Hundreds of thousands of people disappear without a trace every year. Of course, the main reasons for this are crime, bloody military conflicts and accidents. The rather fantastic idea that some missing people could simply be lost in time does not occur to anyone ...
Aliens from the past
In the 50s of the last century, an amazing case became known to the press. A man in 19th-century clothing suddenly found himself in the thick of cars on a busy New York street and was crushed by one of the cars. The driver swore that the deceased suddenly appeared in front of his car, as if he had fallen from the sky, there was simply no way to slow down.
Trying to identify the deceased, the police searched his pockets, they found an identity document issued 80 years ago ... It turned out that the man was a traveling salesman and lived on a street that was demolished 50 years ago. This story interested the police so much that they were not too lazy to delve into the archive and find lists of residents of the area indicated in the document for the end of the 19th century, and they found the mysterious salesman in them.
Further searches led to an unexpected meeting. An elderly woman with the same last name as the deceased told the detectives that 70 years ago, under very mysterious circumstances, her father disappeared. He went outside to breathe before going to bed and seemed to have evaporated, all attempts to find him led to nothing. Digging through the box of photographs, the woman found a photograph of her father. The police simply gasped when, in a photograph dated April 1884, they saw exactly that unfortunate salesman who had fallen under the wheels of a car ...
An even stranger incident occurred in a small California town in the summer of 1936. On his street was an old-fashioned dressed, unknown to anyone, frightened old woman. She literally shied away from the passers-by offering her help. Her unusual outfit and strange behavior attracted the curious: after all, in this town everyone knew each other and the appearance of such a colorful figure did not go unnoticed. When the old woman saw people gathering around her, she looked around with despair and confusion and suddenly disappeared in front of dozens of eyewitnesses.
In 1966, three brothers were walking down a street in Glasgow early on New Year's morning. Suddenly, 19-year-old Alex disappeared in front of his older brothers. All attempts to find him were unsuccessful. Alex disappeared without a trace and was never seen again.
In the 90s of the last century, one of the Hong Kong newspapers told the world an amazing story about the boy Yun Li Chen. In 1987, scientists were approached by doctors from a psychiatric hospital in Hong Kong, the police brought to them a very strange boy who claimed to have come from the past. The doctors did not find any brain damage in him and came to the conclusion that he was quite healthy, but the boy's unusual stories baffled them and made them doubt his mental health.
Scientists became interested in the doctors' story and visited the boy. First of all, they were struck by his clothing, cut from a fabric that was obviously hand-crafted, it resembled exhibits from museums found in ancient burials. Yun Li Chen was fluent in one of the ancient Chinese dialects, and he told historians such details about the distant past that he simply brought them into a state of real shock.
They decided to check the boy's story with the help of temple books. In some of them, several centuries old, the historian Ying Shao unexpectedly discovered the names of places and even the names of people reported by a strange boy. The astonished scientist decided to seriously investigate this amazing case, but he was in for a bitter disappointment - Yun suddenly disappeared, as if he had evaporated from a closed chamber, which was under vigilant control.
Frustrated, Shao again turned to the ancient chronicles and suddenly found a mention of Yun Li Chen in them! It was reported that Chen disappeared for more than ten years, but then returned not at all matured and began to say that he had been in the distant future, where he saw iron birds flying, carts moving without horses and houses resting on the clouds. Of course, no one believed the boy, they considered him crazy, and three weeks after his return he died unexpectedly.
“Year after year, with surprising regularity, unusual manipulations with time are repeated. We have a certain number of reports of missing people who seem to have been swallowed up by time, and not by any other force, ”John Kiel, a well-known foreign researcher of anomalous phenomena, expressed his opinion about the mysterious disappearances of people in one of the conversations.
Time trap for...submarine
It is possible that not only people, but also other living beings fall into the "traps" of time. This can explain the mysterious appearances of Bigfoot in the most unexpected corners of our planet, as well as the rather numerous sightings of prehistoric animals like Nessie.
Time plays a bad joke not only with individuals, it can also do very impressive objects. American parapsychologists claim that the Pentagon classified a striking incident that happened to one of the submarines. The submarine was in the waters of the infamous Bermuda Triangle, when it suddenly disappeared, literally moments later, a signal from it was received already from ... the Indian Ocean.
However, this incident with the submarine was not limited only to its movement in space over a huge distance, there was also a rather significant time travel: the crew of the submarine literally aged 20 years in tens of seconds! Information about this unique case was published in 1993 in the American weekly The News.
Researchers of anomalous phenomena have tried to collect statistical data regarding cases of time travel. They found that between 1976 and 2001, there were 274 such cases, and planes often became victims of "holes" in time. The most trivial case, the most frequently repeated, is when an aircraft suddenly disappears for a moment from the radar screen, and then it turns out that the clocks of the pilots, and indeed of all passengers, are a few minutes behind.
However, more terrible accidents sometimes happen to airplanes. In 1997, the W. W. News” told about the mysterious DC-4 aircraft that landed in Caracas (Venezuela) in 1992. This plane was seen by airport employees, although it did not give any mark on the radar. Soon managed to contact the pilot. In a surprised and even frightened voice, the pilot announced that he was operating a charter flight 914 from New York to Miami with 54 passengers on board and was due to land at 9:55 am on June 2, 1955, at the end he asked: “Where are we?”
