In addition to the philosophical search for the meaning of life, mankind is concerned about three technical problems: artificial intelligence, the creation of a perpetual motion machine, time travel. The time machine has long been invented by science fiction writers, but this idea cannot be made a reality. Let us look back at the past and tell about the most famous legends of time travelers. Let us consider in parallel unusual experiments with time and find out if there really are time travelers.
The most famous time travelers:
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Eleanor Jourdain and Charlotte Moberly
Two teachers from the UK will open the list. In 1901, they went on a tourist trip to the capital of France. During a tour of Versailles, two well-meaning British women got lost.
Fortunately, they were found. With one voice, they claimed to have been in 1792. According to their stories, they saw Marie Antoinette, who sat at the castle of Trianon and painted. Upon returning to England, the women wrote the book Adventure, published in 1911.
Women signed with pseudonyms. Scientists criticized the work, regarding teachers as fraudsters. The book describes Versailles in the 18th century in detail, and historians even found confirmation on the old maps of the story of Eleanor and Charlotte.
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Ettore Majorana
A talented Italian scientist was developing in the theory of neutrinos. I never published my works, considering them unworthy of printing.
Disappointed at work, he decided to die. From the ship on which Ettore sailed, he sent a letter to the director of the University of Naples. He apologized for the sudden disappearance. Following the letter came a telegram that he was returning, but the Italian did not get on the mainland.
The scientist disappeared in March 1938. The search yielded no results. In 1955, a man was found in the Argentine city, an exact copy of an Italian scientist. For almost 20 years after the disappearance, he has not changed. Friends suggested that he was able to invent a time machine with which he travels.
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Rudolph Fenz
In 1951, on the streets of New York, people saw a strange man. He was dressed in the fashion of the mid-19th century. He was genuinely surprised at cars and everything that was going on around him.
Unable to navigate, he stepped out onto the road, where he was knocked to death by a car. Items and old-style dollars were found in pockets. Police drew attention to a token from an unknown bar and a letter sent in the last century. There was a business card in the name of Rudolf Fentz.
An investigation by the police revealed that a man with a similar appearance and name disappeared in 1876. Scientists still believe that this is nothing more than fiction, and the plot is taken from the story of Jack Finney "I am scared."
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Sergey Krapivin
A strange thing is stored in the historical archive of Tobolsk. It contains a memo from a city officer who on August 28, 1897 detained a strange man on the street.
The policeman was surprised by the clothes of the detainee. He was taken to the station, where the man gave his first and last name. Servants of order were surprised by the fact that Sergei Dmitrievich Krapivin was telling strange things. He said that he was born in 1946, and works as a computer operator.
A doctor was called to him. The programmer said that he had a headache, and then he lost consciousness. Sergei could not explain how he ended up in Tobolsk. After being examined by doctors, he was placed in a mental hospital.
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Hakan Nordquist
A Swede named Nordquist caused a flurry of controversy when he posted a video on YouTube in which he showed how he met himself, only a 72-year-old.
One ordinary day, he noticed that water spilled on the floor of his home. Hakan decided to fix the breakdown. While under the sink, he noticed that suddenly the space began to turn into a tunnel. In the distance, the light flickered. He climbed into the light and fell in 2042.
The Swede even managed to shoot everything on camera. As proof of the words in the video, the young and elderly Nordquist provided the same tattoos. Scientists, of course, did not believe it, and later proved falsification. Later, he admitted that he shot a video as part of a marketing campaign by an insurance company.
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Billy Meyer
The Swiss is known throughout the world as a contactee with extraterrestrial civilizations. In evidence, he even provided a couple of UFO images, but scientists have denied his stories.
The first contact with aliens occurred in 1942, when the boy was only 5 years old. Further more. It was with the help of aliens that Billy, in his words, managed to visit the past. Aliens abducted him, sent him to the past, and then returned him back.
In evidence of the journey, Meyer showed pictures of dinosaurs. They, like UFO photographs, were criticized by scientists, not believing in a beautiful legend.
