you are welcome to report about them here.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even if you don't find any mystery spots, you will find plenty of <i>beauty</i> spots there, and that should be enough to feed the same sacred flame of wonder.</span><br />
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Finally! One of the seminal books on the mysteries of Time of the 20th century is available - free of charge - in the Internet Archive (bless them!).</span><br />
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It is the most influential work by J. W. Dunne, a very interesting author who wrote, among many other things, a "note" - a sort of foreword - to the book <i>An Adventure </i>(1911) by Misses <a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2008/03/another-garden-another-time.html">Moberly and Jourdain</a>.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338816095880882924.post-20918671769972760082012-08-03T15:21:00.001+02:002012-08-03T15:24:28.102+02:00Tips for Changing the Past<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trying to change the past - or at least thinking about it - seems to be quite a trend these days.<br />It says a lot about the world we live in - the world that is <i>becoming</i>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whether you believe that it can be done or not, if you're interested in the subject I challenge you to find a better compilation of practical tips than this one:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are from one of our favourite and oft-mentioned "reality shifting" authors, Cynthia Sue Larson.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just think about it...<br />Simply by doing that, by being open to the idea, you may already be helping build a world where it IS possible.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338816095880882924.post-24899366709399755212012-07-04T13:20:00.001+02:002012-07-04T13:34:42.378+02:00What IS the "God particle"?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br /><br />Yet another unexpected and unplanned post...<br />But hey, such are the times we live in.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you may have heard by now, researchers from CERN have announced that they have reached a 99.99995 % (or "at 4.9 sigma significance", as they put it) of certainty that they have found the Higgs boson, also known as "the God particle".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is the Higgs boson?<br />And why is it called "the God particle"?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To put it very, very simply - but then, all the greatest things in the world are simple - the Higgs </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boson">boson </a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(called after </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Higgs">Peter Higgs</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, the British physicist who was among the first physicists to theorise about its existence around 1964) is a mysterious subatomic particle that imparts the components of every atom their </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>mass</i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They need mass to stay together and form an atom, in the first place, or they would be dispersed, buzzing around and forming nothing.</span><br />
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In other words, the Higgs boson could be seen as a spark of the cohesive force - the "eros" - that permeates the universe and makes it stick together and BE.<br />That, I am assuming, is why it is called "the God particle".</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It gives an extra meaning to the saying <i>God is love</i>, doesn't it? </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Think about <i>eros</i>.<br />It's not just porn, you know. :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In fact, it is the cohesive force of everything that is.</span><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338816095880882924.post-55572585406430689742012-07-02T17:35:00.002+02:002012-07-03T02:01:02.412+02:00About those magnetic portals...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We weren't going to post anything in the near future (unless some of our readers send us more delightful stories :)), but we've had a few emails yesterday and today, from people asking about the "magnetic portals" that supposedly have been discovered recently.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Magnetic portals connecting the Earth to the Sun - or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_transfer_event">flux transfer events</a> - are not a new discovery. Their existence had been established by 2008. <br /><br />What is new is that apparently a NASA-funded researcher from Iowa has found a way to chase them down. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>(We'll try and find a reliable source of information after sunset, when it cools down a little bit, all right? :))</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This story has been making the rounds in the "alternative" media in the past 48 hours or so.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Predictably but irritatingly, most of these stories start with allusions to various science fiction films. Here is </span><a href="http://www.educatinghumanity.com/2012/07/nasa-says-portals-are-real-does-this.html" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a good example</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, complete with videos.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is only irritating because there is no logical continuity with what follows next - the description of these magnetic portals. In other words, there is no evident reason to jump to the conclusion that these magnetic portals would do any of those neat tricks we're familiar with from sci-fi films - like wormholing us to other universes, or serve as shortcuts for extraterrestrial holiday-makers to and from Earth.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What DO those magnetic portals do?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, for one thing, </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">they form every eight minutes</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, and that's enough to seriously tickle my mind. Like, why EIGHT? What happens or ceases to happen during those eight minutes?<br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The implications of their activity, I don't yet understand.<br />Maybe you will.<br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is the original NASA text from 2008:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read the rest of it <a href="http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/30oct_ftes/">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As promised, here is another story from our reader Renata. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ok, this is another thing that happened to me, also in Germany, but the year was 2008.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This
is the strangest thing that's ever happened to me and I am so glad I
have a witness so I know it wasn't my mind playing tricks on me.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
went to Germany for the first time back then to practice my German with
my German class. We were a bunch of people from Mexico staying at some