The dispatchers, stunned by the pilot's message, told him that he was over the airport in Caracas and gave permission to land. The pilot did not answer, but during landing, everyone heard his surprised exclamation: “Jimmy! What the hell is this!” The surprise of the American pilot was clearly caused by a jet plane taking off at that time ...
The mysterious plane landed safely, its pilot breathing heavily, finally saying, "Something is wrong here." When informed that he had landed on May 21, 1992, the pilot exclaimed, "Oh God!" They tried to calm him down, they said that a ground team was already heading towards him. However, when he saw airport employees next to the plane, the pilot shouted: “Do not approach! We're leaving here!"
The ground crew saw the amazed faces of the passengers in the windows, and the DC-4 pilot opened the glass in his cockpit and waved some kind of magazine at them, demanding that they do not approach the aircraft. He started the engines, the plane took off and disappeared. Did he manage to get there in time? Unfortunately, the further fate of the crew and passengers of the aircraft is unknown, since the magazine did not report on any historical investigation of this case. As evidence of this unusual incident at the Caracas airport, there was a recording of negotiations with a DC-4 and a calendar for 1955 that fell out of a magazine that the pilot was waving ...
Chrononauts reluctantly
Time travelers are often referred to as chrononauts. However, there is no evidence of the invention of the time machine in the near or distant future yet. Many modern scientists generally deny the possibility of time travel, believing that it is irreversible.
True, not everyone thinks so, for example, a number of physicists put forward a hypothesis that there are zones of so-called time faults on Earth, in such anomalous places the past and the future sometimes interlock with each other, while there is a transfer of information and energy, in which they can be captured and material bodies - people, animals, planes ...
There is also a hypothesis that with temporary violations of the structure of space and time, special tunnels are formed in them, connecting different eras.
Some researchers believe that unwitting time travelers only momentarily fall into the past or future and then are transported back to their own time. However, there is reason to believe that this is not always the case. The most deplorable option is quite possible - to get stuck in someone else's time forever.
In this case, travelers from the past to the future will most likely face the unenviable fate of a patient in a psychiatric clinic ... Imagine that a policeman thinks of a strangely dressed man who claims to be serving in Napoleon's troops ...
Those who get from the future into the past, with a certain self-control and resourcefulness, can more or less get settled. Perhaps it was just such an unwitting time traveler who built the famous Baghdad battery, which gave current 4000 years ago ...
Some of the researchers of anomalous phenomena seriously suggest that Leonardo da Vinci was a chrononaut involuntarily ... He arrived in the 15th century from the future and was stuck in it forever. They consider the numerous diverse inventions of Leonardo to be proof of such a hypothesis, which were significantly ahead of their time.
Photo: A young man in a 1941 photo of glasses, a T-shirt and a portable camera…
The topic of the time machine has been worrying humanity for a very long time, discussions on this topic have also been going on for a very long time, but so far only in theory. However, history knows many examples that cannot be explained by anything other than time travel. Moreover, examples are not in the form of some stories, but documented - photo and film materials. As well as some finds that indicate that someone already uses a time machine or has knowledge of time portals that allow you to travel along the river of time in different directions.
So, not very long ago, a collector's edition of Charlie Chaplin's films was released. A documentary newsreel from 1928 was included as a bonus. Corrosive cinephiles in a black-and-white film about the premiere of the film "The Circus" saw a lady in a black top hat walking along the street, who was intensively talking with an invisible interlocutor and laughing, pressing a mobile phone to her ear. No one had any doubts that this was a mobile phone, and not another portable device, because if it were a radio, then why would she talk to herself? There were no other portable devices of this size at that time, and the first device similar to a mobile phone was invented only in the early 40s. And it weighed, by the way, more than a kilogram, because it was the size of a brick.
Almost today, a photo from the Canadian Bralorne Pioneer Museum has been published on the Internet. The museum, located in the province of English Columbia, posted the photo on its website as part of the exhibition "Their Past Lives Here." The photo, dated 1941, shows the opening of the bridge, which was rebuilt after another flood. An ordinary, inconspicuous photo of past years, but ... The attention of visitors to the virtual exhibition was immediately attracted by a young man standing in the crowd among the other gathered - he really stood out among the crowd. Stylish haircut, zip-up sweater and oversized M T-shirt. And this is in 1941! Fashion historians "fell out"! T-shirts in those years were exclusively underwear, and white, and no letters, drawings or symbols were printed on them. Sweatshirts and other clothes with symbols were also not worn. Yes, and a sweater with a zipper is also an anachronism. Such clothes simply did not exist. On the "lightning" only jackets were sewn. But the features of the mysterious young man did not end there either. He also had modern design glasses and a portable camera, which made him look more like a modern-day man than a "resident" of the 40s of the last century. By the way, he was the only one wearing glasses. Yes, and his expression was very different from all the others. However, the facial expression cannot be sewn to the case, this, as they say, is just a statement of fact, but it can serve as indirect evidence ...
The first reaction was: prank and photoshop! But after the examination, it became clear that there were no traces of artificial imprinting on the photo, and the young man was indeed at the ceremony. And this means that time travel is possible and someone is actively using it. Like this "bridge lover"...
A case that occurred in 2002 can also serve as proof of time travel. FBI agents have detained a forty-four-year-old man on suspicion of a major fraud. He was suspected of using insider information while playing on the stock exchange, bribing managers of companies that traded shares. And really, how else can you explain the fact that, starting with $800, Uncle made $350 million and made 126 trades that seemed risky at first glance, but ultimately brought in fabulous profits?
