At work I discovered the previous day’s sign-in sheet had three signatures each of which was dated 4\/16\/2012.<\/p>\n
There are two explanations of this that I am considering.<\/p>\n
The Mistake theory: Somebody goofed up and wrote the wrong date, which was unthinkingly copied by the next two signatories.<\/p>\n
The Time Traveler theory: Yesterday, my work place was transported back in time two years because of a break in the space-time continuum.<\/p>\n
The time-traveler theory is exotic, sure, but think about the mistake theory: it is ad-hoc<\/em><\/a>. It postulates that someone (a) goofed up and that (b) the next person unwittingly copied the goof-up, and<\/em> (c) a third person unwittingly copied the goof-up. I don’t know if we can stomach such an ad-hoc theory, especially when we have the much simpler theory that my workplace just traveled back in time (that’s only a single<\/em> assumption, whereas the other theory has three<\/em>!).<\/p>\n In case you’re wondering: yes, this post is a parody. It is closely tied into the reasoning I have used concerning miracles (see here<\/a> and here<\/a>) and the logic of explanation (see ‘Right Theory, Wrong Theory<\/a>‘).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At work I discovered the previous day’s sign-in sheet had three signatures each of which was dated 4\/16\/2012. There are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}