hostel in some small town in Thüringen </span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar">Weimar</a>]<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;">.</span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had been there for
3 weeks already and this is the kind of place (well, I guess most
hostels are like that) where you can cook your stuff in the kitchen and
then you're supposed to wash the dishes and all that. I mean, it's
nothing like a hotel or something like that, in case you're not familiar
with hostels. </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The radio was always on in that kitchen and
there was always a man talking in German about politics and stuff ALL
THE TIME. We, of course, didn't pay attention to that. </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That was our very last day in this town, we were staying in a building that had been built on the XVII century, it was very old.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That
day, me and a friend were doing the dishes in the kitchen, listening to
the same radio station, the German man talking and talking and talking
when suddenly something strange happened. </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Suddenly we both heard what it seemd to be STATIC, the German man's voice was gone and then we heard the strangest thing ever. </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It
was a jingle that we had never heard before BUT this is the strange
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1)the jingle was in SPANISH, our mother tongue </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2) the
voices sounded to me like voices from long time ago, don't know how to
explain, the melody and everything, sounded like something from the 50s </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3) we realized this was a jingle from OUR COUNTRY! since the very last
word they sang was the name of a city in Mexico, the city of "Monterrey"
(we're not from this city, though).</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The jingle said something about "your memories' station". </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When
the jingle was over the static was gone and the German man was back. He
didn't mention anything about what we just had heard, like nothing had
really happened. Me and my friend stared at each other and we were like
DID YOU HEAR THAT?? omg, we didn't know how to explain it.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
weirdest thing is that I don't think we actually cared very much about
it after that. We forgot about it, maybe talked it over with some
friends and then just forgot about it. (Now I wonder why we forgot about
it, I mean, it wasn't something normal AT ALL).</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well,
the years passed and last February I was surfing the net when, by
complete accident, I found a jingle on youtube. Yeah. IT IS the same
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the link: </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
could remember it as soon as I heard it again. It was the same melody,
the same old-fashioned voices, the word "recuerdo" (memory) and the name
of the city of Monterrey.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did some research and this was
indeed a very popular radio station in this city back in the 50s and 60s
but it's no longer on the air, according to some friends I have in
Monterrey. It hasn't been on the air for a couple of decades now.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So
WHY ON EARTH did we hear this thing in a faraway country like Germany?
Why did we hear something from our country, and from the past, when we
were just doing the dishes? And nobody else seemed to have heard it.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
have friends in Germany that don't understand what happened either,
cause of course, they say there is no reason why such a jingle would be
heard in their country. I agree.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This has got to be one of the most endearing stories ever published here. :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't know why, but stories about sounds that appear to be coming from the past always get to me. (Perhaps because I had an <a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2008/03/if-these-walls-could-sing.html">inexplicable event</a> featuring singing once.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Based on this and <a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2012/06/mysterious-cat.html">the previous story</a>, I could speculate that Renata has the uncanny ability to conjure up images and sounds removed in time/space.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How? </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What am I - Einstein?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But it isn't as implausible as it may appear. After all, there is some evidence that visions perhaps can be shared. <i>(See <a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2008/03/ultimatetourist.html">The Ultimate Tourist</a> and <a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2008/03/well-always-have-paris-or-whatever-it.html">We'll always have Paris... or whatever that was.</a>)</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why not auditory events too?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But why a jingle she had never heard before, so she couldn't have cared for it?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Again, no idea. I have no insight into the inner workings of the cosmic jukebox. :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just thinking aloud here.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maybe there had been some other person in that building, perhaps someone from Monterrey or someone who loved that jingle, who kept remembering that tune. And we all know that old walls - apparently - can "remember" things... :)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or... I have no idea.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And that is, I suspect, what we love the most about such events, don't we?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The fact that we <i>don't </i>know. Faced with the mystery of the universe, we rejoice in our unknowing. Because it gives us hope that we are wrong about our fears, after all, and that perhaps even the wildest of our wildest dreams can come true. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">P.S. I love that jingle. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Please, mister speaker, could you tell me what time it is....? </i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Thank you very much!</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Priceless. :)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a strange, yet explainable thing that happened to me about 2 months ago. </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last
May I was in Berlin visiting a friend. That was a relaxing day, we were
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We went to the grocery store which was about 10 blocks from her street and we went by foot. </span></blockquote>
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our way back, we were talking about my cat Irene and I was telling her
about how much I was missing her and that I wanted to go back home to
see her cause seriously, my cat is my EVERYTHING,believe it or not, and
she was my only thought that day. </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were already on my
friend's street when I noticed that there was a black cat crossing the
