By Roy Bainton
New mysteries, in addition to diversifications on ordinary ones, proceed to floor on a weekly foundation world wide, from showers of frogs over Hungary to birds falling to earth in Arkansas. This compendious round-up of unexplained phenomena examines every thing from the experiments being performed with the big Hadron Collider to vintage maritime mysteries concerning inexplicably lacking crews, through UFOs, mediums, cryptozoology, panics, paranoia and a universe proving stranger in reality than we would imagined.
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Finding the elusive, nigh-on incomprehensible Higgs boson is one thing, but exceeding the speed of light is something else. However, other scientists have already reacted to this possibility with caution. ” Shades of Laurel and Hardy there, but that’s science. In addition, some scientists working with CERN’s Large Hadron Collider – the world’s largest atom smasher – think that it could be the first machine capable of enabling matter to travel backwards in time. This notion revolves around M-theory, a “theory of everything” that accommodates all the known properties of subatomic particles and forces, including gravity, but instead of the four dimensions we’re used to, M-theory requires ten or eleven.
It is difficult to keep Charles Fort at arm’s length when attempting to study the world of the unexplained, but his highly quotable words can be irresistible: “Wise men have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. ” It’s a big circle.
As the decades roll on, science will gather even more speed and no doubt many of the weird events outlined in this book may well leave the realm of the unexplained. But for now, they exist as a serious compendium of abnormal enigmas, and as such continue to exercise their grip on human imagination, sustaining our passion for romance and mystery. This is a book about the things we can’t explain, and a few of the things we think we can explain, yet still leave us puzzled. For example, as I write this, the UK newspaper the Daily Mail offers this weird report dated 15 December 2011: IT’S RAINING APPLES!