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Astonishing Legends

Dan, Susan, Micah Hanks and Missing Time

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.69.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2019

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

As we often say on the show, if you haven't had a strange, paranormal experience, it's likely someone you know has. This happens to be the case with two college friends of Forrest, Dan Povenmire and Susan Lambert. In the mid-1980s, Susan was working as a reporter for the student newspaper of The University of Southern California, The Daily Trojan. She had asked Dan if he wanted to accompany her to an interview with a movie director. They set out on a drive that should only have taken no more than 40 minutes to complete. But upon arriving at the hotel where the director was giving interviews, learned that they were somehow almost two hours late. This seeming impossibility has baffled Dan ever since and fueled a search for answers. But to add to the mystery, this wouldn't be the only unexplainable experience of missing time, as the pair would encounter another episode during a subsequent car ride together. And like with the first trip, each would remember a few odd sights during it that the other didn't recall. While unexplainable disruptions in time are rare, many people have reported experiencing a disturbing wrinkle in the fabric of time which we trust should always be smooth. Just what is going on when something so seemingly fixed and unalterable as the passage of time fluctuates? In the latter portion of the show, writer, field researcher, and podcaster Micah Hanks joins us for a discussion on some possible theories as to what might be happening scientifically with the phenomenon of Missing Time.

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Einstein's general theory of relativity postulates that gravity can bend both space and time.

0:44.3

Stephen Hawking's lecture, The Beginning of Time,

0:47.6

mentions something known as imaginary time,

0:50.7

which he calls a genuine scientific concept.

0:54.2

In trying to explain what it is,

0:56.3

he describes ordinary time in the way we all think of it,

1:00.1

a horizontal line with the past on the left and the future on the right.

1:05.6

But imaginary time is different.

1:08.5

It extends in a vertical direction relative to this horizontal line of ordinary time.

1:14.0

Hawking says, and I quote,

1:16.0

this is called imaginary time because it is not the kind of time we normally experience,

1:21.5

but in a sense, it is just as real.

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