In 2009, the British physicist Stephen Hawking hosted a party for anybody who could travel
through time; however, he didn't send out the invitations until the next year, and no
one showed up.
Time travel is most likely impossible.
Even if it were possible, Hawking and others contend that you could never travel back in
time before building your time machine.
But what about travelling into the future?
That's another story.
We are all time travelers, of course, as we are swept along in the stream of time, from
past to future, one second at a time.
However, in this video, we count down five objects that could indicate the existence
of time travel.
Father Pellegrino Ernetti Chronovisor The Vatican and the Roman Catholic faith have
been accused of many things over the years (profiting from the Holocaust, covering up
child molestation, and so on), but one thing you may not be aware of is that they have
a time machine.
Father Ernetti's story began to unravel in the 1960s, following a chance meeting with
Father François Brune, a theologian and author with a parapsychology interest who taught
at the Sorbonne in Paris.
While waiting for a vaporetto to cross the Grand Canal, Father Brune ran into Father
Ernetti.
They struck up a conversation, and Father Ernetti piqued Father Brune's interest with
a story about an invention he claimed to have assisted in the development of.
“His gestures, his intonation; how powerful they were!
What flights of oratory," wrote Father Pellegrino Ernetti of Marcus Tullius Cicero's speech
to the Roman Senate in 63BC.
Ernetti, who died in 1992, was a Benedictine monk, a noted ancient music historian, author,
physicist, and exorcist; but what makes his depiction of Cicero noteworthy is that he
claims to have witnessed it firsthand.
Well, sort of.
Ernetti actually told Father François Brune that he was watching it live on a time-warping
device called the Chronovisor.
Rather than sending people through time, the Chronovisor tuned into past events and portrayed
them as if they were time-traveling television.
Ernetti claimed to have created the Chronovisor in the 1950s with the help of 12 famous scientists
who, with the exception of Enrico Fermi and Wernher Von Braun (both of whom were dead
when their names were disclosed in 1992), desired to remain anonymous.
The Chronovisor had a number of antennae, three of which were made of "mysterious" metals
and received light and sound signals on all wavelengths; a "direction finder" for tuning
to a specific time and place; a screen and a recording device.
Ernetti recalled how the time crew gathered around their invention watching speeches by
Mussolini and Napoleon, as well as scenes from ancient Rome, including a production
of Thyestes, a lost play by Quintus Ennius, one of Rome's most influential poets.
Although no one saw the Chronovisor, Ernetti did provide evidence of his televisual trips
by posting excerpts from Thyestes in Latin.
Then, on May 2, 1972, the Italian journal La Domenica del Corriere published what was
supposed to be Ernetti's trump card: a Chronovisor image of the crucified Christ.
The team had seen his final days from the Last Supper to his final agonizing moments
and had kept the photo as a powerful memento.
The Philadelphia Experiment The Philadelphia Experiment is one of the
most hideous military urban legends of all time, and it has survived as an infamous World
War II conspiracy theory.
But is it true?
According to sources, the USS Eldridge, a Cannon-class destroyer escort, was conducting
top-secret experiments on Oct. 28, 1943, in order to obtain control of the oceans against
the Axis forces.
The story was that the government was developing technology that would make military ships
invisible to enemy radar, and it was time to put it to the test at the Philadelphia
Naval Shipyard.
According to witnesses, an unearthly green-blue glow encircled the hull of the ship as her
generators churned up, and then the Eldridge vanished.
The ship was then observed in Virginia's Norfolk Naval Shipyard before disappearing and reappearing
in Philadelphia.
According to the story, classified military documents revealed that the events had a negative
impact on the Eldridge crew.
Some people went insane.
Others experienced unexplained illnesses.
Others, though, were believed to have become merged with the spacecraft; still alive, but
with limbs bonded to the metal.
Carl M. Allen, also known as Carlos Miguel Allende, wrote a series of letters to Morris
K. Jessup, author of "The Case for the UFO," in 1956, arguing that unexplained flying objects
should be investigated further.
Jessup appears to have included text about unified field theory because that is what
Allende used for his correspondences.
In the 1950s, the unproven unified field theory attempted to combine Albert Einstein's general
theory of relativity with electromagnetic.
Indeed, Allende claimed to have been trained by Einstein himself and to be able to demonstrate
the unified field theory based on events he witnessed on October 28, 1943.
