Time travel becomes a reality. Time travel: is it possible? Is time travel real?

Probably, no one would refuse to visit ancient Babylon, to see the mysterious Atlantis and dinosaurs or mammoths with their own eyes. And how many of those who, having committed a rash act, wondered how to return to the past in order to fix everything. Yes, the ability to travel in time excites the minds of people from time immemorial.

There are many stories, the most fantastic and not so, about how people returned to the past or, on the contrary, moved to the future. Is time travel still possible?

Unfortunately, scientists, relying on the laws of logic and science, convince us that today this is unrealistic. In the modern world, there are no such technologies that would not be subject to the current laws of physics. In addition, time travel itself causes a bunch of paradoxes that violate one of the most important laws of the universe - the law of causality (that is, the idea that the effect follows directly from the cause). However, scientists put forward all sorts of theories that may well be implemented in the future.

Faster than the speed of light

This follows from Einstein's famous theory of relativity. So, if an object develops a speed higher than the speed of light, then time for it will slow down in relation to the outside world. Is it possible to return to the past in this way? From a theoretical point of view, yes. After all, if a speed exceeding the speed of light becomes available, then the slowdown of time relative to the outside world will allow the object to reach its destination even before the start. However, today the speed of light is the limiting value. And no one has yet been able to surpass it.

According to Einstein's theory of relativity, in order to give an object a speed greater than the speed of light, a colossal amount of energy is needed - the mass becomes larger with increasing speed, and therefore more and more energy is needed. At the moment, such a technology that could reproduce so much energy is simply not available to mankind. Alas. Although in the distant future, everything is possible.

Through the wormhole

Wormholes, or black holes, are peculiar curvatures of reality that connect points of space and time. Moreover, such a distance between points is much shorter than in a normal medium. Black holes can connect entire universes, distant galaxies, and perhaps even completely different time periods.

However, just as in the situation with a speed exceeding the speed of light, all this remains only a theory, not fixed in practice. To date, there is no equipment, no technology, no knowledge in order to be able to go through a wormhole. Therefore, the question of whether it is possible to return to the past through a black hole remains open.

Back to the Future

Since there are no practical possibilities to move into the past today, it would be logical to ask a question about the future. After all, it is likely that in tens to hundreds of years people will still be able to come up with a way to return to the past. And if you get into such a “future”, then from there you could go back several millennia.

Regarding travel to the future, scientists are not so categorical. At least, if you take into account the laws of physics, then moving into the future seems more real. So, more than once it has already been said about experiments on a temporary stop of the vital functions of a person. Of course, today the existing technologies are still far from ideal. However, it is likely that in a couple of years such a “time capsule” will still be created. Then, by freezing the human body, it will be possible to keep it completely unaged for a huge amount of time. Humans will be able to transcend existing life spans: fall asleep and then wake up in the distant future.

Revived memories

So, as it has already become clear, today there is no way to travel through time in the truest sense of the word. However, this does not mean that a return to the past is impossible. You don't even need FTL or a wormhole to travel down the alleys of your memory. Go back in time with your own memories.

Of course, you cannot be transported to Ancient Rome or see dinosaurs, but you will be able to relive those wonderful moments that you had in the past and which seemed to be impossible to return. Distant memories fade under a pile of recent events, but if you try, you can again feel those long-faded emotions. Thus, your body will exist in the present, and the brain will travel to the past.

But sometimes even evoking the right memories is not as easy as it seems. Therefore, below are the most effective ways to return to the past with the help of memories.

old pictures

Photos are a kind of window into the past. Looking at them, you can not only delve into memories, but also relive long-forgotten emotions. Whenever you feel like going back in time, take out your photo albums or family videos. Just while watching, you should not shed bitter tears and think that all the best things in your life have already happened. Try, looking at the pictures, to remember everyone who is depicted in them (including yourself): character, habits, beliefs, where he works, what is the goal in life, whether he is satisfied with himself, why he smiles or is sad, etc.

Instead of photographs, souvenirs or other memorabilia are also suitable. Examine them and remember those moments when you got them, why and from where.

Effect: Some people believe that after viewing old photographs, they should be burned, as they interfere with moving into the future. Burn or not - it's up to you. However, the very viewing of old pictures helps not only to immerse yourself in the past, but also to understand what does not suit you in the present.

Your own romance

Another great way to go back in time is to write about how things were. It doesn't matter how the text will look, because no one will read what you wrote, except for yourself. Just sit down and write about what happened, how you felt at that moment, what worried you, etc. In this way, you will be able to experience the emotions that you write about. Just do not need to describe in detail everything that happened according to the principle: “I took a cup - poured coffee - sat by the window ...” Write about the main thing - about what worried you then and does not let go even after so many years.

Effect: This method is called the method of therapy with the help of writing. It has been around for quite some time. Psychologists believe that describing past events is good for both mental and physical health. It's also a great way to look at yourself from the outside. Well, if you're lucky, then you get a real romance.

deja vu

If you can’t get out of your head what happened to you, you think that it was the best thing in your life, you want to repeat everything again and wonder how to return to the past - then live this happy day again!

