Perhaps a little familiar with the tears. I can sense things. Feel things. Though my experience is more mysticism and metaphysical than science. But I have been here for several months, have seen others come and go.
I understand it has been happening for a few decades previously and yet are no closer to the answer as they were then. However, I do not believe it to be the cause of any one person, nor does this feel malevolent in nature. I also think that when we are able to return, we would be going back to the exact moment that we had left.