Just when we had started feeling good about our very basic grasp of physics, multiverses, relativity…Esoterx comes along with a twist on the concept of time that is both simple and mind bending, courtesy of John Dunne (1875–1949). To have linear time–past, present, future–requires having an observer outside that timeline on another timeline, and so on, and so on, to the perspective of the “observer from infinity.â€� Dunne would not have been at all surprised by this story of precognition: Predicting Lincoln’s Death by Horoscope, Trance, and Manual Alphabet is a glimpse by Chris Woodyard into what constituted repeated foreshadowing of the late president’s assassination. If all elements of the reported tales are accurate, then clearly that point in infinity that Esoterx was talking about was trying to make itself known. (CM)

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