Famous Time Travel Claims
I think we’d all like to have our own time machine. Jump in, type a date in time we’d like to goto, push the lever (or accelerate to 88 mph) and in a flash magically appear in some future world with flying cars or some time in the distant past where a Pterodactyl swoops over just as you appear. I am not going to go into the ins and outs of the physics involved (that is an entirely different article). Here at aldinifish.com we will look at some of the most famous ‘time travel’ claims.
1. The sun glass wearing hipster photograph.
The famous photo is from 1941 taken in Canada at the reopening of the South Fork Bridge. The man seems to be wearing modern sun glasses and a modern printed T-shirt. The suggestion here is that he is so out of place for the time period and therefore must be a time traveller from the future.
I’d like to see stronger evidence than this. The glasses are probably on trend for their time, I think this is just a case of trying to see something modern in an old photo and jumping to conclusions.
2. The Philadelphia experiment – 1943
This is how the story goes. The ship USS Eldridge had generators that would produce a new magnetic field that would make the ship invisible to enemy radar. When it was switched on the ship was witnessed to have disappeared. However it had subsequently been seen to re appear mysteriously 250 miles away in Norfolk Virginia. It appeared in Norfolk 10 minutes earlier in the day than when it had disappeared from Philadelphia. But if that wasn’t weird enough it then re appeared back in Philadelphia 20 minutes later (or would that be 10 minutes). Any way it seem teleportation and time travel had taken place.
When it re materialised all was not well on board. It is claimed some crew members had somehow fused with the metal of the ship at a molecular level. Some members experienced nausea, confusion and even went insane. It certainly fires the imagination.
3. The Chronovisor (Vatican Time Machine)
This involves all the secrecy of the Vatican and a device that can see through time. Allegedly developed by Italian priest Father Pellegrino Ernetti in the 1950s, this device allowed users to view past events. Ernetti had gained a degree in quantum and particle physics which must have put him in good stead for developing such a device. The development team also involved Enrico Fermi an Italian-American physicist who made major contributions to nuclear physics, quantum theory, and statistical mechanics. He’s one of the most important scientists of the 20th century.
The device called the Chronovisor supposedly captured residual electromagnetic radiation left behind by past events. It used an antennae and directional tuner that could be focused to specific times and places, displaying them on a screen as if they were a live broadcast. Apparently it was a project commissioned by the Vatican with the Popes involvement.
According to Ernetti who went public with his claims in 1970 the device captured events like the crucifixion of Christ and Napoleon’s military campaigns.
Legend says that the Vatican eventually confiscated the device warning users would be excommunicated. It is thought to have been dismantled.
4. Charlie Chaplin’s time traveler 1928
I have included this for completeness. It is claimed In behind-the-scenes footage from The Circus, a woman walks by holding what looks like a cell phone to her ear. Probably an ear trumpet.
5. The Man from Taured
More about parallel universe interaction rather than time travel but included it here as its very cool.
In July 1954 in Tokyo airport a business man ‘Berhodrick Jenansfer’ with a French accent presented a passport from the ‘United Kingdom of Taured’ – a country that does not exist. When asked to point to the country on a map he pointed to an area between France and Spain. He argued the Kingdom of Taured was over 1000 years old and had travelled in this airport many times asking passport control to check his passport again. The passport and previous travel stamps looked authentic. He also presented currency and travellers cheques from ‘Taured’. All these documents were taken and locked away.
He was detained as a suspect spy in a local hotel with armed guards at the door at all times. However when they went to check on him in the morning he had gone! There was no sign of any activity in the room it was spotless, the bed had not been slept in. The windows did not open.
Next the airport went to check on the documents they had earlier detained only to find they had also disappeared. Every trace of this man from Taured had vanished.
The claim is that this man was from an alternative universe and had somehow interacted with ours briefly.
6. The Tesla Time Travel Incident
The genius inventor and futurist Nikola Tesla (born 1856) believed that time and space could be influenced by magnetic fields. In 1895 he tried to invent something big and he conducted a series of experiments around time manipulation using a chronomagnetic device. In 1895 he was said to have been electrocuted and transported to a different time and space (a time vortex) where Tesla could see the past, present and future all at the same time.
Following Tesla’s death the FBI apparently raided his house and removed and sealed related documents. Officially they said they found nothing of national security interest. (Which they would wouldn’t they). Tesla was also thought to have connections to the supposed “Philadelphia Experiment” mentioned above.
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