To do this, allocate one free day in the present. In the smallest detail, remember those events that you regret, and bring them to life. Even if you don't have enough members, don't be discouraged. This is where your imagination comes in handy. Just imagine that they are nearby. On this day, do everything exactly the same as then. Live the day according to the scenario of "your golden age": go to that very place, cook those same pancakes and listen to the music that your most trembling memories are associated with.

Effect: as a rule, this method helps to calm down and stop regretting what has passed. However, if immediately after the experiment it did not become easier, then you should not abuse it. Otherwise, you run the risk of becoming a faded shadow of your former self, talking to yourself and dejectedly wandering through the "places of military glory."

One Actor Theater

Another way to go back in time is to act out situations. Imagine that you are on the stage of the theater, and the play that you have to perform is a moment in your life that you would like to return to. It is best to play such a performance in the company of friends. Believe me, this is much more effective than talking on the phone for hours, retelling what happened in the manner of “and I told him ...., and he answered me ..., and then we ...”.

However, not everyone will decide on this, many will simply be ashamed. Therefore, you can arrange a "one-man theater". Anyone can become the heroes of the past days: from plasticine men to soft toys.

Effect: having played out your own life situations, you can, albeit temporarily, but feel yourself in the past, see from the side what happened to you and appreciate all this more deeply.

In order to briefly return to the past, you can walk through memorable places: the area from your childhood where you have not been for a long time, the school, the first place of work, the church where you got married, the lake shore where you first kissed, etc. Even if something has changed there in the past, memory will helpfully throw up images from the past. And together with them you will remember again how you felt then.

Call your old friends with whom you have long lost contact. It can be your friends from school, first colleagues at work and others. Believe me, remembering happy moments from the past is much better in the company of participants in those events.

Smells also play a big role. They are great for bringing back lost memories. After all, a person associates a lot with a certain smell. Buy the perfume you had during your summer travels and be transported back to those sunny and happy days.

Music also evokes memories. You may feel embarrassed that you once loved to listen so much as a child, but re-listening to old addictions years later can help give the impression that you are back in the past.

Just imagine how many useful things could be done if we could travel through time! Kill Hitler, change dollars, convince yourself not to drink last night, convince Hitler to drink last night! But our heroes were busy with completely different things.

Father Pelligrino Ernetti

Father Pellegrino Ernetti, a Benedictine monk, lived almost all his life in a monastery on the island of San Giorgio. He was a practicing exorcist and chair of the prepolyphony department at the local conservatory. But, apparently, when he was not busy with exorcism and early music, he still had free time, because Ernetti's father invented the chronovisor, a device that allows you to travel back in time to see historical events with your own eyes.

According to the confession of the priest, he wanted to visit the Trieste opera, which made a splash in Rome in 169 BC. There are testimonies of people who were present at the launch of the chronovisor. Pellegrino Ernetti's friend, the priest François Brun, even wrote the book "Chronoprojection apparatus - a new secret of the Vatican", which tells how he listened to Napoleon's speeches and saw the crucifixion of Christ. To date, there is no information about the chronovisor, and everything that is offered on Avito is a miserable fake.

Billy Meyer

Swiss Billy Meier's first contact with aliens, according to his testimony, occurred when he was five years old. An alien from the Pleiades constellation named Sfat, who replaced Billy's father, got in touch with the boy. (And who among us from time to time did not suspect that his dad was also from another Galaxy!)

Then, when Sphat died, Billy was contacted by the Pleiadian Ascetic, with whom he kept in touch for 11 years. In 1975, when Billy reached puberty, Sfat's granddaughter, Semjase, came to him. Don’t ask what she taught Billy, we don’t know ourselves, he didn’t talk about it, but he presented the public with many photographs of his alien friends and their spaceships.

Aliens came to him both from the past and from the future, as well as from parallel dimensions, warning of the coming world cataclysms. Concerned about the well-being of earthlings, Billy reported on the upcoming Third World War, which was supposed to begin in November 2006, then in 2008, and finally in 2010. But, apparently, Billy's friends are not very experienced in earthly history, because we are writing these lines to you from 2016.

Charlotte Ann Mauberly and Eleanor Jourdain

Two schoolteachers of exemplary reputation went on an excursion to Versailles in 1901 and, getting lost in the gardens, ended up in 1792, right at the height of the French Revolution. They claimed to have seen Marie Antoinette in her last days before her arrest. The queen was sitting in front of the Petit Trianon and drawing, when an armed mob moved to Paris.

Returning to the present, Charlotte and Eleanor wrote a book about what happened to them and called it "The Adventure". The book, of course, was immediately criticized, and the teachers were accused of fraud. As evidence of the deception, critics used a modern map of Versailles. Charlotte and Eleanor described how they crossed a bridge before going back in time that didn't exist in their time.

