Twist of Time: Closed Timelines, Gravity, Spacetime Torsion, and Joe Elliott's Resonance into Def Leppard

Preface
 In a Universe that spins like a cosmic helix, driven by the twisting dance of its tiniest particles, a single moment can reshape a life.
This is the story of one such moment - Monday, August 15th, 1977, in Sheffield, England - when a young man felt the subtle tug of the Universe and stepped onto a new path.

Part 1: The Cosmic Helix of Time

 Time is not a straight line. It coils like a helix - woven by Gravity, Space, and the restless spin of the Universe’s smallest elements.

In 1949, Dr. Kurt Gödel showed Dr. Albert Einstein that a rotating Universe within the frame of General Relativity could generate Closed Timelike Curves (CTCs) - loops in time that allow travel both forward and backward in Time. Imagine your "Timeline" not as a line, but a thread in a spinning cosmic braid. Each thread represents a complete, self-consistent reality. Dr Gödel's idea also hinted at multiple Timelines.

In 2025, the Cambridge Torsion Array - a pulsar timing experiment - detected a faint rotational drift of the cosmos: one full turn every 500 billion years. This recent discovery lines up with Dr Kurt Gödel’s ideas from 1949. Could this rotation be driven, in part, by the collective corkscrew-like spin of electrons, as described by Einstein–Cartan theory in 1922?

Picture every electron as a tiny helix, its quantum spin coiled like a spring. Across the vastness of Space, the sum of these countless spins generates a torsion field - a subtle twist in the fabric of Spacetime - that may contribute to the universe’s slow, imperceptible rotation. This torsion weaves timelines into a vast, helical tapestry. And during rare torsion spikes, when electron spins resonate with the Universe’s grand rotation, two threads may brush against each other, creating a Temporal Overlap.

These fleeting moments ripple through our reality as anomalies: déjà vu, strange coincidences, or choices that feel charged with fate. In each timeline, the Past is a fixed point, the Future is a fixed point - and yet, free will can steer the Present, especially during these moments of overlap, when a single decision can shift a person to a new thread. No paradox is formed; each timeline remains internally consistent.

One such moment may have occurred in Sheffield, England, in the summer of 1977, and nudged a young man toward a future he never expected.

Part 2: Joe Elliott’s Strange Bus and the Choice That Sparked Def Leppard

In Sheffield’s industrial heart, 18-year-old Joe Elliott lived amid the clang of steelworks and the shadows of smoke-stained chimneys. Life moved to the rhythm of labour, school, apprenticeship, and the long path to the steel mill. Joe felt it all closing in like a cage.

But inside him stirred a different rhythm: lyrics scribbled in a battered notebook, riffs strummed on a secondhand guitar. Music pulsed as quiet rebellion.

Each day, he caught the 5:02 PM bus home - always punctual, always predictable. Joe timed his days to its arrival, syncing with the pulse of the city.

But on Monday, August 15th, 1977, something shifted.

Joe reached the bus stop on time, but he arrived early, as he did every day, but the bus had already gone. Early. Unexplainably early.

“The bus was early,” Joe later recalled. “I wasn’t late.”

Perhaps the air felt off-charged, thick, wrong. What if this wasn’t just bad luck, but a torsion spike - a ripple of cosmic spin where timelines brushed, and reality briefly trembled?

He stood at a crossroads: wait another hour, or take a narrow side street and walk three miles uphill to his home. Something nudged him. Maybe the Universe whispered “Move”?

He walked.

Halfway along the unfamiliar route, Joe nearly collided with Pete Willis, a schoolmate and guitarist, frustrated that his new band was falling apart. They walked together. Talked. Clicked.

That spark, lit by a missed bus, led to Joe joining Pete’s fledgling band. The band that would become Def Leppard. That strange glitch in time - an ordinary afternoon bent by cosmic mechanics - redirected Joe from a life of steel into a timeline defined by the vibration of music.

