Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day

Time travel is one of the most popular science fiction plots A machine for moving people into the future was described back in 1895 by G Wells The prototype of the device, a certain hippograph, is present in the 1836 novel by AF Veltman "Ancestors of Kalimeros" Travel into the past and future is at the heart of many Hollywood blockbusters The idea and the possibility of its implementation have been troubling the minds of scientists, historians and ordinary people not associated with science for decades Therefore, on December 8, a funny holiday is celebrated - Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day Chronocycle, temporal spiral, chronoportation chamber, chronoscaphe are some of the many names of units for moving into the past or future, described in fiction According to one legend, Doctor Faustus escapes with Helen of Troy from Mephistopheles on a “time ship” The hero of R Bradbury's novel "A Sound of Thunder" travels back in time in a special machine for hunting dinosaurs However, scientists believe that time travel is possible without the use of technology Despite the fantastic nature of the idea, secret experiments on the teleportation of people and objects have long been carried out by the secret services of a number of countries Research into the possibilities of traveling into the future was carried out in 1943-1983 at a secret US military base located near the city of Montauk The subjects' brains were trained with high-frequency radio pulses, after which the person's consciousness (soul) was separated from the body and moved to another time Not all people were able to remember participating in the experiments in Montauk, because their memory was erased Many of those who traveled through time portals did not return One of the eyewitnesses, engineer Preston Nichols, only remembered years later that he worked as the technical director of the project for more than 10 years and wrote a book about it Montauk was a large-scale continuation of the Philadelphia Experiment At the US Navy base in Pennsylvania in 1943, a large-scale experiment was carried out to move a destroyer in time and space The Eldridge ship and its crew were placed in an “electromagnetic bubble”, after which it disappeared and appeared more than 400 kilometers away in Norfolk, Virginia The study ended disastrously for the military personnel - the surviving participants in the experiment became confused by their experiences One of the terrifying details is that, according to the recollections of eyewitnesses, after the “resurrection” of the destroyer, they saw parts of the bodies of crew members soldered into the walls of the cabins and the skin of the ship Writer Ray Bradbury metaphorically warned people about the dangers of time travel In his novel, the death of a butterfly accidentally crushed by a dinosaur hunter in the past led to global changes in the future The scientific and technological progress of mankind is proceeding by leaps and bounds, so it can lead to the realization of the dream of traveling in time However, this is not only a wonderful opportunity to explore the unknown, but also a great responsibility Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day inspires belief that time travel may well become a reality, but people must imagine the consequences of such “tourism” to the past and future