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Andrew Karlssin
With only $ 800 in his hands, the American on transactions increased his capital to $ 350 million. They first talked about him in 2002.
Newspapers wrote that the FBI had arrested a 44-year-old man, accusing him of foul play on the stock exchange. During the investigation, Andrew stated that he had traveled to the future. He tried to play carefully, but the thirst for quick profit turned his head. In his testimony, even information appeared on the location of Bin Laden.
Andrew did not admit where he hid the time machine. And later it turned out that it was an April Fool’s joke of one popular print publication.
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John taytor
In 2000, at the Time Travel Institute forum, a person named TimeTravel_0 stated that he had arrived from 2036. Then he began to lay out drawings of a time machine.
He was invited to the Air Force, where he said that he had arrived for military purposes, to warn of impending wars. Everyone was talking about a temporary paradox, but he argued that his journey would not change the course of events. He made several prophecies, including predicted a small nuclear war of 2015.
When the prophecies did not come true, interest in the "traveler from the future" decreased significantly. The story of John got into a computer game, they wrote a play on it, and you can familiarize yourself with the recordings on Internet resources.
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Bob white
From 2001 to 2003, many netizens received spam notifications in which a certain young man claimed to be a time traveler. Bob, also known as Tim Jones, wrote that he was stuck in 2003, and asks to respond, who else traveled through time.
In other letters, he asked him to sell him a "Measurement Warp Generator." There were people who answered Bob's letters. He sent notifications under various pseudonyms. His identity was identified. It turned out to be Robert J. Todino. His father claimed that his son was mentally ill, and those who respond to messages use his illness.
Journalist McWilliams conducted his own investigation. He printed that Todino really suffers from a split personality and schizophrenia.
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Testimony of pilots
According to the theory of relativity, at high speed, time slows down. In this situation, you can get into the future. True, this one way ticket. But the pilots said they saw the past.
In 1976, the pilot Orlov on his MiG-25 saw strange military actions below. American military historians became interested in the testimony of a Soviet pilot. Having verified his story with the facts, they established that he saw the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.
In 1985, another Soviet pilot, flying over Africa, saw dinosaurs grazing peacefully. A year later, pilot Ustimov saw pyramids under construction under the wing of his plane. All pilots after a medical examination were found to be healthy.
Visitors from the future
There are a number of photographs and footage of a film on which people were caught in clothes unusual for the time of shooting and objects not invented at that time. TheBiggest is in a hurry to share these materials with you.
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IPhone in a medieval painting
The canvas of the Dutch painter will open this section. In 1670, the artist Peter de Hoch painted the picture “A man hands a letter to a woman in the hallway”.
A lover of painting, Tim Cook, visiting an art gallery in Amsterdam, noted that the letter, in form, strongly resembles a modern iPhone. We all know when this invention of Apple appeared, but now many have doubts.
Of course, this is a guess, but the coincidence is realistic. It is interesting, but in other paintings of the artist such coincidences were not found.
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1948 movie
Another smartphone, but from the middle of the twentieth century. The American Western "Apache Apache" was released in 1948.
The modern viewer saw in the hands of the hero an object very similar to a smartphone. Spectators, having reviewed the picture, were shocked. Where did the modern gadget come from in the late 40s.
Specialists, on footage, sorted out the episode where actor Henry Ford rides in a stagecoach. The conclusion was simple - in the hands of the movie hero is an ordinary notebook.
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Woman from a picture of Chaplin
In 2010, American director John Clark bit by bit collected rare shots from the films of the legendary Charlie Chaplin. The director announced the results of his work by posting videos on the Internet.
An attentive viewer noticed that in the film “Circus”, a woman raises an object resembling a cell phone to her ear. Footage shot in 1928. The advent of such an invention at that time breaks all the laws of logic.
Researchers and skeptics began to analyze the movements of the woman frame by frame. They suggested that, most likely, a woman brings a hearing aid to her ear, and possibly straightens her hair.
