During the reign of Catherine II, a strange young man appeared in the capital, he claimed that he was born in the 20th century. When communicating with him, it was clear that the young man was suffering from a mental disorder, but despite all the oddities, his speech was so convincing that in the end, the guy was introduced to Catherine. And the young man not only told the empress the date of her death, the year of death of Paul I, but also told about Napoleon’s attack and predicted the decline of the Romanov dynasty. The Empress was angry and threw the charlatan out. But the whole point of interest is this: all the “absurdities” came true with amazing accuracy...

Maybe in reality a strange predictor “appeared” in the 18th century from the 20th century? Is it possible to travel through time? Of course, time travel has not been scientifically proven, but confirmed by witnesses, this sometimes happens and here are just a few of them:

♦ In the 90s, Moscow researcher Anatoly Kartashkin described such an unusual case as in the northeast of the Moscow region, while working in an anomalous zone, a girl from the expedition simply disappeared in front of amazed people and reappeared in the same place after days. For a long time the girl did not believe that what was being said about her disappearance was not a joke: the girl herself was sure that only a moment had passed.

♦ The Phenomenon Commission in 1992 conducted an investigation into the disappearance of a person... a few steps from the Ostankino television center. It was as if he had fallen through the ground and appeared in the same place 28 hours later. Old-timers, by the way, always said: it’s a bad place where they built a television town.

♦ In the archives of Tobolsk they found the case of Sergei Dmitrievich Krapivin, who was detained by a policeman on August 28, 1897 on the street of this Siberian town. The policeman found the strange behavior and clothes suspicious young man. The detainee was taken to the police station and began to be interrogated; the police were very surprised by what Krapivin sincerely told them. According to him, he was born in the city of Angarsk on April 14, 1965. And his specialty, a PC operator, also seemed strange to the police. Krapivin could not explain how he ended up in Tobolsk. From his story, he began to have an attack of severe headache, after which he lost consciousness, and when he woke up he saw that he was in a completely unfamiliar place next to the church.

A doctor was called to the station to examine the detainee, who determined that Mr. Krapivin was suffering from quiet insanity and insisted that he be placed in a city insane asylum...

♦ In Sicily in the 18th century, in the city of Tacone, there was such an artisan, Alberto Gordoni. In May 1753, while walking through the castle courtyard, he suddenly “dissolved” in the presence of his wife, Count Zanetti and numerous witnesses. Surprised people diligently dug everything around, but did not find any hole into which they could fall to explain the incredible disappearance. But 22 years later, Alberto appeared in the same place from which he “safely” disappeared. Gordoni himself assured that he did not disappear anywhere, and as a result he was put in a mental hospital, where only after seven years the doctor, Father Mario, asked him for the first time about what had happened. Alberto never ceased to assure that he returned almost immediately after he “disappeared.” At that time, 29 years ago, he suddenly found himself in a tunnel and, having walked through it, came out to a “white and unclear” light. The doctor had no doubt that Gordoni was not lying, and therefore went with him to Tacona. There the unfortunate artisan took a step and... disappeared again, but this time forever! Holy Father Mario made the sign of the cross and ordered to fence this place with a wall, and called it “The Devil’s Trap.”

♦ A strange teenager appeared in Shanghai these days and he was dressed like they dressed in the 16th century, speaking ancient Chinese. He told the arriving policeman the monastery and the year in which he lived. A little time passed and the boy disappeared. In the monastery he named, historians discovered preserved birth and death books of local residents. In which they spoke about the disappearance, and after the return of the teenager. There were also stories from the boy about extraordinary flying, fire-breathing iron dragons, self-propelled carts and people in strange clothes. It was also noted in the chronicles that the teenager suffered from physical ailments and soon died.

♦ Modern China. While excavating an ancient burial site of the imperial family of the Han Dynasty, which ruled China in the 1st century. n. e., archaeologists discovered... Swiss wristwatches.