However, a map of Versailles of the 18th century was later discovered, on which the bridge described in the "Adventure" really was. However, as it turned out later, neither Charlotte nor Eleanor were experts in the history of France, and before writing a book, they studied the issue with the meticulousness of a teacher.

John Titor

Internet forum hero of the early 2000s who claimed to be from the year 2036. John's final destination was 1975, and his destination was an IBM 5100 computer needed in the future to destroy a computer virus meant to destroy the world. It is even strange that the name of John Connor was never mentioned.

When asked how he ended up in 2000, John replied that he had dropped in to see his family, as the Third World War was coming, as a result of which America would be subjected to nuclear bombing by Russia. And for sure the bombing was what we needed, since the Americans in 2036 were in need of computers from the 70s.

Bob White

In 2003, a lot of people received an email asking them to help build a large warp module with a generator and an induction motor (or something like that). To those who responded to the letter, the author willingly and in detail told his theory about time travel and how to create a device for their implementation. The author of the letter scheduled a meeting for his followers in a small town in Massachusetts on July 9, 2003, to which he did not turn up safely. We hope he was able to return to his planet. Or in a psychiatric hospital.

Victor Goddard

Marshal of the British Air Force Sir Victor Goddard simply attracted the paranormal. In 1935, while flying in his biplane with an open cockpit, he got into turbulence, during which he observed a strange picture when he flew over an abandoned airfield: the landscape seemed to have changed under him, on the airfield, where there should have been no one, there were planes , and mechanics in blue clothes scurried between them. This surprised Goddard, as at that time all mechanics wore brown uniforms. Of course, none of his colleagues believed him, and the story was forgotten until, four years later, the Air Force actually changed the color of the uniform from brown to the same shade of blue that Goddard had seen.

I will give in this post some of the most mysterious and inexplicable cases associated with space-time anomalies, officially documented at different times.

Scientists have managed to prove that it is possible to travel in time ... So, according to the research of the Israeli scientist Amos Ori, time travel is scientifically substantiated. And at present, world science already has the necessary theoretical knowledge to be able to assert that in theory it is possible to create a time machine. The mathematical calculations of the Israeli scientist were published in one of the specialized publications. Ori concludes that the creation of a time machine requires the presence of gigantic gravitational forces. The scientist based his research on the conclusions made back in 1947 by his colleague Kurt Gödel, the essence of which is 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 if the curved space-time structure is shaped into a funnel or ring. At the same time, each new coil of this structure will carry the person further into the past. In addition, according to the scientist, the gravitational forces necessary for such temporary travel are probably located near the so-called black holes, the first mention of which dates back to the 18th century. One of the scientists (Pierre Simon Laplace) put forward 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 needs to overcome the speed of light in order to be reflected from such a cosmic body, but it is known that it is impossible to overcome it. The boundaries of black holes are called event horizons. Each object that reaches it gets inside, and it is not visible from the outside what is happening inside the hole. Probably, the laws of physics cease to operate in it, temporal and spatial coordinates change places. Thus, the spatial journey becomes a journey through time. Despite this highly detailed and significant study, there is no evidence that time travel is real. However, no one has been able to prove that this is just a fiction. At the same time, throughout the history of mankind, a huge number of facts have been accumulated that indicate that time travel is still real. So, in the ancient chronicles of the era of the pharaohs, the Middle Ages, and then the French Revolution and world wars, the appearance of strange machines, people and mechanisms was recorded.

In 1897, a very unusual incident occurred on the streets of the Siberian town of Tobolsk. At the end of August, a man of strange appearance and no less strange behavior was detained there. The man's surname is Krapivin. When he was taken to the police station and began to be interrogated, everyone was surprised by the information that the man shared: according to him, he was born in 1965 in Angarsk, and worked as a PC operator. The man could not explain his appearance in the city in any way, however, according to him, shortly before that, he felt a severe headache, after which he lost consciousness. Waking up, Krapivin saw an unfamiliar town. To examine a strange man, a doctor was called to the police station, who diagnosed him with “quiet insanity”. After that, Krapivin was placed in a local lunatic asylum.

In May 1828, a teenager was caught in Nuremberg. Despite a thorough investigation and 49 volumes of the case, as well as portraits sent all over Europe, it turned out to be impossible to find out his identity, just like the places where the boy came from. He was given the name Kaspar Hauser, and he had incredible abilities and habits: the boy saw perfectly in the dark, but did not know what fire, milk was. He died from an assassin's bullet, and his personality remained a mystery. However, there were suggestions that before coming to Germany, the boy lived in a completely different world.

