Time Travel

Time travel is the hypothetical movement of a person or any object from the present into the past or future, especially with the help of a technical device known as a "time machine."

How can we measure and count time?

Counting objects is simple - one, two, three, four ... Measuring a short distance is not difficult either. You just need a kind of unit of measurement. Even today, we often measure distances the way ancient civilizations did - by counting steps.

Finding a measure for time is much more challenging. Neither fingers nor steps help here - time can only be measured against time itself. But where can this measure be found? It had to be sought in nature. The sun? The stars? Not quite everything...

Real Cases of Time Travel

Some of the most mysterious and unexplained cases related to space-time anomalies have been officially documented at various times. Scientists have been able to prove that it is possible to travel through time... Thus, according to research by Israeli scientist Amos Ori, time travel is scientifically supported. At present, world science already has the theoretical knowledge necessary to claim that it is theoretically possible to create a time machine. The mathematical calculations of the Israeli scientist were published in one of the scientific publications. Ori concludes that creating a time machine would require enormous gravitational forces to be present. The scientist based his research on the conclusions of his colleague Kurt Gödel from 1947, which essentially state that the theory of relativity does not deny the existence of certain models of space and time. According to Ori's calculations, the ability to travel into the past arises when a curved space-time structure is formed into a funnel or ring. Furthermore, each new turn of this structure propels a person further into the past. Moreover, according to the scientist, the gravitational forces necessary for such temporary journeys are likely located near the so-called black holes, first mentioned in the 18th century.

One of the scientists, Pierre Simon Laplace, proposed a theory about the existence of cosmic bodies that are invisible to the human eye but have such high gravity that not a single light beam is reflected from them. The beam must surpass the speed of light to be reflected by such a cosmic body, but it is known to be impossible to surpass this speed. The boundaries of black holes are called event horizons. Any object reaching it falls in, and from the outside, what happens inside the hole is not visible. Probably the laws of physics lose their validity inside, and time and space coordinates shift. Thus, space travel turns into time travel. Despite this detailed and significant research, there is no proof that time travel is real. However, no one has been able to prove that it is just fiction either. Throughout human history, a variety of facts have accumulated indicating that time travel is still real.

In ancient chronicles of the Pharaohs' time, the Middle Ages, and later during the French Revolution and the World Wars, the appearance of strange machines, people, and mechanisms was recorded. To not be unfounded, let's give some examples.

In 1897, a very unusual incident occurred on the streets of the Siberian city of Tobolsk. At the end of August, a man with a strange appearance and equally strange behavior was arrested there. The man's last name was Krapivin. When he was taken to the police station and the interrogation began, everyone was quite surprised by the information the man shared. According to him, he was born in Angarsk in 1965 and worked as a PC operator. The man could not explain his appearance in the city in any way but claimed to have suffered from severe headaches shortly before, causing him to lose consciousness. When he woke up, Krapivin saw an unknown city. A doctor was called to the police station to examine the strange man and diagnosed him with "quiet madness." Afterward, Krapivin was taken to a local mental institution.

In May 1828, a teenager was apprehended in Nuremberg. Despite a thorough investigation and 49 volumes of the case as well as portraits sent throughout Europe, it proved impossible to determine the boy's identity or his places of origin. He was named Kaspar Hauser and had incredible abilities and habits. The boy could see perfectly in the dark but did not know what fire or milk was. He was shot by an assassin's bullet, and his identity remained a mystery. However, there were indications that the boy had lived in a completely different world before appearing in Germany.

In 1901, two English women went on Easter holiday to Paris. They were fascinated by the architecture. While wandering through the Palace of Versailles, they decided to explore the most remote areas on their own, including the house of Marie Antoinette located on the palace grounds. However, as the women did not have a detailed plan, they simply got lost. Soon they met two men dressed in 18th-century costumes. The tourists asked for directions, but instead of helping, the men looked at them oddly and pointed in an uncertain direction. After some time, the women encountered more strangers. This time, it was a young woman and a girl, also dressed in old-fashioned attire. This time, the women did not suspect anything unusual until they encountered another group of people in antique clothing. These people spoke an unknown French dialect. Soon, the women realized that their own appearance was causing awe and confusion among the onlookers. However, one of the men directed them in the right direction. When the tourists reached their destination, they were not amazed by the house itself but by the appearance of the lady sitting next to it, sketching in an album. She was very beautiful, wearing a powdered wig and a long dress like the aristocrats of the 18th century. And only then did the English women finally realize that they had traveled back in time. Soon, the landscape changed, the vision vanished, and the women swore never to tell anyone about their journey. However, in 1911, they together wrote a book about their experiences.