♦ In the city of Mexico at the beginning of the last century, two brothers fell out of a window multi-storey building. One of them “dissolved” in the air before the eyes of amazed passers-by, the second died.

According to I.P. Zalygin, there are places on Earth in which time travel occurs very often. It is in such places that large faults in the earth's crust are located. Powerful energy emissions periodically emerge from such faults, the nature of which is very little studied. It is directly during periods of energy release that anomalous time travel occurs...

Amazing facts - people moving through time -

« Each of us has a time machine: what takes us into the past are memories; what carries into 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 about his future, about the stars, about the well-being of those around him. This fact was reflected most colorfully in our area during the existence of Soviet Union, when state propaganda within the framework of the Cold War and the space race convinced people that science was the engine of progress. And there was nothing wrong with that.

Having seen the successes of mankind in the exploration of outer space, as well as achievements in other fields of science, people began to dream of what previously seemed only 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 a time machine. However, science has again intervened in the matter, which time after time clips the wings of dreamers with its formulas, which prove that some dreams are unrealistic:

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 prohibits us from doing this, so we can only wait for the next breakthrough theory in the field of physics and mathematics.

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

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

You can endlessly smash the dreams of humanity against the rocks of science, but there are things that are not prohibited by science. For example, time travel. One of the craziest, at first glance, ideas turns out to be real, because it does not contradict 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 has visited many throughout the entire existence of our species. Another thing is the rejection of ordinary dreams and an attempt to describe the idea of ​​time travel within the framework of the relativity of time periods. And it was not scientists who were the first to notice this, but science fiction writers. Creative people are not constrained by scientific frameworks, so they can give free rein to their imagination. In addition, it turned out that most of the writers’ prophecies regarding our future came true.

In literature, time travel was described depending on the era in which its creators lived. For example, in 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 Samuel Madden's novel “Memoirs of the 20th Century. Letters concerning the State governed by George VI... Received by revelation in 1728. In six volumes.” In a book that was written in 1733, 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 time travel appeared only at the end of the 19th century. In 1881, a story by American journalist Edward Mitchell, “The Clock That Went Backward,” appeared in one of the New York scientific journals. It talks about a young man who was able to travel back in time using an ordinary room clock.

Edward Mitchell is considered one of the founders of modern science fiction. He described in his books many inventions and ideas long before they appeared on the pages of other science fiction writers. He talked about faster-than-light travel, the invisible man, and 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" editor decides to publish the story "The Story of the Time Traveler" - the first major work of fiction by 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 ​​time travel came to him in 1887 after a certain student named Hamilton-Gordon basement The Mining School in South Kensington, where the Debating Society held meetings, gave a report on the possibilities of non-Euclidean geometry based on the book by Charles Hinton “What is the Fourth Dimension”

A distinctive feature of the novel is that some moments of the protagonist's time travel were described using assumptions that later appeared in Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. At the time of writing the story, it did not 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 the concept of time was introduced into science as a physical quantity, but scientists, including Newton, perceived time as something unchangeable and linear.

Newtonian physics assumed that clocks placed in any part of 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 stood up at the podium. Report on the Special Theory of Relativity (SRT) and General theory relativity (GR) brought Newton's perception of time to its knees. In his scientific works time existed inextricably with matter and space and was not linear. It could change its course, speed up or slow down, depending on conditions.

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

« Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, while imagination embraces the whole world, stimulating progress, giving rise to 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.

First representations of time travel

After the scientific community recovered from the shock, it began to actively use Einstein's work in its 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 scientific works German physicists admit the possibility of the existence of a time machine, even several types of it.

Already in 1916, the first scientific works on time travel with theoretical justification appeared. 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. Suddenly it dawned on Flamm that with the curvature of space and matter in the Universe around us, peculiar tunnels could arise through which we could pass not only within space, but also within 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 was able to develop Flamm's reasoning, and he, together with his colleague Nathan Rosen, were able to connect two Schwarzschild black holes with the help of a space-time tunnel that widened at the entrance, gradually narrowing towards its middle. In theory, one can travel through such a tunnel in the space-time continuum. Physicists called such a tunnel the Einstein-Rosen bridge.