In 1901, two English women went to Paris for the Easter holidays. The women were in awe of the architecture. During a tour of the Palace of Versailles, they decided to independently explore the most secluded corners, and in particular, the house of Marie Antoinette, which is located on the territory of the palace. But since the women did not have a detailed plan, they simply got lost. Soon they met two men who were dressed in 18th century costumes. The tourists asked for directions, but instead of helping, the men looked at them strangely and pointed in an indefinite direction. After some time, the women again met strange people. This time it was a young woman with a girl, also dressed in old-fashioned clothes. The women this time did not suspect anything unusual until they came across another group of people dressed in ancient clothes. These people spoke in an unfamiliar dialect of French. Soon the women realized that their own appearance caused amazement and bewilderment of those present. However, one of the men pointed them in the right direction. When the tourists reached their destination, they were amazed not by the house itself, but by the sight of the lady who sat next to it and made sketches in the album. She was very beautiful, in a powdered wig, a long dress, which was worn by aristocrats of the 18th century. And only then did the Englishwomen finally realize that they were in the past. Soon the landscape changed, the vision disappeared, and the women swore to each other not to tell anyone about their journey. However, later, in 1911, they jointly wrote a book about the experience.

In 1930, a country doctor named Edward Moon was returning home after visiting his patient, Lord Edward Carson, who lived in Kent. The Lord was very ill, so the doctor visited him every day and knew the area well. One day, Moon, walking outside the estate of his patient, noticed that the area looked a little different than before. Instead of a road, there was a muddy path that led through deserted meadows. While the doctor was trying to understand what had happened, he met a strange man who was walking a little ahead. He was dressed somewhat old-fashioned and carried an ancient musket. The man also noticed the doctor and stopped, obviously in amazement. When Moon turned around to look at the estate, the mysterious wanderer disappeared and the entire landscape returned to normal.

During the battles for the liberation of Estonia, which were fought throughout 1944, not far from the Gulf of Finland, a tank reconnaissance battalion commanded by Troshin came across a strange group of cavalrymen dressed in historical uniforms in the forest. When the cavalry saw the tanks, they fled. As a result of the persecution, one of the strange people was detained. He spoke exclusively in French, so he was mistaken for a soldier of the allied army. The cavalryman was taken to the headquarters, but everything he told shocked both the translator and the officers. The cavalryman claimed that he was a cuirassier of the Napoleonic army, and that the remnants of it were trying to get out of the encirclement after the retreat from Moscow. The soldier also said that he was born in 1772. The next day, the mysterious cavalryman was taken away by employees of the special department ...

One pilot of the NATO troops told reporters about a strange story that happened to him. It all happened in May 1999. The plane took off from the NATO base in Holland, carrying out the task of monitoring the actions of the parties in conflict with the Yugoslav war. When the plane was flying over Germany, the pilot suddenly saw a group of fighters that were moving straight at him. But they were all strange. Flying closer, the pilot saw that it was the German Messerschmites. The pilot did not know what to do, because his plane was not equipped with weapons. However, he soon saw that the German fighter had come under the sight of the Soviet fighter. The vision lasted for a few seconds, then everything disappeared. There is other evidence of past penetrations that have taken place in the air.

So, in 1976, the Soviet pilot V. Orlov said that he personally saw how ground military operations were being conducted under the wing of the MiG-25 aircraft he piloted. According to the descriptions of the pilot, he was an eyewitness to the battle that took place in 1863 near Gettysburg.

In 1985, one of the NATO pilots, taking off from a NATO base located in Africa, saw a very strange picture: below, instead of a desert, he saw savannahs with a lot of trees and dinosaurs grazing on the lawns. Soon the vision disappeared.

In 1986, the Soviet pilot A.Ustimov, in the course of a mission, discovered that he was over Ancient Egypt. According to him, he saw one pyramid, which was completely built, as well as the foundations of others, around which many people were swarming.

In the late 80s of the last century, captain of the second rank, military sailor Ivan Zalygin got into a very interesting and mysterious story. It all started with the fact that his diesel submarine got into a severe lightning storm. The captain decided to surface, but as soon as the ship took the surface position, the watchman reported that an unidentified floating craft was right on the course. It turned out to be a rescue boat in which Soviet sailors found a military man in the form of a Japanese sailor during the Second World War. During a search of this man, documents were found that were issued back in 1940. As soon as the incident was reported, the captain received an order to proceed to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, where counterintelligence representatives were already waiting for the Japanese sailor. Members of the team took a non-disclosure agreement for the fact of the find for a period of ten years.

The mysterious story happened in 1952 in New York. In November, an unidentified man was hit on Broadway. His body was taken to the morgue. The police were surprised that the young man was dressed in ancient clothes, and in the pocket of his trousers were found the same old watch and a knife made at the beginning of the century. However, the surprise of the police knew no bounds when they saw a certificate issued about 8 decades ago, as well as business cards indicating the profession (traveling salesman). After checking the address, it was possible to establish that the street indicated in the documents has not existed for about half a century. As a result of the investigation, it was possible to find out that the deceased was the father of one of the long-livers of New York, who disappeared about 70 years ago during an ordinary walk. To prove her words, the woman showed a photo: it had the date - 1884, and the photo itself showed a man who died under the wheels of a car in the same strange suit.

In 1954, after popular unrest in Japan, a man was detained during passport control. All his documents were in order, except that they were issued by the non-existent state of Tuared. The man himself claimed that his country is located on the African continent between French Sudan and Mauritania. Moreover, he was amazed when he saw that Algiers was in the place of his Tuared. True, the Tuareg tribe really lived there, but it never had sovereignty.

