This is just an early and largely unsupported theory, but I believe we may have fallen into some sort of rift in space and time. We must have hit it during all those wrong turns you often see in history classes.
Another idea is that perhaps a time worm has eaten up all of our time, and thus dropped us into a hole from which we cannot escape, thereby preventing time from marching forward and allowing things to continue to happen. I call this theory the "Worm Hole" theory.
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