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Sensational photographs, videos, and eyewitness accounts pop up again and again on the Internet, which are immediately accepted as irrefutable evidence of the existence of time travelers. The ten most ridiculous arguments of those who are trying to justify the possibility of traveling to the past and the future are collected in this article.

On the back cover of this "watch" supposedly there is an engraving "Swiss"

In December 2008, Chinese archaeologists discovered an ancient tomb. The tomb in Shanxi province, they believe, remained untouched for 400 years.

Before the archaeologists could open the coffin, a strange metal object resembling a ring was discovered in the ground next to it. Upon closer examination, it turned out that it was a tiny gold clock, the frozen hands of which indicated five past ten. The case back was engraved with the word "Swiss" ("Made in Switzerland"). A watch of this model cannot possibly be more than a hundred years old. So how did they end up in the ground above a sealed tomb during the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644)? Is there really a traveler from the future involved here?

Perhaps Chinese archaeologists just wanted to draw a little attention to their hard and underestimated work, and just in time they found an ordinary ring that has a funny resemblance to modern watches. It remains only to take a couple of photos, carefully avoiding the angle from which the coveted back cover with the “Swiss” engraving will be visible, and trumpet about the sensational find of the media.

Moberly-Jourdain incident

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France from 1774 to 1792, met by time travelers from 1901

Time travel reports are, of course, not limited to the modern era. Descriptions of such cases periodically occur over the course of many decades. One of them is dated August 10, 1901.

Two English teachers, Charlotte Mauberly and Eleanor Jourdain, who were on holiday in France, decided to visit the Petit Trianon castle, but were not familiar with the surroundings of Versailles. Having gone astray, they finally reached their destination... 112 years earlier.

Travelers recall seeing a woman shaking a white tablecloth out of a window and an abandoned farm in the distance before something strange began to happen.

“Everything around suddenly became unnatural, unpleasant,” writes Jourdain. - Even the trees have become as if flat and lifeless, like a pattern on a carpet. There was no light, no shadow, and the air was perfectly still."

After some time, Mauberly and Jourdain ran into a group of people dressed in the fashion of the late 18th century, who showed them the way to the palace. And on the steps of the palace they met the French queen herself, Marie Antoinette.

Somehow, the travelers managed to return to their 1901 rented apartment. Taking pseudonyms, they wrote a book about their adventure, which was received very ambiguously by the public. Someone considered their story a hoax, someone - a hallucination or a meeting with ghosts.

There are also more mundane versions: Mauberly and Jourdain witnessed a historical reconstruction, or simply wrote a fantastic story inspired by H. G. Wells' Time Machine, published in 1895.

Pilot's journey to Scotland of the future

Illustration for the film "The Night I Die", in which an official predicts a plane crash

The life of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Victor Goddard was full of strange inexplicable cases. For example, one day his plane crashed exactly as in a dream that one of his acquaintances told him about shortly before. This incident formed the basis of the film The Night I Die. And in 1975, Goddard published a photo in which you can allegedly see a ghost.

Long before the release of the film and gaining fame among fans of mysticism, Goddard was an ordinary Air Force pilot who went through the First and Second World Wars. He has also lectured in engineering at Jesus College, Cambridge and Imperial College London. In 1935 he was appointed Deputy Director of Intelligence for the RAF. Apparently, the British government considered Goddard to be a completely sane person without the slightest hint of paranormality, but popular culture has a different opinion.

In his book Time Travel: New Perspectives, the Irish writer D. H. Brennan recounts a strange incident that supposedly happened to Goddard while inspecting an abandoned airfield near Edinburgh in 1935. The airfield was dilapidated and dilapidated; Grass was breaking out from under the asphalt, which was chewed by local cows. On the way home, Goddard got into a storm and was forced to return. On approaching the abandoned airfield, he was surprised to find that the storm suddenly stopped, and the sun came out, and the airfield itself was completely transformed. It was repaired, mechanics in blue overalls scurried along it, and four yellow aircraft of an unknown model to Goddard stood on the runway. The pilot did not land and did not tell anyone about what he saw. Four years later, the RAF began painting planes yellow and mechanics began to wear blue uniforms, just like in his vision.

It is a pity, after all, that Goddard did not land at the airfield of the future and did not bring any artifact from there. Then, perhaps, there would be at least some reason for believing his words.

An unknown artist's fantasy of what the secret Philadelphia experiment might have looked like

The US Navy is known for its interest in dangerous futuristic technology, from mind control and psychological weapons to robots and time travel. The legend of the Philadelphia Experiment says that on October 28, 1943, they conducted a secret experiment, codenamed "Project Rainbow", during which the destroyer Eldridge was supposed to become invisible to enemy radars, but instead went 10 seconds into the past.

Reports of this experiment are somewhat vague and the US Navy has never confirmed that it actually took place, but of course no one believes the US government and the rumors continue to circulate.

Some argue that the ship experiment is based on the unified field theory developed by Albert Einstein. Allegedly, in accordance with this theory, a special electromagnetic field was created around the ship, which caused the "bending" of light, and with it the entire space-time continuum, due to which the ship became invisible and moved in time. But for some reason, everyone forgot about this amazing technology immediately after the experiment. Including the sailors who served on that destroyer, unanimously claiming that some crazy person invented this whole story.

Montauk Project

Frightening-looking radar in Montauk leads locals to believe that secret experiments are being carried out somewhere nearby.

And again about the secrets of the American government, the distrust of which among the people has only increased in recent years because of the story of Edward Snowden. Project Montac, like Rainbow, is highly classified and involves electromagnetic fields. Frightening experiments, including time travel, are allegedly being conducted at the Camp Hero air station in the city of Montauk near New York.

The founder of the legend is the American writer Preston Nichols, who claims that he managed to restore his memory, which was erased after his participation in time travel experiments. According to his own words, Nichols holds a degree in parapsychology. He dedicated a YouTube video to his experience of time travel, and it must be said that it is rather strange.

Let's try to be as unbiased as possible given the above facts. Nichols claims that the U.S. government is conducting secret mind control experiments, and this may be true if you think about Project MK Ultra, a secret CIA program aimed at finding ways to manipulate the human mind with the help of psychotropic drugs.

That's just one thing drugs and interrogation methods, and quite another - electromagnetic fields and time travel. The influence of electromagnetic fields on human consciousness or the space-time continuum has not yet been proven anywhere and by anyone.

The Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider is a particle accelerator built on the border between France and Switzerland.

There are very few real experts at the Hadron Collider. Why, most people can't even pronounce its name correctly. And yet everyone has their own opinion about what researchers at CERN do. Some are convinced that they are building a time machine - what else can all these complex devices be needed for, if not to fulfill our fantasies inspired by science fiction films?

