THEORY

WORKING THEORY — The Doorway as a Temporal Overlap Abstract Across six weeks I logged device freezes, camera desynchronizations, RF sweeps and on-site observations around an out-of-service station. The anomaly repeats every seventeen minutes and lasts about four seconds. Strongest effects migrate in a shrinking spiral toward a convergence point. The evidence fits a modest but unnerving model: a brief overlap of the same place at two nearby times. 1) Data signatures Phones stall without thermal rise; routers leave heartbeat gaps without fault; cameras drop frames while keeping power. These are marks of timebase slippage, not radiation or current surges. The analyzer’s moving notch arrives with the freezes and leaves with them, as if a drifting timing reference were crossing the band. 2) Why seventeen Seventeen minutes is neither round nor arbitrary. The period wanders less than half a second all night, which argues against maintenance cycles and human schedules. Two clocks that almost agree will beat at a fixed interval: seventeen minutes here. When alignment happens, a narrow window opens in which signals—and perhaps bodies—are briefly co-present. 3) The spiral Overlaying strongest sites yields an inward spiral. Each loop shrinks by ≈0.3%. Spirals appear when systems lose energy or searches converge. The predicted center overlaps my old neighborhood; I re-ran the fit blind and obtained the same center. The anchor keeps moving. 4) The other author A diary entry exists in my handwriting that I do not remember creating. If the window overlaps two nearby days, text could cross from the other day just as the spectrum notch crosses the analyzer. No ghosts are needed—only a few seconds when one physical space belongs to two clocks. 5) What it is not Not a wormhole to a distant place; no abnormal gravity, magnetism, or power draw. Not sabotage; different vendors’ hardware pause at the same second with clean logs. Not a hoax; independent measurements replicate the timing peak. 6) Protocol & risk Treat the window like a rip current: do not fight head-on; move sideways first; tether to something that does not move. Assume drift; the return window may not align. Leave notes of fact, not instruction. 7) Ethics No coordinates or countdowns are published. Visitors decide what they believe before acting. Any note that reads like a dare is not mine. 8) Prediction The next two-way window should occur near the convergence point within two days of this note. If the archive goes quiet, assume I stepped at the wrong second; treat silence as a boundary. Conclusion The simplest model that fits the data is an overlap between the same city at two nearby times. The math is ordinary; the consequences are not. If you must step, do it once, on the minute.