To people outside the scientific world, Einstein-Rosen bridges are known more simple name“wormhole”, which was invented in the mid-20th century by Princeton scientist John Wheeler. The name “wormholes” is also common. This expression quickly spread among supporters of modern theoretical physics and very accurately reflected holes in space. Traveling through a wormhole would allow a person to cover vast 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" has inspired science fiction writers so much that most science fiction since the mid-20th century tells us about the distant future of humanity, where people have mastered the entire space and easily travel from star to star, meeting new alien races and interacting with some of them. them into bloody wars.

However, physicists do not share the writers’ optimism. According to them, traveling through a wormhole may be the last thing a person sees. As soon as he falls beyond 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 in a black hole can go back in time, the question is whether he can get out of there to show off».

But don't 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 within the framework of today's science is impassable.

Development of the theory of time travel

If traveling through a “wormhole” allows you, in theory, to get into the future, then with our past in this regard everything is much more complicated. In the mid-20th century, Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel once again tried to solve the equations created by Einstein. As a result of his calculations, a rotating universe emerged on paper, which looked like a cylinder, in which time ran along its edges and was looped. Such a complex model is difficult for an unprepared person to even imagine, however, within the framework of this theory, it was possible to get into the past if you circled the universe along the outer contour at the speed of light or higher. According to Gödel's calculations, in this case you will arrive at the starting point long before the start itself.

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 a scandal occurred that put the whole world on its ears. One of the American scientific magazines published an article from the famous physicist and expert in the field of gravity theory, Kip Thorne. In his article, the scientist stated that he and his colleagues were able 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 - events of the past cannot be changed.

The so-called time paradox of physics was jokingly called “the murder of grandfather.” This bloodthirsty name quite accurately describes the scheme: you go back in time, accidentally kill 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 the wormhole and kill your grandfather. The circle is closed.

This paradox is also called the “Butterfly Effect,” which appeared in Ray Bradbury’s book “A Sound of Thunder” long before scientists developed the theory, in 1952. The plot described the story of a hero who went on a journey into the past, into the prehistoric period, when giant lizards reigned on the earth. One of the conditions of the journey was that the heroes had no right to leave the special path, so as not to cause a time paradox. However, the main character violates this condition and leaves the path, where he steps on a butterfly. When he returns to his time, a terrifying picture appears before his eyes, where the world he knew before no longer exists.

Development of Thorne's theory

Because of time paradoxes, it would be stupid 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 finds himself in the past, then his ability to influence events that have already happened to him tends to zero. Those. The very physics of time and space will not allow you to kill your grandfather or cause the “butterfly effect.”

At the moment, the global 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 it. Unfortunately, modern science does not allow us to either 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 the chief scientific consultant on the famous science fiction film Interstellar, which tells the story of a man's journey through a wormhole..

Creating your own space-time tunnel

The wider the imagination of a modern scientist, the greater 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. For now, this theory is in the realm of science fiction, however, as we have already seen, most of the predictions of science fiction writers have come true.

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

According to Thorne, using dark matter it is possible to create a reversible wormhole large enough for a person to pass through it. spacecraft. 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 obtain even a gram of this substance, if the concept of “gram” is applicable to it at all. In addition, no one has 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 a cave level of development, and we are very far from real breakthrough discoveries.

Afterword

Ideas for inventing a real time machine, which would allow us to discover the mysteries of the past and see our future, are still unrealistic. However, this does not change the fact that the theory of relativity developed by Einstein continues to work for each of us. For example, finding a real time traveler will not be difficult even now. The faster a person moves, the slower it is for him time goes by, which means that he is slowly but surely moving into the future. Airline pilots, fighter pilots, and especially astronauts working in orbit are real time travelers. Even if only by hundredths of a second, they were ahead of us, people living on Earth.

