To ask if you believe in time slips?

@Cityandmakeup physicists have said, I believe, it may be possible theoretically, to go forward in time but not backwards.

I can't remember! It was was in a book of short stories I read 30 years ago but it's stayed with me! I wish I knew!

I think it's much more possible that humans will be able to fully change sex than we'll, be able to manipulate time. Outside of our miniscule planet we can't really influence the universe at all.

This. A lot of people here stating it’s rubbish but then a hundred years ago imagine explaining everything we have now. If we are able to manipulate time in future then why would this not be possible? Doesn’t take much of a understanding of physics to understand it’s not impossible.

No. They make for interesting stories though.

I literally just finished an ebook about the Bold Street time slip!!

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CW1PT7KR?dplnkId=0ecdf749-6a2f-433a-99b8-80305304be04&nodl=1

I feel like it has something to do with the electricity from railway lines converging below.

@Garlicbest Ooooh yeah, Astral Projection. That's a whole other thread! 😄

@NoSourDough Have you googled Tanya Short?

Thanks for that @User14March That's fascinating!

Ooooh, I didn't know that!

Cottingley Fairies, sorry!

Oh, he’s genuinely interesting, and he’s one of those people who combines an apparent total hard-headedness (Cambridge, Navy AND RAF careers, very high-ranking etc) with total flights of fancy. Like Arthur Conan Doyle being utterly convinced by ‘psychics’ who cheerfully later sold their stories of fraud to the papers and believing in the Cotyingley Fairies.

The guy Goddard started his ESP charity, the Wrekin Trust, with is really interesting — another v Establishment figure, a 4th Baronet, Cambridge-educated, birthplace now owned by National Trust, taught at Gordonstoun) but also a leading figure in the New Age movement, one of the founders of the Findhorn Foundation, believer in crystals, angels, ley lines etc.

@Clotheshanger you are much better informed than me here. I’d taken his detailed account at face value. Thanks for this interesting context.

Re: Titanic disaster, not a ‘time slip’, but some very odd ‘final destination’ type fates befell some surviving passengers.

What makes you think this is ‘credible’, though? The fact that he was a thoroughly Establishment figure, and had an astonishing and very long military career encompassing both world wars?

I don’t think there’s any evidence he was ‘sober and sensible’. After he retired, he had an entire second career as a promoter of vaguely spiritualist beliefs, including parapsychology, ‘spiritual healing’, and UFOs. His book (published in 1975, so half a life time after the ‘timeslip’) is all about that stuff, and has lots of other instances he reads as supernatural, like a time someone else dreamed about a plane crash just before he took off in that type of plane and crashed, and a squadron photograph from WWI he claims includes the face of a plane mechanic called Freddie Jackson who’d been killed walking into a propeller two days before. (Though there’s no evidence anyone of that name ever having been attached to that squadron, or anyone dying that way at around those dates.)

I don’t think it’s demeaning of his genuine achievements to point out that the one thing all his instances of timeslips/precognition/ghosts have in common is that they happened in some cases half a century earlier, often in stressful situations, he’d talked them over endlessly since, and they’d had not been written down or evidenced at the time.

And that they were being written about by a man in approaching 80 who was a campaigning believer in ESP who founded a charity to spread the word and wrote the foreword to an autobiography called The Psychical Life of Muriel, Lady Dowding (another really interesting individual who was a pioneer animal rights activist, but also a theosophist and spiritualist who thought she could get rid of rats and mice from people’s homes by talking to them).

People doing interesting and worthwhile things doesn’t make them any more credible in other areas of their lives.

we are capable of perceiving time in different ways, depending on our state of consciousness.

Yes, we very much are. It baffles me that people don't seem able to differentiate between personal perception and objective reality, though. While you're having your dream covering days of adventure, everything in the tangible world carries on as usual. If someone put the kettle on just as your dream started, they'd be making their tea when it ended.

When you're in a critical emergency situation, your mind may work so fast that everything seems to happen in slow motion. The situation itself, though, unfolds in the milliseconds it takes for the car to hit the pedestrian or the guy to fall off the scaffolding - you haven't actually slowed time.

I was recently listening to this podcast, she doesn’t go into any science but her accounts are interesting! There is also a mention of Bond Street;

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2pQokmgMWjB0xYVQQiaQoF?si=ICzh5hOIQ8O0Rdz-NEJlTg

To add Goddard said he saw a monoplane he couldn’t identify, a number of yellow planes, a fully operational airfield with attending crew (1935). Mechanics in blue overalls. At the time RAF mechanics wore tan overalls.

In following years the RAF at this airfield (Drem) began painting their training planes yellow & changed mechanics uniforms to blue. The whole airfield was reactivated in way Goddard described.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Goddard

This is a compelling & pretty convincing timeslip story. In 1935 the sober & sensible Goddard flew over a fully operational airbase after going through a storm. He described the planes, specific models, approx numbers, activity, uniform colours of ground staff & the base in great granular detail. Problem was it was derelict!

By WW2 it was fully functional in exactly way he described with a few differences re: steel v glass structures on ground and some think he’d seen a slightly different future reality. Multiverse?

I hadn't thought of that, but yes - just like Narnia 😊

@walkingnightmare you’ve made me think of Narnia, years experienced in a flash.

When we dream we have a very different concept of time, where hours, days and weeks can pass in a dream, but in reality, everything that unfolded in the dream took seconds or minutes at most, so we are capable of perceiving time in different ways, depending on our state of consciousness. Not connected with that idea, but the idea of time not being linear, if a point in time is more like dipping a finger in the pool of all time, then perhaps time slips and 'ghosts' are ripples of time that occasionally catch up with us.

Important to remember that the CIA also researched whether it was possible to kill goats by staring at them....

5773857734 if you had a 10 digit display.

"Humans are so arrogant, always thinking we have reached a stage of knowing almost everything. We know so little"

But we do know quite a lot. Yes, it would be wrong and arrogant to think we know everything- but equally wrong to ignore what we do know. If more evidence emerges that shows something we thought we knew is wrong, then of course things shift. But there has to be actual evidence!