In 1930, a country doctor named Edward Moon returned home after visiting his patient Lord Edward Carson, who lived in Kent. The lord was very ill, so the doctor visited him daily and was very familiar with the area. One day, as Moon left his patient's property, he noticed that the area looked different than before. Instead of a road, there was a dirt path leading through abandoned meadows. As the doctor tried to understand what had happened, he encountered a strange man walking ahead. He was dressed somewhat old-fashioned and carried an antique musket. The man also noticed the doctor and stopped, looking visibly surprised. When Moon turned to look at the property, the mysterious wanderer had vanished, and the entire landscape had returned to normal.

During the battles for the liberation of Estonia that raged throughout 1944 near the Gulf of Finland, a reconnaissance battalion commanded by Troschin came across a strange group of cavalrymen in historical uniforms in the forest. When the cavalrymen saw the tanks, they fled. As a result of the pursuit, one of the foreign individuals was captured. Since he spoke only French, he was mistakenly taken for a soldier of the allied army. The cavalryman was brought to headquarters, but everything he told shocked both the translator and the officers. The cavalryman claimed he was a cuirassier of Napoleon's army and their remnants were trying to escape encirclement after the retreat from Moscow. The soldier also claimed to have been born in 1772. The next day, the mysterious cavalryman was taken away by officers from the special unit...

A NATO pilot told reporters about a strange incident that happened to him. It all happened in May 1999. The aircraft took off from a NATO base in Holland with the mission to monitor the actions of the factions in the Yugoslav war. As the plane flew over Germany, the pilot suddenly saw a group of fighter planes flying directly towards him. But they were all somewhat strange. As the pilot approached, he saw that it was a German Messerschmitt. The pilot did not know what to do as his plane was not equipped with weapons. However, he soon saw that the German fighter was being attacked by a Soviet fighter plane. The vision only lasted for a few seconds before everything disappeared.

There are more indications of incursions into the past that have taken place in the air. For instance, the Soviet pilot V. Orlov said in 1976 that he had personally seen military ground operations being carried out under the wing of the MiG-25 aircraft he was piloting. If one believes the descriptions of the pilot, he was an eyewitness to the battle that took place near Gettysburg in 1863.

In 1985, one of the NATO pilots, during takeoff from a NATO base in Africa, saw a very strange sight. Instead of a desert, he saw savannas with many trees and dinosaurs grazing on the lawns. Soon the vision disappeared.

In 1986, the Soviet pilot A. Ustimov discovered during a mission that he was flying over ancient Egypt. According to him, he saw a pyramid fully built as well as the foundations of others, surrounded by many people.

In the late 1980s, Captain second rank, military sailor Ivan Zalygin, found himself in a very interesting and mysterious story. It all started when his diesel submarine got caught in heavy thunderstorms. The captain decided to surface, but as soon as the ship took the surface position, the watchman reported that an unknown vessel was right in front of him. It turned out to be a rescue boat in which Soviet sailors found military personnel

It was impossible, but when they lifted the documents, they did find a ten-month-old child on the Titanic's passenger list. There are more evidence connected to this ship. So, some sailors claimed to have seen the spirit of the sinking Titanic. According to some scientists, the ship got into a so-called time trap, where people disappear without a trace and then reappear in a completely unexpected place. The list of the disappeared could go on and on.

