@ Mosuko (or whatever you spell it, I've had beeeer!)
A likely story, one which I would really like to believe.

But the door was not only locked in the conventional lock-key-deadbolt way, but also with a series of chains. I remember this, as it was my sister's superior job to lock the padlock.

And sure, I've run the scenario through my head - dad wandered off, unlocked the padlock, untied the chains, unlocked the deadbolt and then unlocked the door. But, BUT - he didn't. I was looking at him, he vanished.

I like science. In fact, I love science. I like to figure out the possible from the improbable. But this, in my mind's eye (as well as my sister's and my father's) remains the improbable, likely never to budge.

I'd love to give the explanation of, "And dad, after watching football for three hours, realised he did, in fact, own children," but, unfortunately, that doesn't settle well.

On my previous love of science, I once heard a hypothesis about the nature of time and how it doesn't tick forward in the marching line how we might expect it to. It overlaps itself. We can't trust physics, we can't trust mass, so why can we trust time?

I am sure that there are those with greater understanding of this frankly misunderstood concept of time who might be able to shed better light on the subject.
(TheSnark oh, c'mon, like you didn't see me coming, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 19:46, Reply)