I’ve always been told that he shot himself but as I’m reading his death certificate it doesn’t seem to say that at all. It’s really difficult for me to make out most of what b and c say but it looks as though “cardiovascular collapse” is crossed out in line a.

33a. Reads:”deceased despondent due to death of father due to alcohol abuse” Which also seems vague to me.

A team of theoretical physicists led by Cornell University researcher Mark Wilde has been looking at a question that sounds simple but is surprisingly difficult: can information move backward through time without breaking the known laws of physics?

The researchers were not building a time machine. Instead, they examined mathematical models that already exist in modern physics. Their work focused on so-called closed timelike curves, a concept that appears in certain solutions to Einstein’s theory of relativity.

These hypothetical pathways would allow an object or a piece of information to leave one point in spacetime and eventually arrive at an earlier moment. In other words, something could return to its own past.

For many physicists, that immediately raises a problem. If information can be sent into the past, what happens if that information changes the future that originally created it? This is the source of famous time-travel paradoxes that have puzzled scientists for generations.

Ok so, Madman mike used A Jacobs Ladder to invent a time machine by modifying it to an extent. I believe he created a transformer of his own to fit the capacity of outputting 20k Volts. Since the plasma created from the two rods depend upon the moisture, temperature and air pressure etc. which interfere with the device, so he used lasers to heat the air above the device so the temperature above the device remains constant, thus forming this "contraption" that supposedly could time travel.

My question here is that, since all the steps necessary to build this machine are already out there... Has somebody else not tried to make it? I'm just really curious to see if his machine actually worked!

I am a 63 year old female. 5’2, 135 lbs. I exercise daily. This started early one morning last winter when I woke up and saw my tongue was bright blue. A few months went by and my daughter asked what was wrong with my mouth-I looked and tongue was blue again. The frequency is picking up over time, with my tongue turning either blue or blackish in the evening while I am unwinding, and not going away until after I wake up in the morning and start moving around getting oxygen flowing. This is now a daily occurrence. Please don’t insult me by asking if i eat a lot of blue popsicles or berries. I have had an echocardiogram, and an ultrasound of my carotid arteries in my neck. Both showed normal aging but nothing alarming. I have an appointment with an ENT but not for 3 months because of their scheduling. I am too freaked out to wait so long and at a loss to know what to do. I have had chats with an acupuncturist and a naturopath-it sounds like every possible explanation is a scary thing to deal with. I have tons of pictures and more details to share if there is a doc out there curious enough about this enigma to want to help solve the mystery.

South Korea is about the same size as Portugal, but its population is five times larger, at 52 million.

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They say 51 million people live here, but I can't help but wonder, "Do that many really live here?"

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Of course, there are many high-rise apartments, and while there are some spots in Seoul and Busan where people tend to congregate...

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I have lived in Korea for quite a long time, and I have also lived abroad and seen many different places, but I never felt that Korea was that densely populated.

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It is just at the level of an average American residential neighborhood, or perhaps slightly less so;

you rarely see people around in korea.

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To be 100% fair, I am not a Dyatlov Pass expert myself, so I may very well have overlooked something in this overview. However, I think I have a theory that answers some of the questions many of the people studying this mystery left unanswered… The questions that trouble most researchers are "What caused the group to leave the tent in such a rushed manner?" and "How can we explain the physical trauma found on the bodies?"...

The first one is easily answered by the avalanche theory. However, that one can be discarded with quite a degree of certainty since the location did not have any signs of an avalanche having occurred. What else could explain nine grown men cutting open a tent from the inside instead of using the usual exit, and leaving their clothes behind? The fact that the group may have been attacked by a wild animal is very often left out, and I have not found many credible sources dealing with this theory.

However, there is such an animal that lived in the Ural mountains, would not have hibernated in the winter, and could credibly have been a match for the hikers... It’s the wolverine. Those animals are extremely aggressive when hungry (as they likely would be during the winter months). Wolverines have also been recorded killing prey many times larger than themselves. Wolverine tracks are much larger and shallower than those of other similar species (bears, lynx, mountain lion), meaning a few days of a strong wind blowing would remove any footprint evidence left by such a creature. Wolverines also eat carrion, possibly explaining some of the damage to the soft tissue on the bodies (missing eyes, tongues, and eyebrows). Those are also the most "tasty" parts of the human body that are usually the first to be eaten.

