Time Travel

“Time Travel” is a concept often explored in science fiction and theoretical physics. It involves moving backward or forward in time, beyond the normal flow of present, past, and future. In fiction, time travel can be used to alter historical events, explore different futures, or even interact with alternate realities.

In  the year 1985, H.G. Wells wrote his groundbreaking novel named “Time Machine”. After its publication this concept became popular, however this novel was a fiction, but it stimulated the curiosity of time traveling, many scientists wrote research papers, many movies were made in which various methods were used to do time traveling for example:-

ONE-WAY TRAVEL TO THE FUTURE: The traveller leaves home, but the people he or she left behind might age or be dead by the time the traveler returns. The traveler can not come back in the present again. This concept is shown in movie Interstellar.

INSTANTANEOUS TIME JUMPING: The traveller travels from one point to another point in spacetime instantaneously using a time machine, some portal or a wormhole, etc. This concept is shown in movie “back to the future”.

THE TIME IS REVOLVING: This concept is shown in movie Harry Potter: Prisoners of Azkaban, when Hermione uses time turner.

SLOW TIME TRAVEL: When the time traveller goes into a box and the time he spends there, the present time lacks exactly the same way, this concept is shown in movie Primer.

TRAVEL WITH THE SPEED OF LIGHT: This concept is shown in movie Superman.

The theory of Special Relativity by Elbert Einstein, before this theory a concept was very prevalent that “Time is Constant” Einstein claimed that time could be speed up and slow down if we change the gravitational force and speed. This is called “Time Dilation”.

An experiment was conducted in this regard in  the year 1971. Atomic clocks were used in which one was kept by the scientists with themselves and second one was put in a airplane. In result, the time of 2nd clock was behind to the 1st one. It proved  that if speed is higher then time will be slow vice versa. This experiment was called Hafele-Keating Experiment.

Real life Time Travellers

Andrew Carlson

He was arrested in March 2003 for SEC violation for making 126 high-risk stock trades and being successful on every one. He invested $800 and ended with over $350,000,000 which drew the attention of authorities. After his arrest, he admitted that he is a time traveler from 200 years in the future and knew which shares will give him profit that’s why he invested in them. Although he refused to tell investigators the locations or workings of his craft. A mysterious man posted his bail and Carlson was scheduled for court hearing but was never seen again; records show that he never existed.

 


Rudolph Fentz

In New York City, in 1951, a man wearing 19th century clothes was hit by a car. The subsequent investigation revealed that the man had disappeared without a trace in 1876. The items in his possession suggested that the man had travelled through time from 1876 to 1951 directly.

 


Present day hipster at 1941 bridge opening

A photographer from 1941 of genuine authenticity of the re-opening of the South Fork Bridge in Gold Bridge, British Columbia is sometimes alleged on the internet to show a time traveller. It was claimed that his clothing and sunglasses were of the present day and not of the styles worn in the 40s, while his camera was anachronistically small.

 


Chaplin’s Time Traveller

It was a footage from the film “Los Angeles” premiered at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in 1928. At one point, a woman is seen walking by, holding up an object to her ear. On closer examination, she was talking into a thin, black device that had appeared to be a “Phone”. It was concluded that the woman was probably a time traveller.

 


Gennady Padalka

A real person and Russian astronaut who has held the record for the most cumulative time spent in space by any human. Over his career, Padalka has spent a total of 878 days, 11 hours, and 29 minutes in space. He is credited with the most time travel into the future, because he remained in space the longest, and was travelling at the speed of 28,000km/hr in space. Accordingly, he has travelled 0.02 seconds into the future.

 


Noah

Imagine if you could go back in time and meet your younger self. What would you say? Well, in 2017, a man calling himself Noah claimed to be from 2030, and passed a lie detector test. He subsequently appeared in a video with a Noah from 2070. They provided vague descriptions of the future, like “cars are very fast-they get pushed by the road.”

 


Year 5000

In 2018, a man named Edward claimed to have travelled to the year 5000 and returned with a photographic proof. Edward asserts that in 2004, he was selected for a secret project which sent him into the future. According to him the photo he shared of an underwater city is actually Los Angeles 3,000 years in the future.

 


The Man from Taured

One man visiting Japan in 1954 had more difficulty than most. Arriving in Haneda Airport in Tokyo, this unknown man was detained-because his country didn’t exist. The most mysterious thing was that he vanished from the hotel room he was given to stay in, despite guards posted outside his door. Even his passport was gone.

 


Hutton & Brandt

In 1932, a German reporter, J. Bernard Hutton, and photographer, Joachim Brandt were assigned a story on the Hamburg shipyard. Once there, however, the two men panicked when bombs began falling around them. After snapping a few pictures, they left in a hurry. No one at the paper believed their story and their photographs showed nothing out of the ordinary. 11 years later in 1943, Hutton was shocked when he read a story in an English paper about an Allied air raid on Hamburg, with pictures showing him scenery he was very familiar with.

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