Driven to despair, the man gave his name and admitted that he did not steal information from anyone, but received it from the future, from where he came to earn money. The Weekly World News tabloid wrote about the "millionaire from the future" and stated that there was no information or mention of a man named Andrew Karlsin in any document - right up to 2002.
After the story made its way to the Yachoo news portal, it went viral on thousands of websites, forums and blogs. And of course, it received a huge amount of feedback. The most fascinating thing is that most of them were written by outraged Wall Street brokers who claimed that even with insider information, it was simply unrealistic to make such an amount of funds in such a short time.
The bold conclusion is that Karlsin is telling the truth and actually came from the year 2256. And this, in addition to everything else, gives the population of the Earth a fragile, but hope that, at least until 2256, our planet will exist ...
Confirmed by time travel and archaeological finds. One such find was made in China in 2008. Archaeologists, working on excavations of a burial place in the province of Guangxi, hoped to find the remains of the Chinese emperor of the Ming dynasty. It was during that period (1424-1644) that the ground-based palace complex and the underground pantheon of the thirteen Ming emperors grew in China. The remains could not be found, but they found ... a Swiss watch!
The discovery was made in the following way. Archaeologists opened the tomb and, with the utmost care, began to remove the fossilized layers of soil. As a result, we managed to get to the tombstone. And then their first discovery awaited them. As soon as they begin to remove dust from the stove, a strange object that looks like a bracelet breaks off from it. But having cleared the traces of time, rust and fossils, archaeologists freeze. Watch! On the back cover there is an engraving of Swiss. Probably, it is not even necessary to say that in the 15th century such an item could not exist, because there was no technology for making wristwatches, watchmakers began to create wristwatches only by the end of the 17th century. (By the way, the hands of the found hours froze at 10 hours 6 minutes.)
A strange artifact, but there is no other way to call it, was sent to Beijing for study. The laboratory established the authenticity of the origin of the watch, and by the serial number and date of manufacture, they realized that they were made a hundred years ago.
The results of the researchers' study were literally shocking. How could a clock get into a tomb that was sealed four hundred years before it was made?! This finding has baffled researchers. It is impossible to explain this from the point of view of modern science.
According to scientists, only one version can explain the appearance of the clock in the tomb, which arose several centuries before its manufacture: the clock traveled through time. Whether by themselves or on someone's hand is unknown. But if they made this journey on the owner's hand, another question arises: for what purpose did the time traveler leave the watch in the tomb? Maybe just lost? There is no answer to this question...
All these and similar findings have again drawn attention to the very principle of the existence of a time machine, although even fifty years ago, talk about time travel was considered unscientific. According to the most daring assumptions, for this it was necessary to overcome the speed of light. However, back in the 20th century, the scientific world spoke unambiguously about the impossibility of sublight speeds. But today the opinion of scientists has changed. They believe that already by 2050-2060 the existing mathematical models of time travel will be implemented into a solid theory, the only question will remain in technologies, the rapid growth of which will make it possible to create a really working prototype of a time machine at the turn of 2100-2150. It must be said that the author of the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein, did not deny the possibility of time travel. On the contrary, the scientist argued that it was possible. In his opinion, a body of large mass, moving at a sub-light speed, will distort the "space-time" structure. And in this case, time for the object slows down its run, while in the outside world the natural flow of time is maintained. And if for us the flight of a ship at sublight speed takes centuries, then the people in the ship will grow old only for minutes.
But if we proceed from this assumption, then we cannot talk about full-fledged time travel: in fact, we are talking about a one-way ticket. Of course, in our time, flying at speeds close to light speeds is limited by technological impossibility.
Scientists of the 20th century unequivocally spoke about the impossibility of speeds above light. “Of course, nowadays it is rare for a person to go looking for the Philosopher's Stone or the Holy Grail. But attempts to invent a perpetual motion machine or a time machine continue. A hundred years ago, the laser was only in the form of a hyperboloid engineer Garin, and today the laser is a common thing,” says Professor Stephen Hawking. He claims that to travel into the future, it is enough to reach a speed of 98 percent of the speed of light. According to the professor's theory, it will take six years for a ship starting from Earth to reach the required speed. As a result of the flight, a change in the course of time will occur, people on the ship will measure only one day, while on Earth a whole year will run. But I must say that again there is no question of instantaneous movements. Some time will need to be spent on accelerating the "time machine", as well as some time to live while moving at near-light speed, plunging the required amount of time into the future. Moreover, the British scientist is sure that traveling into the past is impossible - in his opinion, it contradicts the foundations of science.
It should be noted that theoretical physicists, working in the direction of the "time machine", quite seriously talk about the possibility of time travel. True, this is not yet possible due to technical difficulties, but there are already theories. However, scientists do not always agree with each other, convincing us of diametrically opposed concepts.
Another theory of time travel was proposed by Professor Amos Ori (Israel Institute of Technology). Professor Ory's mathematical model of a time machine is based on a conclusion made by Kurt Gödel in 1949. Gödel argued that the theory of relativity allegedly involves several probabilistic models of space-time.
According to Professor Amos Ori, the idea of a black hole as an "assistant" in time travel is currently the most promising. After all, at a point called the "event horizon", time does "freeze". And if the curved space-time structure is given the shape of a ring or a funnel that looks like a concentric spiral, then this spiral structure of the matter of the black hole well can have two differently directed time streams, which makes it possible to think about the possibility of traveling in time both to the future and to past. Moreover, moving along the spiral flow of the channel of time, it is possible to regulate the depth of immersion in time.
