Ask a political expert how Trump came to power, and you’ll likely get a well thought out answer. Ask a conspiracy theorist… well, that’s what we are here to discuss.

Now, the world is full of odd occurrences and coincidences, but this latest bizarre turn of events has got people convinced something more must be going on.

Two books written by American lawyer and novelist Ingersoll Lockwood has some people scratching their heads.

Why has it got people confused and on edge? Well because Lockwood seems to name drop people tied to president Donald Trump and according to some, even makes reference to his political dominance in the modern day.

Mind you, the two books were published in 1893 and 1896, so a fair few years before Trump was actually born.

The conspiracy theory has been blowing people’s minds (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The two fictional novels are called Baron Trump’s Marvellous Underground Adventure and The Last President. By the titles alone, you can understand why it has got people talking.

While it does spell Trump’s son’s name incorrectly (it’s spelt Barron), the apparent similarities to real life have been too much for some to bear.

In the story of Little Baron Trump, he is described as a wealthy, aristocratic young man who lives in Castle Trump, a fictional location which many comparing to the real life Trump Tower. He also has a mentor named ‘Don’.

But the apparent similarities don’t stop there. Though The Last President doesn’t feature Baron Trump, it does depict political divide after a new President takes office.

The political outsider is from New York and becomes president only for protests to erupt in the streets, with it ultimately leading to the downfall of the American Republic.

Add this to the long list of conspiracy theories involving Donald Trump (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

An early chapter of the book reads: “Mobs of vast size are organizing under the lead of anarchists and socialists, and threaten to plunder and despoil the houses of the rich who have wronged and oppressed them for so many years.”

Now while you might read this and go, ‘oh that’s kind of interesting’ others have suggested this is evident that Donald Trump is actually a time traveler who inspired Lockwood or that the author was ‘psychic’.

On Twitter one user commented: “Time Travelling confirmed.”

With another adding: “This story is wild. Trump possibly having access to Tesla’s research would partly explain why the powerful hate him so much. just sayin’…”

And a third adding: “The first time I heard this it seemed some strange fantastical coincidence. It’s all warped into something very real now.”

I’m not quite convinced myself, but when has that ever stopped the internet?

While some believe that when we die, that’s it for us, others are convinced that there’s an afterlife waiting for us following our time on Earth.

As of 2021, nearly three-quarters of US adults said that they believed in heaven, as per the Pew Research Center.

This belief was largely held by Christian respondents, but it was found that 26 percent of agnostics also believed in heaven.

While not everyone said they thought heaven existed, a proportion of those who said they did not believe in heaven or hell did admit that they consider the idea that there’s some kind of afterlife.

One person who thinks there’s an afterlife is Dr Hugh Ross, a Canadian astrophysicist and Christian author.

Dr Hugh Ross has shared this theories on why he thinks heaven exists (reasons.org)

Dr Ross has a PhD in astronomy from the University of Toronto, as well as a degree in physics.

With his expertise in mind, Dr Ross has shared five ‘lines of evidence for the existence of a transcendent realm beyond’.

The universe’s limits

As I’m sure you’re aware, the universe is pretty darn huge – but just how huge is unknown.

With this in mind, Dr Ross suggests that since we can’t observe all of the universe, there could well be something beyond what we can currently see.

“Given that mass exists in the universe and that general relativity reliably describes the movements of massive bodies in the universe, these theorems establish the necessity of a causal agent (aka Creator/God) beyond space and time,’ Dr Ross told MailOnline.

“[The Creator is] responsible for creating space and time and all the matter and energy that comprises the cosmos.”

The Bible

Many might question how reliable the Bible is, but Dr Ross insists that it has ‘proven reliability’.

“While the Bible certainly is (and often has been) subject to misinterpretation, reasonably defensible interpretations do show that what the Bible records about history, science, and geography proves correct,” he said.

Dr Ross says the Bible alluded to the Big Bang and heaven’s creation (Getty Stock)

Dr Ross went on to claim that scientific phenomena is alluded to in the Bible that’s later discovered by people in the future, i.e the Big Bang.

In the Bible, it speaks of a transcendent cosmic beginning and a universe undergoing a general, continual expansion (the two fundamentals of the Big Bang).

More specifically, in Isaiah 42:5 it says of this: “This is what the Lord says – He who created the heavens and stretched them out.”

UFOs

People’s recorded experiences of seeing apparent UFOs in the sky could be another signal to the afterlife.

Of these unidentified objects that have been spotted over the years, some have been ‘impervious to the laws of physics’, says Dr Ross.

How this evidence to an afterlife, the scientist said: “The existence of non-physical reality stands as evidence for the existence of a realm beyond the dimensions of the universe.”

Near-death experiences

Many people who have been close to dying have spoken out after what they experienced as they nearer the end of the life, Jose Hernandez included.

