Refuting the Mandela Effect
Like everything else in our world, our memories are imperfect. We forget things, and sometimes we misremember. (I can personally attest to doing both on innumerable occasions in my life :) .) Faulty memory occurs all the time. But, some now insist that false memories are not false, but proof that CERN or some higher entity is "changing" reality, or that there are parallel universes "bumping into" and "merging" together/with ours (someone's been reading too many Marvel comics...), etc, etc. That these false memories are residue from the original timeline, which has "changed" after the event. This has been dubbed the "Mandela Effect", named after Nelson Mandela, whom some falsely remember dying in the 1980s, rather than in 2013 (he became the first post-apartheid President of South Africa - which some persons who remember him dying in the '80s also remember, demonstrating quite clearly that we're dealing with faulty memo...