oldrover
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Bampton; here there's a fact not repeated which casts doubt on this being anything other than the Roberts having simply failed to find Bampton again the following day. And it's worth pointing out that this ever having been strange in the first place relies on us deciding to forget that getting lost on a driving holiday is a daily if not hourly event, and finding the place you were the day before is not always all that easy.
To recap, it's supposed to be strange that the Roberts found the village full of flowers and looking beautiful on their first visit, presumably the inference is that this corresponds to the sign which said 'Bampton, Best Kept Village of 1976' while next day, presumably firmly now back in 1993, all the flowers had gone.
This is very strange, not because the flowers were there the night before, but because they'd gone the day after. Can anyone guess which village won the RHS National award for best village in bloom in 1993? Yes it was Bampton. Here's a link which shows all the other years that it won too. http://www.bampton.org.uk/achievements.html
So given that to win this competition, and at a national level and not just a regional heat, would have required flowers and lots of them, the question would seem to be where were they the following day? So given that, the 'timeslip' must have actually occurred on their return trip. Making the details of the watches, and the unburnt map irrelevant, which of course they always were, as how plausible is it that they both checked their watches, agreed the time, and rechecked when they left? In any case, unless they were both wearing digital watches the 'few minutes' it took them to pass through the village would represent an almost imperceptible transit of their minute hands, especially as they had at that time no reason whatsoever to be careful about noting the time. This represents evidence that they might have embellished their accounts, albeit unintentionally afterward. And the unburnt map? cigarettes might land on their tips, but they don't stay that way they drop on their sides and as someone whose dropped many over the years, I know you can normally retrieve them before they mark the surface they land on, and the smoke they 'remember' is nothing surprising from a burning cigarette and not necessarily anything to do with the map it landed on. Again, that they see this detail as worth recounting suggests they've been carried along with their story.
And if you think about it, if it wasn't for the sign the whole premise collapses, but it could only have been put after the competition had been decided (unless it was a timeslip within a timeslip) and last year the results were released in October, so this is means that a timeslip into the summer of 1976 was never on the table in the first place.
To recap, it's supposed to be strange that the Roberts found the village full of flowers and looking beautiful on their first visit, presumably the inference is that this corresponds to the sign which said 'Bampton, Best Kept Village of 1976' while next day, presumably firmly now back in 1993, all the flowers had gone.
This is very strange, not because the flowers were there the night before, but because they'd gone the day after. Can anyone guess which village won the RHS National award for best village in bloom in 1993? Yes it was Bampton. Here's a link which shows all the other years that it won too. http://www.bampton.org.uk/achievements.html
So given that to win this competition, and at a national level and not just a regional heat, would have required flowers and lots of them, the question would seem to be where were they the following day? So given that, the 'timeslip' must have actually occurred on their return trip. Making the details of the watches, and the unburnt map irrelevant, which of course they always were, as how plausible is it that they both checked their watches, agreed the time, and rechecked when they left? In any case, unless they were both wearing digital watches the 'few minutes' it took them to pass through the village would represent an almost imperceptible transit of their minute hands, especially as they had at that time no reason whatsoever to be careful about noting the time. This represents evidence that they might have embellished their accounts, albeit unintentionally afterward. And the unburnt map? cigarettes might land on their tips, but they don't stay that way they drop on their sides and as someone whose dropped many over the years, I know you can normally retrieve them before they mark the surface they land on, and the smoke they 'remember' is nothing surprising from a burning cigarette and not necessarily anything to do with the map it landed on. Again, that they see this detail as worth recounting suggests they've been carried along with their story.
And if you think about it, if it wasn't for the sign the whole premise collapses, but it could only have been put after the competition had been decided (unless it was a timeslip within a timeslip) and last year the results were released in October, so this is means that a timeslip into the summer of 1976 was never on the table in the first place.
, maybe even from a high-school student! And with ref. to the structure of my paper, the problem is not that it is a “mess”, the problem is that you lack the basic physical background to understand it. Forget “peer review” (you clearly ignore that ALL the most fundamental discoveries in modern science have never been “peer reviewed” by anyone - as systematic “peer review” started just a few decades ago, as a way to censor researches that could “disturb” the scientific establishment - and at first they were mostly underrated or even totally disregarded), the problem is that your behavior is like that of fox from the tale “The Fox and the Grapes” by Aesop. When someone is unable to grasp something, the commonest reaction is to DESPISE what he/she does not understand.
