To ask if you believe in time slips?

I don’t believe in it but I often wish I could go back in time but only of my choosing and that I could come back easily. I’d want the money I have now taken back there too as it would be a small fortune then. I’d buy some properties in future hotspots while I’m at it.

It’s a favourite book or movie plot, I love a good time travel story.

If we did have good evidence that they existed we wouldn't have to believe in them. We don't go around believing in tables or front doors.

one of the best time slips stories I’ve ever read as been on mumsnet and they lady who wrote it either is a complete fantasist or her story is real and she can not even make sense of it. I’m not sure it’s real but I don’t think we can completely rule it out. Read and heard some pretty convincing debates about it.

And re. the Bold Street ones in particular, we don't even have accounts from the people who allege to have had the experience.

There's being open minded and there's being receptive to believing the seemingly impossible because someone anonymous claimed that they heard it happened to someone else anonymous.

While the equations of physics (such as those in quantum mechanics) do not technically "prefer" a direction of time, our experience is governed by thermodynamics, and the increase in entropy gives time its arrow. Cox explains that though there is no fundamental physical law that says time cannot run backward, the overwhelming trend in nature towards increasing disorder (entropy) prevents us from experiencing backward time.

The Why Files are one of my guilty pleasures. I think AJ does a great job debunking so much nonsense but keeps an open mind when there is an unanswered question.

Obviously unregulated Time Tourism, from the future, has caused areas of time to become fragile. Needs intervention from the Time Police. Or it could all be a consequence of the cataclysmic Time War. (Surely I can't be the only Jodi Taylor fan on here)

There is a lot about the universe we simply do not understand. There is a lot about the human brain we also do not understand. I'm inclined to think the answers lie in the mind and the accounts from different people are interesting but people are notoriously unreliable witnesses.

Yes I used to live one street away, and am aware of the tails and did spend time looking into them and (while it's been a few years) came to the conclusion that the various articles about them are all just based on (at best) second or third hand accounts posted anonymously online.

A friend of mine experienced one driving down by the Britannia several years ago, turning up at my house in the Vale shortly after, visibly struggling with what she'd just experienced.

I know she also finds it uncomfortable to be on Bold St and Church St and avoids the top end of town like the plague. She doesn't know why, it's apparently just always given her awful vibes. We used to have to walk up as fast as possible after nights out, or avoid them all together.

depends if they have a prime directive in place

A voice of reason

An astrophysicist from the university of Maryland says that the best evidence we have that time travel is impossible, is that we haven’t been invaded by hordes of tourists past and future !!

If you believe time is just another dimension and that it is a variable as in Einstein then I guess it's only a matter of time before we can manipulate it.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/local-news/youth-slipped-in-to-1967-3511703?intsource=amppcontinuereading&inttmedium=amp&intcampaign=continueereadingbutton#amp-readmore-target

I love that channel!

I’ve never heard of Bold Street.

And yet you'll never find full names or the actual first-hand accounts of those people.

The "case studies" are just compilations of third-hand (or made up) internet posts.

Wasn't one of the Bold St stories about a lad who was shoplifting ?

but then at the quantum level normal science laws break down

Time slips no - places that you can feel the history of yes — Liverpool is one that emanates the history so you can a sense of what it was like - the Grand Hotel in Brighton for me you get a sense of what it was like in Victorian times but never going back in history

for me it is almost as if you can feel other times in history existing in the moment but you are still in the present

Reported Incidents on Bold Street

Case Studies

Several well-known accounts of time slips have been reported on Bold Street, with the following being among the most frequently cited:

The 1996 Experience of Frank and Carol
In 1996, an off-duty police officer named Frank, accompanied by his wife Carol, reportedly experienced a time slip while walking along Bold Street. Frank noticed that the street appeared markedly different, with old-fashioned cars, shop fronts, and people dressed in 1950s attire. In particular, he recalled a store called "Cripps," a retailer that had ceased to exist in the present but was known to have been operational decades earlier. The experience lasted for several minutes, leaving both Frank and Carol shaken.

The 2006 Incident
Another incident involved a young man who entered a bookshop on Bold Street, only to find himself in a setting from the early 20th century. He described seeing people in Edwardian dress and noticed that the layout of the shop differed significantly from its modern configuration. When he tried to engage with his surroundings, the experience abruptly ended, returning him to the present day.

It’s local to us and I’ve heard a few tales, but you’re right, it’s never first hand experience.

Granted we don't fully understand how the universe works but I don't think time travel is possible. It violates the second law of thermodynamics.