To date, the LHC is the most complex experimental facility in the world. It is located at a depth of 175 meters above the ground. In the “ring” of the accelerator, which is almost 27 thousand meters long, protons collide at a speed close to the speed of light. Both scientists and the press are concerned that the operation of the collider could create black holes. However, after several launches of the installation, nothing of the kind has happened yet, but in 2012 the Higgs boson was discovered. It was because of him that the rumor began that the LHC was the first step towards building a time machine.

Physicists Tom Weiler and Chui Meng Ho of Vanderbilt University suggest that in the future it will be possible to detect another particle - the Higgs singlet, which has incredible properties that violate causal relationships. According to the hypothesis of scientists, this particle is able to move into the fifth dimension and move in time in any direction, into the past and into the future. "Our theory may seem presumptuous," Weiler says, "but it doesn't defy the laws of physics."

Unfortunately, it is difficult for an ordinary person, far from physics, to check whether this is really so. We have to take the word of the authors of the theory.

Mobile phones in old movies

This elderly woman, who can be seen in the extra footage for Charlie Chaplin's The Circus, appears to be talking on a cell phone (1928)

The Internet user community is the greatest detective mind in history. Reddit users have been investigating the Boston bombing in 2013, another group of volunteers are looking for scammers online, and everyone else is busy looking for evidence of time travel in the most unlikely places. For example, attentive detectives found an interesting fragment on the DVD edition of Charlie Chaplin's film "The Circus", which they immediately uploaded to YouTube. When the film's extras show the crowd gathered for the opening night at Grauman's Chinese Theater in 1928, a woman can be seen in the background talking on a mobile phone.

Or rather, with this quality of the video, we can only say with certainty that she really holds something near her ear. Historians cooled the general ardor, saying that this may be one of the first models of the Siemens hearing aid, but this version did not seem convincing enough to conspiracy theorists. They found another video, this one from 1938, of a girl talking on a mobile phone, who would hardly need a hearing aid. Still, it's not very convincing. Maybe we need more old videos of people holding something to their ear and talking.

And in the following excerpt from the 1948 film, our contemporaries stubbornly see the iPhone at 18 seconds. Have you ever wondered how people traveled in carriages without GPS? It turns out they had to use smartphones! In fact, the actor in the video is holding an ordinary notebook, and Internet detectives should look for something more convincing.

Immortal Nicolas Cage

Double Nicolas Cage from the XIX century

It's hard to imagine anyone taking this seriously, but it's quite popular on the internet to search for vintage photographs and portraits of people who look like modern-day celebrities. Here, for example, is a copy of Nicolas Cage from the 19th century. The uninformed compilers of the textbook in which the photo appeared claim that it depicts Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico. How could they not notice such a striking resemblance to the actor from National Treasure and Ghost Rider?

Of course, this case is far from the first and not the only one. Widely known portraits of Keanu Reeves in 1570 and 1875 and a photograph of John Travolta from 1860.

Keanu Reeves with a "double" from the past

John Travolta - Vampire or Time Traveler?

Opinions differ regarding such coincidences. Someone claims that all these actors are immortal vampires, and someone considers them to be time travelers. Cage himself on the David Letterman show denied the version of his vampirism, so only the second option remains.

Apparently, Hollywood has a secret time machine at its disposal specifically to help actors better prepare for roles in historical films. But irresponsible actors perceive it as an additional vacation: they take pictures, they rule Mexico ... Well, what kind of people.

John Titor

One of the drawings of John Titor, with which he tried to explain the device of his time machine

It turns out that on the Internet you can find not only evidence of time travel, but also the travelers themselves. Today, however, we all fall into this category: one has only to look at the news feed for five minutes, and three hours are gone.

At the beginning of the 2000s, social networks were not so popular. In those days, people communicated on the so-called boards - forums that look rather unusual for us today. To start a conversation, you had to start a new topic. The author of one of the popular themes was a certain John Titor, who claimed that he arrived from the year 2036, and cited a number of predictions to support his words.

Some of them were rather vague, some more specific. Titor claimed that America of the future was on the verge of destruction due to a nuclear attack, after which it broke up into five regions. Most other countries have ceased to exist. He also posted blueprints for his time machine, but no one ever tried to build something from them. None of his predictions have come true so far.

What can I say, on the Internet you can really be anyone. I wonder why no one pretends to be a time traveler today? Is pretending to be a celebrity more interesting?

Leakage of information from the future

The researcher is waiting for the appearance of messages from the future on the Internet

And again about the Internet. John Titor and others like him simply could not leave the people of science indifferent.

Robert Nemirov and Teresa Wilson of Michigan Technological University have been scouring the web for several years for traces that time travelers might have left. To do this, they use special Google magic to look for references to certain events that are dated earlier than these events actually happened, for example, information about the comet C / 2012 S1 that appeared before 2012, or the phrase "Pope Francis" that appeared somewhere or until March 2013, in which Francis was elected pope. It is assumed that if time travelers use the Internet to communicate, then somewhere their phrases must be found that do not correspond to their date. Agree, the idea is quite interesting. So what did the researchers find? - you ask.

Nothing. There are no information traces of time travelers on the Internet. As if comforting those whose hopes have been shattered, the scientists write: “Although the study did not confirm that there are time travelers from the future among us using the Internet to communicate, it is also possible that they simply cannot leave any traces of their stay in the past, even intangible . In addition, discovering information about them may be impossible for us, since this would be a violation of some of the laws of physics known today. Finally, time travelers may not want to be found and carefully cover their tracks.”

It turns out that time travelers exist, they are just invisible, hiding and cannot leave any traces! Very convincing, isn't it?

Time travel is not as mysterious as it seems. Theoretically, it is enough just to accelerate to a speed exceeding the speed of light, and you will find yourself in the future. But no one knows yet how to do it. There is another problem: you will not be able to return, because this would violate the causal relationship. Therefore, as Stephen Hawking said: "Time travel is possible, but useless."

"The difference between past, present and future is nothing more than an illusion, albeit a very intrusive one"
Albert Einstein

Nowadays, even respected physicists such as Stephen Hawking are forced to admit that time travel might be possible. But maybe it has already happened? The people we're going to talk about in this list say exactly that.

10. Visit Mars with Barack Obama

A Seattle lawyer named Andrew Basiago says that when he was a child, he and William Stillings were "chrononauts" in a secret U.S. government time travel program called "Project Pegasus (Project Pegasus). The purpose of the program was threefold: to protect the Earth from threats from space, to establish territorial sovereignty over Mars, and to acclimatize Martian humanoids and animals to our presence.

However, the most interesting part of Basiago and Stillings' claim is that one of their time travel colleagues was none other than 19-year-old Barack Obama, who participated in the program under the pseudonym "Barry Soetero". In 1980, three men and seven teenagers from their "Martian training class" at California Siskiyous College (a real-life institution) traveled to Mars using a secret teleportation room constructed from blueprints found in Nikola Tesla's apartment after his of death. They jumped through the radiation energy field into the tunnel, and when the tunnel closed, they found that they had arrived at their destination.

