Land of Oz

Lost and Found

What happens to stuff when you can't find it? I watched a TV show the other night that had one idea that made me think about it. In that case it was stuff that is lost forever. However, I wonder about what happens to stuff you lose temporarily.

For instance, I lose my car keys fairly often - couple times a month or so. Where do they go while I can't find them? They don't disappear, since I keep finding them, but they must go someplace since I can't find them. Do they physically disappear, or just mentally disappear?

I think maybe they slip temporarily into some kind of a lost warp zone. Maybe it's subspace - you know, where the Enterprise radio signals go. It must be some rift that opens and closes. It's probably some type of a wave that travels around. When it hits an area or somehow reacts with our normal space, some stuff falls in and is lost. While some stuff does get lost forever, most just gets moved around.

For instance, you put your keys on the counter just like you always do, the warp riffles through and woof - they're gone. Now, if you're really unlucky, they're gone forever. I think the warp can sense your need and the more you need the item, the more lost that item will get. For the most part, as the warp shifts through the area, the item eventually gets barfed back out. That's why those keys you're sure you put on the counter end up being found under the couch cushions where you haven't been all day. You did leave them on the counter, but the warp moved them to the counter.

Since the warp is extra-dimensional to our dimensions, the item can appear anywhere. That's why you finally find the sales slip in the basement, when you're sure you left it in your car. What this means of course, is that no matter what you do, you're going to lose stuff. And it's going to end up where you least expect it. So it doesn't matter where's the last place you had the item - the warp is going to move it someplace else.

2fers: Michigan Lost Stuff and U.S. Lost Stuff