In the spring of 2003, the unknown Andrew Karlsin, using $800, earned $350 million on the stock exchange, conducting 126 transactions in two weeks. The US Securities Market Commission suspected Karlsin of receiving 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 make money on historical information. The weekly tabloid Weekly World News wrote about this, posting a photo of 44-year-old Karlsin. Later, unknown persons paid a bail of $1 million for the man and no one saw him again. This fantastic story would more likely pass for 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 material about the possibility of time travel using the principles of quantum mechanics. Today there are three known methods of teleportation. The first has been described many times by science fiction writers - the body moves through the “rabbit hole” of time. The second method involves biotechnologically disassembling a person or objects into molecules that are easier to teleport individually, and then collecting them 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 existing materials with information embedded in the molecules of the transmitted information. This method is reminiscent of scientists' attempt to place the human brain on the World Wide Web, creating artificial intelligence human based.

Let us note that teleportation itself—moving at a distance—has already taken place in 2012 and 2014 in London by physicists. And 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 moved twice as far - 12.5 kilometers. For now, only teleportation of photons and atoms is possible. Thanks to a property called “quantum entanglement” in quantum mechanics, a change in a particle can be instantly transmitted to another particle that has an information connection. As a result, one particle can influence another and also 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 teleporation.

Photo: Zuma/Global Look

Foreign scientists believe that human teleportation is possible by 2050-2080. Today's insolvency is due to the lack of 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 technology shortage can be compared to the desire to introduce wireless cellular communications and cordless phones in the 1930s. You can know how to do this theoretically, but the lack of compact transistors - microchips - will force you to wait for the development of technology.

True, there was one video recording from 1938, where a girl walks through the territory of the industrial giant Dupont, talking on mobile phone compact sizes. Conspiracy theorists rushed to write the girl down 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 a device to test, and she spoke to a man who was walking not far from her with the same handset.

There are hundreds of stories of people who saw “time travelers,” but the most popular are reliable photos and videos. One of the most popular and still unsolved is a photo from 1940 - the opening of the South Fork bridge over the river in the Canadian province of British Columbia. In the photo appearance The guy was radically different from the style of the 1940-1950s. He is wearing fashionable sunglasses, a printed T-shirt and a cardigan - a knitted sweater-jacket, and a hairstyle in the style of the 1990s. But even if you believe his fashionable visions, there is no way to explain a compact camera that was several decades ahead of its time. Experts who studied the image are confident that there is no computer manipulation. The person is present in different photographs from different angles, taken by different photographers.

Photo: virtualmuseum.ca

It’s hard 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 time travel. 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 that he arrived from 2036. The only reason why he was not mistaken for a schizophrenic, but continued to be listened to and discussed, was 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, the Third World War began in 2015. world war, during which about three billion people will die. Then a global computer crash will occur, destroying the usual infrastructure.

Will start in the USA civil war, which will split America into five factions with its capital in Omaha. A computer virus will force humanity to return to farming for survival, but 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 the computer. The old model should help defeat the virus, although he did not explain how. And in 2000 he came to meet his three-year-old self. On March 24, 2001, Titor gave his final advice: “Take a can of gasoline with you when you abandon your car on the side of the road.” Then he logged out and headed back. Since then no one has heard from him again.

Like Karlsin, Titor is perhaps a conscious traveler. No one saw him, but Karlsin was photographed, but still not identified. Moreover, Wall Street traders are confident that all 126 transactions worth $350 million could not have been calculated, even with secret information. Some shares rose in price for completely unexpected reasons, including political and military, and natural phenomena. It is impossible to collect secret information on 100 companies and do everything in two weeks, and using $800, get $350 million. It is suspicious that the Weekly World News website completely removed all information about Karlsin, despite the fact that it is not above roasting stories. He deleted all messages from his journalists about the investigation of the traveler and the Yahoo News portal.

