J-M's History Corner

If you're a superhero fan (like myself), you've undoubtedly heard of the multiverse . It's basically the belief that there are multiple parallel universes that may or may not be like our own, and is regularly employed in comic books (especially superhero ones - such as Marvel and DC). But could it be real? A popular opinion spread by physicists in recent years has been that it is real.  That ours is just one of potentially innumerable realities. However, they have yet to prove it.  The most they can offer is circumstantial evidence that just doesn't sell it for me - usually based on the assumption that the Big Bang is true (it's not), or evidence that the universe is larger than we've observed (what's new?); some even try to use it as a cop-out to get rid of God.  Yes, that's right: they think that if there are multiple parallel realities of differing planes of existence, effectively separated by a spiritual barrier, it will prove there is no God/we ...

This is my third post about time slips, after Time Slips and My Time Slip Experiences .  A “time slip” is when a person – or persons – seemingly travel through time, usually through no actions of their own.  I can personally attest that it’s a real phenomenon (I’ve experienced it).  Here are some more time slip accounts I’ve found. Experienced by Darren P: I have had two time slips , the first when I was 11 years old. I was looking through my house window at home hoping to see mum. Instead, there was a man wearing brown trousers and a white shirt stood at the kitchen sink. Then I noticed that the kitchen was different very old fashioned with what I now know as a Belfast sink. I entered the house only to see that the man had disappeared and the kitchen was back to it’s 1979 norm. As a young boy, I was convinced this was a ghost. Fast forward 39 years and I was walking up a street after parking my car to go buy some lunch and noticed a very old elevator...