street, about 10 meters from where we were. </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was excited to
see a cat (thing that hardly happens in Germany, at least you don't see
cats on the streets often) and I asked my friend if she had also seen
her, but she said she didn't.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was weird cause I know I saw that cat. I saw he was black and I saw his tail and everything.</span></blockquote>
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remember I noticed that the cat walked towards the building where we
were going to, and I saw him "enter" some door (or I thought there
should be a door over there, cause the cat just vanished, as if he had
crossed through the wall). When I got closer, I realized that there
wasn't a door over there, nor a window. There weren't bushes or anything
around. Only the building where my friend lives, which has 5 floors, by
the way.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I swear to God, I saw that cat entering the building
but I was surprised to find out there was no way that this cat could
have just crossed the wall like that.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't know if I can explain myself here cause English is not my first language.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
think I was thinking SO HARD about my cat Irene on that day, that she
for some reason wanted me to see "her" (although she's not a black cat,
she's a calico cat) in that cat. All I know is that I called home right
away to ask about her. She was sleeping peacefully. </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Marcel-Louis Baugniet, <i>Black cat in profile</i>, cca 1924</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cats are odd creatures. They appear to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>know </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">things beyond human comprehension; and perhaps they do. Maybe that's why they seem to perform things that seem impossible - that </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>are</b></i> "impossible" to us, humans, with our limited perception of the inner workings of the world.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I sometimes wonder... did the old saying that a cat has "nine lives" really originate simply from cats' ability to save themselves from impossible situations?<br />Or is it maybe that people before us, in ages gone, when science was not so advanced, but individual observation of the world was, noticed cats they knew had died being alive (as I </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2009/11/schrodingers-cat-of-my-own.html">seem to have</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">)?<br /><br />Whatever it is, all creatures deserve not only to be treated with the utmost respect, but also "listened" to, so we can perhaps learn from them about the mysteries of this wide wonderful world - mysteries that purely rational thought cannot even fathom, let alone unlock. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>This story is also available - in Spanish - on Renata's </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://renaisback.blogspot.com/2012/06/el-gato-que-no-existio.html">own blog</a></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>And do stay tuned because there is another story from Renata coming very soon. ;)</i></span><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Which, by the way, may be a very real possibility if you take these people seriously.</span></i><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We do.</span></i><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Which should explain a LOT. :))</span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But aren't multiple universes simply a theory, a fancy?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A theory, yes, but not really a simple fancy.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's what Aurelien Barrau, a particle physicist at CERN, has to say about it:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"The multiverse is no longer a model, it is a consequence of our models"</b>.<br /><br />And it is to a parallel universe that Michio Kaku speculates </span><a href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/06/the-human-species-will-one-day-migrate-to-a-parallel-universe-michio-kaku.html" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">humankind will migrate at the end of our earthly history</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>(If you've watched it before, re-watch it. </i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Even if you don't believe in watches. :))</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">Why exactly this is making headlines now, I am not sure, as it is not a novel concept. Maybe it's the identification of the purported cause or underlying process what makes it novel. In a nutshell:</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span">Professor Jose Senovilla, Marc Mars and Raul Vera from the University of the Basque Country and the University of Salamanca said the deceleration of time was so gradual, it was imperceptible to humans.</span></b></blockquote>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span">Their proposal, published in the journal <i>Physical Review D</i>, claimed dark energy does not exist and that time was winding down to the point when it would finally grind to a halt long after the planet ceased to exist.</span></b> </blockquote>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span">Professor Senovilla told the <i>New Scientist</i>: "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">Then</span> everything <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">will be</span> frozen, like a snapshot of one instant, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">for ever</span>."</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I believe it's still warm. ;)</span></span><br />
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<blockquote style="color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This happened just about an hour ago, on October 23, 2011, at around 13:50 CET. I decided to write about it right away so I don't forget about it.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was waiting in a queue for the checkout in my local supermarket. Being early Sunday afternoon there were not many people in the store.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But, there were three queues for checkout. I joined the queue that seemed to have the fewest people, obviously. There were a very short lady in a beige vest and an elderly man right ahead of me.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had time to observe them well because the checkout employee was taking her time. Then the man dropped a few coins, and the lady ahead of me and I helped him pick them up.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I noticed that the checkout employee wasn't only slow but it was an employee that is usually slightly unpleasant (I shop there every single day, I am familiar with the employees) so I decided to join the other queue, on my left, that seemed to be going faster. The checkout registers are <u>very </u>close to each other, no more than two meters apart.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As it usually happens to me, the woman that was right ahead of me in the new queue suddenly had an enormous amount of merchandise that I hadn't seen earlier. Drat!, I thought and I glanced at the earlier queue, to see if it would be a good idea to return there. I noticed that there were now two or three youngsters behind the lady and the elderly man, so I decided to stay put.