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Time Storms
An authority on unexplained phenomena takes a close-up look at the mysteries of time travel, examining dozens of cases from around the world that reveal evidence of mysterious time warps, space rifts, and time travel. Reprint.
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 25, 2001
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Jenny Randles
66 books31 followersBritish author and former director of investigations with the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA), serving in that role from 1982 through to 1994.
Randles specializes in writing books on UFOs and paranormal phenomena. To date 50 of these have been published, ranging from her first UFOs: A British Viewpoint (1979) to Breaking the Time Barrier: The race to build the first time machine (2005). Subjects covered include crop circles, ESP, life after death, time anomalies and spontaneous human combustion.
Randles specializes in writing books on UFOs and paranormal phenomena. To date 50 of these have been published, ranging from her first UFOs: A British Viewpoint (1979) to Breaking the Time Barrier: The race to build the first time machine (2005). Subjects covered include crop circles, ESP, life after death, time anomalies and spontaneous human combustion.
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October 16, 2022
Jenny Randles' books are unique because not only is she one of the few ufologists with academic training in the "hard" natural sciences, she is also open to considering more exotic phenomena than most mainstream scientists and at the same time are less literal than "extraterrestrials are really visiting us in spaceships". There are very few people in the UFO community like that, another being Jacques Vallée. As a result, her books often ponder unusual theories explaining various UFO-related phenomena that turn out to be more backed up by up-to-date science than expected.
In this book, she argues that many anomalous phenomena including the "missing time" reported by alleged UFO abductees can be explained by distortions and irregularities in the space-time continuum. From that starting point Randles goes on to explain cutting edge discoveries within the field of quantum physics about how everything in space and time actually happens at once and reality turns out to be different from how our senses perceive it. Much of the page space is taken up by detailed explanations of the basic physics behind possible time travel, and the "time storms" theory she proposes as explanation for several paranormal phenomena. Things here get weirder than the "aliens are future humans" stuff most authors would stop at.
To be frank, I am not certain how much I understand of the physics Randles sums up here on the strictly abstract level. She does nonetheless explain how these topics relate to the paranormal phenomena described. The result is one of the biggest mind-benders within the field of Fortean literature I have read in a long while, which is also one of the most scientifically rigorous, making convincing cases for turning many basic assumptions about how reality works upside-down and with that several underlying premises of popular ufology.
In this book, she argues that many anomalous phenomena including the "missing time" reported by alleged UFO abductees can be explained by distortions and irregularities in the space-time continuum. From that starting point Randles goes on to explain cutting edge discoveries within the field of quantum physics about how everything in space and time actually happens at once and reality turns out to be different from how our senses perceive it. Much of the page space is taken up by detailed explanations of the basic physics behind possible time travel, and the "time storms" theory she proposes as explanation for several paranormal phenomena. Things here get weirder than the "aliens are future humans" stuff most authors would stop at.
To be frank, I am not certain how much I understand of the physics Randles sums up here on the strictly abstract level. She does nonetheless explain how these topics relate to the paranormal phenomena described. The result is one of the biggest mind-benders within the field of Fortean literature I have read in a long while, which is also one of the most scientifically rigorous, making convincing cases for turning many basic assumptions about how reality works upside-down and with that several underlying premises of popular ufology.
April 22, 2012
Si bien interesante la premisa inicial (hace descripciones de eventos anómalos que parecen capítulos de fringe) falla cuando se lanza a interpretar estos hechos. Su hipótesis es que los eventos anómales corresponden a un nuevo fenómeno físico de desplazamiento temporal (indocumentado por la establishment científico) y comienza a dar explicaciones basadas en la física cuántica y relatividad. En principio todo bien con esto, PERO sucede que la autora no sabe de física, y cuenta cualquier cosa. Abandoné la lectura después de pillar varios errores en su explicación, errores de los que precisamente se cuelga para apuntalar su hipótesis. Si tienes un sesgo a creer en la fringe science y si te pillan volando bajo con las explicaciones seudo-científicas, puedes terminar comprando el argumento.
Entre otros ejemplos menciona el caso del cabo valdés, pero no lo interpreta como un caso de abducción (no menciona ovnis en ninguna parte), sino que se enfoca únicamente en lo del desplazamiento temporal. Si bien menciona la frase "ustedes no saben quiénes somos ni de dónde venimos, pero volveremos", no le atribuye importancia (importancia que sí tiene para los ufólogos).
Otra cosa que me mató la pasión fueron las referencias. En un texto serio las referencias a libros o papers son bien precisas: indican titulo, autor, edición e incluso página donde encontrar la cita. En este caso la autora sólo cita título y autor, lo que hace muy difícil verificar referencias. eso para mí es chanta, pues da la impresión que menciona el libro por cumplir, y tal vez ni siquiera leyó el texto que está citando.
En definitiva: desilusionante
Entre otros ejemplos menciona el caso del cabo valdés, pero no lo interpreta como un caso de abducción (no menciona ovnis en ninguna parte), sino que se enfoca únicamente en lo del desplazamiento temporal. Si bien menciona la frase "ustedes no saben quiénes somos ni de dónde venimos, pero volveremos", no le atribuye importancia (importancia que sí tiene para los ufólogos).
Otra cosa que me mató la pasión fueron las referencias. En un texto serio las referencias a libros o papers son bien precisas: indican titulo, autor, edición e incluso página donde encontrar la cita. En este caso la autora sólo cita título y autor, lo que hace muy difícil verificar referencias. eso para mí es chanta, pues da la impresión que menciona el libro por cumplir, y tal vez ni siquiera leyó el texto que está citando.
En definitiva: desilusionante
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