Meeting yourself in other universes
THIS could be the loopiest website we have come across yet. Several readers have gleefully suggested we bask in the craziness of , a website that tells us we can 鈥渏ump鈥� into parallel universes and benefit from encounters with alternative versions of ourselves that live in them: 鈥淚magine the wisdom you鈥檇 learn,鈥� it exhorts, optimistically.
Arguing that quantum physicists believe that 鈥渁n infinite number of alternate universes exist鈥�, the website goes on to assert that 鈥淓very decision you make in life causes a 鈥榮plit鈥� in reality鈥� which in turn creates two alternate universes 鈥� one where the current version of you is today, and another with the version of you who made a different choice鈥� Now imagine what you could accomplish if you could somehow tap into these alternate universes to meet and learn from these alternate versions of yourself.鈥�
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Sadly, the website doesn鈥檛 actually tell us how to do this, beyond asserting that 鈥渁ll you need to do is change the frequency of your thoughts鈥�. Perhaps everything will become clear if you sign up for a free introductory course, and clearer still if you buy the CDs promoted in the 鈥減roducts鈥� section.
By way of encouragement, we are given the example of Burt Goldman, who discovered quantum jumping and who has apparently turned himself into a painter, a photographer, a published author, a singer and an 鈥渋nternet entrepreneur鈥� by jumping into other universes to learn from other selves.
We are also given customer testimonials, such as the one from Mary Madeline Day, who decided to 鈥済ive quantum jumping a shot鈥� when she had a headache. 鈥淎fter going through the door to my other healthy self and staying there for a short while,鈥� she says, 鈥淚 started to feel better.鈥�
Curiously, this and the other testimonials are accompanied by a disclaimer saying 鈥淧lease note that these results are not typical鈥︹�� So why give them to us? Why not give results that are typical? But perhaps another version of Feedback in another universe could answer this and the many other questions we have about quantum jumping.
鈥淭hompson鈥檚 Health Supplements in Australia, Bruce Campbell notes, have succeeded in producing a chemical product previously unknown to science. They now sell 鈥淥rganic Zinc Tablets鈥�
MORE amazing precision comes from the which informed Ian Dibsdall, via a famous web search engine, that he was about to visit 鈥淧age 0.933333333333 of 44鈥�. The page in question is not small 鈥� when we looked it had roughly 58,000 words in between the pictures of tools 鈥� yet it informed us of our position in the document to the nearest 17-millionth of a word, approximately.
Feedback suspects this puzzled the website designers nearly as much as it did us, because when we went back to to look again, while proofreading this page, their page count display was nowhere to be seen.
THE US National Library of Medicine鈥檚 search service PubMed is, says Janis Smy, 鈥渂eloved of medical writers like me鈥� because it allows them to search the databases of most peer-reviewed journals by topic or name of researcher. Janis is amused, though, when she goes in via , to be confronted by a red bar at the top of the page containing the words 鈥淗istory has expired due to inactivity鈥�.
Breeding sausages in the garden
SAINSBURY鈥橲 supermarket, Peter Harrison tells us, sells 鈥渙utdoor bred Cumberland chipolatas鈥�. Peter thinks these would be an ideal source of protein to keep and nurture in his garden. There would be no pen to build and no noisy or smelly disturbance of the neighbours.
He asks: 鈥淒oes anyone know whether I should start with one or two 鈥� and if two, which two 鈥� and what to feed them on?鈥�
Ingredients from here and there
THE label on Michael Lofting鈥檚 bottle of soda water stated that it was made from 鈥渓ocal and imported ingredients鈥�. Michael wondered whether it was the water or the carbon dioxide that was imported: 鈥淚f the latter, does this constitute an emissions trading scheme?鈥�
TRYING to get a lift pass for the ski resort of Courchevel in the French Alps, Jethro Jessop followed the links to buy one at . A nicely designed screen with images of snow-capped mountains bore the message: 鈥淚nternet ski passes purchase is only available at our desks in the resort.鈥�
鈥淚 took this as proof that we all live in some kind of virtual construct inside a giant other-dimensional computer,鈥� Jethro says.
Perhaps in preparation for the 鈥渋nformation technology for business鈥� event taking place at the resort on 7 April, pass purchasing online has since been restored.
Beware the killer mice from space
JUST for a moment, James McCartney was very worried by the 鈥淢onitoring killer mice from space鈥�. Then he realised with relief that the monitoring is from space, not the mice. It went on: 鈥淕reen on satellite images warns of hantavirus outbreaks.鈥�
FINALLY, an email Graham Smith sent us in January has now resurfaced in our piling system. He describes shopping in the run-up to Christmas with his partner for something to dress their 3-month-old in. In a Tesco supermarket they found a sleeping suit emblazoned with the words 鈥淢y First Christmas鈥�. It was sized to fit babies from 18 to 24 months old.