Coincidence! What’s it all about?

A 'coincidence' is two unrelated events that take place at the same time. Coincidences are surprisingly common and occur many times each day, for example, I was thinking about a friend this morning when she telephoned me. Is this just a co-incidence or could it have been telepathy?

Take another well known example of coincidence. Jonathan Swift, the Irish author, wrote a novel called Gulliver’s Travels in 1726. In this book, he describes two moons that orbit around Mars, yet two moons were discovered in 1877, when telescopes were invented and Mars could be seen with two moons in orbit around it. Even greater coincidences than this appear in the written work of the author Morgan Robertson whose two novels became very famous. In 1889 he published ‘Futility’, a novel about an unsinkable British luxury liner named ‘The Titan’. It was on its way to New York when it struck an iceberg in the north Atlantic one calm April night, and sank with huge loss of life due to insufficient life-boats. Then one calm April evening in 1912, the RMS Titanic was on her maiden voyage to New York when she struck an iceberg in the north Atlantic and lost more than 1,500 passengers due to insufficient life-boats! Was this a co-incidence or could the author have seen into the future? Morgan Robertson continued to be uncannily accurate in his fictional tales. His 1914 novel “Beyond the Spectrum’ describes a futuristic war which begins one December when the Japanese covertly attacked American bases in Hawaii. Aeroplanes carried what are called ‘sun bombs’. These bombs were described as creating brilliant blinding light and they could destroy an entire city. In fact, the US entered the Second World War because Japan invaded Hawaii in December 1941. The Second World War was brought to a halt when atomic bombs were dropped on two Japanese cities (the Japanese flag bears a sun symbol). Do these two novels highlight another case of random chance occurrence or did Morgan Robertson gain glimpses into the future? Sadly, ‘Beyond the Spectrum’ was his last book. He died before he completed any more novels.   

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