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Bermuda Triangle's effect on time

jeffq

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I was intrigued by Randi's problem watch on the Amaz!ng Bermuda Triangle Cruise, stopping at 11:11 but later found to be working again. I don't imagine I'm clever enough to figure the most likely cause, but if I had to hazard a guess, I'd wonder if it is a mechanical watch that had a damaged gear tooth, causing it to stop advancing until it was put down, shaking the watch a bit so that the next time it was observed, it was working again. (Okay, maybe a stretch, but like I said....) Anyway, I found the cell phone incident even more mysterious. He says:
I put the instrument aside, and for the next day I consulted my cell phone to tell the time. Of course, when we went out of range of any land relays, the phone also failed me.
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I use my cell phone as my only source of time while travelling, and even in the depths of the subway system, where no signal is possible, its clock still works perfectly fine. Maybe the Triangle does indeed have some spooky powers. ;)
 
I think Randi's watch display was analog, so the damaged gear hypothesis might be correct. I do know that none of the shops on the ship sold watch batteries. Many sold watches, but there was not a battery to be bought.

It could be that Randi turned off his cell phone. My phone is like yours, but if you turn it on while out of range of any tower, it does not display time. (I've also worked with cell phones which would drain the battery quickly if they could not find a service. The software was written so the phone would keep trying to contact a service, and the transmitting ate up power. That's why I kept my phone off for most of the cruise. If Randi's phone was like this, its battery would have been drained, it would have turned itself off, and he would have had to recharge it.)
 
jeffq said:
I use my cell phone as my only source of time while travelling, and even in the depths of the subway system, where no signal is possible, its clock still works perfectly fine. Maybe the Triangle does indeed have some spooky powers. ;)
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My previous cell phone would not tell time if it was not receiving a signal; it would display the "No service" screen instead of the clock. My current cell phone, however, is a newer model that can actually keep time... on its own! What technology will they come up with next?!
 
I agree Forty-two, usually the clock still works even though the cell phone is out of service. The newer cells anyways.
 
It might have been like my watch.

My wife gave me a really nice Citizen microprocessor controlled analog face wrist watch when we got married nine years ago. This last s\pringr, I thought it was a goner. It stopped showing the correct time, and the hands no longer pointed where they should when using other functions (calendar, two alarms, local time, stop watch, timer.) I first thought the battery was bad because it still had the original in it. I had that replaced, and it did better but would still lose time and the hands got out of sync again and again. Since it's a really nice watch with lots of sentimental calue, I took it in to have it cleaned and to see if there were soemthing broken. It was in the shop for a couple of weeks (they had to send it in somewhere as real watch makers are scarce) and when it came back it seemed better, but would still lose a couple of seconds every now and again. After a while, it settled down and has been reliable since.

What could it have been? A little spot of dirt or a fuzzy that got into the mechanical part of the display and that the watchmaker didn't get cleaned out.

Odd that it should happen to Randi on that particular trip, but since there wasn't (apparently) a mass "wrong watch orgy," it looks like he got hit with an odd coincidence. If all the watches had gone wonky, I'd have worried - especially if they were all electronic LCD display units. Mass mechanical problems could have been caused by many things.
 
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But why did it stop at 11:11?! What are the odds? Well, what else would that clock have been set at at 11:11?

You can be sure that people will be misquoting this thing against Randi for years to come...
 
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Yeah, but what's the chance of Mr. Randi's watch stopping at 11:11 on that particular day whilst at that particular spot on his cruise in the Bermuda Triangle?

The point is, anything could have happened anywhere to anyone at any time.

It's significant only if it was predicted.
 
My watch also stopped during that night
But not at 11:11.
Unfortunately I don't have it here in the hospital so I can't check at what time it decided to mess with me.
 
On the other hand I wore my watch while snorkeling. It says it's "water resist 50m", and sure enough, it is. My watch is functioning fine despite being immersed in the waters of the Bermuda Triangle for an hour.
 
I wasn't wearing a watch on the cruise, but while in the Bermuda Triangle, my skin seemed to darken noticeably.
 
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