I don't know if it was a tactical time weapon to avert MAD or the Texas Superconducting Super Collider that was cancelled in this timeline- but I'm confident that we are in the alternate timeline. How it happened, I don't know- but it did. The SSC was over 3 times more powerful than this timeline's LHC collider at CERN. LHC was able to find Higgs Bosons which give particles mass. I think in the other time the SSC was able to find whatever it is that gives space a time component and also the time anti-particle that annihilates time.
In any case, I don't know how it happened, but I know it did and somehow some information transferred to this time line. Specifically, for me knowledge of a scar that I never had until this week. I remember always having a scar on my right temple, but in this time I've ignored the memory because I've had a lipoma in that spot for years. However, this week I had the lipoma removed and now I'm developing the exact scar and accompanying nerve damage I always remember having. I remember it right on my face, but the growth has kept me distracted.
I think this may also be where the Mandela Effect comes from, because many of the changes people remember occurred around the time that the SSC was canceled and it's funding was redirected to the International Space Station and Space Cooperation with the Russians.
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Tancred ago
How would you test your claim?
A simpler explanation for your confusion is just bad memory. Like the deja vu effect, where something recent got falsely stored in long term memory, making you think that what just happened also happened, exactly like that, a long time ago.
VoaterFraud ago
Occams Razor. The simplest answer usually turns out to be the right one. I find it funny that so many people find something different than they remember, then they blame it on a supercollider of all things. Human memory is very frail. Might as well blame thought vampires that come and steal or change your memories at night!
Tancred ago
It's an interesting phenomenon, that paranoid people see common misconceptions as almost a proof of external causes. I'm curious if it has a correlation with reduced empathy.
VoaterFraud ago
A few years ago when the Berenstain bears controversy came out I was shocked that folks didn't know or remember the right name of the authors. I remember reading those books to my daughter when she was young. (early 1990's) I definitely remember them as Berenstain because when I first looked at the title, I had to re-read it to make sure it was Berenstain. My confirmation bias wanted to read it as Berenstein. Fast forward to 2016... any memory problems people have are because of the LHC and the whole Earth/universe is in an Alternate Timeline? What happened to critical thinking?
Tancred ago
Most people don't use it for a variety of reasons. It's not always inability or not knowing how to apply it. Sometimes it's just pain avoidance.