If stories of “time tourists” are rare, then random “passengers” are no less common than evidence of UFOs. True, witnesses are not always able to take photographs. So in 1932, the reporter of the German newspaper Hutton and the photographer Brandt inevitably found themselves in a different time. Journalists went to a shipyard in Hamburg to report. Upon their return, they stated that they miraculously survived the bombing by unknown aircraft. Brandt took photographs of the city burning from hundreds of bombs, but the film turned out to be empty. Editor-in-Chief advised not to abuse alcohol, and 11 years later, when Hamburg was completely destroyed by aircraft during Operation Gomorrah, he remembered the story. 600 bombs were dropped on the city, a firestorm killed 40 thousand people.

All “passengers” can be considered victims of the “Bermuda Triangle” phenomenon. Over 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 data, the Pentagon classified the incident with the submarine in the 1990s, when the boat passed Bermuda. In one second she disappeared from the radar, and a moment later she made contact from Indian Ocean. At the same time, the entire crew 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 finds himself at home. A similar incident occurred in 1992 with the Italian Bruno Leone, who disappeared right in front of his wife during their walk together. Two days later Bruno returned, looking very tired and confused. And it’s not surprising, because the disappeared person suddenly moved into the future five centuries ahead. He found himself in the role of a curiosity among identically dressed descendants. When he managed to explain that he was from Italy, it caused great amazement. According to them, such a country ceased to exist in the 21st century. The city of the future seemed uncomfortable and hostile to Bruno, there was not a single old building familiar to him, there were no trees or even bushes growing. The food in the future was not varied; it was replaced by some colorless jellyfish-like jelly - tasteless, but very satisfying. Descendants decided to show him the safest places where he could survive the coming 21st century. disasters. When they started showing him Mongolia and Siberia, he suddenly moved back in time.

If humanity manages to survive the 21st century. Without global upheaval, and in the second half of the century we will be able to teleport, then such travel, first of all, will allow states to take control of crime. Looking a little ahead, it will be possible to prevent murders and robberies at the planning stage. This will lead to a total reduction in well-thought-out, organized crimes and the prevention of everyday ones. At the same time, businesses will be able to organize “aquariums,” 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 gladiatorial fights in real life, and to attend the 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 to either oppose itself to God or take an atheistic position. Since time is an instrument of destruction of matter, it is intended to demonstrate to man the frailty and immediacy material goods, in contrast to eternal spiritual values. Time will tell how far humanity will be allowed to go in its aspirations.

Time Travel Facts exist in history, and in sufficient quantities, although talking about time travel here can be done with reservations, since most chronotravelers did not travel through time of their own free will. We will talk here about those cases that are supported by factual evidence. Some of the stories are so amazing that they defy any other explanation.

In the early 90s, the Wen Wen Po newspaper (Hong Kong) published a number of materials about an unusual boy named Yung Li Cheng. His story begins like this. In 1987, Hong Kong scientists came across a boy for research who claimed to be “from the past.” Many things prevented this statement from being explained by insanity - the boy spoke ancient Chinese well, retold details from the biographies of long-dead people, and had an excellent command of the history of the past of China and Japan. Moreover, individual episodes of the events told by him were either not known at all at the present time, or historians who were highly specialized in certain periods were dedicated to them. At the same time, Jung Lee Cheng was dressed in the clothes of the inhabitants of Ancient China, which can be explained either by a carefully planned forgery by someone, or by the truth of the “alien” story. It was difficult to believe the boy’s story, however, he himself did not understand how he got into modern city Hong Kong. Historian Ing Ing Shao decided to check what the boy told him and delved into the study of ancient books stored in temples. In one of the books, his attention was drawn to stories that almost coincided with the stories of Yung Lee. The historian came across a record of the place and date of birth of the boy and was almost sure that it was about Yung Li Cheng, but in order to be convinced of the amazing discovery, it was necessary to talk with him again. However, in May 1988, the mysterious boy suddenly disappeared after spending a year in our time. The disappointed historian Ying Ying Shao again began to study the books and in one of them, immediately after the name “Yung Li Cheng”, he found the following entry: “...disappeared for 10 years and reappeared crazy, claimed that he was in 1987 in Christian chronology, saw huge birds, large magic mirrors, boxes that reach the clouds, multi-colored lights that light up and go out, wide streets decorated with marble, that he rode in a long snake that crawls at a monstrous speed. He was declared crazy and died after 3 weeks. ..."