In medieval Europe, places where space-time anomalies occurred were called "devil traps." Therefore, there is a large rock on the road to Dresden with a large hole in the middle. Externally, this stone resembled a gate. According to Dresden chronicles, every traveler passing through this hole in the stone disappeared without a trace; hence, it can be assumed that this is the "gate of time." In 1546, the city judge decided to dig a large hole next to this boulder, after which the stone was thrown into this hole and covered with earth. However, this did not help either. Although the stone was no longer there, people continued to disappear in its place. Sicilian chronicles from 1753 report that in the small settlement of Tacona, in the yard of an abandoned castle, a craftsman named Alberto Gordoni literally vanished into thin air. This happened in front of astonished witnesses. Almost three decades later, the man reappeared in the same place where he disappeared. He was extremely surprised by the questions but said he found himself in a strange white tunnel with a bright light at the end and followed that light. As the craftsman himself felt, he literally managed to return to the castle courtyard within a few minutes. The man was examined by doctors, who concluded that he was not insane, but he was not lying either. Then the locals decided to verify the accuracy of Gordoni's words. When they all arrived at the place of disappearance, the craftsman took another step and disappeared. But no one saw him again. Then the priest ordered to fence off the cursed place with a high stone wall and then sprinkle it with holy water.

The doors of time are believed to open solely under the influence of natural elements such as thunderstorms, earthquakes, storms, and tsunamis. One of the earliest written mentions of this anomaly dates back to the 12th century. It is located in the "Pantheon" of the Italian bishop Gottfried von Witerbsk. In his work, the priest described a story that happened to the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Mathieu. The monks on the ship were on their way to the Pillars of Hercules but got caught in a terrible storm. When the storm subsided, the passengers and the crew of the ship saw that the ship was off the coast of an island. On the island was a fortress made of pure gold, and all paths were lined with gold tiles. As the day turned to night, the monks met two elders. However, they encountered the strangers very unfriendly, and after hearing the monks' stories of misfortunes, they demanded they return, as a day on the island equaled three hundred years on earth. The monks listened to the elders' advice, quickly boarded the ship, and sailed back home. After three weeks, the monks arrived at their homeport, but it was very different from the place they had left months ago. Furthermore, the people surrounding them were very strange and dressed unusually. When the traveling monks arrived at their home monastery, they did not recognize either the abbot or the residents. When the abbot listened to the monks' story, he searched the archives, where he found the names of all passengers. However, the note about their sailing trip was made three hundred years ago. At the end of that day, all the monks who embarked on such a strange journey died.

In 1987, a boy appeared in Hong Kong claiming to come from ancient China. There was plenty of evidence for this - the boy mastered the ancient Chinese language well, knew the biographies of long-dead famous personalities, and was well-versed in the history of ancient China and Japan. Besides, he knew a lot of what was only known to a close circle of academic historians. The boy wore ancient Chinese clothing. How he got to modern Hong Kong remains a mystery. Scientists were skeptical of his stories, but when they wanted to speak to him again, they failed as the boy disappeared suddenly in 1988.

In the Leningrad area, in September 1990, a simple Soviet engineer named Nikolai went into the forest to pick mushrooms. The forest was enveloped in a dense bluish fog. Afraid of getting lost, he returned to the road where he had left his old "Cossack," but when he emerged onto the road, he did not recognize the familiar place. Instead of a broken dirt road, there was an asphalt highway with unusual cars driving on it. Nearby, a car was parked, with a man and a woman beside it. Nikolai approached them, saying he was lost and asked for directions. The woman took out a mobile atlas from the car's glove box, with the cover prominently labeled "Map of the Leningrad Region 2022." The man pulled out a small black flat device from his pocket, displaying a map as well. After a long conversation, it turned out that Nikolai had landed in the correct place but in the future, in the year 2024, and that the Soviet Union had collapsed and difficult times were to come, but eventually, everything would work out. The man persistently invited him to stay. Nikolai replied that he had a family and two children and wanted to return to the year 1990. The strange couple then suggested he quickly return to the fog before it dissipated. Nikolai ran back into the forest with all his might. After finding the unusual fog, he went through it and returned to his "Cossack" a little lost.

The list of the disappeared can still go on and on. It is pointless to mention them all as most of them are similar. Time travel is almost always irreversible, but sometimes people who have been missing for a while do return safely. Unfortunately, many of them end up in mental institutions because no one believes their stories and they themselves do not truly understand if what happened to them is real. For several centuries, scientists have been trying to solve the problem of temporary movements. It is quite possible that this problem will soon become an objective reality and not mere fiction from science fiction books and movies.