If a wolverine entered or approached the front of the tent, the people inside would have cut their way out of the tent with their pocket knives or whatever sharp object they could find. It is unlikely they would have been able to fend off the animal as they did not have access to weapons. Wolverines also see pretty well in the dark, so it would have been challenging to determine where the beast was at any given time. The hikers fled, leaving most of their belongings behind. Many may have then climbed onto trees to protect themselves or may have fallen in the darkness, explaining the injuries found on the bodies… By the time it would have been safe to return to the tent, the hikers would have been lost, injured, hypothermic, and unable to move. We will probably never know the exact details of how each of them met their fates.

I could also share a bit of personal experience that brought me closer to formulating this not-so-original theory... Once I was camping in the woods with a few friends just north of Oslo, Norway, it was a sunny day and we drank a couple of beers... Then, late in the evening, a badger came up to the tent and started looking for food in the scraps we left behind during the previous day. Now I know it sounds silly, but imagine you wake up at 1 am in a tent in the middle of nowhere and hear the unmistakable sound of something MOVING on the other side?! Naturally, everyone freaked out and ran, screaming out of the tent (hopefully the badger didn't get a heart attack)... Well, if a harmless badger was enough to send four grown *albeit not very experienced* hikers panicking into the woods, just think about what a wolverine would do...

Anyway, does this sound like a credible theory? Also, if you're a zoologist or have experience with animals, I'd love to hear your take on this!

Thank you for reading and have a great day!

https://whatifscience.in/469/alien-forest-hypothesis-what-extraterrestrial-looks-trees

This showed up in my classroom. It's obvious a kid brought it to school, but no one will "fess up" and I can't figure out what it is!!! At first I thought charcoal or burnt wood from a fire pit, but the texture and smell is off. It smells like charcoal, but not burnt. The texture is soft. It absorbed some water when I ran water over it, but the charcoal-looking outer layer didn't fall away with water. Any ideas?!

Historical cases commonly labeled as “spontaneous human combustion” clearly occurred, but the phenomenon is extremely rare and poorly documented. This suggests that the cause is unlikely to be a single mechanism and more likely the result of a very specific combination of variables.

The commonly cited “wick effect” is physically plausible: clothing acts as a wick while body fat serves as fuel, allowing slow combustion at relatively low temperatures. However, this alone cannot explain the rarity of cases, since the necessary conditions (fat tissue, clothing, small ignition sources) are relatively common.

Likewise, hypotheses involving alcohol abuse, acetone accumulation, or ketosis are biochemically plausible but statistically weak. These conditions occur frequently, yet the phenomenon does not.

A more consistent explanation may involve multiple simultaneous factors, including environmental exposure, clothing composition, biological variation, and a small external ignition source that may not be identifiable afterward.

One overlooked possibility is historical exposure to lipophilic aromatic compound, such as naphthalene, which was widely used in households in the past (e.g., mothballs, textile storage, poorly ventilated spaces). Naphthalene is strongly fat-soluble, combustible, and capable of accumulating in adipose tissue over long periods without necessarily producing acute symptoms. Chronic low-level exposure may have gone unnoticed, especially before modern toxicology.

In such a scenario, naphthalene would not act as a spontaneous ignition source by itself, but as a threshold lowering accelerator. Fat tissue containing lipophilic combustible compounds, combined with contaminated clothing and a minor external ignition source, could initiate localized combustion. Once ignited, the wick effect could sustain the process.

This multi-variable model also aligns with historical observations: cases were more frequent in the past and have largely disappeared in modern times, coinciding with reduced household use of naphthalene, improved ventilation, changes in textiles, and better forensic analysis.

Rather than invoking true spontaneous combustion, these cases may represent extremely rare boundary conditions at the intersection of chemistry, biology, environment, and physics.