The White House has officially denied the rumors that Obama has ever been to Mars.

9. American soldier from the future


In late 2000, articles began to appear on the Internet from a man claiming to be an American soldier from the year 2036. John Titor, as he called himself, traveled back to 1975 using a tool installed in a 1987 Chevy Suburban, naturally to find an IBM 5100 computer in order to destroy a computer virus aimed at destroying peace. Titor described a world torn apart by conflicts that would culminate in Russian nuclear strikes in 2015 that killed almost three billion people.

Titor's articles abruptly stopped appearing in 2001, but Titoromania continued. In 2003, a collection of 151 Titor's messages was published under the title John Titor A Time Traveler's Tale. Although this book is no longer published, a brand new copy can still be purchased for a tidy $1,775, or a used copy for a more modest $150. The book was published by the John Titor Foundation, a for-profit corporation run by a Florida entertainment lawyer named Lawrence Haber. The Foundation also owns the rights to the alleged military insignia of the military unit of Titor called "Fighting Diamondbacks", which is inscribed with a quote from Ovid: "tempus edax rerum", which means "time devours everything".

Apparently, everything except the myth of John Titor.

8. Christ's Personal Photographer


Father Pellegrino Ernetti was a Benedictine monk and a recognized authority on archaic music. He also claimed that, as part of a team that included Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi and German scientist Werner von Braun, he co-invented the "chronovisor", a television-like device, with them. , which could be tuned to events from the past.

According to Ernetti, he watched the last supper and the crucifixion of Christ, and also saw Napoleon and Cicero. The team later voluntarily dismantled the device because falling into the wrong hands could lead to "the most terrible dictatorship the world has ever seen." He said the device was inspired by Nostradamus, who personally informed him of the device's capabilities.

When pressured to provide evidence for the existence of the device, Ernetti provided a photograph of Christ on the cross, purportedly taken with a chronovisor. After the similarity of the provided photograph with the work of Cullot Valera was noticed, Ernetti had to admit that the photograph was a fake. However, Ernetti continued to insist that the Chronovisor had actually been built.

7. The pilot who got into a parallel dimension


In 1935, a Royal Air Force Air Wing Commander named Sir Victor Goddard flew his open-cockpit biplane from Scotland to England on a day off. On the way, he flew over the airfield Drem (Drem Airfield), located near Edinburgh (Edinburgh), which was built during the First World War. The platform and four hangars were in poor condition, and barbed wire divided the field into numerous pastures filled with grazing cattle. Returning home a day later, Goddard got into a severe storm and lost control of his plane. When he finally pulled the plane out of the downward spiral that could have led to his death, he was only a few meters above the rocky beach.

While Goddard was making his way back up through the rain and fog, the sky was suddenly filled with sunlight. Below it was the Drema airfield, but the farm was gone, and the hangars were no longer crumbling. At the end of the restored platform were four bright yellow aircraft and one unfamiliar monoplane. They were surrounded by mechanics in blue overalls, which Goddard noticed because the mechanics of this airfield usually wore only brown overalls.

One of the founders of the airfield admitted that Goddard simply confused his location. Has he really recovered in the future? Goddard died in 1987, so we will never know the truth. Unless he comes back from the past to tell us about her.

Source 6The only person to survive the Philadelphia Experiment


In the fall of 1943, the destroyer USS Eldridge allegedly became invisible and teleported from Pennsylvania to Virginia in what became known as the Philadelphia Experiment. Of course, this incident never actually happened, but that didn't stop Alfred Bielek from gaining notoriety as the sole survivor of the Philadelphia Experiment. His memories were "buried in his mind" until he saw the movie The Philadelphia Experiment in 1988, when he "remembered" that he was born in 1916, as was Ed Cameron.

Like Cameron, he was recruited in 1940 to participate in a Navy project called "Project Rainbow" whose goal was to determine a way by which ships could be made invisible. For reasons not entirely clear, Cameron was sent through a portal in the Pentagon to Alpha Centauri One, where aliens interrogated him and then "physically regressed" him into one-year-old Alfred Bilek in 1927. Bilek claimed that he later became the director of mind control for the Montauk Project, whose members traveled the time vortex in the 1980s and altered the results of various wars. When they returned to their time, they decided if they managed to change the situation for the better. If they failed, they simply returned everything as it was.

5. Hakan Nordqvist met his future self

On August 30, 2006, 36-year-old Håkan Nordkvist came home to find that water had collected on his kitchen floor. Assuming it was a leak, he gathered up his tools and crawled under the sink, but couldn't reach the pipes. What happened next, he explains as follows: “I had to climb into the closet, and when I did, I found that it expanded. So I kept crawling on and on. I saw a light at the end of the tunnel, and when I got out of it, I realized that I was in the future.”

He ended up in 2042, where, or rather when, Nordqvist met his 72-year-old self. To his surprise, Nordquist from the future knew things that only he could know, such as where he hid his secret things in first grade. They even had the same tattoo, although the future Nordqvist had a slightly dimmer one. The men were photographed together on the phone of a young Nordqvist. The only photo that Nordqvist decided to take in 2042 showed that he would undergo certain physical changes, including that he would grow several centimeters over the next 36 years.

4The Woman Who Visited The Queen's Memories


On August 10, 1901, Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain, academics at St Hugh's College, Oxford, were spending the day at Versailles. While they were looking for the Petit Trianon, they got lost. They began to feel strange, as if something was oppressing their spirit. Two men in long green coats and cocked hats led them across the bridge, where Mauberly saw a woman in 18th-century clothing sitting on a chair and drawing.

Back in England, the women decided to investigate this mystery. Neither of them knew anything about 18th-century France, so imagine their surprise when they discovered the portrait of Marie Antoinette and realized it was the woman Moberly had seen painting. The queen was sitting in front of the Petit Trianon at the very moment she learned that the Parisian crowd was moving towards Versailles.

The women were convinced that they would see a ghostly trace of Marie Antoinette's memories. Under the pseudonyms Miss Morison and Miss Lamont, they published an account of their experiences called "An Adventure", which became a bestseller. It was not until 1950, by the time Jourdain and Mauberly were long dead, that their correspondence with the Society for Psychical Research was examined. During the study of correspondence, it was proved that women added numerous details to their story only after they had conducted their research on this topic.

3. An army of aliens stealing children


Michael and Stephanie Relfe report that aliens using fractal time-altering technology abducted them and "stole" their two-month-old premature daughter. However, according to their website, the worst part is that it can happen to any of us!

However, we can prevent this by praying and recognizing the signs of an impending abduction, which include: fatigue, bruising, loss of time, and areas of the body that appear unnaturally brightly colored when viewed under infrared light. However, both spouses answer the question of what happens after you have been abducted by aliens in a very unrelated way. However, their knowledge of abduction technology was surprisingly clear. The aliens, backed by the US Army, have used teleportation, space-time tunnels, dimensional travel, fractal resonance, and even magic to travel through time and space.