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Mike Tyson's fight with Peter McNeley
In 1995, two great boxers came together in the ring. Fans are well aware of all the details of that fight. But the curious was attracted by an unknown spectator on the podium.
In the hands of a man, an object similar to a smartphone with a built-in camera. A photograph of the “unidentified object” published in the press caused a fierce discussion.
After lengthy proceedings, everyone agreed that this is a portable movie camera. But there are still optimists who believe that this is a boxing fan from the future. He moved to take a memory of the battle of his idol, because in 1995 there was no such opportunity.
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Factory worker
The famous picture showing a woman talking on a cell phone in a crowd of workers leaving the DuPont factory entrance.
The employee's pose is really strange. A smile on her face clearly indicates that she is talking. Photography still causes a lot of controversy.
The granddaughter of a woman added fuel to the fire of heated discussions. After many years, she admitted that her grandmother really took part in testing a cordless telephone.
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Hipsters in the crowd
No less popular picture was taken in 1941. It stands the people who are present at the opening of a new bridge in British Columbia.
Among the crowd is a young man, dressed not in the fashion of the time, in black sunglasses. He is wearing a T-shirt with a printed pattern, as well as a model of the camera, which will be invented much later. The guy clearly does not fit into the overall picture of what is happening.
The photograph is called a time-traveling hipster. Skeptics again dispelled optimism. They argued that such things could already be purchased in stores in 1941.
Reincarnation, or Time Travelers
On earth, you cannot find exactly the same people if they are not twins. But photographs from the distant past prove the opposite.
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Nicolas Cage
A popular American actor turns out to be an avid time traveler. Fans of Nicolas Cage easily recognize their idol in a photograph of 1870.
A funny artifact was put up on eBay. Historians could not find out who is depicted in the picture, but someone gave $ 1 million for the picture of the “actor”.
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John Travolta
Nicolas Cage’s colleague in the acting workshop also turned out to be the result of reincarnation, or travels to the past. The evidence is captured in a photograph taken around 1860. Looking at such coincidences, one can believe in the transmigration of souls.
The owner of a unique picture put a photo at an online auction, asking for 50 thousand dollars for it. Until they bought it. Potential buyers are confused by the low price of such a unique rarity.
Experiments with time and space
Humanity does not cease to experiment with space and time, although sometimes such experiments lead to unexpected results and consequences.
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Chronovisor
In one of his many works, the French clergyman Francois Bruin wrote that his Italian colleague, father Pellegrino Ernetti, invented a machine that allows you to look into the past or future.
The literary work “The New Secret of the Vatican” was published in 2002, and made a lot of noise among scholars and clergymen. The Italian priest Pellegrino Maria Ernetti actually existed, but it was not possible to prove that he invented such a machine. Everyone knew that the Italian was interested in unusual experiments.
Francois Bruin was engaged in paranormal phenomena, about which he wrote in his writings. He could have simply invented a similar experiment of his Italian colleague.
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Montauk Project
In the 60s of the last century, the US government conducted a series of secret experiments near the town of Montauk. One of the objectives of the research was to prove the possibility of time travel.
Information leaked to the press. Reporters said the United States is trying to create a new psychological weapon. Equipment was brought to the air force base, where tests were carried out.
The project was closed, but the AN / FPS-35 radar was not dismantled. It stands in Montauk City Park as a reminder of fantastic exploration.
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Philadelphia experiment
In history, this experiment is also known as the Rainbow project. In 1943, the U.S. Navy conducted research to hide ships from enemy radars.
During testing of new equipment, the destroyer Eldridge disappeared not only from the radar, but also from the field of view. Seconds later, he appeared a few kilometers from the original location.
There was a version that the destroyer and his team moved in time. Participants in the experiment deny the fact of such tests. Based on mythical events, several wonderful films were made.
In conclusion
Most stories are hoaxes or misinterpretations of facts. With new details, they become urban legends. What is behind the new turn of history? Perhaps a person will find a way to go into the past ... Or maybe look into the future. TheBiggest.ru editors are asking you to write which famous time travelers are not justly included in our list.
Article author: Valery Skiba