Picture of the Chapel of Aachen
By: Adam M. AlienAdam Reporter 6-18-2012
The Phantom Time Hypothesis
Hello and welcome to the year 1715. That’s right according to Dr. Hans-Ulrich Niemitz who introduce the “The Phantom Time Hypothesis.” We’re missing roughly 300 years. The period from 614-911. A link to Dr. Hans-Ulrich’s paper can be found here.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/volatile/Niemitz-1997.pdf
The hypothesis makes three very strong points:
1) The first thing we want to look at is the Gregorian Calender which was introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII in order to correct the errors in the Julian calender. Every 1,257 years the Julian calender skipped ten days, which means if corrected in the year 1257 AD the Gregorian Calender would have made the right calculations and corrected the calender by only ten days, but the Gregorian calender was introduced in 1582 and supposedly only corrected the Julian calender by ten days and it should have been closer to a 13 day correction. The new Gregorian calender leaves out roughly 300 years of calculation which helps explain how the middle ages didn’t happen and our calender is still in line astronomically.
2) The second point, the hypothesis makes, is the presence of Romanesque architecture in the tenth century. This suggest that the fall of the roman empire had been much closer to the tenth century maybe less than 500 years from from 1000 AD. The Chapel of Aachen is a great example of such architecture.
3) The third and final point the paper talks about is the scarcity of artifacts that can be properly dated to the time periods 614-911.
As much evidence as there is to support “The Phantom Time Hypothesis” there is an equal amount of evidence refuting it, so this one remains a conspiracy theory.
The main support for this claim is that the Gregorian calender neglected to adjust for 300 years, therefore these years never happened? Ignore all of the history over this period and the mountains of evidence and focus on the supposed fact that three days were left out of the adjustments to a calender. Obviously the logical conclusion is that those 300 years never occured. That is the stupidest argument I’ve heard all day.