Other scourges sent by aliens include vaccines, fluoride, and genetically modified food. All of these things destroy our metaphysical abilities and keep us from fighting back "attempted occupation by a predatory hyperdimensional species" - or at least understanding what this couple is up to.

2. The people who foresaw the bombing of Hamburg


In 1932, a German newspaper reporter named J. Bernard Hutton and photographer Joachim Brandt supposedly went to a Hamburg shipyard to do some interviews for their story. As they left the shipyard, they heard the hum of aircraft engines. Looking up, they saw the sky filled with military aircraft. Bombs exploded around them, and the whole area was a raging hell.

Brandt took photographs of the devastation and they traveled back to Hamburg, but when they developed the film, there was no evidence of an attack. The editor of the publishing house accused the men of drunkenness and ordered that their story not be printed. After that, Hutton moved to London, where he allegedly saw an article in 1943 about how the Royal Air Force carried out a series of bombing raids on Hamburg. The photographs accompanying the article were taken at a shipyard that looked exactly as he and Brandt had seen it 11 years earlier.

The Royal Air Force actually bombed Hamburg in 1943. In a series of raids known as Operation Gomorrah, approximately 550-600 bombs turned the city into a firestorm that killed 40,000 people. It was the first large-scale destruction of a city during World War II - and the last that Hutton and Brandt learned about.

1 Space Barbie

Valeria Lukyanova, who has a narrow waist, large bust and doll-like features, is known on the Internet as a "living Barbie doll". However, she insists that she is in fact a time-traveling alien and has come to Earth to save the world from superficiality. Lukyanova, who was born in Ukraine, insists her real name is Amatue. She rose to internet fame in 2012 with her 20-minute Space Barbie video, in which she says she helps us move from "the role of 'human consumer' to that of 'human demigod'."

Lukyanova says she started seeing spirits from "other dimensions" when she was 12 or 13 years old. Therefore, she developed the ability to travel out of her body to other planets and universes. She communicates with these extraterrestrial creatures not verbally, but through the "language of light." Despite the fact that she has already published a book about her astral flights, Lukyanova's real goal is to become a pop star.

And the Grammy is awarded to Amatuya for the best performance in the "Language of Light" nomination.

« Each of us has a time machine: what takes us to the past is memories; what takes you to the future - dreams»

Herbert Wells. "Time Machine"

What does a person dream about if his head is not occupied with war and mercantile ambitions? He dreams of his future, of the stars, of well-being for those around him. This fact was reflected most vividly in our area during the existence of the Soviet Union, when state propaganda in the framework of the Cold War and the space race convinced people that science is the engine of progress. And there was nothing wrong with that.

Seeing the success of mankind in the exploration of outer space, as well as achievements in other areas of science, people began to dream about what had previously seemed only a fantasy. For example, about eternal life and youth, perpetual motion, traveling to the stars and other galaxies, understanding the language of animals, levitation, and even about a time machine. However, science again intervened in the matter, which over and over again clips the wings of dreamers with its formulas, which prove that some dreams are unrealizable:

The creation of a perpetual motion machine of the first kind is impossible within the framework of the law of conservation of energy. The first law of thermodynamics forbids us to do this, so we just have to wait for the next breakthrough theory in the field of physics and mathematics.

Understanding the language of birds and animals, for obvious reasons, is still a fantasy. Scientists are only at an early stage of deciphering the sounds made by animals. The greatest success has been achieved in deciphering the language of dolphins, but so far this is more like a ghostly future.

We won’t be able to live forever yet, because our cells are programmed to die. There are no adequate theories about reprogramming yet and are not expected, therefore human life is only possible.

It is possible to break the dreams of mankind on the rocks of science endlessly, but there are things that are not prohibited by science. For example, time travel. One of the most insane, at first glance, ideas turns out to be real, because it does not run counter to the modern laws of physics.

Humanity's first thoughts on time travel

It is impossible to establish when a person first thought about returning to the past or going to the future. Most likely, this thought visited many throughout the entire existence of our family. Another thing is the rejection of ordinary dreams and an attempt to describe the idea of ​​time travel in terms of the relativity of time periods. And the first to pay attention to this were not scientists, but science fiction writers. Creative people are not constrained by scientific limits, so they can give free rein to their imagination. In addition, it turned out that most of the writers' prophecies regarding our future have come true.

In the literature, time travel was described depending on the era in which their creators lived. For example, in the novels of the 18th century, when religion still retained its weight in society and prevailed over other facts, writers associated everything unusual with divine intervention.

The first science fiction book about time travel is considered to be the novel by Samuel Madden “Memoirs of the 20th century. Letters on the state ruled by George VI ... Received in the form of a revelation in 1728. In six volumes. In the book, which was written in 1733, the main character received letters describing events from the end of the 20th century, which were brought to him by a real angel.

The appearance of the "Time Machine"

The first mention of a certain man-made mechanism that allowed you to move in time appeared only at the end of the 19th century. In 1881, in one of the scientific journals of New York, the story of the American journalist Edward Mitchell "The Clock that Went Back" appeared. It tells about a young man who was able to travel back in time with the help of an ordinary room clock.

Edward Mitchell is considered one of the founders of modern science fiction. He described many inventions and ideas in his books long before they appeared on the pages of other science fiction writers. He talked about FTL travel, the invisible man and much more before anyone else.

In 1895, an event occurred that turned the world of fantastic prose upside down. In the English magazine "The New Review", the editor decides to publish the story "The Story of the Time Traveler" - the first major fantasy work of H. G. Wells. The name "Time Machine" did not appear immediately, and was adopted only a year later. The writer developed the idea of ​​the story "The Argonauts of Time", written in 1888.

“The idea of ​​the possibility of time travel came to him in 1887 after a certain student named Hamilton-Gordon in the basement of the School of Mines in South Kensington, where meetings of the Debating Society were held, made a report on the possibilities of non-Euclidean geometry based on the book of Ch Hinton "What is the fourth dimension"

A distinctive feature of the novel is that some moments of the protagonist's journey through time were described using assumptions that later appeared in Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. At the time of writing, it didn't even exist.

Einstein phenomenon

Since ancient times, man has perceived the space around him as the value of three dimensions: length, width and height. Talking about time was the lot of philosophers, only in the 17th century they introduced the concept of time into science as a physical quantity, but scientists, including Newton, perceived time as something unchanging, straightforward.

Newtonian physics assumed that clocks located anywhere in the universe would always show the same time. Scientists were satisfied with the current state of affairs, because it is much easier to carry out calculations using such data.

Everything changed in 1915 when Albert Einstein took the podium. The report on the Special Theory of Relativity (SRT) and the General Theory of Relativity (GR) brought the Newtonian perception of time to its knees. In his scientific works, time existed inseparably with matter and space and was not linear. It could change its course, accelerate or slow down, depending on the conditions.

