Somehow Merle got the idea in his head that the Michelson-Morley experiment and the Blinky Morgan manhunt were connected.
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Merriam-Webster defines synchronicity is defined as "the coincidental occurrence of events and especially psychic events (such as similar thoughts in widely separated persons or a mental image of an unexpected event before it happens) that seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality —used especially in the psychology of Carl Gustav Jung". If I were an editor at Merriam-Webster, I don't think I'd have allowed the "especially psychic events" addition to the definition. It only confuses a thing with the paranormal. It feels like projecting Biblical reasoning into scientific theories. It feels like they're leading their audience to view it in a supernatural way.
One of my all-time favorite songs is "Synchronicity II" by The Police, a song that really helped me to come to terms with the idea of synchronicity being two events that weren't related. For a long time, I simply felt that the events that cause the synchronicity had to be tied together somehow. But The Police song does it right: two entirely separate but eerily similar events happening at the same time. The song contains two narratives: the main narrative of an angry man waking, heading to work, and coming back home; and the rising of a monster from the bottom of a lake, surfacing, and approaching the door of a cabin on the shore. Each event explains the other. I particularly like the middle verse where the man walks unhindered through the picket line and doesn't stop to wonder why. It's because he's seething and angry and everybody sees he's about to explode. And also how he's become impotent from the anger and frustration and humiliation of his work and home life.
Anyway, I bring all this up because Merle's having one of those moments between the experiment and Blinky Morgan. The two events are not connected but they're both creating quite the hullabaloo in Cleveland. Merle can't help but feel that they're entangled in some way (quantumly, perhaps?).
I wonder if I should understand quaternions by now? Is it time to read some massive scientific essays until my brains leak out of my butthole? I hope not!
I'm not going to speculate why Merle thinks this because I couldn't come up with anything and also we'll probably find out in a line or two!
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