To ask if you believe in time slips?

[midnightmeows]

I'm on the fence about woo things, however I do like reading stories.

There are lots of stories about time slip experiences, with the most well known being Bold Street, Liverpool. The stories I find interesting are when more than one person (from the 'present' time) sees the 'past' at the same time. In that case it can't be a hallucination - they're either both colluding liars or they really did see 'something'.

Has anyone had any such experiences? I suppose if such a thing exists, we could 'slip' an hour or a day into the past and not even realise.

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.

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.

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.

A woman did come forward on Uncanny and said she experienced it in Bold Street - so there are some people who put their name to it
www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/womans-horror-time-slip-changes-27986873

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.

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.

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.

ha, ha.

Fair enough, I guess there is now (as of last year) someone called Julie who claims she is Carol from the Frank and Carol story, although they've been unable to trace Frank (despite the story saying he was her husband...)

Dh, brother and I once lost two hours out of nowhere. It only felt like 15 mins had passed. We were driving and missed the junction but only by one stop. Took 2 hours to turn off and regain the motorway. In the middle of the night. We all had terrible headaches.

I do, as the physics of the universe makes it possible. Do I think everyone who says they've had it happen, has - no. Do I think the odds are that a few people have over the course of history, yes.

We also have no good evidence that timeslips don't exist. 🙄

I love how the naysayers are absolutely determined that they are right. Also they're not content with just saying they don't believe in time slips and the like, they have to add on that it's all 'bollocks' and 'nonsense' and that anyone who believes it is a moron. (Ya know, a bit like people who believe in ghosts, and God, and the paranormal.) 🙄 Anyone who believes in something THEY don't believe in is stupid, and deluded, and deserves derision and mockery.

Just because you don't believe in something, does not make it untrue or unreal.

@midnightmeows I may have experienced time slips. I have experienced a couple of occasions where I was out in the countryside, some 2 miles from my rural cottage, just walking. I was climbing a small hill covered in trees, (same place both time,) and I have 100% felt like I was in the past - around a century or so - for about 3-4 minutes, in a certain place on this hill. The air feels different, and it smells different. It's SO odd.

And I can see an old farmhouse about one third of a mile away, (in that 3-4 minutes) but I can never find it when I leave the tree-covered hill. I walk down to the bottom of the little hill, and across the small field, and back to the little road, and walk in the direction that I saw the old farmhouse. But it's not there. It's not anywhere. Where is it? And why can I only see it from part way up the hill? It's like I'm in a parallel universe for a few minutes. I have even taken a photograph of it, but because it's quite far away it's not massively clear. So when I try to reverse image search it on google images, nothing comes up.

It's so weird, with no explanation, that I have never told anyone in real life about it.

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No, but I love the show Umbrella Academy if that's any good to you.

I've stood in the shop doorway (on bold street) and peered in, hoping! Got nothing. I'm fascinated by the idea of it and by the realms of the universe (and our brains) that we don't yet understand.

Are you going to tell us what it was then?!

I think time is fascinating. If we had the ability to teleport millions and millions of light years into the galaxy and you looked back at earth it would be the time of the dinosaurs. I mean you couldnt see them but that's the age the earth would be at. Then what if you could travel back to be at that same time. I think theoretical physics is so interesting. Before electricity was invented if you told people one day they could light their houses at the flick of a switch or watch other people on a box in their homes they would think you were insane. Everything is impossible until it becomes possible

I think physics makes it near impossible - not least because the Earth is never in the same place twice. If you went back in time 1, 2, 10, 50 or whatever number of years but did not also simultaneously travel millions of miles in the blink of an eye, you'd be in the empty void of space.

So, if this phenomenon is real, not only does it involve time travel but the universe (or whatever force that might cause these slips) would also have to somehow know exactly where Earth was located at the time, teleport you to the exact same location on Earth (instantaneously, without you realizing) and then teleport you back.

Basically I think it'd have to be a deliberately act by God or some other sentient, omniscient and omnipotent being, rather than a natural phenomenon.

But the serious answer is if that really happened, I think the more likely explanation is that we're in a simulation that started momentarily glitching.

I heard a saying once that if the human race knew one millionth of everything there is to know, we would be twice as smart as we actually are and it is so true. There is so much we don't know or understand. So time slips could quite well exist. I'd be lying if I said that I don't hope to experience one

I always find that too simplistic. What if time travel didn’t work like that, what if it’s more a manipulation of light, so what you see is more like a projection, you can’t actually interact with it? Or it could simply exist, but not for public use.

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Actually, yes, this would work as an explanation. If the universe is real then time slips likely need to be caused by God or similar. There is, though, the possibility that the world around us isn't real, which would avoid the problem of the moving Earth.

The Versailles time slip was the first one I ever read about

www.thevintagenews.com/2017/12/08/versailles-time-slip/amp/

People come forward and claim to be Jesus. It doesn't make it any less bollocks.