Time is perhaps one of the most mysterious and inexplicable phenomena of our lives. Everyone exists in it, but no one knows what it really is. From a physical point of view, time serves as a certain quantity, per unit of which the human brain processes a certain amount of information. He is considered a revolutionary in the field of practical study of the concept of space and time. Before him, only science fiction writers talked about traveling into the past and future.

According to the theory of the great scientist, time can slow down when it reaches a speed equal to or close to the speed of light. The idea of ​​creating a time machine excites the minds of both world-class physicists and “Kulibins of the people” who are trying to comprehend the laws of the universe. Despite the controversial opinions, there are many facts about temporary teleportations - more than two hundred are stored in the annals of the British Royal Metapsychic Society alone, and what can we say about the archives of other organizations and media.

Fiction or truth? Everyone decides for himself, but it would also be wrong not to take into account the huge number of stories about travel in space. Here are just a few of them.

The photograph, stored in the Bralorne Pionner virtual museum, still raises many questions and surprises. The photo commemorates the opening of the Golden Bridge in Canada and dates back to 1941. Everything would be fine, but in a crowd of people it’s easy to spot one man who stands out strikingly from the rest of the onlookers. His whole appearance does not correspond to the spirit of that time - a T-shirt with a modern print, a sports jacket, sunglasses, a hairstyle, and to top off the picture is a portable camera, the production of which was not even in the project in the 40s of the 20th century.

In 1950, in France, a young guy named Rudolf Fetz died under the wheels of a car. The police who arrived at the scene of the tragic accident noted with bewilderment that the man was dressed in ancient clothes of the last century. During the investigation, it turned out that the deceased was listed as missing in the police archives in 1876. Not only the descriptions of his appearance and clothing coincided, but also the things he had with him before his disappearance: Business Cards, business papers, beer flask. All of the listed items were found in the pockets of the deceased, without any signs of aging.

Rita Harsfeld, who lives with her family in Louisville (USA), still keeps a postcard from her case, received in 1955. It depicts the German city of Frankfurt am Main, and the date of issue of the postcard is 1983. Many of the buildings featured in the picture were not yet built in the 50s, so it is not surprising that the strange postcard became a real highlight of the family album.

Another portion from the “obvious-incredible” series

Facts about time travel can be confirmed in a variety of situations. For example:

At an altitude of 2800 m in the Altai region, Mongolian shepherds discovered an ancient burial, the highlight of which was a woman whose feet were wearing shoes that clearly resembled Adidas sneakers. According to archaeologists, the find dates back to approximately 500 AD, so the found remains can be considered a kind of greeting from the future. Several photographs from the excavations ended up on the Internet, which created a real sensation among history buffs and paranormal phenomena.

The keen eye of one documentarian, looking at DVD materials for the film “Circus,” filmed in 1928 with the participation of, found an interesting detail. The video clearly shows a woman walking down the street and talking on mobile phone. The device is almost completely covered by the palm, but the position of the hand and the facial expressions of the passerby clearly make it clear what she is doing at the moment she enters the frame.

Ghost trains going from nowhere to nowhere

Fans of time travel stories have probably heard about the mysterious ghost train that imprisoned more than a hundred people within its walls and disappeared without a trace in a tunnel in Lombardy (Italy). The events unfolded on June 14, 1911, when the Rome Railway Company staged a promotional presentation of an elite pleasure train, giving passengers a free sightseeing trip to explore local attractions and a new tunnel dug into the rock, a full kilometer long.

The enthusiastic audience was delighted with the upcoming event, but everything did not go according to plan. The train fell into the darkness and never came out into the light, literally disappearing into thin air. Only two men managed to escape, they jumped from the steps, intuitively sensing the danger. The incident seriously frightened the Romans and received noisy publicity in the press. The iron line ceased to be used, and the tunnel itself was walled up. Later, during World War II, a bomb hit it, which irrevocably destroyed the entire structure.

In the monastery near the Casta Sole estate there is an ancient chronicle that tells about a giant iron cart that once rolled up to the entrance of the holy monastery and belched clouds of black acrid smoke. The terrible sight caused panic among the monastery servants, and when several clean-shaven and strangely dressed people came out of the devilish machine, all the monks began to read prayers in chorus and ask for the intercession of the Virgin Mary. Thanks to God's powers, the vision disappeared, and the fact of its appearance was recorded in the chronicle book.

The medical records of psychiatrist José Saxino, who practiced in Mexico City in the 1840s, describe amazing story about how more than a hundred people were admitted to his hospital with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Moreover, all the people stated clearly and confidently that they were Italians and came from Rome by train. How could they get there? railway from Italy to Mexico across the ocean was incomprehensible, so the doctor had no choice but to place everyone in a mental hospital. The further biography of the unfortunate “crazy” is unknown.

