Monday, January 3, 2011

Welcome to the Year 1714

A German academic claims that 300 years were mistakenly added to our calendar, and so we are still actually in the 1700s. The years AD 614-911 never happened. This certainly makes sense to me - how much happened in history between those years? Absolutely nothing at all. They were named the Dark Ages for a reason. All I've ever heard from period was peasants living in straw huts throwing poo at each other.

Further reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_hypothesis
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/volatile/Niemitz-1997.pdf
http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/euyyg/is_it_actually_the_year_1714_theres_a_theory_that/

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