In 1980, a young man disappeared in Paris after his car was covered in a bright, glowing foggy ball. A week later, he appeared at the same place where he disappeared, but at the same time he thought that he was absent for only a few minutes.

In 1985, on the first day of the new school year, second-grader Vlad Geineman played "war" with his friends at recess. To knock the "enemy" off the trail, he dived into the nearest doorway. However, when a few seconds later the boy jumped out of there, he did not recognize the school yard - it was completely empty. The boy rushed to the school, but he was stopped by his stepfather, who had been looking for him for a long time to take him home. As it turned out, more than an hour and a half had passed since he decided to hide. But Vlad himself did not remember what happened to him during this time.

An equally strange story happened to the Englishman Peter Williams. According to him, he got into some strange place during a thunderstorm. After a lightning strike, he lost consciousness, and when he came to, he found that he was lost. After walking along a narrow road, he managed to stop the car and ask for help. The man was taken to the hospital. After some time, the young man's health improved, and he could already go for a walk. But since his clothes were completely ruined, the roommate lent him his. When Peter went out into the garden, he realized that he was in the place where he was overtaken by a thunderstorm. Williams wanted to thank the medical staff and a kind neighbor. He managed to find a hospital, but no one recognized him there, and all the clinic staff looked much older. There were no records of Peter's admission in the registration book, as well as a roommate. When the man remembered the trousers, he was told that they were an outdated model that had been out of production for over 20 years!

In 1991, one railway worker saw that a train was coming from the side of the old branch, where not even the rails were left: a steam locomotive and three wagons. It was of a very strange appearance, and clearly not of Russian production. The train passed the worker and left in the direction in which Sevastopol was located. Information about this incident was even published in one of the publications in 1992. It contained data that back in 1911 a pleasure train left Rome, in which there were a large number of passengers. He got into a thick fog, and then drove into the tunnel. He was not seen again. The tunnel itself was filled with stones. Perhaps they would have forgotten about this if the train had not appeared in the Poltava region. Many scientists then put forward the version that this train somehow managed to pass through time. Some of them attribute this ability to the fact that almost at the same time when the train set off, a powerful earthquake occurred in Italy, as a result of which large cracks appeared not only on the surface of the earth, but also in the chronological field.

In 1994, a ten-month-old girl was discovered by a Norwegian fishing boat in the Atlantic's northern waters. She was very cold, but she was alive. The girl was tied to a life buoy, on which there was an inscription - "Titanic". It is worth noting that the baby was found exactly where the famous ship sank in 1912. Of course, it was simply impossible to believe in the reality of what was happening, but when they raised the documents, they really found a 10-month-old child on the Titanic passenger list. There are other pieces of evidence related to this ship. So, some sailors claimed that they saw the ghost of the sinking Titanic. According to some scientists, the ship fell into the so-called time trap, in which people can disappear without a trace, and then appear in a completely unexpected place. The list of disappearances can be continued for a very, very long time.

In medieval Europe, those places where space-time anomalies occurred were called "devil's traps". So, on the road leading to Dresden, there is a large boulder, in the middle of which there was a large hole. Outwardly, this stone resembled a gate. And if you believe the Dresden chronicles, which claim that any traveler who passed through this hole in the stone disappeared without a trace, then it can be assumed that this is the “gate of Time”. In 1546, the city magistrate decided to dig a large hole next to this boulder, after which the stone was dumped into this hole and covered with earth. But that didn't help either. And although the stone was no more, disappearances of people periodically occurred in its place. Sicilian chronicles for 1753 tell that in the small settlement of Tacona, in the courtyard of an abandoned castle, an artisan named Alberto Gordoni literally vanished into thin air. Moreover, it happened in front of astonished witnesses. Almost three decades later, the man reappeared at the same place where he disappeared. He was extremely surprised by the inquiries of people, but said that he got into some strange white tunnel, at the end of which a bright light was visible, and the man went to this light. And, as it seemed to the artisan himself, in just a few minutes he managed to get back into the castle courtyard. The man was examined by doctors, and they came to the conclusion that the man had not lost his mind, but he was not lying either. Then the locals decided to check the veracity of Gordoni's words. When they all came together to the place of disappearance, the craftsman again took a step and disappeared. But no one else saw him. Then the priest ordered to protect the cursed place with a high stone wall, and then sprinkled it with holy water.