Allende claimed to have seen the Eldridge vanish from the Philadelphia Naval Yard, and
he also claimed that the US military had carried out what he dubbed the Philadelphia Experiment
– and was attempting to cover it up.
Was the US military really attempting to conceal time travel technology?
300-million-year-old Screw The Kosmopoisk Group, a Russian research organization
that examines UFOs and paranormal activity, claims to have discovered a one-inch screw
lodged inside a 300-million-year-old rock.
They claim that the screw is the relic of an ancient form of technology that demonstrates
extraterrestrials visited Earth millions of years ago.
Scientists believe the 'screw' is nothing more than a fossilized marine creature known
as a Crinoid.
In the 1990s, a Russian crew was researching the remains of a meteorite in Russia's Kaluga
region when they came upon the unusual object.
A paleontological examination found that the stone developed between 300 and 320 million
years ago.
The team also claims that an x-ray of the stone reveals the presence of another screw
inside it.
They have not, however, invited international experts to inspect the device, nor have they
revealed what the screw is made of.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual told reporters: “Lots of out-of-place
artefacts have been reported, such as nails or even tools embedded in ancient stone.
Some of these reports are…misinterpretations of natural formations.
It would be great to think we could find such ancient evidence of a spaceship visiting us
so long ago, but we have to consider whether extra-terrestrial spacecraft builders would
use screws in the construction of their craft,” he added.
“It also seems that this story is probably a hoax that is being spread by the internet,
and reflects our desire to believe that extra-terrestrials have visited us in the past and are still
visiting us today in what we now call UFOs.”
For the time being, the discussion surrounding the object is very much alive, and it is unlikely
that consensus will be found anytime soon unless the Kosmopoisk Group discloses specific
details regarding the material of the 'screw.'
Were these extraterrestrials visiting us, or was this a case of time travel?
Perhaps someone travelled through time and accidentally dropped this screw.
The Lanzhou Screw Another enigmatic artefact discovered in recent
years that appears to defy mainstream archaeology and history is the Lanzhou screw.
The Lanzhou screw has a similar background to the Russian screw.
It was unearthed in 2002 and has since piqued the interest of collectors and experts.
The most fascinating aspect of this artefact is the discovery of a metal screw within the
rock.
The intriguing pear-shaped stone is approximately 68 centimeters in length and weighs approximately
466 kilos.
However, it is not a common rock, and the metal-shaped screw just adds to the mystery
of the rock, which specialists believe is millions of years old.
Indeed, the unusual rock has geologists scratching their heads.
Researchers, including geologists and physicists from the National Land Resources Bureau of
Gansu Province, and the School of Resources and Environment of Lanzhou College, are unsure
of the artifact's origin and point out that at this time, all theories are possible.
According to the Lanzhou Morning News, after a discussion on the potential of the stone
being man-made and the possible reasons for its formation, scientists unanimously identified
the stone as one of the most precious in China and in the world of collection, study, and
Archaeological studies.
Several explanations have been presented to explain the mystery rock and the imbedded
6-centimeter cone-shaped metal bar with clear screw threads.
While most researchers believe this artefact represents the remains of a prehistoric civilization,
others feel that given the unusual composition of specific parts of the rock, both the granite
and the enigmatic metal screw could have originated on another planet.
Is this another instance of time travel or extraterrestrials?
Something is most certainly missing from humanity's distant history.
History and archaeology plainly do not provide a complete picture of our history, as artefacts
like the Lanzhou screw demonstrate.
Is it likely that these items discovered in Russia and China represent the remains of
advanced prehistoric civilizations?
It's possible that if we changed the way we think about our past and history, we'd have
a better understanding of what these artefacts are really trying to tell us.
Iranian Time Machine It's not exactly Back to the Future, but a
young Iranian inventor claims to have created a time machine capable of accurately predicting
a person's future.
Ali Razeqi, claims his device would print out a report explaining an individual's fate
after applying advanced algorithms to anticipate his or her fate.
According to the reports, Razeqi explained his technology to the Fars news agency, which
is run by the Iranian government "It is easy to fit into the size of a personal computer
case, and it has the ability to accurately forecast details about the next 5-8 years
of its users' lives.
It will not take you into the future, it will bring the future to you."
According to Razeqi, Iran has opted to keep his prophetic time machine a secret for the
time being out of fear that "the Chinese will steal the idea and produce it in millions
overnight."
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