Phantom time hypothesis

What if I told you that we live in the year 1725 AD, i.e. in the eighteenth century, it seems strange, doesn't it?! But this is what would happen if the ghost-time hypothesis was true. What is this hypothesis?

The world in which we live today is characterised by differences, disagreement about the simplest things and postulates, but there are some things that are taken for granted and cannot be doubted, for example we all agree that the week has seven days, that the day has 24 hours, and that we are in the twenty-first century. However, even these simple things have been called into question and what is known as the ghost-time hypothesis that claims that we are not really in the 21st century has emerged.

What is the ghost time hypothesis?

The phantom time hypothesis is the hypothesis that believes that the period in the Middle Ages between 614-911 AD is a period that did not occur at all, but was added to the annual calendar either by chance, or due to misinterpretation of documents or by deliberate forgery by people conspiring in the calendar .

The founder of this hypothesis is the German historian named Herbert Alleg, who promoted this hypothesis in the eighties of the last century, and believes that King Charlemagne is not real and is one of the many things that were fabricated during the preparation of the calendar.

Herbert Alleg believes that this fabrication was done by the Roman Emperor Otto III, Pope Sylvester II and Constantine VII, and Herbert Allite believes that Otto III and Pope Sylvester II were living in the year 700 AD, but they wanted to live in the year 1000 AD, because Otto III wanted to His reign is in 1000 AD due to beliefs specific to the Christian religion, so they fabricated the timing and added fake tournaments to King Charlemagne, Emperor of the Roman Empire, and King of the Franks, who lived between 742 and 814 AD, in addition to the personality of Alfred the Great, who lived between 849 and 899 AD, who ruled the Kingdom of Wessex, and all of them are slander and fiction and do not really exist.

Evidence for the ghost-time hypothesis

The evidence that Herbert Alleg has in support of the ghost-time hypothesis is that traces of the time period between 614 and 911 AD are very few, and that Western European Roman architecture continued into the 10th century, although the Roman Empire fell in AD 475, a period spanning more than of 400 years.

German historian Herbert Alleg believes that the conspiracy did not stop there, but continued until 1582, when Pope Gregor XIII reformed the Julian calendar imposed by Julius Caesar in 45 BC with the Gregorian calendar.

The calendar was 10.8 minutes longer each year than the previous year, and Pope Gregory modified the calendar because he wanted to make sure that Easter was celebrated at the time of the spring equinox, and because of that, 10 days were added to the date and moved from October 4, 1582 to October 15 , Herbert saw that the difference was 13 days, not 10, as Pope Gregory thought, and they accumulated over the 1,600 years of the Julian calendar.

In 1986 a historical conference was held in Munich, and revealed the forgery of documents dating back to medieval manuscripts by the Roman Catholic Church.

Alleg also looked for other evidence to support his hypothesis, and found some of them, such as the construction gap in Constantinople between 558 and 908 AD, as a result of which Herbert believes that there are 297 fabricated years that do not exist in the first place.

Stretching and following the ghost-time hypothesis

Another proponent of the ghost-time hypothesis was Jean Hardouin, who believed that Roman manuscripts and Roman antiquities had been forged by Benedictine monks, but until his death in 1729 CE, he did not provide sufficient evidence to show what motivated the Benedictine monks to carry out such a large forgery, and did not provide Sufficient scientific evidence supports these accusations.

And it didn't stop there. The ghost-time hypothesis prompted the Russian mathematician Anatoly Fomenko to devise a new theory, the new chronology. This theory questioned history, and saw that British glories were in favor of Russia.

This theory simply claims that everything that happened before the year 800 AD (and even before the year 1000 AD) is not true.. Are you aware of the size of the accusations in this theory?

What is even more strange than this theory (which can be easily refuted through the study of archeology) is that the Russian people tend to believe in it, as statistics have shown that 30% of the Russian people tend to believe in the new chronology, and the reason is simply that this theory adds more glories to the history of Russia than it really is.

Refuting the ghost time hypothesis

Going back to the ghost-time hypothesis, although this hypothesis is amusing, and highly controversial hypotheses are often interesting, especially if some evidence to support this theory is concocted, theories that are out of the ordinary require very strong and out of the ordinary evidence Also, Herbert jumped to his conclusion quickly and took an unscientific approach in proving his hypothesis.

However, most scholars who have studied the Middle Ages consider this hypothesis absurd and unfounded, because Elleg does not have enough information about archeology or the science of ageing trees, which provides strong evidence that this time period exists and is not fabricated as he believes.

Also, Eleg does not provide sufficient evidence, for example, on the development of other civilizations such as the civilization of China, India and Persia in this period of time, which he considers a forgery, and he does not have an answer and cannot explain many other matters such as the start and development of Islamic countries and their spread across the Middle East, and North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula.

But we cannot deny that the ghost time hypothesis is an interesting and entertaining hypothesis to read and see, or it can be said that it is one of the crazy hypotheses that appeared at one time and caused a great stir, but through a little research it can be proven that this hypothesis is wrong and cannot be trusted. Absolutely.