Albert Einstein's incredible legacy
which includes over 300 scientific papers
continues to influence the world more than a half century
since his death.
And while Einstein redefined our understanding of the universe,
perhaps his greatest contribution to mankind
is still to come--
time travel.
RONALD L. MALLETT: It's Einstein's special theory
of relativity, speed of light, and the general theory
of relativity, which allows for the real possibility of time
travel.
NARRATOR: Some scientists today believe that Einstein's theory
of relativity creates the possibility
to travel through a portal or wormhole called an Einstein
Rosen Bridge, a space anomaly that may actually be a gateway
to parallel universes.
MICHAEL DENNIN: In the theory of general relativity,
space actually acts like something
that you can bend and warp and make holes in.
Then Einstein Rosen Bridge is a particular example
of a wormhole.
And a wormhole as a structure in space and time
that involves kind of tearing a hole in space,
stretching the material-- if you think of space being
a material-- and reconnecting it somewhere else.
An Einstein Rosen Bridge takes two points in space
and connects them.
So that if you travel in one end, you come out the other.
Even though those two points appear in different universes,
it's essentially a teleport or something
that allows you to get between two distant places
instantaneously.
NARRATOR: Could Einstein's theoretical wormhole
actually serve as a portal to another universe?
Perhaps opening a gateway that will one day
establish contact between humans and extraterrestrials?
DOC BARHAM: When we take a look at the idea
that there are wormholes, and that these are actually
generally accepted by some of the most brilliant individuals
on the planet, what you begin to see is that all of these pieces
are in place to suggest that there is intelligent life
elsewhere in the universe and that there is also
the likelihood or possibility that we have had contact
in the past or have ongoing contact now
or may have contact in the future as well.
NARRATOR: Was Albert Einstein's monumental work actually
a lifelong quest to establish contact with extraterrestrials?
Did otherworldly beings provide him with information
about how to transcend both space and time?
If so, why?
PHILIP COPPENS: We find that the greatest discoveries
across time and space don't come through hard work
or intensive labor, but that really the genius somehow
is able to access a realm, and that that realm is
able to pretty much download that information to them
and makes them remember forever onwards as geniuses.
DAVID CHILDRESS: In history, you have certain people whose
genius is just so incredible.
It's like they're able to see the future
and they're not going to just influence the world then
and in the future.
But what they're going to do is going to dramatically change
the world forever.
PHILIP COPPENS: We tend to think of civilization as this flow
ebb of information, that somehow across the flow of time,
we have progressed.
But really, this is not the case.
We have made giant strides forwards because at pockets
in time, there were certain geniuses living.
NARRATOR: Are extraterrestrials accelerating
the cognitive abilities of a select few
to help further the development of human civilization
as some ancient astronaut theorists believe?
Could this explain Albert Einstein's
extraordinary neural anatomy?
GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Is it only a coincidence
that arguably the greatest mind in the history of the world
had a higher concentration of glial cells and a wider
parietal lobe than the average human brain
and was as healthy as the brain of a young man when he died?
That is extraordinary evidence.
DAVID CHILDRESS: If you were able to study the brains
of some of these other genius--
Isaac Newton, of Nikola Tesla, and perhaps now,
with someone like Stephen Hawking--
I think we would find that their brains too are significantly
different than a normal human's.
PHILIP COPPENS: There seems to be something within our DNA
whereby we go in one direction and we
seem to have in normal human being
but also certain things within our DNA
are able to make us a genius.
And definitely, Einstein was one of them.
But what makes this switch work is something which we have been
completely incapable of answering.
"The Mahabharata," in this sacred Indian text
written in the 8th century BC, King Revaita
is described as traveling to the heavens
to meet with the creator god Brahma,
only to return to Earth hundreds of years in the future.
Some researchers believe this Hindu tale
may be one of the oldest records of successful time
travel in the ancient past.
There's the story of a king called Revaita.
And he is taken into space to see the gods.
And when he returns to the Earth,
he finds that many ages have gone by,
and it's been hundreds of years.
And this is the kind of thing that
would happen to space travelers and in time travel as well.
You think you're gone for only a few days,
but when you return to Earth you find out
that you've been gone for hundreds of years.
NARRATOR: Like the legend of Chaco Canyon,
similar tales of time travel can be found
all around the ancient world.
In Japan, the legend of Urashima Taro
details a fisherman's visit to the protector god of the sea,
Ryujin, in an underwater palace for what seemed like only three
days.
When he returns to his fishing village,
he finds that it's been 300 years that he's been gone.
And his house is in ruins.
Everybody he knows is long dead.
No one remembers him or his family.
NARRATOR: And in the Hebrew Bible,
descriptions of the prophet Jeremiah in Jerusalem
are eerily similar to both of these accounts of time travel.
Even in the Bible, the prophet Jeremiah
was sitting together with a few of his friends.
And there was a young boy.
His name was Abimelech.
And Jeremiah said to Abimelech, go out of Jerusalem--
there's a hill--
and collect some figs for us.
The boy went out and collected the fresh figs.
All of a sudden, Abimelech hears some noise and wind in the air,
and he became unconscious.
He had a blackout.
After a time, he wakes up again, and he
saw it was nearly the evening.
So he runs back to the society, and the city
was full of strange soldiers.
And he said, what's going on here?
Where is Jeremiah and all the others?
And an old man said, that was 62 years ago.
It's a time travel story written in the Bible.
NARRATOR: Southern Egypt, Agilkia Island, here, just six
miles upstream from Aswan, in the Nile River Valley,
lies the Temple of Isis.
