These photos were taken in my parent's garden, Gloucestershire, during the snowy weather in January earlier this year.

The first photo shows the footprints starting near to the back door of their house, the second shows them making their way past the side of the house in a very straight line and the final photo shows them simply stopping.

We're still all very puzzled and wondered if anyone had any theories or ideas?

How can a body so far away from earth be so influential?

What is really meant by 'the moon controls the tides'?

Could not one slow down in near vacuum and then simply return to earth at a much more sedate pace, thus negating the need for heat shielding?

If the big bang was not an explosion, but an expansion, and nothing existed before it. What caused it, and where did the material that is currently expanding come from?

If you had a telescope of such power that you were able to see across and beyond the edge of the universe and back through it. what would you see if you looked at the earth?  would the image you see be of the past? 

Hypotheticaly, If time travel existed and we could go forwards and backwards in time; and you created a paradox in which your existence never was (the grandfather/mad scientist theory) and there WAS an afterlife how humans percieve it currently; (soul leaving the body and entering a spirit world/universe) could the soul enter or would the soul seise to exist too? For instance, the spirit world would have to have no concept of time and space as A) everyone would age and B) it would run out of space eventually as noone would be leaving it. Technically you and your soul would of existed once, and as the soul can survive without your physical presence, couldn't it survive without a physical existence, especially as it can pass through worlds?

I know that answers will be based on alot of 'perhaps' and 'maybes' but i'm very interested in what others think on this.

If there is a spaceship travelling at nearly the speed of light, say 99.9%, as far as I know an observer will see it has travelled 1 light year in just over a year. However, for a passenger on that ship, time will slow down relative to that observer so will they think they have travelled a light year in less than a year and therefore faster than the speed of light? Is this possible or have I misunderstood something?

It is already possible to stop light in extremely low temperature BEC (Bose- Einstein Condensate) But, if i took say, a space ship and travelled at 300,000 meters per second (The speed of light in a vacuum), relative to Earth, and mounted a light on the back, would the light travelling in the opposite direction to the ship, be travelling at the same speed as the Earth?