In the fall of 1955, Pyotr Ustimenko, who worked as a switchman near Balaklava and joined the service, almost turned gray when he saw a train running towards the barrier. The locomotive was not running according to schedule, but this was not what terrified the poor man - the unannounced “guest” was rushing where there were no rails. In appearance, it was a pre-war train consisting of three small carriages without lighting. Crossing himself, the switchman lowered the barrier, and the train disappeared into the darkness as quickly as it had appeared.

You may or may not believe in the mysterious journeys of the Italian ghost train, but real facts, captured in chronicles and described by eyewitnesses of our time, make us think - maybe all this is true?

Tricks of scientists

Some scientists who admit the possibility of time travel approach the issue not only from a theoretical point of view, but also try to obtain real facts to confirm their scientific hypotheses. From the outside, their actions often look funny and strange, but, you see, “he who does not take risks,….”

One of the most famous physicists of our time has repeatedly published statistical observations about temporary teleportation and even said that he knew how to design a time machine. In 2009, he conducted an interesting experiment, which, alas, was never successful. They organized a party for tourists from the future, and the trick of the experience was that no announcements were given about the upcoming meeting. That is, according to the scientist’s idea, someone in the future was supposed to find out about this event and go on a time travel, jumping over N number of years (or centuries).

Stephen Hawking is not the only one who has tried to hook tourists from the future. A few years before his fake party, Amal Dorai, a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts, had already tried something similar, deciding to call an entire time travel convention as bait. Only he did not act secretly, but, on the contrary, with maximum PR scope. The scientist launched a large advertising campaign involving top newspaper publications such as the Washington Post and the New York Times. But not a single “walker” from the future announced the fact of his real existence, but in the journalistic environment, the ambitious scientist was trolled to great effect.

Michigan Technological University researchers Teresa Willson and Robert Nemiroff decided to use the Internet as a tool to test their hypotheses. According to their version, time travelers had to leave evidence of their presence through some kind of posts and publications - in other words, appear on the network and post facts from the future that have not yet happened in the present. Having searched the length and breadth of Google, Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms, desperate scientists did not find anything suspicious that could attract their attention. But they themselves came under the radar of television cameras and were notably ridiculed by more than one entertainment show.

Time travel through the eyes of filmmakers

Not only writers, but also film directors love to explore the vastness of the universe in search of adventure. Sometimes such fantastic stories are born in their wild creative minds that one can only wonder how multifaceted and unpredictable human imagination can be. Does anyone remember these films?

"Back to the Future". Martin McFly has become one of the most memorable time travelers and a favorite of millions of viewers. With the light hand of his half-crazy friend-inventor Doc, he manages to travel back in time and not only look at his young parents from the outside, but also get into a real love triangle with their participation.

It was not easy for him to be thrown into the future with no less exciting and dynamic events. “Is this possible in reality?” – a question involuntarily arises while watching the trilogy. Not a fact, but more than 20 years have passed since the film was released, and it’s interesting to watch it, even when you already know all the scenes and dialogues of the actors by heart.

"Groundhog Day" The Inimitable, who embodied the gloomy and sarcastic Phil Connors on the screen, finds himself hostage to the same day, in which he stews from morning to night and slowly goes crazy.

And only a happy coincidence of circumstances pulls him out of this vicious circle (not without love spells, of course), preventing him from completely turning into a schizophrenic. Despite the comedy format, the movie opens up another facet of what time travel can be like and what it can lead to in the end.

"12 Monkeys" The film takes place in the future, and its picture is far from idealistic. The year is 2035. Almost 99% of the population was destroyed by a monstrous virus, which literally only a few were able to resist. The lucky survivors are forced to hide underground, turning into half-living dead, not knowing what will happen to them tomorrow.

The task of saving humanity falls to the lot of criminal James Cole, who voluntarily decided to go on a dangerous journey through time and collect all the facts and evidence to help scientists solve the mystery of the mysterious virus.

"Time loop". Fulfill an order to kill yourself, who arrived from the future? This can only happen in a dream nightmare, but no - it turns out that the scenario works in reality, when the mafia gets access to a time machine and begins to carry out its dark deeds with its help.

It falls to the lot to figure everything out and turn back time - where would we be without him, this professional world saver. The action film is watched in one breath even by those who skeptically deny the very possibility of movement in space.

Believing in time travel or supporting the company of skeptics is a personal choice for everyone, but you must agree that the topic is very fascinating. At least from the perspective of “let’s talk...”.