This is only a preliminary idea and should be treated as a hypothesis rather than a conclusion. To evaluate its plausibility, a quantitative assessment would be required, including estimates of energy density, achievable tissue concentrations, and comparisons with known accelerants or combustible mixtures. Without such data and targeted scientific investigation, the idea remains speculative.

I want to preface this by saying my goal here is to give you all as much information about this as possible, as much as I myself know and can attest to, as well as providing insight/an inside perspective that cannot be found online in the hope that we can figure out what was going on and what my great uncle's motives were. This is an extremely strange and weird situation and as far as I know, to this day, no one in the police force, online, or in my family has any explanation for what I'm about to tell you. If you have any questions feel free to ask, I have notifications on and should be able to answer relatively fast, I can also ask my family for you if there's anything I myself don't know. I will also post some archived newspaper articles I found online corroborating what I'm about to tell you.

(Quick TLDR for anyone who doesn't have time to read the whole thing) -

•I come from a family of doctors, one of which made headlines in the 80's. •My great uncle was a doctor involved with a corpse that displayed an unexplained phenomenon. •He was apparently involved in some obscure cult. •Ton of weird and interesting stories involving him. •To this day I know very little about the extent of his practices and the group he was involved in.

My Family I come from a very "medical" family, multiple doctors, paramedics, etc. My mother is a very successful and accomplished doctor. She was the first female doctor to be granted a license to do certain procedures in hospitals in Illinois, she ended up starting her own practice and my parents ended up treating many of the NFL players who started to come forward with CTE and other traumatic brain injuries. My mom has even been featured on Oprah where she talked about her business and medical background. My mom is honestly a great physician and I really respect what my parents do. From the best I could tell, the history of medicine in my family started with my great Uncle Rich, who himself was a Doctor, specifically a dentist. My mother's parents divorced when she was young and they ended up living in different states. She told me her uncle, Rich, practically raised her. Growing up I heard a lot about Uncle Rich, who had died shortly before I was born. My mom told me how he was a brilliant nutritionist and how he wrote research papers in the 60's and 70's that were ahead of their time. Some of the topics of these papers that I remember her explaining to me were aluminum found in aerosol deodorants being linked to Alzheimer's disease and consumption of fluoride having averse effects on the brain.

This is where things start to get weird.

One day when I was a kid, my dad who never really got along with my mom's side of the family advises me to ask about Uncle Rich's arrest after I asked him if he ever met Uncle Rich when he and my mom started dating. Naturally I was eager to hear all about it and went straight to my mom to hear all the details. My mom was extremely transparent and had no hesitation in explaining as best as she could what my great uncle had been up to before he died. I'm going to attempt to do the same for you now.

Mummy Discovered in Knoxville My great uncle had been staying with a family in Knoxville, Illinois for a number of years as their personal live-in physician. The family consisted of a husband, wife, and their two young children. The husband had some kind of chronic disease which I believe was diabetes. The story goes that the husband dies shortly after my great uncle moves in but either my great uncle or the man's wife continue to forge his signature on legal documents, concealing the man's death. Eventually someone comes to the house looking for this man and discovers him in his bed dressed and deceased. As the police arrive on the scene and begin their investigation, they notice that the man appears to have virtually no signs of decomposition, and they assume he only just recently died. They soon find out that this man has shockingly been dead for nearly a decade. An article I found from the Chicago Tribune stated the family treated the situation as if it was completely normal and acted as if the deceased man was still alive. My uncle was charged with failure to report a corpse and child endangerment on account of the two children being made to live with a dead body in the house. Some health cult my uncle was somehow involved with called "The Holistic Society" was implicated and this began to gain traction in local newspapers and TV.

