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.