And if in the case of moving in time at sublight speed, scientists of the twentieth century imposed a limitation, establishing the impossibility of such speeds, then the model of an Israeli scientist requires colossal gravitational forces. So, does the scientist's model have no value? Not at all, in search of powerful forces of gravity, you can turn to black holes. Theorists suggest that inside black holes, under the influence of enormous gravitational forces, the laws of physics cease to operate. And it is possible that the coordinates of space and time are reversed. In this case, movement in space becomes movement in time.
The first assumptions about invisible space objects with an immeasurably huge gravitational force were made by the scientist Pierre Simon Laplace. He suggested that to reflect from a black hole, a beam of light would need a speed greater than the speed of light. But, as you know, in the twentieth century, scientists declared the impossibility of speed above light.
Pierre Simon Laplace complains that today there are no technical possibilities to implement the model in a practical form, but optimistically states that the development of technologies is moving so fast that the implementation of projects that are unthinkable today will be available in ten years: “Traveling into the past, you can meet yourself early (young). Accordingly, plunging into the future, you can meet yourself aged. In both cases, it is possible not to exist at all, having not yet been born in the past, having already left this world in the future.
The proposal to create the first artificial black hole was made in the work of Einstein-Rosen, published in 1937. It was proposed to form a black hole with the help of special matter, consisting of particles with negative pressure (practically from vacuum). Perhaps someone succeeded, and we have what we have ...
In addition to black holes, according to scientists, there are also so-called white holes. In this connection, as the researchers suggested, it is quite possible that with the help of black and white holes it is possible to make fast and long-range spatial transitions. That is, entering a black hole in one Universe or Galaxy and setting the coordinates of the desired exit point, exit into another Universe or Galaxy through a white hole. It is possible that this principle of rapid movement in space will be used by the astronauts of the future.
Some researchers have suggested that time travel has always been and somehow - according to the principle of the "butterfly effect" (thanks to Ray Bradbury!) - influenced the course of history on Earth. So, for example, researchers believe that it was because of time travelers that dinosaurs died out.
It is generally accepted that the dinosaurs died out with the onset of the ice age, which happened about 65 million years ago. In those days, a terrible catastrophe occurred in the history of our planet, which was of a planetary scale. A catastrophe that changed the life of all life on planet Earth.
It is believed that a giant asteroid is to blame. This celestial body of colossal size hit the surface of our planet with great power. The released energy from the collision of two objects is estimated at no less than a dozen nuclear "king-bombs" ("king-bomb" - 55 million tons of TNT equivalent). From a terrible blow, an enormous amount of dust rose into the sky; the shock wave circled the Earth several times. Strong fires began, fanned by hurricane winds, dormant volcanoes began to work, the planet was literally engulfed in fire. Millions of tons of ash and dust, smoke, soot closed the planet from the life-giving rays of the sun for many years. About 85 percent of the animal and plant world of the planet died.
This is how scientists describe the beginning of the Ice Age and the extinction of the dinosaurs. Some, not dying from the impact of the asteroid and having survived the global catastrophe, began to die from the cold and the onset of hunger. But in this process, scientists were confused by one thing: why did snakes, turtles, crocodiles and rats close to dinosaurs survive?
So they thought until the death of the dinosaurs, the owners of the planet, was helped by scientists to take a different look at one of the archaeological finds - a petrified laying of dinosaur eggs found in southern India. In the course of working with the found material, scientists come to the conclusion that the impossibility of reproducing offspring is “to blame” for the extinction of dinosaurs. Scientists believe that this is due to the appearance of an unknown virus that caused mutations in the body of these animal lizards, and the offspring of dinosaurs in laid eggs, without getting proper development, died before they were even born.
The reader may ask: what does time travel have to do with it? In this matter, the opinion of experts about the origin of the virus is of interest. There is a bold assumption that it was brought by some representatives of the future, that is, time travelers. After all, the death of the dinosaurs and the appearance of the Lemurians coincide in an amazing way. Willingly or unwittingly, but time travelers influenced the course of history.
True, the opinion of other researchers sounds different. It is possible that representatives of an extraterrestrial civilization changed the course of history. Since even a reasonable person, with his ingenuity and cunning, would be difficult to challenge the right to exist among dinosaurs, and, they say, time travelers have nothing to do with it - this alien mind has prepared a platform for the development of human civilization. But how then to explain the appearance of Swiss watches at the excavations of the ancient tomb of the Chinese emperor? Only a time traveler could leave something like this.
Speaking of the mysterious death of dinosaurs, one cannot fail to mention this fact. In 1983, in the bed of the Texas River, traces of a bare human foot were discovered in a section of an ancient layer. This ancient layer has been dated by scientists to the very era when dinosaurs still existed. Either we must admit that people appeared much earlier - along with dinosaurs (as evidenced by a variety of finds - Black Ica stones, terracotta figurines from the Julsrud collection), or admit that the existence of time travel is possible.
Further excavations made it possible to discover a chain of traces characteristic of a person. Experts after multiple examinations, having established themselves in the opinion that the traces were left in the time of dinosaurs, started talking about time travelers.