Built in the 4th century BC, the temple
was a center of worship for the Egyptian goddess of fertility
and nature until the 6th century AD.
Isis became the most important deity which ancient Egypt ever
had.
She was married to her brother, Osiris.
And together they really became the popular husband and wife
to which everybody wanted to be like.
She is seen as a symbol of life, whereas the Cyrus is seen
as the deity who rules over the death.
And so whether you are alive or whether you are dead,
you can always identify with Isis and Osiris.
NARRATOR: According to ancient Egyptian religious belief,
the goddess Isis was known as the divine mother
and believed to be the soul of the brightest
star in the sky, Sirius.
To the ancient Egyptians, Osiris was Orion.
That constellation actually was a literal living embodiment
of the great God Osiris.
Sirius was the representation of his wife, sister, and consort,
Isis.
Together those two essentially ruled
the skies and the life of the Egyptian people themselves.
Many ancient cultures, including the Egyptians,
Chinese, the Greeks, and Japanese,
all had beliefs and legends that our gods who created us
have come from Sirius.
And this star is an extremely important star
to almost all ancient cultures.
This knowledge originally emerged in ancient Egypt
and in Africa with the Dogon tribe,
who taught that beings of light came from Sirius
and created humankind.
And it's clear that so many cultures possessed information
about Sirius, and they single out Sirius
apart from everything else.
And it's got nothing to do with its brightness.
It has to do with the fact that somehow Sirius is
responsible for sending us emissaries who educate us.
The Singapore Air Show, February, 2014.
An Israeli army company known as Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
reveals details of a laser defense system
capable of shooting missiles from the sky with a pulse
of energy.
[missile zooming]
The futuristic military hardware is called iron beam.
The concept of iron beam is that it's essentially a high energy
laser that is designed to rapidly heat up the target
that it's aimed at.
We're talking about aircraft, drones, missiles.
Anything that could launch an attack on a city
could be literally destroyed in the sky by iron beam.
This sounds very much like Tesla's death ray.
DAVID CHILDRESS: This is exactly the kind of technology
that Tesla was talking about in the 1920s and 30s
of using these beam weapons to shoot down
missiles and projectiles.
DAVID WILCOCK: The war department sided with Einstein
and Oppenheimer's atomic bomb, not with Tesla.
But now what we're seeing is that Israel is developing
this ion beam technology, because they realized
that atomic weapons were far too destructive.
Is it possible that Tesla developed a time-viewing
or time-travel technology, and that he became aware
of these developments.
NARRATOR: Tesla was once quoted as saying the present is theirs
but the future for which I have really worked is mine.
Did Tesla, in fact, see into the future.
Might iron beam be proof that plans for the death ray
not only existed but also may have even been confiscated
and carried out by the United States government.
There are those who believe that Nikola Tesla was not
only in contact with extraterrestrials
but was sent here to Earth by them to fulfill a mission
and usher in a new age for mankind.
MARC SEIFER: One of the big questions is who is Tesla.
Is he in a sense an avatar or an enlightened being
that comes to the Earth to help humans?
No one really knows exactly what's going on, but I think
all great artists-- and Tesla saw himself as an artist--
feel that their instruments of a higher purpose, and Tesla
certainly felt that he was working along those lines.
RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK: There is an agenda for humanity.
There is a, plan and in every generation, whatever power it
is that's behind the plan sends to Earth certain specific souls
who are by birth more inclined and able to be receptors
to the higher knowledge.
Storrs, Connecticut, January 2012--
in a lab at the University of Connecticut,
theoretical physicist Ronald Mallett
demonstrates his large scale model of a time machine.
Using a device called a ring laser that produces
a circulating beam of light, the professor
hopes to prove that the twisting light actually bends space,
forming a loop in time.
Now, what's happening here is that these lasers,
even though you can't see it, they're actually creating
a circulating pattern of light.
And that's circulating pattern of light
is actually twisting the empty space in here.
The twisting of space will eventually
lead to a twisting of time.
In Einstein's theory, the two are connected.
And that twisting of time will be
where time travel is occurring.
Because if you think of time as being a straight line,
then if we twist space, then what will happen eventually
is that the space will twist time into a loop.
So the breakthrough in my work is
to use light to manipulate time, and actually
allow for the possibility of going back in time using light.
NARRATOR: Although this is only a prototype,
Mallett believes he may be able to create a working time
machine in as little as 10 years.
He believes the energy of the light beams
will produce a gravitational field strong enough
to drag a spinning neutron through time.
Let's say I'll call the spin up a one,
and I'll call spin down a zero.
So imagine I send a stream of neutrons
with spin up, spin up, spin down, spin up.
What do you call that?
That's binary code.
So by using the spin of neutrons,
I could send a binary code, which could be translated
into a message.
NARRATOR: But could this technology ultimately
be able to send larger objects through time,
like a person or a spacecraft?
Einstein's theory of relativity allowed
for something called the Einstein-Rosen Bridge,
which is what we today call a wormhole.
It opened up the possibility that we can travel from point A
to point B somewhere else in the universe
as if there were nothing in between.
NARRATOR: If the possibility exists to travel instantly
from one end of the universe to another through wormholes,
might there be evidence that such technology was
used in the ancient past?
The ancient Egyptians knew about stargate and wormhole
travel.
The evidence that I discovered is at the Temple of Hathor
at Dendera.
When you enter into this temple, you
look up on the ceiling, which is called the astronomical
ceiling, and you see the gods as ascended light beings traveling
on their ships of eternity.
And it suggests to me that the ancients didn't use the term
wormhole for these time travel portals,
but were clearly talking about the same thing.