There is a belief that the gates of time open exclusively under the influence of natural elements - thunderstorms, earthquakes, storms and tsunamis. One of the first written references to this anomaly dates back to the 12th century. It is contained in the "Pantheon" of the Italian bishop Gottfried of Viterb. In his work, the priest described one story that happened to the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Mathieu. The monks on the ship were heading for the Pillars of Hercules, but they got into a terrible storm. When the storm subsided, the passengers and crew of the ship saw that the ship was off the coast of some island. The island had a fortress made of pure gold, and all the paths were paved with gold tiles. Already when the day was drawing to a close, the monks met two elders. But they met the strangers very unfriendly and, after listening to the stories of the monks about their misadventures, they ordered them to get back, because one day on the island is equal to three hundred years on Earth. The monks heeded the advice of the elders, quickly boarded the ship and sailed home. Three weeks later, the monks arrived in their native harbor, but it was very different from the place that they left a few months ago. In addition, the people who surrounded them were dressed in a very strange and unusual way. When the traveling monks arrived at their native monastery, they did not recognize either the abbot or the inhabitants. When the abbot listened to the story of the monks, he looked through the archives, in which he found the names of all the travelers. But it turned out that the note about their departure was made three hundred years ago. By the end of the same day, all the monks who had endured such a strange journey had died.

Leningrad region. In September 1990, a simple Soviet engineer named Nikolai went to the forest to pick mushrooms. A thick bluish fog shrouded him in the forest. Afraid of getting lost, he went back to the road, where he left his old "Cossack", but when he went out onto the road he did not recognize the familiar place. Instead of a broken dirt road, there was an asphalt highway along which unusual cars drove. There was a parked car nearby, and near it a man and a woman. Nikolai approached them to say that he was lost and to ask for directions. The woman took out an atlas from the car on the title page of which it was written in large size "2022 map of the Leningrad region." The man took out a small black flat device from his pocket, on which the map was also visible. After a long conversation, it turned out that he was in the right place but that he was in the future in 2024, that the Soviet Union collapsed, that hard times would come, but then everything would work out. The man insistently invited him to stay. Nikolai replied that he had a family and two children and he wanted to go back to the 1990s. The strange couple then suggested that he quickly return to the fog before it dissipated. Nicholas with all his might ran back into the forest. Having found an unusual fog, he passed through it and after a while, having wandered a little, went out to his "Cossack".

The list of disappearances can be continued for a very, very long time. It makes no sense to mention all of them, because most of them are similar to each other. Almost always, time travel is irreversible, but sometimes it turns out that people who have disappeared for a while then return safely. Unfortunately, many of them end up in madhouses, because no one wants to believe in their stories, and they themselves do not really understand whether what happened to them is true.

Scientists have been trying to solve the problem of temporary movements for several centuries. It may well happen that soon this problem will become an objective reality, and not the plot of science fiction books and films.

In the spring of 2003, unknown Andrew Karlsin made $350 million on the stock exchange with $800, making 126 trades in two weeks. The US Securities Market Commission suspected Karlsin of obtaining insider information from company owners, and the man was detained by the FBI. After interrogation, he admitted that ... he arrived from 2256 in a time machine to earn money on historical information. This was written by the weekly tabloid Weekly World News, posting a photo of 44-year-old Karlsin. Later, unidentified persons posted a bail of $1 million for the man, and no one saw him again. This fantasy story would have been more like the plot of the movie "Back to the Future 2", if not for a number of statements by scientists in recent months.

At the end of March 2017, Popular Mechanics published an article about the possibility of time travel due to the principles of quantum mechanics. Three methods of teleportation are known today. The first one has been repeatedly described by science fiction writers - the body moves through the "rabbit hole" of time. The second method involves the biotechnological disassembly of a person or objects into molecules that are easier to teleport separately, and then collection at the point of arrival. And the third method - it seems to scientists the most probable, although it sounds absolutely fantastic. A person is scanned at the atomic level, then the information is sent to the point of arrival and there a new body is created from the available materials with information attachment to the molecules of the transmitted information. This method is reminiscent of scientists trying to put the human brain on the World Wide Web by creating human-based artificial intelligence.

Note that teleportation itself - moving at a distance, has already taken place in 2012 and 2014 in London by the efforts of physicists. And already in the fall of 2016, these experiments were successfully repeated in Canada and China. Canadian scientists moved photons - particles of light - 6 km, and the Chinese twice as far - 12.5 kilometers. So far only teleportation of photons and atoms is possible. Thanks to such a property as "quantum entanglement" in quantum mechanics, a change in a particle can be instantly transferred to another particle that has an information connection. As a result, one particle can influence another, as well as transfer properties to it. This phenomenon can be called the quantum Internet, which will become cosmically fast. That is, we are talking about the first stage of teleportation.

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Foreign scientists believe that human teleportation is possible by 2050-2080. Today's failure is due to the lack of the necessary technologies, since it is necessary to form the architecture of the human body at the mathematical and biotechnological level. That is, take on the role of God, the Architect. The lack of technology can be compared to the desire to introduce wireless cellular communication, cordless phones in the 1930s. You can know how to do it theoretically, but the lack of compact transistors - microchips, will make you wait for the development of technology.

True, there was one video recording of 1938, where a girl walks through the territory of the industrial giant Dupont, talking on a compact mobile phone. Conspiracy theorists hurried to record the girl as a time traveler, but in 2013 the grandson of the "girl" - Gertrude Jones, was found, who discovered the secret. Dupont was researching mobile radio communications and the girl was given the device to test, and she spoke to a man who was walking not far from her with the same tube.

