Well, technically the ‘now’ experiment only works one time. Of you exclude time as an assumption there isn’t another location to place previous or subsequent results.

It’s as made up as time, but it’s as real as anything can be understood to be, with emphasis on ‘understood’. It doesn’t exist in actuality mostly because our words and models don’t describe it even close to well enough to consider the actual thing. It’s like a really poor translation of a word, it might get us closer to understanding what’s going on but will never be if your goal is to describe it to something like the human mind.

That’s their strategy, let some laymen in to look around, show them some fake ‘secret’ rims to show they aren’t really that special, while the clevery hidden real secret doors are quietly moved as you leave and enter each room. You end up being just one boring anecdote on the Internet, but over centuries it adds up to hundreds of ‘eh’ accounts to hide the real story… It’s brilliant!