Part 3: A Cosmic Resonance Unveiled

In 2025, the Cambridge Torsion Array detected faint ripples in spacetime: a low-frequency gravitational wave background, perhaps tied to the universe’s rotation. Some theorists speculated that these ripples, amplified by the helical spins of electrons, could trigger localized torsion spikes - tiny warps in the fabric of reality.

I speculate that one such spike rippled through Sheffield on Monday, August 15, 1977 - aligning Joe’s default timeline (where he caught the 5:02 PM bus and returned to routine) with an alternate one (where the bus left early, and he met Pete Willis). Joe’s decision to walk up that hill was the tuning fork - a resonance shift that locked him into a new thread, one spun toward the vibration of music and away from the steelworks.

The original timeline - the one without Def Leppard - persisted, self-contained. No paradox. Only divergence.

Maybe others in Sheffield felt it too. A welder noticed his machine glitch at 4:59 PM. A girl shivered in the sun. A teacher fumbled a word. Echoes of a torsion ripple, small as subatomic spin but large enough to bend fate.

Joe’s memory remains anchored: “The bus was early, not me late.”

Part 4: A Glimpse Into the Cosmic Helix

Joe Elliott’s strange afternoon reveals something profound: the universe may twist like a helix, and the smallest quantum spins may resonate into the largest patterns of our lives.

During a Temporal Overlap, when torsion spikes align with cosmic spin, timelines can momentarily brush, and choices made in these moments define which thread you travel. Joe’s decision to take the side street wasn’t just a whim. It was a pivot point in the helix of time.

His story reminds us that each of us walks a single thread in a vast multidimensional weave. But at rare moments, when the universe’s torsion rings loud enough to shift reality’s pitch, we may pluck a different strand - and change the melody of our lives.

A Torsion-Based Cosmology

The universe may be more than matter and motion - if it's built on resonance, spin, and information - each particle plays a deeper role in the twisting architecture of time:

• Electrons are corkscrew-like particles, defined by their intrinsic helical spin.
• Protons act as Mini Black Hole Cores, anchoring and stabilizing the scalar field that forms the universe’s underlying structure.
• Neutrons serve as stabilizers for protons, maintaining the internal coherence of this scalar field.
• Photons, traveling at the speed of light, act as couriers, delivering electromagnetic instructions to charged particles.
• Neutrinos may be Spacetime Messengers, threading through the fabric of reality as subtle information carriers.
• Dark Matter could serve as the “telephone lines” that neutrinos use, enabling them to operate effectively across great distances and dimensions.
• Bosons mediate the fundamental forces, coordinating interactions between charged particles.
• Quarks form the internal architecture of protons, giving them their mass and structure.
• Higgs Boson imparts mass and inertia to fundamental particles, influencing their gravitational and temporal behavior.
• Antiparticles serve as counterweights, balancing forces and energy, maintaining equilibrium across the cosmic equation.
• Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB): Acts like a universal “sustain pedal,” helping maintain the vibrations and keeping the cosmic fabric’s spinning swirls in sync (a cosmic rhythm keeper). It is both the residue and the resonator of the early Universe.

Exploring antiparticles further: perhaps they don’t just maintain balance - they might regulate the flow of time itself. In a rotational universe, as Gödel proposed, altering antiparticle dynamics could, in theory, allow for backward time travel. They may be the key to unlocking a timeline’s directionality.

If these connections hold, Gravity Manipulation might be possible, achieved by amplifying electromagnetic fields into resonance, syncing local torsion with the Universe’s spin.

In this framework, Time is a neutral observer: the Past and Future are fixed, but the Present - our free will - is the point where choices echo into fate.

Time is, in this sense, the “God” of the Universe: ever-present, ever-aware, but never interfering - just watching, as we decide which thread to follow.

Acknowledgements

With gratitude to Joe Elliott, who provided specific dates, times, locations, and geographic details that made this story possible. His generosity with memory and time gave this piece its heart. Like an older brother, he reminded me that sometimes, a missed bus is more than a delay - it’s a doorway into destiny. And that's a lesson we can all learn something from. Next time you experience Déjà vu or a strange interruption in your day, the Universe might be providing a doorway to a different future...