Mysteries of the Space Time Continuum

[Professor Croft]

Greetings all!

Thank you immensely for inviting me to your project website. It is truely a joy to see you all so commited to the recording of this museum for which I have an undeniable warm spot in my heart.

Some of you were enquiring through the medium of my Facebook page about the possibilities of time travel as a solution to your current curious situation. I thought I would take the opportunity to enlighten you about a currently upcoming theory that I am interested in at present.

There are those who are of the opinion that objects themselves have an effect on the fabric of space-time, in which we all exist. Old objects accrue a sort of time-related strength, a presence, which they exert on the space-time fabric. When you collect a lot of old objects together in one place, this has a tendency to make space-time in that location a little more... elastic, a little more pliable.

In such locations, they theorise that it is possible for objects, with some encouragement, to move within the space-time, and in so doing find another place within the space-time to reside. Thusly, they displace something else, as nature abhors a vacuum, and that displaces something else, and so on as is necessary for the universe to again be in balance but now with the ommission of the original object and instead a different object, perhaps an object from a possible future, taking up its location in space-time.

The theory is merely conjecture at this point, though I am very excited to hear that you might have evidence which points towards its veracity. Perhaps you might permit me to be involved further in your Project venture, so that I might investigate this phenomenom more?

Yours gratefully and excitedly,
Professor Albert von Croft

[Anna D]

Hello professor! Welcome to the board. I'm glad you came to join us.

You're of course welcome to stick around! We'd love to have your input.

I'm not entirely sure I understand your theory, because I'm not much of one for physics and relativity and stuff, but I'm sure Cath will!

So do you think we'll see more of this now? Now that there has been some?

[eiram80]

Prof Croft, what are your thoughts on the new incident involving the Brew House? A new item, another futuristic newspaper, appeared but it does not seem to have displaced another item.

[Professor Croft]

Sorry it has taken me so long to reply. I am a rather busy person.

Yes, Anna, I do think there will be more. These things... I do not think they occur naturally, I think there has to be some agent of human intervention to precipitate it, though not everyone agrees with me on that.

As for the newest occurance, Eiram. Do we have proof that there was nothing there before? Or could it have been something un-noticable, almost insignificant perhaps before, only now important?

The fact that it has happened though, I feel makes it even more obvious that there will be more of this. Keep your eyes well peeled and stay alert. Perhaps it might behoove us if you were to make more general searches of the site? Not just limit your range of notice to the building you are currently engaged in for the project. These changes, they could be happening anywhere.

[mravoncroft]

Albert, you've been interfering again and this has led to a very embarrassing situation - for the first time in all my years at the Museum I've had to ask signed up volunteers to stay away from Avoncroft - and all because you've filled their heads with ridiculous time travel notions. I thought after we managed to patch things up in '88 following another of your unwanted interventions in the running of the Museum you'd have learnt your lesson - while I acknowledge your family's important involvement in establishing the place, it's time for you personally finally understand that their historic contributions does not allow you to get involved. I have to say I'm furious that you have managed to convince three bright young women with your ridiculous crackpot theories, but I'm aware of your persuasive powers and I can hardly blame them for falling for something that far more learned academics have also been sucked into believing and funding. Until this blows over I suggest you keep well away from the Museum and give your apologies for the next board meeting and finally let it sink in your role is an honourary one, not an executive one. As you'll see from the minutes, I've held an internal enquiry into the loss of Museum artefacts, and have now enlisted the help of the local police, for the time being in a non-official capacity, in the hope we can keep this out of the glare of a media spotlight. If they aren't able to help discreetly we'll have to go public and risk the uproar in the papers. If we do, I trust that you can be relied upon to keep your theories to yourself for once, and not start suggesting the Museum's objects are being stolen by some intergenerational Reggie Kray with light fingers that stretch through the decades. We'd become a laughing stock and the Museum's reputation would suffer, not something the older members of your family would welcome.