Perhaps the people of the future traveled into the past, studying the history of the planet. Or it was just a tourist expedition, so to speak, admiring ancient views - like in a nature reserve. Or maybe the travelers encountered a dinosaur and they had to defend their lives, in connection with which the law of time was violated, which led to such a phenomenon as the “butterfly effect”. The death of the dinosaur entailed a "shift" of reality and, as a result, a change in the subsequent course of history.
This is now a discovery of traces - a “noisy” fact lying in the field of anomalous phenomena, and at the time of the discovery there was a lot of talk about this. Scientists who claimed that the find was nothing more than a falsification went to the site to uncover the deception. However, the skeptics did not succeed: the discovery of human footprints next to dinosaur footprints left at the same time is a generally recognized fact, and the authenticity of the footprints is no longer disputed. However, scientists who do not believe in this say that time travelers have nothing to do with it. Like, a man could not leave his traces about a hundred million years ago, since he did not exist yet. Say, these are dinosaur footprints that time has worked on. It did a good job, I must say: it “turned” the three-toed dinosaur footprint to a clear five-toed human footprint. It would be fine, on the contrary, in the direction of reducing the depressions ... Plus, time successfully “worked” on only one chain of traces, while not affecting the adjacent traces.
According to scientists, if it were not for the death of dinosaurs, man might not have appeared at all. And instead of the first man - the legendary Lemurian - there could be some kind of middle creature between a man and a foot-and-mouth disease. The trooadon, a small creature about one and a half meters tall and weighing 50 kilograms, was taken as a likely model. To the surprise of scientists, he is very similar to a person - with a developed intellect, with the potential for further development. However, compared to modern man, having a somewhat repulsive reptilian appearance. And, perhaps, the descendants of a person from the future time went to the past time to correct the appearance of a person ...
Of course, all these theories have a large number of assumptions: if yes, if only ... However, any theory at the beginning of its development is nothing but a series of assumptions. And no matter how bold (or naive) she may be, traces of time travelers are still found - in the form of the same anachronisms or photographic documents. And scientists do not stop looking for explanations for the phenomenon of time travel. Recently, the hypothesis of space-time portals seems to be very advantageous, which in some way incomprehensible to us bend time and space and allow you to suddenly find yourself in another dimension or time. To explain the existence of such portals, one does not need to appeal to Einstein's theory, to the theory of subluminal velocities and to refer to the low technical level of modern science and technology. It is quite possible that they are the culprits of all the mysterious cases with the appearance in our time of alien objects and even people, and in the past - our contemporaries or objects belonging to them.
There are, however, other explanations for possible movements in time. One of them explains short-term movements in time and space with the help of the psychophysical capabilities of a person. Proponents of this theory say that a person's deep thoughtfulness can be compared with meditation, when the psychophysical parameters of the body change, and the body switches to work with a different energy. And it is possible that, having hit an energetically intense point of the planet (Hartman's grid), the human body can resonate with it, sometimes showing completely unpredictable effects. And when he wakes up, in another place, a person experiences a natural jolt, as a result of which the traveler in time and space is thrown into his present. But due to natural reasons, it is impossible to verify the authenticity of this assumption. However, as well as other assumptions about movements in time and space.
With the advent of such a genre as a fantasy novel in literature (and later with the development of cinema), the theme of time travel became very popular. So, for example, the heroes of the George Lucas trilogy "Back to the Future" move through time, interfering in the course of certain events, thereby changing their lives and the lives of their loved ones. Agree, this is quite an exciting idea. After all, you can not only correct the mistakes of the past, but also find out the truth about certain periods in the history of our planet. You can meet and personally get acquainted with outstanding personalities, for example, with Aristotle or Omar Khayyam. You can try to save from the fire, and someone will even try to prevent Adolf Hitler from becoming the leader of Germany, and so on. Traveling to the future can be no less exciting... but is time travel really possible? And if so, is such pleasure available to everyone? However, is it fun? In this article, we will try to figure out how close scientists have come to creating the notorious time machine. It seems that we will not sin against the truth if we dare to assume that such attempts have taken place, and more than once. And to convince readers that the impossible is possible, consider the facts of time travel recorded in world history.
Philadelphia Experiment
This case could be called the first officially registered fact, in which there was a movement in time and space, if not for one BUT. The American government classified all the materials on this case, moreover, it even denies the fact of the experiment itself. Nevertheless, information about him seeps into the media, and feature films about those events were even made in Hollywood.
Let's take a quick look at this scientific experiment. The described events took place on October 28, 1943 in the military port of Philadelphia. The naval destroyer (DE 173, better known as U.S.S. Eldridge) was equipped with several electromagnetic generators. It was assumed that the mentioned equipment would generate huge electromagnetic fields that would cause radio and light waves to wrap around the destroyer, making it invisible. After turning on the generators, the ship was allegedly enveloped in a greenish fog, after which both the ship and the fog itself began to dissolve and completely disappeared. A few minutes later, the destroyer appeared at the same place, but later it became known that at the time of his disappearance at the place of the experiment (Philadelphia), he appeared, and then disappeared at his base in the docks of Norfolk (Virginia). The project was led by none other than Albert Einstein. It is believed that the scientist, through his generators, made a hole in space and time. He was so shocked by the results that he burned all his notes on this experiment and declared that humanity was not yet ready to use this kind of force.
