The paradox is that mathematical physics has imagined it, and confirmed the accuracy of that imagination to within the first second of time.
Man Booker prize-winning author Hilary Mantel delivered a spirited attack on her critics after the BBC was condemned over plans to broadcast her "mischievous" short story on the imagined assassination of Margaret Thatcher.
Some imagined Mugabe running away from the security forces; others made jokes about the panic among his staff as he fell over.
It is not a long contract, just six weeks, and I imagined I, too, might be able to serve out my time in office before anyone noticed my shortcomings, and my failure to harbour any cohesive hermetic vision.
From: To: Re: Dear Prime Minister, Nine years ago, as I watched you arrive at the South Bank on the night when you became Prime Minister, I would never have imagined that I'd come to view you as a serious threat to British democracy.
I always imagined that I would have met someone by now and that we would make the decision together, but I know now that this is unlikely.
The Man Booker prize may be one of the last shadows of that empire, evoking as it does an imagined community unchanged since 1921, when Irish independence began its demise.
Our technology and law are still primordial entities, the actual future will likely be more remarkable than any of our imagined futures.
They did not, as I'd previously imagined, have the power to undo me.
A greater contrast with the hangars of Mipim can hardly be imagined: no lavish buffet, just a kettle and some instant coffee; no PowerPoint slides but a dungareed bloke scribbling on a flipchart.
Women in universities are realising that the battle is way bigger than we ever imagined.
