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Scientific Anomalies and a Warning to the Curious

An Experiment With Time (1927, revised edition 1935) J W Dunne   13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time (2009) Michael Brooks   An Experiment With Time is a scientific and philosophical (and the author would like to think psychological) treatise on time in the context of the author's and others' experience of precognition in dreams. It is anomalous but it is also a serious if difficult book which has achieved cult status because it represented a sincere scientific attempt to deal with the problem of precognition at that point in history when spiritualism was already a memory amongst serious thinkers and the new physics had not yet fully established itself in the public's consciousness. However, it is a very difficult book indeed. The writer is at pains to be clear and he does a good job of this but you have to be of a mathematical or analytical bent to get anything out of this book and I am afraid that I am not.  ...