There are hundreds of stories of people who have seen "time travelers", but the most popular are authentic photos and videos. One of the most popular and still unsolved is a 1940 photo of the opening of the South Fork bridge over a river in the Canadian province of British Columbia. In the photo, the guy's appearance was radically different from the style of the 1940s-1950s. He is wearing trendy sunglasses, a printed T-shirt and a cardigan - a knitted jacket jacket, hair in the style of the 1990s. But even if you believe in his fashionable predictions, there is no way to explain a compact camera that was ahead of its time by several decades. The experts who studied the picture are sure that there is no computer manipulation. The person is present in different pictures from different angles taken by different photographers.

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It is difficult to say whether the guy ended up in the past by accident or on purpose. There is a high probability that people can be divided into travelers and "passengers" who find themselves in a natural zone of movement in time. One of the most popular travelers from the future was the American John Titor in early 2000. He appeared on the Internet on forums, blogs and claimed to have come from 2036. The only reason why he was not mistaken for a schizophrenic, but continued to listen and discuss, is the knowledge of complex software algorithms, with the help of which time travel occurs. He also predicted the war in Iraq, the conflict in the US presidential elections in 2004 and 2008. According to him, in 2015, the Third World War began, during which about three billion people will die. Then there will be a global computer failure, destroying the usual infrastructure.

A civil war will begin in the United States, which will split America into five factions with the capital in Omaha. A computer virus will force mankind to return to agriculture for survival, but the global network will partially work. Titor himself is allegedly a soldier sent in 1975 to collect information about the IBM-5100 computer, as his grandfather worked on the creation of a computer. The old model should help defeat the virus, however, he did not explain how. And in 2000, he got to meet his three-year-old self. On March 24, 2001, Titor gave his final piece of advice: "Take a can of gasoline with you when you leave your car on the side of the road." Then he logged out and went back. Since then, no one has heard from him again.

Like Karlsin, Titor is perhaps a conscious traveller. Nobody saw him, but Karlsin was photographed, but still not identified. Moreover, Wall Street traders are sure that all 126 transactions for $350 million could not be calculated, even with classified information. Some stocks rose in price for completely unexpected reasons, including political and military, and natural phenomena. It's impossible to collect classified information on 100 companies and pull it off in two weeks and use $800 to get $350 million. It is suspicious that the Weekly World News site has completely removed all information about Karlsin, despite the fact that it does not shun fried stories. Deleted all messages from his journalists about the investigation of the traveler and the Yahoo News portal.

If the stories of "tourists in time" are rare, then there are no less random "passengers" than UFO evidence. True, witnesses do not always manage to take pictures. So in 1932, the reporter for the German newspaper Hutton and the photographer Brandt involuntarily found themselves in a different time. The journalists went to a shipyard in Hamburg to make a report. Upon their return, they stated that they had miraculously survived the bombing by unknown aircraft. Brandt took photographs of the city blazing from hundreds of bombs, but the film was empty. The editor-in-chief advised not to abuse alcohol, and 11 years later, when Hamburg was completely destroyed by aircraft during the Gomorrah operation, he remembered the story. 600 bombs were dropped on the city, a firestorm killed 40,000 people.

All "passengers" can be attributed to the victims of the "Bermuda Triangle" phenomenon. During the second half of the twentieth century, this small point on the map of the Earth gained fame as a natural time machine. According to unverified reports, the Pentagon classified the incident with the submarine in the 1990s, when the boat was passing Bermuda. In one second, she disappeared from the radar, and a moment later she got in touch from the Indian Ocean. At the same time, the entire crew has aged 20 years.

But the Earth is full of places where a person falls, as if into a well, at another time, and after a couple of hours he ends up at home. A similar incident occurred in 1992 with the Italian Bruno Leone, who disappeared right in front of his wife during their joint walk. Bruno returned two days later, looking very tired and confused. And no wonder, because the disappeared suddenly moved into the future five centuries ahead. He turned out to be a curiosity among identically dressed descendants. When he managed to explain that he was from Italy, it caused great astonishment. According to them, such a country ceased to exist in the 21st century. The city of the future seemed to Bruno uncomfortable and hostile, there was not a single old building familiar to him, trees and even bushes did not grow. Food in the future did not differ in variety, it was replaced by some colorless jellyfish-like jelly - tasteless, but very satisfying. The descendants decided to show him the safest places where he could survive the coming in the XXI century. cataclysms. When they began to show him Mongolia, Siberia, he suddenly moved back to his own time.

If humanity manages to survive the twenty-first century. without global upheavals, and in the second half of the century we will be able to teleport, then such travel, in the first place, will allow states to take crime under control. Looking a little ahead, it will be possible to prevent murders and robberies at the stage of the idea. This will lead to a total reduction in thoughtful, organized crimes and the prevention of everyday crimes. At the same time, businesses will be able to organize "oceanariums", parks with animals and plants from a time 20-50 thousand years later, simply by moving people in a safe capsule. Partial entry into the past will allow teachers to show students gladiator fights in real life, attend meetings of Alexander the Great and Napoleon.