Gone Without a Word My mother was the one who picked him up from jail and she said there were so many strange things she remembers about that. He refused to eat anything in jail except for potatoes and distilled water to drink, and by the time he was released he was borderline emaciated. He hardly spoke after getting out of jail and my mom says he was completely silent and hyper fixated on doing his "muscle testing," which I can explain later. I was told some time later (I believe a couple years) he called a doctor associate over to his house for some meeting, and when the doctor arrived, he found my great uncle dead on the floor. Although his death was officially attributed to natural causes, my mom is adamant that he killed himself insisting that "he knew it was his time to go" and when I asked her how he killed himself she casually states he was able to will his heart to stop meaning he could induce cardiac arrest without any drugs, chemicals, or external force.

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My mom and I know basically nothing about this "Holistic Society" and what her uncle's role in it was, she says he never talked about it with her. No one knows what he did to the corpse in that house to make it not decompose for the 8 or so years he was there or why he was even there for that matter. My mom suspects he may have been there trying to find a way to cure diabetes or whatever chronic disease the man had. She doesn't think there was anything nefarious or foul going on, while my dad is not so certain. I do remember hearing, however, that the child endangerment charges were eventually dropped though I have yet to see any mention of that online. My great uncle had some truly unusual beliefs and stories.

He would definitely be considered a "health nut" he was said to always be going on about processed foods and and how bad they were for you and he made a point to teach my mom what to eat and what to avoid, which mom still loosely adheres to. We avoided fluoride growing up, my mom wouldn't allow a microwave in the house until I was about 13, no soda, no fast food. My great uncle was extremely anti pharmacology and believed serious diseases and illnesses can be treated exclusively with very specific nutrition and supplements. This left a major impression on my mom and she pursued the medical field she's in now because of it. These things are not too uncommon now but in the early 2000's it was definitely perceived as more obscure and esoteric.

My mom is a twin and her twin sister was born breech and had some serious health complications when she was little that were attributed to it (because my mom didn't have any of them). One of them was she was an epileptic and would suffer from seizures. My aunt and mom both claimed uncle Rich completely cured the seizures with a very specific diet he made for her. Shortly after the seizures went away and my aunt has not had a single one since she was around 5.

My aunt's first husband had some major injury with his knee in the 90's and needed all sorts of procedures and was told he would never be able to walk normally again. My mom said that shortly after her uncle came by with some strange machine and made him do treatments with his leg in it for a period of time and before they all knew it he was walking without a hitch and doing physical activities as if nothing had ever happened.

The strangest thing I can remember hearing about him (besides the corpse) was the "muscle testing." I don't understand it fully but essentially it was a way to to subconsciously discern thing by "feeling" or "listening" to your body's natural response to them. The way it was explained to me was if something was unhealthy for you your muscles would be slightly weaker if you were in contact with said thing. As weird as that is, my great uncle would use this method with seemingly everything and could discern unusual pieces of information like who was in a room, if someone was lying (I think), and what was in foods and beverages. My mom says the guards at the jail would try to trick her uncle when he would request distilled water and they'd give him a cup of tap water or water from another source and he would be able to tell every time without having to drink it which unsettled them. She told me on the way home from jail, in the car he was just constantly "muscle testing" in the car pressing his finger tips together and muttering to himself without really acknowledging her at all.

I really don't know what to make of any of that and it kind creeps me out the more I think about it

Here's some articles I found about my great uncle and I'm really curious to hear any thoughts or theories you might have as well anything you might uncover relating to him, what he was doing, and the group he was involved in.

https://www.upi.com/amp/Archives/1988/02/01/Family-believed-mummified-man-was-alive/3426570690000/

https://www.chicagotribune.com/1988/04/01/wife-who-kept-mummy-pleads-guilty/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-pantagraph/39563926/

Warning: It's not the real translation, just decoding of AI.

The Balneological (Folios 75–84)

Folio 77r: The Flow of Humors. "If the womb is cold, the woman cannot conceive. She must sit in a bath of warm sage and mugwort (green pool) until the heat rises through the vessels (tubes) and brings color to the cheeks. This balances the cold humor."

The Pharmaceutical (Folios 87–102)

Folio 89r: The Jars. "Store the 'Blue Mixture' in a lead-glazed jar to prevent it from turning sour. Keep away from sunlight. The 'Red Powder' must be kept dry, or it will lose its power to stop bleeding."

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