The supporters of the Newtonian universe dropped their hands. Einstein's theory was extremely logical, all the basic laws of physics continued to work flawlessly in it, so the scientific community was left to accept it as a given.

« Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, while imagination embraces the whole world, stimulating progress, generating evolution.».

Albert Einstein

In his equations, the scientist presented the curvature of space-time caused by the gravitational component of matter. They took into account not only the geometric features of objects, but also the density, pressure and other factors that they possess. The peculiarity of Einstein's equations is that they can be read both from right to left and from left to right. Depending on this, the perception of the world around us and the interaction of space-time will change.

The first representations of time travel

After the scientific community recovered from the shock, it began to actively use Einstein's achievements in their research. Astronomers and astrophysicists were the first to become interested, because the theory of relativity worked for the Universe around us, which will undoubtedly help answer a number of questions that were previously considered rhetorical. At the same time, it turned out that the scientific works of the German physicist admit the possibility of the existence of a time machine, even several of its types.

Already in 1916, the first scientific works on time travel appeared with a theoretical justification. The first to announce this was a physicist from Austria, whose name was Ludwig Flamm, who at that time was only 30 years old. He was inspired by Einstein's ideas and tried to solve his equations. It suddenly dawned on Flamm that when space and matter are bent in the Universe around us, peculiar tunnels can appear, through which one can pass not only within the framework of space, but also of time.

Einstein warmly accepted the young scientist's theory, and agreed that it met all the conditions of the theory of relativity. Almost 15 years later, he managed to develop Flamm's reasoning, and together with his colleague Nathan Rosen, they were able to connect two Schwarzschild black holes with each other using a space-time tunnel that expanded at the entrance, gradually narrowing towards its middle. In theory, it is possible to travel through such a tunnel in the space-time continuum. Physicists have called such a tunnel the Einstein-Rosen Bridge.

To people outside the scientific world, Einstein-Rosen bridges are known under the simpler name "wormholes", which was coined in the middle of the 20th century by Princeton scientist John Wheeler. The name "wormholes" is also common. Such an expression quickly spread among the supporters of modern theoretical physics and very accurately reflected holes in space. Passing through a "wormhole" would allow a person to cover huge distances in much shorter periods of time than traveling in a straight line. With their help, one could even go to the edge of the universe.

The idea of ​​"wormholes" inspired science fiction writers so much that most science fiction since the mid-20th century tells us about the distant future of mankind, where people have mastered the entire cosmos and easily travel from star to star, meeting new alien races and joining with some of the them into bloody wars.

However, physicists do not share the writers' optimism. According to them, traveling through the wormhole may be the last thing a person sees. Once he falls below the event horizon, his life will stop forever.

In his book The Physics of the Impossible, the famous scientist and popularizer of science Michio Kaku quotes his colleague Richard Gott:

« I don't think the question is whether a person, being in a black hole, can go into the past, the question is whether he can get out of there to show off».

But do not despair. In fact, physicists still left a loophole for romantics who dream of traveling through space and time. To survive in a wormhole, you just need to fly faster than the speed of light. The fact is that according to the laws of modern physics, this is simply impossible. Thus, the Einstein-Rosen bridge in the framework of today's science is impassable.

Development of the theory of time travel

If the journey through the "wormhole" allows in theory to get into the future, then with our past in this regard, everything is much more complicated. In the middle of the 20th century, the Austrian mathematician Kurt Godel once again tried to solve the equations created by Einstein. As a result of his calculations, a rotating universe appeared on paper, which was a cylinder, in which time ran along its edges and was looped. It is difficult for an unprepared person to even imagine such a complex model, nevertheless, within the framework of this theory, one could get into the past if one went around the universe along the outer contour at the speed of light and higher. According to Gödel's calculations, in this case, you will arrive at the starting point long before the actual start.

Unfortunately, Kurt Gödel's model also does not fit into the framework of modern physics due to the impossibility of traveling faster than the speed of light.

Kip Thorne's reversible wormhole

The scientific community did not stop trying to solve the equations of the theory of relativity, and in 1988 there was a scandal that put the whole world on its ears. In one of the American scientific journals, an article was published by the famous physicist and expert in the field of gravity theory, Kip Thorne. In his article, the scientist said that he, along with his colleagues, managed to calculate the so-called "reversible wormhole", which will not collapse behind the spacecraft as soon as it enters it. For comparison, the scientist gave an example that such a wormhole will allow you to walk along it in any direction.

Kip Thorne's statement was very reliable and supported by mathematical calculations. The only problem was that it went against the axiom that lies at the foundation of modern physics - the events of the past cannot be changed.

The so-called time paradox of physics has been jokingly called "grandfather's murder". Such a bloodthirsty name describes the scheme quite accurately: you go into the past, accidentally kill a little boy (because he pisses you off). The boy turns out to be your grandfather. Accordingly, your father and you are not born, which means you will not go through a wormhole and kill your grandfather. The circle is closed.

Also, this paradox is called the "Butterfly Effect", which appeared in Ray Bradbury's book "Thunder Came" long before the development of the theory by scientists, in 1952. The plot described the story of a hero who went on a journey into the past, in the prehistoric period, when giant lizards reigned on the earth. One of the conditions of the journey was that the heroes did not have the right to leave the special path, so as not to cause a time paradox. However, the protagonist violates this condition, and leaves the path where he steps on the butterfly. When he returns to his own time, a terrifying picture appears before his eyes, where the world that he knew before no longer exists.

Development of Thorne's theory

Due to time paradoxes, it would be foolish to abandon the idea of ​​​​Kip Thorne and his colleagues, it would be easier to solve the problem with the paradoxes themselves. Therefore, the American scientist received support from where he least expected it: from the Russian astrophysicist Igor Novikov, who figured out how to get around the problem with the “grandfather”.

According to his theory, which was called the "principle of self-consistency", if a person falls into the past, then his ability to influence the events that have already happened to him tends to zero. Those. the very physics of time and space won't let you kill grandpa or cause the "butterfly effect".

At the moment, the world scientific community is divided into two camps. One of them supports the opinion of Kip Thorne and Igor Novikov regarding travel through wormholes and their safety, others stubbornly deny. Unfortunately, modern science does not allow either to prove or disprove these statements. We are also not yet able to detect wormholes in space due to the primitiveness of our instruments and mechanisms.

Kip Thorne became Chief Scientific Adviser on the acclaimed sci-fi film Interstellar, which tells the story of man's journey through a wormhole..

Creating your own space-time tunnel

The wider the fantasy of a modern scientist, the greater the heights he can achieve in his work. While skeptics deny any possibility of the existence of the Einstein-Rosen bridge, supporters of this theory offer a way out of the situation. If we are not able to detect a wormhole in our immediate vicinity, then we can create it ourselves! Moreover, there are already developments for this. While this theory is in the realm of fantasy, however, as we have already seen, most of the predictions of science fiction came true.