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each of the customers from the other (earlier) queue walked by toward the exit, as there is no other way to get out, so I saw each of one of them. I was vaguely surprised that there were so many walking by - maybe four or five - because I had thought there were only two more people ahead of the lady and the elderly man. So I turned around to see how the earlier queue was progressing, and noticed that the unpleasant employee, right behind my back (like I said, the space in that market is tight), had been replaced by another one, a lady who is usually very nice and fast enough.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was surprised because I couldn't figure out how this could have happened. To enter the register space and replace her colleague, the employee would have had to enter the boot from my side. She would have had to brush past me and she would have had to ask permission from the people in my queue to do so, because otherwise it would be impossible to enter her boot.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I forgot all about that when I noticed that the old gentleman and the lady that had been ahead of me were nowhere to be seen! The youngsters that were behind them were still there (I think, or maybe they were different youngsters).</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This I can't understand.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The lady and the old man were not together. They would have had to leave the queue independently of each other - but it was almost their turn - and they would have had to walk past me, either towards the exit or towards the third queue (that was further removed from the first two registers).</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wasn't distracted or anything; in fact I was trying to determine which queue was being processed faster, so I was watching attentively. And there weren't all that many people in the shop anyway. Each queue had no more than five or six customers waiting.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't understand what happened. When and how did the employee replace the first one? And where did those two customers go?</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All of this happened in a matter of five minutes or so.</span></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Interesting. :)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Obviously I have no idea what happened, so I can't help you with that.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Nearly all industry relies on computers of some sort to do their work. The computer is a revolution - if you want to get somewhere in life, get a computer! Everyone is using them now, - even Ghosts, it would seem.</b></span></blockquote></div><blockquote style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">In May 1988 Alice, a cleaner working in an architect's office, was about to start her shift when she noticed one of the staff computers had been left switched on. She didn't know much herself about computers, but knew it was on from the flickering screen. She stepped closer to the flickering screen but realised it wasn't part of her job and if she switched it off, she may get in trouble as unsaved information might be on there.</span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The next night she noticed that the same computer still with the same flickering screen was on again, but still ignored it. She made a mental note to ask a higher staff member, when she could, if there was any reason for its late night activity. When she asked Rob, an architect who worked there, he replied that it shouldn't be on. All computers and machinery are shut off after work. The only electricity being used should be the lights and vacuum cleaners!</span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">So, Alice the cleaner remembered what Rob had told her as she went about her nightly cleaning work and, as she came up to room 1b, the office where the computer was, she walked in and reached for the plug. She went to switch it off by the mains but... there was no plug inserted! That was the only wall socket in the small office, so she followed the cords from the back. There was one leading to the keyboard, one leading to the printer and when she eventually found the thick black mains cord, she followed the cable to the mains plug. She startingly came across the machine's plug... not in the mains socket! Confused, she made another mental note to ask about this strange machine.</span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">She made her way for the door and, looking back, she noticed a typed message on the screen, 'Hello'. Now she was even more confused, thinking she must be dreaming, but tripped by the mop bucket and felt it, so she assured herself she wasn't. The next day at closing time, she bumped into Rob, about to leave the building, when she remembered what had happened. She told him</span></span></blockquote><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i></i></span><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">'I Don't know much about computers myself, but I know they're not meant to work when they're switched off!'</span></span></i></i></span></blockquote></div><blockquote style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Confused, Rob asked what she was referring to, so she explained what happened the last night with the computer in office 1b. He told her this shouldn't Happen; she was right, so he stayed back and watched the computer, and was startled to find that at precisely 9:18PM on May 11th 1988, the screen flicked itself on and displayed this message: 'Thou!'.</span></span> </blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This made Rob sit up from his coffee and pay more attention to the computer. 'Thou!' it repeated. Suddenly, it changed its 'tune'...</span></span> </blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'Thou hathe comited a grate cryme.'</span></b><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Confused, Rob wondered what it meant.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></span> </blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'Thou art a godly man who hathe fanciful woman'</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></span></b> </blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rob smiled.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><b style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...'Who Dwelth in myne home'</span></b></span> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it continued.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><b style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'twas a grate cryme to hathe stolen myne home'</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></b></span></blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, just think next time you wonder why Does that monitor light stay on for just a few seconds long after I switch off my computer by the mains?...</span></span> </blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>True Story.</i></span></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Deja vu?</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If not, clearly, you have not read our <a href="http://time-slips.blogspot.com/2011/08/wot-strange-wordes-thou-speke.html">last post</a>...</span><br />
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