Scientist Stephen Hawking wants the law to forbid people to travel in time, and he knows how to do it.
A special machine that allows you to move to the past or the future, enjoys a wild popularity among filmmakers and writers. Scientists make only cautious predictions, promising to construct it at least by 2120, but there is a lot of shocking evidence that they are cunning and hide from the real truth ...
1. Its existence is proved by the most exact science in the world - mathematics
Having united, a group of scientists from the United States and Canada has created a fully operational model of a time machine based on mathematical laws. Form it should look like a box or a soap bubble, in the center of which the "passenger" is placed. When a design is accelerated along a circular path, it passes through space and time. Her work is possible thanks to the theory of relativity of Einstein, who proved that in our universe there are timelike curves along which it is possible to move - to travel.
2. Travelers in time die from hallucinations
The lighthouse of the military base of the city of Montauk in the state of New York today can be visited by any tourist, because it is among the historical sites. And he enjoys frenzied popularity, because it is a real proof of the opportunity to go to another era. The BBC television channel once even devoted a scientific transmission to the lighthouse, which once conducted the experiments of the secret "Montanuk project."
From 1943 to 1983, the subjects were irradiated with high-frequency radio pulses, which, according to the idea of a group of American scientists, were supposed to help them go back in time. Most of the experimental people went insane and died from hallucinations, while the rest - were missing. The US government decided to avoid scandals and hastily close the project.
3. In the future even the Chinese emperor visited!
In December 2008, Chinese archaeologists unsealed the tomb of the Emperor Si Xing, which remained intact for 400 years. Before, science was too imperfect, which made it impossible to open the grave. In it, historians have found an amazing subject, as if transferred from another era. The world circled photos of the clock in the form of a ring with the inscription "made in Switzerland". According to the serial code it was possible to understand that the watch was actually made in Switzerland about 100 years ago. But how did they end up in a tomb that was sealed securely? The boldest assumptions assure that the emperor traveled in time or was visited by a mysterious guest from the future.
4. American ships were able to move not only in time, but also in space
Trying to change the outcome of World War II, the US military decided on a "Philadelphia experiment". It was supposed to be secret, as it was aimed at defeating the German troops. Scientists conducted technical experiments, so that Navy ships could become invisible to enemy radars. Obviously, some mistakes were made in the calculations: they were lost in Philadelphia, they appeared in Virginia, having retired from the original point for hundreds of miles. The crew of the sailors was so disoriented in space after such a "journey" that they were found insane, and the project was closed without unnecessary noise.
5. British officer predicted repair of the airfield
In 1935, Sir Victor Goddard, a British Royal Air Force officer, flew over an airfield in Edinburgh. He was sure that he had been long abandoned and there was not a single living soul in his place of residence. When approaching the airfield, he saw a cleared runway, working mechanics and new aircraft. Instead of the usual black color, they were yellow. Of course, no one believed Victor, but four years later the new leadership of the air forces forced the aircraft to repaint everything to yellow and resume the work of the old airfield.
6. Hipster, who went to 1941
In 1941, a photograph was taken, the authenticity of which was questioned many times - and as many times as scientists have shown that the image was not processed. Hipster, miraculously appeared at the opening of the Golden Bridge in Canada, lost in the crowd, but was seen by the photographer. He differs from other people in the picture with his clothes and accessories: a t-shirt with a print, sunglasses and a portable camera that could not be in the 40s of the XX century.
7. The Enigmatic Affair of Krapivin
In the city archives of Tobolsk anyone can get acquainted with the mysterious criminal case of a certain Krapivin, who was detained on August 28, 1897 in one of the streets of the city, because he was strangely dressed. During the interrogation, he told them that he was born on April 14, 1965 in Angarsk and works as a computer operator. Because that profession, that the appearance of the man caused only bewilderment, he was arrested as a spy. Even the testimony that he had lost consciousness at work did not help, but he woke up in another era and elsewhere. Krapivin finished his days in the city's madhouse.
8. Unsuccessful experience with time travel
Americans can really be considered leaders in the number of experiments with the space-time continuum. Weekly World News contains a note about the miss of a group of young and ambitious scientists who decided to experiment with moving to the past. They came up with a capsule for such a trip and put a rat in it. When the rat returned a few seconds later, it looked still active and healthy.
Then her place decided to take one of the future stars of science. When he could not move back to the laboratory, his colleagues rushed to the archives of New York and found that in 1918 the newspaper "Police Courier" wrote about a strange corpse of a man in a capsule, in his pocket found a mobile phone. Naturally, in the report it was recorded as a "strange subject" and the way of its application remained incomprehensible to the servants of the law of the beginning of the XX century.
9. Soldiers who made a mistake in the war
In 1944, in the Gulf of Finland area, a group of Soviet tankmen accidentally found in the forest a company of several cavalrymen in a strange form, as if from a distant past. At first the military decided that they were guerrillas, but they were surprised how grown-up men panicked the tanks. They were considered to be spies, especially since during the interrogation they spoke French. It turned out that they all served in the army of Napoleon, and during the retreat from Moscow they got into a strong fog and lost their friends. When they came out to the people, they found themselves in the USSR during the Second World War.
10. The prohibition of time travel is achieved by the greatest scientist in the world
Living legend of modern science, Stephen Hawking, for 50 years, led a coalition of science luminaries, insisting on a legislative ban on time travel. Stephen does not lose hope of achieving what he wants, because he does not want to open secrets to lawyers and statesmen who make such a move possible. The physicist does not like to joke about this and certainly can not be considered insane.