Kip Thorne, along with his supporters, continues to work on the theory of wormholes. The scientist was able to calculate that it is possible to provoke the birth of a wormhole with the help of the so-called "dark matter" - the mysterious building material in the Universe, which cannot be directly detected, but according to the assumptions of physicists, 27% of our universe consists of it. By the way, only 4.9% of the total mass of the universe falls on the share of baryonic matter (the one that we are made of and can see). Dark matter has amazing properties. It does not emit electromagnetic radiation, does not interact with other forms of matter except at the gravitational level, but its potential is truly enormous.

Using dark matter, Thorne says it is possible to create a reversible wormhole large enough for a spacecraft to pass through. The only problem is that for this you need to accumulate so much dark matter that its mass will be commensurate with the mass of Jupiter. Humanity is not yet able to get even a gram of this substance, if the concept of “gram” is applicable to it at all. In addition, no one canceled the need to travel at the speed of light, which means that despite all the achievements of mankind in the field of science, we are still at the cave level of development, and we are very far from real breakthrough discoveries.

Photos from open sources

The man said he was. This individual says that he visited almost 10,000 years and managed to deliver from the distant future a photograph of a futuristic city in which people live side by side with aliens. Journalists from the ApexTV news portal were forced to travel to Greece to interview this man, who wished to remain anonymous. He chose to call himself Mark. (website)

Mark, a physics student, says it all started in 2008 when he came to America to continue his education. There he met a professor who is today one of the best physicists on the planet. This scientist suggested that our young hero use a time machine that takes a person to the future and guarantees him a safe return back to the present. The professor told the Greek that the machine was ready to send a person exactly to the year 10,000 and return back, but this requires a volunteer. Mark did not immediately agree to this proposal, but in the end he agreed, although he did not fully believe in the possibility of such a miracle. But what will you not do for the sake of science? ..

In the distant future

The young man was put on a metal chair and fastened with belts, a miniature camera was built into his button. There was a powerful flash of light, and our hero was sucked into pitch darkness. He was in a lot of pain, as if everything was on fire inside him. When Mark woke up, he was surrounded by strange plants that he had never seen before. He looked up and saw a multitude of skyscrapers - so tall that they could not see the end of them in a cloudless sky. The whole land was covered with grass, flowers and other green spaces, there were no roads, squares or cars anywhere. Instead, the vehicles flew high in the sky.

Photos from open sources

The Greek claims that he then allegedly noticed a humanoid with a disproportionately large head and black eyes, which was accompanied by an unknown animal. The guest from the past did not understand who exactly he met: an evolved relative or a representative of an extraterrestrial civilization. Mark had only one hour to walk around and observe the reality around him, to finally document his time travel in the photo, as the professor explained to him that in the future, time flows much faster than today, and the traveler will begin to age rapidly. Our hero learned that the city is called Hoverger, and it was the first settlement that mankind rebuilt after the Great War. Mark met a man who told him all this and said that his age was over 300 years old, although he looked no more than 40. Then everything turned black sharply, and our hero instantly returned to his 2008 year.

What if time travel has always existed?

Undoubtedly, this story sounds like pure fiction, and such a photograph can be faked without much difficulty (by the way, why one, and not a whole series?) But what if all this is true? Let's imagine for a second that tomorrow a real person will appear who has really been in the future and who has seen the world of our descendants with his own eyes. How will we react to his words about what life will be like on Earth after many millennia? Shall we treat him with the same 100% skepticism and call him a liar or a lunatic? Will our disbelief play a very cruel joke with us someday, leaving us without valuable information about the future?

What if time travel has always existed? After all, academic science does not recognize the yeti, and ghosts, and the afterlife, nevertheless they exist. And there are a lot of cases when people or people from the distant past, from parallel worlds, but who recognizes all this and really studies it? Units, which at best are considered dreamers and eccentrics. So not everything in this matter (in particular, with a time machine) is as simple as it seems (as we were inspired from early childhood) ...

The theme of time travel excites the minds. Admit it, you also fantasized about this topic? Where would you like to visit, past or future? There are suspicions that such travels are available to some people, in any case, we know stories that are difficult to explain otherwise.

A few years ago, a certain Andrew Karlsin was arrested in New York on charges of fraud. Having invested less than a thousand dollars in shares, after 2 weeks he earned 350 million dollars on the stock exchange.

It is noteworthy that the trading operations performed by him initially did not promise a win at all. The state authorities accused Karlsin of illegally obtaining information profitable for himself, since they did not find other arguments for such a startling result.

Although all experts agree that even having complete information about the companies where he invested money, it is impossible to earn so much and for such a period. However, during interrogation, Karlsin unexpectedly stated that he allegedly appeared from the year 2256 and, having information about all banking operations over the past years, decided to enrich himself.

He categorically refused to show his time machine, but a tempting offer was made to the authorities - to announce several important upcoming events that will happen soon in the world ... including the whereabouts of Bin Laden and the invention of a cure for AIDS ... According to unverified reports, someone posted bail for him a million dollars to get him out of prison, after which Karlsin disappeared and, apparently, forever ...

2. Old lady

A strange 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.

3. Submarine

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.

4. Plane from the past

Even worse things 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 was breathing heavily, finally he said: "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 astonished 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 airport of Caracas, there was a recording of negotiations with DC-4 and a calendar for 1955, which had fallen out of a magazine, which the pilot was waving ...

5. Japanese military

A resident of Sevastopol, retired naval officer Ivan Pavlovich Zalygin has been studying the problem of time travel for the last fifteen years. The captain of the second rank became interested in this phenomenon after a very curious and mysterious incident that happened to him in the late 80s of the last century in the Pacific Ocean, while serving as deputy commander of a diesel submarine.

During one of the training trips in the area of ​​the La Perouse Strait, the boat got into a severe thunderstorm. The submarine commander decided to take a surface position. As soon as the ship surfaced, the sailor on duty reported that he saw an unidentified vehicle on the course.

It soon becomes clear that a Soviet submarine stumbled upon a lifeboat in neutral waters, in which the submariners found a half-dead frostbitten man in ... the uniform of a Japanese military sailor during the Second World War. When examining personal belongings of the rescued, a premium parabellum was found, as well as documents issued on September 14, 1940. After the report to the base command, the boat was ordered to go to the port of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, where counterintelligence was already waiting for the Japanese military sailor. GRU officers took a non-disclosure agreement from the team members for the next ten years.

6. Story six

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.

7. Story Seven

A photo in the Bralorne Pioneer Museum virtual museum titled rather boringly titled “Reopening of the South Fork Bridge after flood in Nov. 1940. 1941 (?)” was a minor sensation. The public claims that it depicts a time traveler. The reason for this was some features of his clothes and a portable camera in his hands: he is wearing sunglasses, which were not worn in the 40s, a T-shirt with an advertising logo, a sweater in the fashion of the 21st century, a hairstyle that was not done in those days and portable camera.