In May 1875, students decided to have a picnic in the city of Vicksburg. However, during this picnic, they heard screams of horror coming from the direction of the river. A woman screamed, but no one was visible above the water! Later the screams died down. The police thoroughly combed the area of ​​the river, but nothing was found. Two weeks later, the screams of horror were repeated again. This time a well-dressed dark-skinned woman was pulled ashore. A Vicksburg pilot who happened to be nearby declared that she was a Creole from the Iron Hill steamer. This steamship left Vicksburg for New Orleans in 1874. However, as soon as he disappeared around the bend of the river, no one ever saw him again. The ship never arrived at the pier. The banks and river bottom were carefully examined, but nothing was found. And the list of passengers actually included several Creole women, one of whom, apparently, made an involuntary trip back in time...

It happened in 1912: an express train was traveling from London to Glasgow at high speed. In one of the train compartments were a Scotland Yard inspector and a young nurse. Suddenly, a screaming, frightened elderly man appeared on the seat by the window. His hair was braided, he was wearing boots with large buckles, he had an old cocked hat on his head, in one hand he held a long whip, and in the other a bitten piece of bread.. The inspector and the nurse rushed to calm the man down, asking him who he was and where he was from. He sobbed and shouted that he was a driver and did not understand where he had ended up. The inspector decided to calm him down, and to be convincing, he opened the window, inviting the man to look outside. At this time the train entered a turn and was clearly visible. However, this sight frightened the man even more, and he tried to jump out. The inspector ran after the conductor, not knowing how to help the man, but while he was bringing him, the stranger disappeared. Only the whip and cocked hat remained in place. The nurse lay in a deep faint. The inspector and the conductor looked out the window; the embankment was visible far away, but no one was visible...

The inspector began his own investigation. Ethnographers have determined that the cocked hat and whip date back to the second half of the 18th century. Having looked up the archives, we determined that railway passes through the area where early XIX century there was a village mentioned by the driver. And the local parish pastor found even more amazing things in the church archives. In the book of records of those who died 150 years ago, the name of this driver was listed, and there was also a note written in the margins by the then pastor. The note said that the deceased, being an elderly man, experienced a story that looked very implausible. One night, returning home in a carriage, he saw right in front of him “a devilish carriage, huge and long, like a snake, bursting with fire and smoke.” And then, in an unknown way, he found himself inside the crew. Inside the carriage there were people in strange clothes, none other than the servants of the devil! The frightened driver cried out to the Lord for salvation and at that very moment found himself in a roadside ditch. Having difficulty getting home, he learned that an hour ago a resident of a neighboring village had brought his horses, found seven miles away. Since then, he “constantly talked about the “devilish crew” and was indignant that no one believed him. This fact of time travel is accompanied by material evidence - the cocked hat of a man from the past is currently kept in the museum of the British Royal Metapsychic Society ["Anomaly" 1998 , N4].

Such phenomena are not unique. The British Royal Metapsychic Society, founded 150 years ago, has accumulated in its archives about two hundred facts of time travel from the past to the present (these cases are the majority) and vice versa (these cases are fewer). Almost everyone who arrived from the past had a hard time moving through time and ended their lives either in a psychiatric clinic or in prison. Those who arrived from the future treated this situation more calmly, having managed to adapt to the circumstances. Perhaps some of them came back.