Hernandez said he was a ‘true atheist’, but in what he described as heaven during his near-death experience, he was reunited with his late father.

“When I met my dad on the other side, I realised that sometimes we may not be able to say something here, [but] we’re gonna be able to say it somewhere else,” he said afterwards.

Hernandez also claimed to have watched doctors try and save his life from outside his body.

It’s near-death experiences (NDEs) like these that Dr Ross says are consistent with the Christian belief that the soul leaves the body during death.

“Some NDE claims may be explained by oxygen deprivation in the brain,’ Dr Ross told Mail Online.

“However, many others remain firmly established, as cardiologist Michael Sabom – a former NDE skeptic – has documented in his books.”

Effectiveness of prayer

Dr Ross argued that praying in enough to prove that there’s a ‘transcendent realm’.

Explaining why, he said: “People who are prayed for by believers in the Christian God experience measurably more rapid and complete recovery from surgeries or medically confirmed ailments than do people for whom no such prayer is offered.”

This would imply that there is a God, thus an afterlife.

There’s a Google interview question that almost all candidates get wrong, and now, experts are weighing in on how they’d approach the puzzle.

According to statistics from March 2024, Google employs over 182,000 employees across more than 70 countries worldwide.

However, it’s understood around three million people actually apply to work at the tech giant each year, which is the cause behind its notorious 0.2 percent acceptance rate.

So if you want to work at Google, it’s going to be tough work, and you need to show you’re dedicated to the cause.

One way to do this? Absolutely smash your interviews.

Strange questions posed to prospective Google employees

Previously, the business has been known to ask some prospective employees some mind-boggling questions.

These include ‘How many golf clubs can fit in a 747?’, ‘How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?,’ and ‘You’re shrunken down to the size of a nickel and dropped into a blender, what do you do?’

The latter was posed to Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn’s characters in the 2013 film, The Internship, and saw them shouting out all sorts of elaborate answers.

After the session, the movie duo do actually get the job.

However, most people bomb this question when asked it in real life, apparently

According to experts, one of the answers Google interviewers hear when they ask this question is: just jump.

For those who came to this conclusion immediately, Professor Gregory Sutton, an expert on insect motion from the University of Lincoln, wants you to think about it like this.

“One grasshopper can jump about a metre high,” he told MailOnline.

“Two grasshoppers holding hands – twice as much mass, twice as much muscle – can jump a metre high.

“A million grasshoppers holding hands – a million times as much mass, a million times as much muscle – can jump a metre high.”

The specialist said that it is just as easy for us to move our centre of mass one metre off the ground as it is for a grasshopper.

An expert used grasshoppers to explain a common approach to the interview question (Getty Stock Image)

So, if you were shrunk down to the size of the coin, you would essentially be able to leap out of the blender, right?

Wrong.

If you suddenly shrunk down to the size of a penny, you wouldn’t have enough time to extend as you jumped, thus transferring way less energy to the ground than you would need to hoist yourself out of the kitchen appliance.

According to Professor Sutton, a coin-sized human could probably jump around 10-15cm, which is nowhere high enough.

This means the idea of ‘jumping’ out of the blender is pretty impossible

Another way to answer the blender question

So, how else could you answer the question if it was put to you?

“If I were shrunk down and put in a blender, I’d use a small rubber band to fling myself out,” the animal expert revealed.

“The catapult system would work great at that size because your strength-to-mass ratio is very beneficial even if your jumping mechanisms don’t work so well.”

Meanwhile, Professor Jim Usherwood, an expert on the mechanics of motion from the Royal Veterinary College, told the publication that if he could wind up a spring over a suitable time he could use it to ‘ping’ himself out of the blender ‘like a flea’.

So basically, if you happen to have a rubber band or a spring in your back pocket, you’re good to go.

If not, then it looks like you’re never getting out of the glass chamber of doom.

So, how would you get out of the blender? (Getty Stock Image)

What was the purpose of these interview questions?

Gayle McDowell, a former Google software engineer, revealed that the goal of these questions was to see how people approached problem-solving, not whether they got the answer right.

“Sometimes there are people who make everything more complex than it needs to be, and that can be problematic,” she explained.

However, in an interview with IFL Science, McDowell also said that interviewers at Google have moved away from these brain-teasers.

“If an interview were to ask a candidate a brain teaser, despite the policy, the hiring committee would likely disregard the interviewer’s feedback and send a note back telling the interviewer not to ask such silly questions,” she told the publication.

Advice on nabbing a job at Google

Google Careers has also uploaded a best practices guide for those hoping to score a job at the tech giant.

These include finding connections between the job listing and your resume, focusing on providing data alongside your achievements and coming to the interview with questions.

“If you do these things we think you’ll be prepared to talk about yourself and about the position,” the cheat sheet reads.

“We also believe it will set you up for success by minimizing external confusion. We want you clear and calm so you can really explore your experience, your desires, the position, and how we connect.”