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In the 1990s, several German historians proposed a radical idea. According to them, the Middle Ages did not exist, and humanity actually lives in the eighteenth century.
In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian calendar . Before that, much of the Roman world and Europe used the Julian calendar, proposed by Julius Caesar in 48 BC. To try to align the calendar with the solar year, the Julian calendar had a leap year every four years, in which an extra day was added.
The problem was that the solar year is, in fact, 365.24219 days, and the Julian calendar gains one more day every 128 years. To take this into account, when the Gregorian calendar was introduced, Pope Gregory XIII should have changed the date by 13 days, but, according to his calculations, he changed the date by only 10 days.
Thus, we have two possibilities. Pope Gregory XIII miscalculated 300 years since then and so far simply did not exist, and important moments in history were invented for unjustified reasons. Both would justify the absence of the three days, but for some people, the latter hypothesis seems more plausible.
First introduced by Heribert Illig in 1991, before being developed by Dr. Hans-Ulrich Niemitz in 1995, phantom time theory holds that there is simply more evidence to challenge the hypotheses of an inexperienced pope in astronomy. Niemitz mentions the lack of progress in the West all this time, a shortage of historical accounts of important events such as the spread of Islam in the Middle East. At the same time, Niemitz also invokes the disappearance and sudden appearance of the Jewish people between 711 and 1096 AD.
Niemitz also draws attention to the architecture he considers anachronistic.
"One of the best examples, which has been studied extensively, is the Aachen Chapel, built in about 800 AD, which appears about 200 years earlier. The style in which the vault of this chapel was built has no predecessor ", Niemitz explained.
Buildings built in this way appeared only a few centuries later, in 1049 AD, Niemitz said. For him, the best explanation is that time has not passed at all, but hundreds of years have been entered in the calendar in the meantime.
Niemitz proposed that Otto III of the Holy Roman Empire wanted to live in the year 1000 AD "because this was in line with his understanding of Christian millenarianism," but he was born hundreds of years earlier. The emperor and Pope Gregory XIII joined forces and defined the date as 1000 AD, thus leaving around 300 years to be completed by chroniclers.
In this version of events, Otto invented Charlemagne, "as the model hero he himself wished to be," before his story was embellished centuries later, while others added their own. history invented during this period.
Everything sounds exciting, but the theory is strongly disputed.
In addition to the fact that he managed to disprove it, even analyzing the history of the whole world at that time (for example, the Tang dynasty in China is very well synchronized with the Middle Ages) and the fact that a conspiracy of such proportions would have required an absurd level. of cooperation and cover-up, humanity has incredibly accurate accounts of astronomical events that can challenge phantom time theory, according to IFL Science .
The Roman philosopher Pliny the Elder wrote about an eclipse, dating it to 59 AD. Through our own observations, we can also attribute an eclipse to that day, based on our own data, not by removing 300 years from the course of events. Moreover, reports in China show every appearance of Halley's comet since 240 BC, including passages during "ghost" time, all of which can be verified with our own astronomical calculations today.