To get to both the past and the future. Although many have the audacity to disagree with the beacon and offer their own theories. However, they are all dubious because they have not been tested; there is no documentary evidence of their success, and the scientists themselves are not sure. Everyone knows that this is possible, they just haven’t decided how.

And in general, the idea of ​​​​traveling in time is a very strange thing. How many temporary collapses await us, plus the emergence of alternative universes in which we will be confused, like mental patients in straitjackets. And is it worth traveling to the past if 6,000 Earth years will pass upon returning to Earth, whereas the journey took no more than a day? Deal with the present before you spoil the past. After all, if it weren’t for Hitler and World War II, most of our grandparents would hardly have married each other. There were all sorts of situations, romances at the front and evacuation. And there wasn't much choice. Well, God bless him, this is not about that. We are talking about what is not written in the Bible.

1. Punch the future with your forehead

Here is the most primitive of all theories: you need to run so fast until you reach and punch the future with your forehead. And the strangest thing is: in fact, this statement is absolutely true. The faster you walk, the further you will fly.

Many experiments have been devoted to this. For example, in 1971 an experiment was conducted. Without getting too technical, let's say briefly: the research group flew around the Earth until time travel occurred. No, for real. They loaded the plane with atomic clocks and flew east until they were back where they started. When the researchers landed, the clock on Earth was 60 nanoseconds ahead of the airplane clock. In other words, the clock on the plane has been effectively moved 60 nanoseconds into the future. The researchers then flew in a different direction. This time, the aviation clock was 270 nanoseconds ahead of the earth's clock.

This is explained by the fact that the clocks on Earth were not stationary, because they were on the rotating surface of the planet. The clocks on the plane flying west moved slower, so everything on Earth slowed down in comparison. It turns out that the famous scene where Superman flies around the Earth and turns back time is just a figment of the scriptwriter's sick brain.

By the way, consider this type of time travel in our pocket. Your phone is connected to GPS satellites, which have to be adjusted for slowdown (after all, satellites have their own time course). If you don't do this, the navigation system will take you to a crack den in the next area instead of the nearest KFC.

Let's assume that a car has already been invented that actually allows you to travel in this way. We reach speed and make a leap not by 60 nanoseconds, but by 60 years. A few minutes or a few hours around the planet, and then boom! - bright future!

But will you be able to live in this future, where everyone has forgotten you, and if they remember you, it’s only as an asshole who endlessly spins around the Earth?

2. Dense, holey objects of comic proportions

If you've seen Interstellar, then the essence of the theory should be clear. The closer you are to a large, dense object, the slower time passes. For you.

Massive time travel has already been observed. Scientists fired a huge laser 10,000 kilometers upward. Sometimes science has no other choice but to shoot mischief from a mega-gun into space. But the experiment confirmed that time really moves with at different speeds depending on the distance to gravity.

And what did this shot do? Nothing in Once again confirmed the theory that time passes much more slowly near a supermassive object. Closer to Earth, the passage of time is not as fast as in the layers of the stratosphere. So, if someone suddenly decides to use the mass of Jupiter for travel, then good luck. It is enough to compress the mass of the planet to the size of a tin can, and then travel will become 2 times faster. And there is no need to fly to, which is not only supermassive, but is also a real galactic time machine: time around it flows very slowly.

The strangest part of this theory is that a similar journey is already happening to you right now. In fact, it happens everywhere, not just in the magical horizons of some mysterious black hole on the other side of the galaxy. The Earth's core moves through time slower than people standing at a bus stop in Makhachkala. When you stand, your butt ages slower than your face (although it would be better the other way around). We don't need a machine to travel through time. We just need something huge nearby, like Milonov’s ego or the carcass of Stas Baretsky. Although, even if such a machine, using a monstrous mass, is created, a crowd of protesters will instantly appear, fearing a cosmic collapse and that the Earth’s axis will shift, and Snoop Dogg will become president.

3. Wormholes and Krasnikov pipes

You cannot travel in space and time faster than the speed of light, but with Krasnikov tubes this problem is instantly solved. You just cut a tunnel through space and time and wander back and forth, like one of those green pipes in " Super Mario" Here, too, there is an entrance, an exit, and most importantly, the journey goes very quickly, regardless of the distance, so you are unlikely to have time to get bored.

Such “wormholes” are not a physical object, but a distortion of space and time. Schematically, it looks like this: two layers of space bend in a certain place until they touch each other, like panties stuck in the ass.

The main advantages of pipes are that they can be created artificially, and the biggest advantage is that the traveler returns there exactly at the time from which he began the journey. But remember: by cutting a window to new stars 3,000 light years away, you risk getting into an intergalactic war.