Findings from the Philadelphia Experiment
Although the visible part of it was successful, the results were disastrous. Of the 181 crew members of the ship, only 21 (!) people returned unharmed. It turned out that most of them became mentally ill, some sailors disappeared altogether, and their fate remained unknown. But the most mysterious and terrible thing is that five people were, as it were, "fused" into the metal structures of the ship. Many of the "returned" had severe burns, from which they died a few hours later. The participants of the project said that they found themselves in another, apparently parallel world, in which they observed creatures they did not understand. That had such a strong impact on their psyche. Half of the surviving officers and crew members turned out to be completely insane, most of them ended their days in a psychiatric clinic. A completely incomprehensible incident happened to one of the members of the experiment: in front of his wife and child, he passed through the wall of his own apartment, and since then no one has seen him.
Not surprisingly, the US government did not dare to publish such results. That's how jokes can end up over time. Before moving on to the modern vision of scientists on this issue, let's consider cases of time travel that were recorded at various periods of our history.
Facts with no explanation
Despite the rapid development of all branches of science, today there is no evidence that time travel is real. However, no one can prove otherwise. At the same time, many things have been accumulated in the history of mankind that make one think and admit that time travel is possible. Such cases are described even in the annals of the era of the pharaohs and the Middle Ages. Similar facts continue to accumulate today. In order not to be unfounded, let's look at some of them.
Cases of people moving in time
This story took place in August 1897, in the Siberian city of Tobolsk. A man by the name of Krapivin, who was distinguished by very strange behavior and appearance, was detained. He was taken to the police station and interrogated, the results of which surprised the investigators. And there was something to be surprised! The man claimed that he was born in 1965 in Angarsk and works as a PC operator. The mystery man could not explain in any way how he appeared in Tobolsk, according to him, he felt a severe headache and lost consciousness. When I woke up, I saw an unfamiliar town in front of me. A doctor was called, who diagnosed him with "silent insanity", and the man was sent to a lunatic asylum.
There is other evidence of time travel as well. Here are a couple of them:
1. In 1976, Soviet pilot V. Orlov said that during a flight on a MiG-25 aircraft, he saw that hostilities were underway on the ground. According to the descriptions of the pilot, he was an eyewitness to the battle that took place near Gettysburg in 1863. It should be noted that the Soviet military, unlike their American counterparts, have always been restrained in such statements, because such information could put an end to their career.
2. In 1986, a similar situation occurred with another Soviet pilot - A. Ustimov. During the mission, he discovered that he was above... Ancient Egypt. According to him, he saw that one pyramid was completely built, and the foundations of others were located nearby, near which people were swarming.
And what do foreign pilots say?
In 1985, a NATO pilot, while flying over Africa, noticed that it was not a desert that stretched below him, but a huge savannah with large trees. He also allegedly saw dinosaurs grazing peacefully on the lawns. Soon the vision disappeared.
Another American pilot (again NATO) said that in May 1999, flying over Germany, he saw a group of fighters approaching him. All planes were somehow unusual. Flying closer, the pilot recognized them as German Messerschmitts. While the American was thinking about what to do, a Soviet fighter appeared, attacking the enemy. Soon the vision disappeared.
Many such facts (failures into the past) could be cited, but they also do not prove anything. Now let's look at examples of travel into the future.
Aliens from the past in modern warfare
In 1944, during the fighting on the territory of Estonia, not far from the Gulf of Finland, a tank reconnaissance battalion of Soviet troops under the command of Troshin collided with a group of cavalrymen dressed in an old uniform. The latter, at the sight of tanks, rushed to their heels. As a result of the persecution, one fugitive was detained, who was taken to the headquarters. The cavalryman spoke in French. Our people were not at a loss, they quickly found an interpreter, and the man was interrogated. He claimed to be a cuirassier in the French army commanded by Napoleon. The remnants of his corps are trying to get out of the encirclement after retreating from Moscow. In addition, the soldier claimed to have been born in 1772. The further fate of the cavalryman is not known, since he was taken away by employees of a special department.
The following fact takes us to the 80s of the 20th century. As a result of a storm, the diesel forces of the USSR under the command of captain second rank I. Zalygin were forced to make an emergency ascent not far from the coast of Sakhalin. The watch officer reported to the captain that there was a floating craft directly ahead, which turned out to be a lifeboat. A man in the military uniform of a Japanese sailor during the Second World War was found in it. During a search, documents issued in 1940 were found on him. The incident was reported to headquarters, the captain was ordered to proceed to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, where the detainee was handed over to counterintelligence.
Road accident victim
In 1952, a strange story happened in New York. There was an accident on Broadway, as a result of which a pedestrian died. The policemen were surprised by the clothes of the victim - they were of an old design, and an old watch and a knife made in the last century were found in the pockets. With the victim, they found a certificate issued 80 years ago, and business cards, which indicated the victim's profession - a traveling salesman. The police checked the address recorded in the documents. It turned out that this street has not existed for about 50 years. Subsequently, it turned out that a person with such data lived in New York and disappeared about 70 years ago. Moreover, it turned out that at that time his daughter was alive, who provided photographs of her father, depicting the deceased under the wheels.
You can endlessly enumerate cases that recorded the movement in time. Stories of this kind, telling about races both in the past and in the future, have always interested the public. For some, they are even collectibles. This is such an interesting hobby. However, we will not focus on this and move on to modern scientific developments.
