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Time Travel and The Mandela Effect

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The novel The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch is a futuristic novel that revolves around time travel. Shannon Moss, an agent in a secret division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), travels through time in order to solve crimes. When Shannon travels through time she enters the IFT or Inadmissible Future Trajectory. These IFT’s are examples of possible futures, but are not definitive futures. The Terra Firma is the only “real” timeline, because the IFT’s stop existing as soon as the time traveler leaves. At one point in the novel, Shannon is rescued from an ITF by her crew, or at least they think they rescued Shannon. Shannon is exclaiming that they have the wrong Shannon, when in reality the real Shannon has passed and this is an IFT Shannon created by a time knot (very complicated I know). It took me until I got to the end of the novel and did some research to realize what had happened, however when Shannon was saying they have the wrong Shannon, it made me think of the Mandela effect. The mandela effect is a phenomenon where a large number of people remember something differently than how it actually occurred. Examples of the mandela include “Looney Toons'' when its actually “Looney Tunes,” “The Berenstein Bears” when it is actually “The Berenstain Bears” and “Oscar Meyer” when it is actually “Oscar Mayer” just to name a few. (source ) Scientists at healthline believe that the mandela effect could just be an example of how poor memory is, however there is a conspiracy theory that each mandela effect could be proof of alternate universes. Like in the Gone World, where the ITF Shannon is remembering things from her past life that don’t make sense in this new world, this could be an example of an individual Mandela effect since a true Mandela effect occurs when a large group mis-recalls an event. The idea of multiple ITF as presented in The Gone World goes along with multiple alternate universes and maybe, the Mandela effect or other instances of misremembering could be examples of ITF, or a new Universe.

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New Normal - Zone One

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Normal - it’s what we’re used to. A routine, the usual. But at what point does change or a “new normal” become just, normal? Why do we have a desire to make things as they were, even if others have never experienced it? This theme is present in Colson Whitehead's Zone One. A virus has taken over that turns people into feral zombies. This plague conquered the world, and while the worst seems to have passed there is still an area of Manhattan that must be cleared of the zombies before rebuilding is possible. In Zone One they are so close to rebuilding, yet, it seems almost impossible with the events that have occurred and the P.A.S.D. (Post Apocalyptic Stress Disorder) that many suffer from. This new stress alone, shows how the world will not be as it was before. This desire to rebuild and return to “normal” reminds me of another novel we discussed: Station Eleven. In Station Eleven a flu like virus spreads rapidly throughout the world, killing persons infected in 24 hours. Technology no longer functions, cars are not used, and museums are made that house this “old” technology. Throughout this novel those who had lived with technology had a major debate and struggle of what to teach their kids about the past. They longed for an easier life, a life they knew, a life that was “normal,” yet this life was long gone and a ways away. Children who have never experienced life with technology, yet they still want to return to “normal” even though they have never experienced it. What is seen in these novels is also present in our current pandemic. The desire to return to “normalcy” but there are some small children who don’t know what that is. I read a story about an online kindergarten teacher who gave her zoom class some free time and they decided to play school. Instead of saying things like “raise your hand, come to the board, sit on the carpet” they said things like “unmute your mic, turn on your camera, am I sharing my screen,” things that a year ago would make zero sense. To these kids this is normal. They’ve never been to school in a classroom. So why do we want to return to “normal?” Is it because it’s safe? Or easy? Or is it really because it is “normal?”

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