8. Time Traveler

John Titor is a man from the future who has appeared on the Internet since 2000 on forums, blogs and various sites. John claimed to be a time traveler and arrived here from the year 2036. He was originally sent in 1975 to collect information about the IBM-5100 computer, as his grandfather worked on the creation of this computer and programmed on it, but he stopped in 2000 for personal reasons.

On the forums, he talked about future events. Some of them have already happened: the war in Iraq, the conflict in the US in the presidential elections of 2004 and 2008. He also talked about the third world war. This is what the bleak future of our planet looks like: a second civil war will split America into 5 factions with a new capital in Omaha. In 2015, the Third World War will break out, the result of which will be the loss of three billion people.

Then, to top it all off, there will be a computer glitch that will destroy the world we are used to. That is, it will be so if a brave time traveler does not overcome the space-time continuum to change the course of history. It was at the end of 2000.

A poster on various forums took on the web aliases "TimeTravel_0" and "John Titor", and claimed to be a soldier sent from 2036, the year a computer virus destroyed the world. His mission was to return to 1975 to find and capture an IBM 5100 computer that had everything needed to fight the virus (and he went to 2000 to meet his 3-year-old self, ignoring the paradox of the very fabric of time from stories about time travel).

For the next four months, Titor answered all the questions the other participants had, describing future events in the spirit of poetic phrases, and always pointing out that other realities exist, and our reality may not be his own. Between grim exhortations to learn how to give first aid and not eat beef - in his reality, mad cow disease was a serious threat - Titor, using extremely difficult algorithms, uncovered some of the technical aspects of how time travel works and provided grainy photos of his time machine.

On March 24, 2001, Titor gave his last piece of advice (“Take a gas can with you when you leave your car on the side of the road”), logged out for good, and drove back. Since then, he has not appeared again. Today, everything that is posted online is perceived with a healthy dose of skepticism.

Titor's story from a time when we were all so innocent, less than 15 years ago, just before everything started to change. And the legend of Tithor persists in part because no one has ever claimed to be its creator. Since the mystery is not solved, the legend continues. "The John Titor story is popular because some of the stories just get popular," says writer and producer Brian Denning, who specializes in Titor.

Among all the stories about ghosts, demonic voices, swindle or rumors circulating on the Internet, something is becoming popular. Why shouldn't stories about Titor become so popular. Although there is (tiny, almost scientifically impossible) and one more possibility.

“One of the clues to Titor,” writes Temporal Recon in an email, “is to admit the possibility that time travel might be true.” The great thing about time travel is that history cannot be refuted. If events don't happen the way the time traveler said, it's because he changed the course of history.

And one more thing... if this man John Titor wanted to be promoted, then why did he disappear forever?! Whether the special services took him away or whether he went back is a mystery. If all the previous cases described can still somehow be suspected of unreliability, exaggeration or delusion, then the facts mentioned below cannot be classified as such. We are talking about the so-called chronal artifacts - things, objects, clearly made by man, found during archaeological excavations and in geological layers dating back to a time where neither a person nor the things themselves should be.

9. Story nine

In the 80s of the 19th century, while drilling a well in one of the US states, a metal object was discovered, obviously of artificial origin. The age of the find was about 400 thousand years. It was a coin of an unknown alloy and with hieroglyphs on both sides that could not be deciphered. It is known that a modern man appeared on our planet about a hundred thousand years ago, and on the American continent even later.

10. Story ten

Around the same time, an elegant ceramic sculpture of a woman was found at great depths in Idaho. Its age was about two million years.

11. Incident on the train

Five years ago, Mexican newspapers described a mysterious story that happened on a train from Mexico City to Acapulco. In the compartment where there were a young surgeon and a woman with a child, a disheveled man, terrified to death, dressed in a long camisole, suddenly appeared. On his head was a powdered wig. In one hand he held a quill pen, in the other a large leather purse.

I am Minister Jorge de Balenciaga, he shouted, trembling with fear. - Where I am? The surgeon ran after the conductor. Returning to the compartment, he saw that the man who called himself the minister had disappeared. The conductor decided that they wanted to play a trick on him and for a long time was indignant that he was being taken away from business, until material evidence was found on the floor - a pen and a wallet.

The surgeon picked up both objects and showed them to historians, who determined that they belonged to the 18th century. We managed to find documents in the archives with a curious postscript by the then bishop, from which it followed that Minister de Balenciaga, already an elderly man, allegedly falling into madness, told everyone about how one day, returning home late at night, he saw an iron, long, like a kite, "devil's carriage"", bursting with fire and smoke.

Then, according to the minister, he inexplicably found himself inside a monstrous vehicle, where bizarrely dressed people were sitting, whom he mistook for minions of Satan. Seriously frightened, de Balenciaga read a prayer to the Lord, calling on Him for help. Suddenly he found himself again on one of the streets of Mexico City. Despite the fact that the devil was repeatedly cast out of him, he did not return to common sense until his death.

12. Accident in Tokyo

An equally mysterious incident occurred in 1988 on one of the streets of Tokyo, where an unknown man was hit by a car, who died on the spot. The driver and witnesses assured that the victim "appeared on the road suddenly, as if fallen from the sky." The police drew attention to the fact that the deceased was dressed in a suit of obviously old-fashioned cut. They were even more surprised by the passport issued ... exactly 100 years ago. In the man's pocket, they also managed to find business cards indicating his profession - an artist of the Tokyo Imperial Theater. It turned out that the specified street has not existed for more than 70 years.

The police interviewed all Tokyo residents with the same surname. After many days of searching, they found an old woman who reported that her father had disappeared under mysterious circumstances. He went to a friend to play a game of GO, and did not return. The woman showed the police a photograph in which a young man, remarkably similar to a man who had been hit by a car, was holding a little girl in his arms. The picture was dated. May 1902.

13. See Paris and...

Last week, a resident of Rouen, Pierre Dupre, was called by his sick aunt, who lives in Paris, and asked to come to her urgently. The nephew did not make himself ask twice and, sitting in the car, rushed to her. He definitely did not recognize the road, besides, for some reason, the lanterns did not burn, and the asphalt suddenly changed to gravel. He was also surprised that he did not meet a single car along the way. Pierre decided that he was lost, and, seeing a two-story building, he stopped to ask how he could get to Paris. The door was opened by an elderly man with a candle in his hand. Staring at Pierre, he asked what he needed. Pierre explained. Two women (probably the wife and daughter of that man) ran out of the house and, calling him a redneck, answered that he was in Paris itself.

It was only then that Pierre noticed that his interlocutors were dressed in medieval clothes. They, in turn, looked at his leather jacket and jeans with amazement. Suddenly there was a clatter of hooves. Catholics, the man shouted. We must save ourselves, and, turning to Pierre, he expressed the hope that he was a Huguenot. Pierre realized with horror that he had fallen into a time loop, which until now he knew only by hearsay.