Sensation
According to Israeli scientist Amos Ori, time travel is possible and scientifically proven. Mathematical calculations of the scientist were published in special printed editions. He claims that the creation of a time machine requires the presence of giant. The basis for his research was the conclusions of Kurt Gödel, made in 1947. The essence of the latter is based on A. Einstein's theory of relativity. According to Ori's calculations, the probability of traveling into the past arises in the case of giving curved space-time structures the shape of a funnel or ring. Thus, each turn of the resulting structure will take a person to the past. According to Amos Ori, humanity has come close to creating a time machine. It is possible that soon it will become an objective reality, and not just the plot of science fiction novels and films. But are we ready to face the unknown? What awaits us there - beyond? ..
Bermuda Triangle
This anomalous zone is famous for its bad reputation; ships and planes often disappear in it. Sometimes they are found, but they are more like ghost ships. Cases were recorded when ships without a crew were found there, and there were no signs of evacuation, all things remained in place, food was cooked in the galley, and there was even a smell of cigarette smoke in the cabin. It seemed that the crew and passengers had left the ship just that very minute. Another oddity that the rescuers noted was that on all the watches found on the “ghost”, the time was significantly behind the real one. So this phenomenon quite falls under the category of "moving vessels in real time". However, to date, there is not enough information about this phenomenon, so it is not possible to draw correct conclusions.
Aircraft movement in real time
By the way, you and I can easily travel in space without any cars there. An alternative way to get ahead of time is air travel. The essence of this method is to move between time zones. For example, a flight from the Far East to the European part of the Eurasian continent. As a result of such a trip, you can overtake time, there are even extreme lovers who celebrate the New Year several times, dangling from one time zone to another.
Time is perhaps one of the most mysterious and inexplicable phenomena of our life. Everyone exists in it, but no one knows what it, by and large, is. From a physical point of view, time is a certain quantity, per unit of which the human brain processes a certain amount of information. He is considered a revolutionary in the field of practical study of the concept of space and time. Before him, only science fiction writers talked about traveling to the past and the future.
According to the theory of the great scientist, time can slow down when it reaches a speed equal to or close to the speed of light. The idea of creating a time machine excites the minds of both world-class physicists and "Kulibins from the people" who are trying to comprehend the laws of the universe. Despite the controversy of opinions, there are many facts about temporary teleportations - there are more than two hundred of them in the annals of the British Royal Metapsychic Society alone, and what can we say about the archives of other organizations and the media.
Fiction or truth? Everyone decides for himself, but not to take into account the huge number of stories about travel in space would also be wrong. Here are just a few of them.
The photograph, kept in the Bralorne Pionner virtual museum, still raises many questions and surprises. The picture is dedicated to the opening of the Golden Bridge in Canada and dates back to 1941. Everything would be fine, but only in a crowd of people it is easy to see one man who stands out strikingly from the rest of the onlookers. His whole appearance does not correspond to the spirit of that time - a T-shirt with a modern print, a sports jacket, sunglasses, a haircut, and the completion of the picture is a portable camera, the production of which in the 40s of the 20th century was not even in the project.
In 1950, in France, a young guy named Rudolf Fetz died under the wheels of a car. Arriving at the scene of the tragic accident, the police noted with bewilderment that the man was dressed in ancient clothes of the last century. During the investigation, it turned out that the deceased was listed as missing in the police archives of 1876. Not only did the descriptions of appearance and clothing match, but also the things that were with him before the disappearance: business cards, business papers, a flask for beer. All of the listed items were found in the pockets of the deceased, and without any signs of aging.
Rita Harsfeld, who lives with her family in Louisville (USA), still keeps a postcard from her business, received in 1955. It depicts Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and the date of issue of the postcard is 1983. Many of the buildings shown in the picture were not yet built in the 50s, so it is not surprising that the strange postcard has become a real attraction in the family album.
Another portion of the "obvious-incredible" series
Facts about time travel can be confirmed in a variety of situations. For example:
At an altitude of 2800 m in the Altai Territory, Mongolian shepherds discovered an ancient burial, the “highlight” of which was a woman on whose feet there were shoes that clearly resembled Adidas sneakers. According to archaeologists, the find dates back to approximately 500 AD, so the remains found can be considered a kind of greeting from the future. Several photos from the excavations hit the Internet, which made a splash among fans of history and the paranormal.
Mobile phone in Charlie Chaplin's film "The Circus" The keen eye of a documentary filmmaker, who was watching DVD materials for the film "Circus", filmed in 1928 with the participation, found an interesting detail. The video clearly shows a woman walking down the street talking on her cell phone. The device is almost completely covered with a palm, but the position of the hand and the facial expressions of the passer-by clearly make it clear what she is doing at the moment she enters the frame.
Ghost trains going from nowhere to nowhere
Fans of time travel stories have probably heard about the mysterious ghost train that imprisoned more than a hundred people in its walls and disappeared without a trace in a tunnel in Lombardy (Italy). Events unfolded on June 14, 1911, when the Rome Railway Company staged an advertising presentation of an elite pleasure train, giving passengers a free sightseeing ride with a tour of local attractions and a new tunnel dug into the rock, a whole kilometer long.
The enthusiastic audience was delighted with the upcoming event, but everything did not go according to plan. The train fell into darkness and did not leave the light, literally dissolving in the air. Only two men managed to escape, who jumped off the steps, intuitively sensing the danger. The incident seriously frightened the Romans and received noisy publicity in the press. The iron branch was no longer used, and the tunnel itself was walled up. Later, during the Second World War, a bomb hit there, which irrevocably destroyed the entire structure.
