Laffter Curve

The Laffter Curve is a slight deformity of the curvature of the Earth consequent on the accumulation of an excess or insufficiency of time at the shifting of the ora legale linked to the so called ‘changing of the clocks’.

At these twice yearly occurrences an excess of ‘time packets’ circulating around the Earth collide to form a dichotomaic involtura that has sometimes been defined in the language of lay people as a horizonal penumbra of mal-aria.

Often mistaken for high clouds of Scirocco-driven Saharan dust the penumbric mass of the involtura is much feared by pilots and balloonists.

Entry into the mass is known to derange delicate instrumentation: impacts vary from a slow motion-like weariness to a hyper-manic reeling off of time and the events once firmly held in place by it.

The accumulation of excess or insufficient time is gradually dissipated by the circulation of the Earth. This in effect shears off chunks of redundant or anti-time against the stratosphere and the gradual expulsion of the dichotomaic involtura towards the edge of outer space.

As told to me by a neighbouring passenger on a flight over the Alps on April 1st. (See photo of Alp).