He was always interested in the past, but the last thing he wanted was to get into the era of the famous religious wars. Without hesitation, he pushed his casual acquaintances into the car and stepped on the gas. Pierre brought the Huguenot family to him in Rouen. Numb with fright, they did not react to anything. After spending the night with Pierre, they left in the morning without even waking him up, and disappeared from his life forever.

14. Old lady

Last year, 48-year-old Giovanna Cavolini, along with her daughter Loretta, walking along the street of her native Palermo, noticed an old woman who was walking with difficulty moving her legs. The women wanted to help her cross the road. However, for some reason she was frightened and, as best she could, hastened her pace. The mother and daughter were struck not only by her clothes - a long dress sewn in the fashion of the 19th century and a large black hat - but also by a snow-white face with skin tight to the skull, on which huge blue eyes stood out.

Crooked fingers, studded with ancient gold rings, delicate features and an arrogant look spoke of her high origin. The old woman limped to the alley, then looked around helplessly - apparently not knowing where to go. Seeing that a crowd of townspeople was watching her, she stopped in confusion and immediately disappeared.

15. Future of the Earth

There are many cases of penetration of our contemporaries into the future. In April 1992, the Italian Bruno Leone went for a walk with his wife and, right in front of her eyes, disappeared into thin air. When she reported the incident to the police, she was advised to see a psychiatrist. However, Bruno returned home safely two days later. In fact, he looked confused. According to him, he ended up in the 25th century. Outlandish people in the same clothes treated him like an exotic animal. Hearing that he arrived from Italy, they rolled their eyes in surprise, claiming that a country with that name disappeared from the face of the earth in the 21st century.

He was surprised that, walking around the city of the future, he did not see a single building of the 20th century and not a single tree. The “descendants” kindly took the hungry Bruno to a cafe where only one dish was served - a colorless, cloudy jelly that resembled a spreading jellyfish. Nasty in taste, it, however, instantly satisfied hunger. Having warned him about the coming cataclysms, the hospitable hosts opened a geographical map to show places where they could be saved, but as soon as they pointed a finger at Mongolia, Bruno suddenly found himself at home.

16. 2245

Last summer, 17-year-old Frenchwoman Florence Dunoy was returning from a disco at 3 am. Only 50 meters were left before the house, when, having turned the corner, she found herself on a completely unfamiliar street, on which identical houses of a bizarre cone-shaped shape towered in even rows. There were no passers-by at such a late hour, and she became frightened. Finally noticing the two guys, Florence, hoping for salvation, rushed to them. After carefully examining her fashionable chic outfit, they asked what museum she stole her junk from.

They themselves were dressed in gray, as if rubber sweaters and tight-fitting pants. Her questions puzzled the young people, as they first heard the name of the street where the stranger lived. And when the girl asked where they could get a taxi, they nearly fell over laughing. You must have come from far away,” one of the guys said. Would you like to come with us? Florence was insanely tired, besides, she really wanted to go to the toilet, so she accepted the invitation. There was no furniture in the room they brought her to, except for a soft mattress that covered the entire floor.

Light was breaking through from under the plafond built into the ceiling. Next to it, also on the ceiling, a green flashing light illuminated a clock - a calendar showing September 23, 2245 ... The guys, having heard what century Floris had come to them from, handed her the one that appeared from somewhere glass with blue liquid. An unfamiliar pungent smell hit the girl's nostrils, but after drinking one sip, she lost consciousness...

When she came to herself, the guys were not around. Looking at her watch - calendar, she found out that she had slept for three days, her lower abdomen hurt. Rising from the floor, she wandered to the doors, which swung open by themselves. Obeying the thought that suddenly dawned on her, she went along the road that led her to that wonderful quarter, turned around the “fatal” corner and ... ended up on the very street along which she was returning from the disco.

Soon, Florence lost her period and she was drawn to salty, which she was extremely surprised, since she had not had sexual intercourse with anyone for six months. Then she remembered how much her lower abdomen hurt after she woke up in an apartment of the XXIII century, and guessed that the guys who sheltered her had deprived her of consciousness, and then raped her. The doctor who examined Florence confirmed the pregnancy. Tired of proving anything to her parents, she began to say that she had sinned with an alien. A month and a half later, Florence had an abortion ...

17. Gluttonous old woman

People of the future are also not immune from falling into the "corridor of time" and sometimes visit their distant ancestors. In January, an elderly, completely bald woman with a face mutilated by deep scars and ulcers, and dressed in a translucent plastic suit, walked into a summer cafe in Cape Town. The gluttonous old woman ate a dozen glasses of ice cream, drank two liter bottles of Coca-Cola and ate a hefty bunch of grapes.

When the waiter caught her at the exit of the cafe, she stared at him as if he was crazy, and. scolding with her last words, she promised to complain to the International Committee, the old woman, called by the police, explained that all survivors of a nuclear disaster that erupted 30 years ago enjoy the right to free food in all cafes and restaurants in the world, Sweet Tooth presented a phosphorescent card with her holographic photograph. On it was the year of her birth - 2198. To clarify the circumstances of the appearance of a guest from the future, the police offered the old woman to go with them. However, heading for the car, the granny disappeared into thin air.

18. Clock through time

One of the archaeological finds confirming time travel took place in China. In 2008, archaeologists working on a tomb in Guangxi province hoped to unearth the remains of a Chinese emperor from the Ming Dynasty. Whose reign was at the turn of the 15th century. Sealed 400 years ago, the tomb is opened for the first time. With the utmost care, scientists remove the fossilized layers of soil, and get to the tombstone. And then their first discovery awaits them. As soon as they begin to remove dust from the stove, a strange object breaks off from it, outwardly similar to a ring.

But having cleared the traces of time, rust and fossils, archaeologists freeze. In front of them are real Swiss watches! On the back cover of which, there is an engraving Swiss. It is quite understandable that in the 15th century there was no Swiss watch, and there was no technology for making wristwatches. A strange artifact, but there is no other way to call it, is sent to Beijing for study. Where the authenticity of the origin of the watch is established. And according to the serial number and date of manufacture, a hundred years ago.

The results of the study are somewhat shocking to researchers. How could a clock have ended up in a tomb that had been sealed four hundred years before it was made! This finding baffles researchers. It is impossible to explain this from the point of view of science familiar to us. At first, it was assumed that the clock was placed in the tomb along with other decorations. But the reign of the Ming dynasty fell on the 14th-16th centuries. Whereas, watchmakers began to create wristwatches only by the end of the 17th century.

According to scientists, only one version can explain the appearance of the clock in the tomb, several centuries before its manufacture. The watch has traveled back in time! But then, we must recognize the fact that someone owns the technology of time travel.