An ancient chronicle is kept in a monastery near the Casta Solei estate, which tells of a giant iron wagon that once rolled up to the entrance of the holy monastery and belched out clouds of black acrid smoke. The terrible sight caused panic among the servants of the monastery, and when several clean-shaven and incomprehensibly dressed people got out of the devil's car, all the monks began to read prayers in unison and ask for the intercession of the Virgin Mary. Thanks to the powers of God, the vision disappeared, and the fact of its appearance was recorded in the chronicle book.
The medical records of psychiatrist José Saxino, who practiced in Mexico City in the 1840s, describe the astonishing story of more than a hundred people admitted to his hospital with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Moreover, all the people stated clearly and confidently that they were Italians and had come from Rome by train. It was not clear how they could get by rail from Italy to Mexico across the ocean, so the doctor had no choice but to put everyone in a mental hospital. Further biography of the unfortunate "crazy" is unknown.
In the autumn of 1955, Pyotr Ustimenko, who worked as a switchman near Balaklava and entered the service, almost turned gray when he saw a train running towards the barrier. The locomotive was not on schedule, but this was not what horrified the poor man - the unannounced "guest" was rushing where there were no rails. In appearance, it was a pre-war train, which included three small wagons without lighting. Crossing himself, the switchman lowered the barrier, and the train disappeared into the darkness as swiftly as it had appeared.
You can believe or not believe in the mysterious journeys of the Italian ghost train, but the real facts captured in the annals and described by eyewitnesses of our time make you wonder - maybe all this is true?
Tricks of scientists
Some scientists, who admit the possibility of time travel, approach the issue not only from a theoretical point of view, but also try to get real facts to confirm their scientific hypotheses. From the outside, their actions often look funny and strange, but, you see, "who does not risk, that ...".
One of the most famous physicists of our time has repeatedly published statistical observations on temporary teleportation and even said that he knows how to design a time machine. In 2009, he conducted an interesting experiment, which, alas, was not crowned with success. They organized a party for tourists from the future, and the trick of the experience was that no announcements were made about the upcoming meeting. That is, according to the idea of the scientist, someone in the future was supposed to find out about this event and go on a journey through time, jumping over the Nth number of years (or centuries).
Stephen Hawking is not the only one who has tried to hook tourists from the future. A few years before his fake party, Amal Dorai, a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts, had already tried something similar, deciding to call an entire time travel convention as bait. Only he did not act secretly, but, on the contrary, with the maximum PR scope. The scientist launched a large advertising campaign involving the top newspaper publications such as the Washington Post and the New York Times. But not a single “walker” from the future has ever announced the fact of his real existence, but in the journalistic environment, an ambitious scientist was trolled to glory.
Teresa Willson and Robert Nemiroff of the Michigan Technological University decided to use the Internet as a tool to test their hypotheses. According to their version, time travelers had to leave evidence of their presence through any posts and publications - in other words, to light up on the network and lay out facts from the future that have not yet occurred in the present. Searching the length and breadth of Google, Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms, desperate scientists did not find anything suspicious that could attract their attention. But they themselves fell under the sight of television cameras and were notably ridiculed by more than one entertainment show.
Time travel through the eyes of filmmakers
Not only writers, but also filmmakers love to surf the universe in search of adventure. In their exuberant creative head, sometimes such fantastic stories are born that one can only wonder how multifaceted and unpredictable human fantasy can be. Do you still remember these films?
"Back to the Future". Martin McFly has become one of the most memorable time travelers and a favorite of millions of viewers. With the light hand of a half-crazy inventor friend Doc, he manages to move into the past and not only look at his young parents from the side, but also get into a real love triangle with their participation.
It was not easy to throw him into the future with no less exciting and dynamic events. "Is this possible in reality?" - the question involuntarily arises in the course of viewing the trilogy. Not a fact, but more than 20 years have passed since the release of the film, and it is interesting to watch it, even when you already know all the scenes and dialogues of the actors by heart.
"Groundhog Day". The inimitable, who embodied the gloomy and sarcastic Phil Connors on the screen, turns out to be a hostage of the same day in which he boils from morning to night and slowly goes crazy.
And only a happy coincidence pulls him out of this vicious circle (not without love charms, of course), preventing him from finally turning into a schizophrenic. Despite the comedy format, the movie opens up another facet of what time travels are and what they can lead to in the end.
"12 monkeys". The film is set in the future, and its picture is far from idealistic. It's 2035 outside. Almost 99% of the population was destroyed by a monstrous virus, which literally only a few could resist. The lucky survivors are forced to hide underground, turning into half-dead dead, not knowing what will happen to them tomorrow.
The task of saving humanity falls to the felon James Cole, who voluntarily decided to go on a dangerous journey through time and collect all the facts and evidence to help scientists unravel the mystery of the mysterious virus.
"Time loop". Fulfill an order to kill yourself, who arrived from the future? This can only be dreamed of in a nightmare, but no - it turns out that the scenario also works in reality, when the mafia gains access to the time machine and begins to turn its dark deeds with its help.
To understand everything and turn back time falls to the lot - where without him, this professional world saver. The action movie is looked at in one breath even by those who skeptically deny the very possibility of the fact of movement in space.
Believing in time travel or supporting the company of skeptics is a personal matter for everyone, but you must admit that the topic is very exciting. At least in the perspective of "and to talk ...".