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May 8, 2015 “AH” Scientists managed to prove that it is possible to travel in time... Thus, according to the research of Israeli scientist Amos Ori, time travel is scientifically substantiated. And currently world science already has the necessary theoretical knowledge to be able to claim that it is theoretically possible to create a time machine. The mathematical calculations of the Israeli scientist were published in one of the specialized publications. Ory concludes that to create a time machine, gigantic gravitational forces must be present. 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 a curved space-time structure is shaped into a funnel or ring. Moreover, each new turn of this structure will take a 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 XVIII 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 ray is reflected from them. The beam must 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. Every object that reaches it falls inside, and from the outside it is not visible what is happening inside the hole. Probably, the laws of physics cease to apply in it, time and space coordinates change places. Thus, spatial travel turns into time travel. Despite this very detailed and significant research, 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, over the entire history of mankind, a huge amount 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 French Revolution and world wars, the appearance of strange machines, people and mechanisms was recorded. In order not to be unfounded, here are a few examples: In May 1828, a teenager was caught in Nuremberg. Despite a thorough investigation and 49 volumes of the case, as well as portraits sent throughout 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 or milk was. He died from an assassin's bullet, and his identity remained a mystery. However, there were suggestions that before appearing in Germany, the boy lived in a completely different world. 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 equally strange behavior was detained there. The man's last name is Krapivin. When he was taken to the police station and began to be interrogated, everyone was quite 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, but according to him, shortly before he felt a severe headache, after which he lost consciousness. When he woke up, Krapivin saw an unfamiliar town. A doctor was called to the police station to examine the strange man and diagnosed him with “silent insanity.” After this, Krapivin was placed in a local insane asylum. In 1901, two Englishwomen went to Paris for the Easter holidays. The women were delighted with the architecture. During a tour of the Palace of Versailles, they decided to independently explore the most secluded corners, and in particular, Marie Antoinette’s house, which is located on the territory of the palace. But since women did not have detailed plan, then they were simply 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 uncertain direction. After some time, the women met again strange people. This time it was a young woman and a girl, also dressed in old-fashioned clothes. This time the women did not suspect anything unusual until they came across another group of people dressed in ancient clothes. These people spoke 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 appearance of the lady who was sitting next to it and making sketches in an album. She was very beautiful, wearing a powdered wig and a long dress, the kind worn by aristocrats of the 18th century. And only then did the English women finally realize that they had gone back in time. 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 their experiences. In 1924 in Iraq, British Royal pilots air force were forced to make an emergency landing. Their footprints were clearly visible on the sand, but soon they broke off. The pilots were never found, although in the area where the incident occurred there were no quicksands, no sandstorms, no abandoned wells... In 1930, a country doctor named Edward Moon was returning home after visiting his patient, Lord Edward Carson, lived in Kent. The lord was very ill, so the doctor visited him daily and knew the area very well. One day, Moon, going outside the estate of his patient, noticed that the area looked a little different than before. Instead of a road there was a dirt 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 antique musket. The man also noticed the doctor and stopped, clearly in amazement. When Moon turned to look at the estate, the mysterious wanderer had disappeared and the entire landscape had returned to normal. During the battles for the liberation of Estonia, which were fought throughout 1944, near 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 cavalrymen saw the tanks, they fled. As a result of the pursuit, one of the strange people was detained. He spoke exclusively French, so he was mistaken for a soldier of the allied army. The cavalryman was taken to 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 its remnants were trying to get out of encirclement after retreating 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... Another similar story is connected with the Kola Peninsula. For many centuries there was a legend that the highly developed civilization of Hyperborea was located there. In the 1920s, an expedition was sent there, supported by Dzerzhinsky himself. The group, led by Kondiaina and Barchenko, went to the area of ​​Lovozero and Seydozero in 1922. All materials upon the return of the expedition were classified, and Barchenko was later repressed and shot. No one knows the details of the expedition, but local residents say that during the search a strange hole underground was discovered, but an incomprehensible fear and horror prevented scientists from getting there. Locals They also do not risk using these caves, because they may not return from them. And besides, there is a legend that either a caveman or a bigfoot was repeatedly seen near them. This story might have remained