1) What happened to Carl Webb’s ex-wife, Dorothy Jean Robertson Webb, following her divorce from Geoffrey Arthur Lockyer in 1955? This coincided with her appendectomy and related complications requiring hospitalization from which she had been reportedly released. 2) Why has SAPOL and the Coroner’s office in South Australia not offered any new information or evaluations since the highly publicized official exhumation of the Somerton man’s body in 2021?
The following is a conversation conducted by OKCIR sociologist Mohammad H. Tamdgidi with the Google AI on the Somerton Man mystery case on Sept. 7, 2025. This conversation specifically addresses the mysterious disappearance of Dorothy Jean Robertson post-1955. It sheds new light on the possibility that her case and the reluctance of South Australian officials to provide new information about the Somerton man puzzle may be connected.
These two are the last jigsaw puzzle pieces requiring further explanation and amplification, even though the broader story has been presumably solved with the interpretation that the Somerton man was Carl (Charles) Webb.
The following essay by the sociolgist Mohammad H. Tamdgidi is an excerpt from a longer introduction (pp. 27-87) to the 12th and last book of his series Omar Khayyam’s Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imagination, subtitled, Book 12: Khayyami Legacy: The Collected Works of Omar Khayyam (AD 1021-1123) Culminating in His Secretive 1000 Robaiyat Autobiography. The introduction was subtitled “Toward A Textually and Historically More Reliable Biography of Omar Khayyam (AD 1021-1123) Based on the Findings of This Series.” The excerpt offers a critical commentary on the role played in modern times by Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát in colonially distorting his legacy.
The following essay is an excerpt from the acknowledgments (xix-xlii) shared by Mohammad H. Tamdgidi in his book Liberating Sociology: From Newtonian Toward Quantum Imaginations: Unriddling the Quantum Enigma, published on January 20, 2020. It serves to offer a sense of the personal and historical origins, in a sociological imagination, of the book and more generally of its author’s research in the longer historical context of Western colonial interventions in Iran’s cultural, political, and economic social life.
The essay addresses issues that are deeply relevant today in 2025, which must be evident for anyone who cares to read it. However, it must also be considered in the context of the earlier time it had been written and submitted for publication in 2019.
دكتر محمدحسين تمجيدى، در روز ٢٠ خرداد ١٤٠٤ كتاب «خیمۀ خیام: حسب حالى رازآميز: هزار جرعه رباعيات تلخ و شیرین از ميكدۀ سعادت او» را انتشار داد.
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