To ask if you believe in time slips?

Thanks for freaking me out before bed 😫 😂

I’ve tried on occasion to get caught on Bold Street, especially at Christmas when they’ve had lights beaming from the tower of St Luke’s directly down the street. Very atmospheric!

I am never sure what to believe but the odd thing that happened to me was a dream about going to bed and a very specific bedding set I'd never seen or even thought about. It was my bedroom in the dream.
The next week I was out shopping and that exact set was in a shop. And of course I bought it!

@Squirrel01 "exactly, try to explain air planes, wifi, talking machines or computers, and various other inventions, they would say its the devil etc"

But none of those things actually go against the laws of physics. The physics stays the same-we just discover better ways of using it.

When I was a child (a very long time ago!) I won a prize for an essay describing something I wanted-a book that you could open and there would be any story you wanted. Imagine my excitement when I got my first Kindle! I wasn't a time traveller or anything-I just had a vivid imagination.

I don’t think humans will ever be able to time-travel freely. In 2009, Stephen Hawking held a party for time-travellers from the future, complete with decorations, food and champagne. He did not publicise the invitation until the following day. No one turned up.

I don’t know of anything that would rule out time-slips, but I’ve only ever heard anecdotal evidence of them. I’d love it if they existed.

Gotcha!

I've had two weird things, not time slips but things from the past appearing from nowhere (for context my house isn't cluttered and I don't hold onto things for sentimental value) -

1. about 10 years ago a day travel card for the underground appeared in my house in immaculate condition from 1988, no idea how or why. It looked like it had been printed that day but from googling it's an authentic ticket.

1. A couple of months ago I went to get bay leaves from my spice rack and when I picked up the bay leaves they were in a jar from tescos with an expiry of 1996. Again, absolutely no context or reason to have happened, I was only 6 in 1996 and use bay leaves at least every other week and have never seen this jar before.

Both explainable but equally not really much argument for how they got into my house each time or why!

We were in Liverpool in the summer, and saw loads of mods and people in very dressy 60s’ gear as we left Slater Street, heading onto Bold Street. So many that warranted comment. I assumed there was a convention or event of some kind. It was a Sunday lunchtime. Have we been in a time slip and not realised?!!
To clarify, I’ve no belief in these things really!

It generally refers to a someone travelling backwards (or forwards) in time, so that they find themselves in the same place but during a different time period. Yours sounds more like a ghost story, or "stone tapes".

Interesting… what is the definition of a time slip? I thought it was two time periods crossing over? So we heard a snapshot of a man talking for a few seconds from the past?

Not that I’m convinced that is what it was. I heard it but can’t explain it.

I don't personally subscribe to any "woo" stuff but, even if that was a supernatural occurrence, it doesn't sound like a time slip.

@3hrMax @User14March I see. Thanks. I had to google the “final destination” thing.

This is just confirmation bias though. Bad luck is not evenly distributed and everyone in this group of survivors had just as much chance as anyone else of experiencing double bad luck. They may also have had more risk of bad luck associated with their wealth and status.

For example, I’ve never flown in a helicopter or private plane because I’m not rich, but these modes of air travel are significantly more risky compared to jumbo jets. Same goes for rich people pursuits I can’t afford to participate in (skiing, horse riding etc).

Those saying there is no evidence… well I have mobile phone video evidence of a potential time slip - that a few people have watched and agree it sounds like an audio timeslip (no idea if that is a thing). Everyone can hear the voice as described in my previous post and were really freaked out by it.

But there’s no way I would share the footage outside the family for investigation as it’s not worth the potential hassle/scrutiny. Very few people want to share this kind of stuff for fear of ridicule. There may well be a rational explanation but based on the creepy voice, I would never stay in that house again.

One thing that makes me think there’s something woo going on is the fact that it’s in a very popular holiday spot and it’s not listed on any sites where you can leave reviews. It was quite cheap and they could be charging a lot more.

@3hrMax yes, ‘final destination’ poss overblown re: my earlier claim, but a run of unusual bad luck might be a better way of putting it. Beyond bad experience attributable IMO. Will expand when I can.

All those things are nice and everything but they're not magical are they. Things like literature and art are often based around fantasy and going into another world. JK Rowling's books wouldn't be all that exciting if they were bound by only what can happen in reality.

Worth flagging, though, that those survivors who subsequently had "untimely deaths" were only about 8-9% of the total survivors and includes a lot of suicides (so possibly attributable to PTSD or similar) as well as some wartime deaths and deaths from illnesses that were bigger killers back then, so I don't think there's anything "Final Destination" about it.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivors-untimely-deaths.html

@Squirrel01 true, although backwards time travel almost impossible for reasons given upthread.

@Andylion will do my best.

Hi, can you expand?

exactly, try to explain air planes, wifi, talking machines or computers, and various other inventions, they would say its the devil etc

only due to our current understanding, there are many things in the galaxies we are yet to understand and study, As Quark can confirm

No.

I've had several incidents that could be perceived as a time slip but I know they really aren't. When I was around 14 years old I went for a Sunday drive with my mum and dad. After driving through countryside for some while we found a ruined Roman villa. It wasn't fenced off and there was no ticket booth, in fact it was deserted. We got out and had a good look around. Over the ensuing years we talked about the villa and tried to find it again. We never did, even though we retraced our steps and knew the area quite well.

On another occasion in a fairly well known castle in Northern Italy my mother and I were spell bound by a particular fresco. We talked about it over the years and, when we returned 10 years later, we made a beeline for that room but there was no painting - not even a trace of it. As it was a fresco it would be pretty hard to remove without leaving some evidence. We asked the custodians of the castle who had been there for 30 odd years and they had no knowledge of what we described.

I believe these are examples of collective "misremembering" (for want of a better word). On each occasion we had created a false history. Now, I firmly believe the Roman villa and the Italian fresco existed. They were not figments of our imaginations! But we saw them in different places and not on the days we thought we'd seen them - if that makes sense. Although I would have sworn under oath otherwise. The brain is far more complex than we know.

As someone with an MSc in Physics... No. It's bonkers.