Sang Nordique

Newspaper Archive

The "Gimli Times News" presented here is a fictitious, in-game newspaper that the Sang Nordique game storytellers use to advance plots, introduce themes, and set game mood. All articles, events, people, places, or objects mentioned above are to be considered fiction, and in no way reflect or referred to real life articles, events, people, places, or objects.

The information on this page of the website is to be considered in-character. All OWbN player and non-player characters, regardless of home chronicle can be considered to have access to the information on this page.

Gimli Times

Volume XVI, Issue MI Saturday, October 1st, 2016

Gimli's Crypto Files: The Mandela Effect. Prt 2

Now let's look at residuals. I think 'residuals' are typically publishing errors. Look at what they're finding. People are human. Typos are made in newspapers, teleprompters, printed items, you name it. As such, they are more than likely items that have been overlooked by manufacturers more so than they are indications of leftovers of a reality that was ripped from us and placed in another.

I understand that some want to blame the D-Wave quantum computer as being responsible for tying universes together with adverse affects, but there is actually no evidence that those machines even work the way their creators think they do. According to a New Scientist publication entitled The Quantum World, the President of D-Wave, Bo Ewald said, "We’re not in the business of trying to prove whether it's quantum or not," which is a mind-boggling statement since they're selling the device as a quantum computer.

I understand some people want to blame some kind of reality architect, changing things because of some newly gained magical spell to show us who is in control, but is that what is actually going on?

Was "The Dress" the first evidence of converging universes because the colors people perceived could be split right down the middle? Or did it just say something about how all of our hardware functions, processes, and encodes information differently to one another?

We fill in so much of life with our imaginations, and those imaginations vary in everyone. It gives us character, inspiration, personality. Our imaginations keep things interesting. More than likely, 99% of what we see in a given day is flawed internally. Think about all the news articles you consume. You're imagining what happened, you're not witnessing it, so when you read a news source, you are making up so many things and describing them to others as fact, when in reality, there is nothing empirical about it: you were not there, you did not see it, you are being influenced by a journalist with an editorial agenda, so you don't know. And even if you were there, your eye-witness testimony will not match other eye-witness testimonies.

There are still a number of problems, however. What about the third Thursday of November as Thanksgiving vs the fourth Thursday? This may have something else to do with neural encoding too, but I don't know. That's a tough one. There are a lot of tough ones, but the idea of compressed information and tangled information filled in by the imagination certainly seems to point to some kind of clue.

I reached out to a few different neuroscientists to comment on the Mandela Effect, but I failed to get a response, which is very unfortunate considering the amount of interest this topic has in society at the moment. Even if the Mandela Effect points to new ways in which our mind functions as opposed to parallel universes, it can lead us to a new understanding. It is a fascinating phenomenon, and my point to this is not to say it is all bunk as I am not a skeptard. What I want, and what everyone else seems to want, is some kind of answer, and this is my own attempt to draw closer to that answer.

Does any of this resonate? Sound plausible?

If we do have the capability to switch timelines or something similar, we are basically free to lie about anything and everything, do whatever we want, and then claim ignorance and blame parallel universes. Think about the ethics. Remember a couple years back when Brian Williams 'misremembered'? If the Mandela Effect had been known at the time, he could have turned himself into a hero by proclaiming, "I WAS actually on that U.S. military helicopter which was being targeted by enemy fire--but it happened on Timeline A." For all I know, maybe he wanted to believe so strongly that he HAD done this, he single-handedly split the universe.