At the same time, if humanity wants to take control of time into its own hands, then it is ready either to oppose itself to God, or to take an atheistic position. Since time is a tool for the destruction of matter, it is intended to demonstrate to a person the frailty and momentary nature of material goods, in contrast to eternal spiritual values. Time will tell how far humanity will be allowed to go in its aspirations.

The concept of a time machine conjures up images of an implausible device that is used all too often in sci-fi plots. However, according to Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which explains how gravity works in the universe, time travel is not just a figment of the imagination. And if time travel is a plot twist in movies, what about reality?

Traveling forward in time, according to Einstein's theory, is absolutely possible. Essentially, physicists have managed to send tiny particles called muons, much like electrons, forward in time by manipulating the gravity around them. This does not mean that the technology to send people forward into the future will become possible in the next 100 years, but still.

1. Wormholes

Astrophysicist Eric Davis of the EarthTech International Institute for Advanced Study in Austin thinks it's possible. All you need is a wormhole or wormhole, a theoretical passage through the fabric of space-time predicted by relativity.

Wormholes have not yet been proven, and if they are ever found, they will be so small that even a person will not fit in them, not to mention a spaceship. With all this, Davis believes that wormholes can be used to travel back to the past.

Both general relativity and quantum theory offer several possibilities for travel, such as a "closed timelike curve" or a path that shortens spacetime, i.e. a time machine.

Davies argues that the current scientific understanding of the laws of physics is "teeming with time machines, that is, numerous solutions to the geometry of space-time that allow time travel or have the properties of a time machine."

As you understand, a wormhole would allow a ship, for example, to pass from one point to another faster than the speed of light - almost like in a warp bubble. This is because the ship will arrive at its destination before the beam of light, taking a short path through space-time. The transport would thus not violate the universal speed limit rule that the light imposes, since the ship itself does not travel at that speed.

Such a wormhole could theoretically lead not through space, but also through time.

“Time machines are inevitable in our physical spacetime,” Davis writes in the paper. - "Wormhole accesses turn on time machines."

Still, Davis adds, turning a wormhole into a time machine won't be easy. It will take a titanic effort. This is because once the wormhole is created, one or both of its ends will need to be accelerated in time to the destination, which follows from the general theory of relativity.

2. Time Machine: Tipler Cylinder

To use the Tipler Cylinder Time Machine, you need to leave Earth in a spaceship and go into space to the cylinder that is spinning there. When you get close enough to the surface of the cylinder (the space around it will be mostly "warp", deformed), you will need to go around it several times and return to Earth. You will arrive in the past.

How far into the past depends on how many times you orbit the cylinder. Even if your own time appears to be moving forward as usual as you go around the cylinder, outside of the distorted space you will inevitably move into the past. It's like walking up a spiral staircase and finding yourself one rung down with every full circle.

3. Donut Vacuum

According to Amos Ory of the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, space could be twisted enough to create a local gravitational field that resembles a doughnut of a certain size. The gravitational field forms circles around this doughnut, so space and time are tightly twisted.

It is important to note that this state of affairs negates the need for any hypothetical exotic matter. Although how it will look in the real world is difficult to describe. Ori says the math has shown that at regular intervals, a time machine will form inside a donut in a vacuum.

All you need is to get there. In theory, it would be possible to travel to any point in time since the time machine was built.

4. Exotic matter

In physics, exotic matter is matter that is somehow different from normal and has some "exotic" properties. Since time travel is considered non-physical, physicists believe that the so-called tachyons (hypothetical particles for which the speed of light is a state of rest) either do not exist or are unable to interact with normal matter.

But when negative energy or mass - that same exotic matter or substance - twists space-time, all incredible phenomena become possible: wormholes, which can act as tunnels connecting distant parts of the universe; a warp drive that would allow travel faster than the speed of light; time machines that will allow you to travel to the past.

5. Cosmic strings

Cosmic strings are hypothetical 1-dimensional (spatially) topological defects in the fabric of space-time, left over from the formation of the universe. With their help, fields of closed time-like curves can be formed in theory, allowing one to travel into the past. Some scientists suggest using "cosmic strings" to build a time machine.

If you bring two cosmic strings close enough to each other, or one string to a black hole, in theory this could create a whole array of "closed timelike curves." If you make a carefully calculated "eight" on a spaceship around two infinitely long cosmic strings, in theory you can be anywhere and anytime.

6. Through a black hole

A black hole has an incredible effect on time, slowing it down like nothing else in the galaxy. In fact, it is a natural time machine. If the mission to fly around the black hole were run by a ground agency, it would take them 16 minutes to fly around the orbit. But for brave people aboard a ship that is close to a massive object, time would pass very slowly. Much slower than on Earth. Time for the team would have slowed down by half. For every 16 minutes, they would only experience 8.