secret if, as a result of intrigue, it had not ended up in Western publications. One NATO pilot told reporters about a strange story that happened to him. It all happened in May 1999. The plane took off from a NATO base in Holland on a mission to monitor the actions of parties conflicting in the Yugoslav war. As the plane flew over Germany, the pilot suddenly saw a group of fighters heading straight towards him. But they were all somehow strange. Having flown closer, the pilot saw that it was a German Messerschmitt. The pilot did not know what to do, because his plane was not equipped with weapons. However, he soon saw that the German fighter was targeted by a Soviet fighter. The vision lasted a few seconds, then everything disappeared. There is other evidence of penetrations into the past that occurred in the air. Thus, in 1976, the Soviet pilot V. Orlov said that he personally saw ground military operations being conducted under the wing of the MiG-25 aircraft he piloted. If the pilot's descriptions are to be believed, 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, during a mission, discovered that he was over Ancient Egypt. According to him, he saw one pyramid that was completely built, as well as the foundations of others, around which many people were swarming. At the end of the 80s of the last century, captain of the second rank, military sailor Ivan Zalygin found himself in a very interesting and mysterious story. It all started when his diesel submarine was caught in a severe thunderstorm. The captain decided to surface, but as soon as the ship took the surface position, the watchman reported that an unidentified craft was directly ahead. It turned out to be a rescue boat, in which Soviet sailors found a military man in the uniform of a Japanese sailor from 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. The team members signed a non-disclosure agreement for a period of ten years. A mysterious story also happened in 1952 in New York. In November, an unknown man was hit and killed on Broadway. His body was taken to the morgue. The police were surprised that the young man was dressed in antique clothes, and in his trouser pocket they found the same antique 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 (travelling 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 centenarians of New York, who had been missing for about 70 years during a regular walk. To prove her words, the woman presented a photo: it had the date on it - 1884, and the photo itself depicted a man in the same strange suit who died under the wheels of a car. In 1954, after popular unrest in Japan during passport control a person was detained. 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 Algeria was in the place of his Tuared. True, the Tuareg tribe did live there, but it never had sovereignty. In 1980, a young man disappeared in Paris after his car was covered in a bright glowing ball of fog. A week later he appeared in the same place where he had disappeared, but at the same time he thought that he had been absent for only a few minutes. In 1985, on the first day of the new school year, second-grader Vlad Heineman played war with his friends during recess. To throw the “enemy” off the scent, he dived into the nearest gateway. 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 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 the moment he decided to hide. But Vlad himself did not remember what happened to him during this time. An equally strange story happened with the Englishman Peter Williams. According to him, he found himself in some strange place during a thunderstorm. After being struck by lightning, he lost consciousness, and when he came to, he discovered that he was lost. 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, his roommate lent him his. When Peter went out into the garden, he realized that he was in the place where the thunderstorm had overtaken him. Williams wanted to thank the medical staff and good neighbor. He managed to find a hospital, but no one there recognized him, and all the clinic staff looked much older. There were no records of Peter’s admission in the registration book, nor was there any roommate. When the man remembered the trousers, he was told that they were an outdated model that had not been produced for more than 20 years! In 1991, one railway worker saw that from the side of the old branch, where there were not even rails left, a train was coming: a steam locomotive and three cars. He was very strange looking, and clearly not Russian production. The train passed the worker and went in the direction in which Sevastopol was located. Information about this incident was even published in one of the publications in 1992. It contained information that back in 1911, a pleasure train left Rome with a large number of passengers. He entered thick fog and then entered a tunnel. He was never seen again. The tunnel itself was blocked with stones. Perhaps this would have been forgotten 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 associate this ability with the fact that almost at the same time as 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 chronal field. In 1994, a ten-month-old girl was discovered in the northern Atlantic waters by the crew of a Norwegian fishing vessel. She was very cold, but she was alive. The girl was tied to a lifebuoy that had the inscription “Titanic” on it. 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 actually found a 10-month-old child on the Titanic passenger list. There is other evidence associated with this ship. So, some sailors claimed that they saw the ghost of the sinking Titanic. According to some scientists, the ship fell into a 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. There is no point in mentioning 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 some time then return safely. Unfortunately, many of them end up in insane asylums, because no one wants to believe 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. Unknown

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