Have you ever met a time traveler, or a person from another planet, or possibly even another dimension?
I’m guessing nobody will want to be the first to say yes, but I’m just throwing it out there.
What I’m really asking is whether you’ve ever met someone who is so far out there in some manner that you can’t help but think to yourself whether you maybe, just maybe, the fact that they are a being from another reality, however unlikely you may believe that to be, is a plausible explanation for their quirks?
I used to work with someone who used to work with someone else. Let’s call them Alice and Bob. Bob is a real genius–I don’t mean that I think he’s pretty smart, I mean that everybody thinks he’s really smart, and if I told you his name, you might even recognize it because he’s won things at the Nobel prize level (there is no Nobel in his field, but at the same level)–but has trouble communicating with most people, primarily because he’s an asshole.
So one day, as I’m sitting at my desk, Alice pops her head into my office and says “You know, I really think that Bob is an space alien sent to earth to explain their technology to us.”
This was a bit off-topic, so it took me a moment to respond.
“Why would aliens want to send Bob here to explain their tech to us?” I asked.
“Probably because he’s an asshole and they wanted to get him out of their lives,” Alice answered, without hesitation. It was clear that she’d thought this through.