In 1993, University of Wellington professor Matt Visser noted that two wormhole entrances with induced time differences could not be combined without generating a quantum field and gravitational effects that would cause the wormholes to collapse, or be repelled from each other. Simply put, the mass will increase, which will only destroy the unfortunate pipes. In addition, this method of transportation, in fact, does not violate the so-called universal speed limit - the maximum speed of light - because the ship itself does not move faster than light. A wormhole shortens the path not only in space, but also in time.

4. Mexican bubbles

Traveling faster than light is as realistic as milking a female unicorn and feeding that milk to a malevolent leprechaun. So stop thinking about it - it's stupid and unrealistic.

That's what everyone thought, until in the 90s, Mexican scientist Miguel Alcubierre thought about a bubble that compresses the space directly in front of it and expands it behind it. All it takes is tons negative energy(we are not talking about envy, murder, apathy, speeches of Vladimir Solovyov). The idea was purely theoretical and even fantastic. Given the existence of negative energy, moving a bubble with a diameter of 200 meters would require energy equivalent to the mass of Jupiter. You can't get by with the Solovyovs here - you'll have to involve Kurginyan.

However, in the last few years, modifications of his idea have been proposed, in which the “bubble” was replaced by a torus, and negative energy turned out to be completely unnecessary. In this case, calculations show the need for energy contained in just hundreds of kilograms of mass. There was even an experiment that proved that space is perfectly curved even without negative energy. But there is one problem: the bubble is sensitive, like a virgin in his first experience with a woman, and too many extraneous facts can lead him astray.

5. A cylinder in some galaxy

What is a Tipler cylinder? Somewhere in space, roughly to the left of Betelgeuse, there is a rotating cylinder. You take a ship and go there happily. When you get close enough to the surface of the cylinder (the space around it will be mostly deformed), you will need to go around it several times and return to Earth. It is reminiscent of a Buryat shamanic ritual, but with space things are not always simple. But you will arrive in the past. How far depends on how many times you orbit the cylinder. Even if it seems like yours own time moves forward as usual, as long as you go around the cylinder, outside the distorted space you will inevitably move into the past. It's like running up a downward escalator.

All that remains is to find this cylinder. Apparently, this is something very big and long, like... the films of Nikita Mikhalkov. But so far no one has seen them. Neither in a telescope, nor in all other instruments. They asked the astronauts - they didn’t see it either. The cylinder is a hypothetical thing, verified from Einstein’s equations, and therefore no one knows how this journey will turn out.

In this post I will present some of the most mysterious and inexplicable cases associated with space-time anomalies, officially documented at different times.

Scientists have been able to prove that it is possible to travel through time... Thus, according to the research of Israeli scientist Amos Ori, time travel is scientifically substantiated. And at present, world science already has the necessary theoretical knowledge to be able to claim that in theory it is possible to create a time machine. The mathematical calculations of the Israeli scientist were published in one of the specialized publications. Ory concludes that to create a time machine, gigantic gravitational forces must be present. The scientist based his research on the conclusions made back in 1947 by his colleague, Kurt Gödel, the essence of which is that the theory of relativity does not deny the existence of certain models of space and time. According to Ori's calculations, the ability to travel into the past arises if a curved space-time structure is shaped into a funnel or ring. At the same time, each new round This structure will take a person further and further into the past. Moreover, according to the scientist, gravitational forces, necessary for such temporary travel, are probably located near the so-called black holes, the first mention of which dates back to XVIII century. One of the scientists (Pierre Simon Laplace) put forward a theory about the existence of cosmic bodies that are invisible to the human eye, but have such high gravity that not a single light ray is reflected from them. The beam must overcome the speed of light in order to be reflected from such cosmic body, however, it is known that it is impossible to overcome it. The boundaries of black holes are called event horizons. Every object that reaches it falls inside, and from the outside it is not visible what is happening inside the hole. Probably, the laws of physics cease to apply in it, time and space coordinates change places. Thus, spatial travel turns into time travel. Despite this very detailed and significant research, there is no evidence that time travel is real. However, no one has been able to prove that this is just a fiction. At the same time, over the entire history of mankind, a huge amount of facts have been accumulated that indicate that time travel is still real. Thus, in the ancient chronicles of the era of the pharaohs, the Middle Ages, and then the French Revolution and world wars, the appearance of strange machines, people and mechanisms was recorded.

In 1897, a very unusual incident occurred on the streets of the Siberian town of Tobolsk. At the end of August, a man of strange appearance and equally strange behavior was detained there. The man's last name is Krapivin. When he was taken to the police station and began to be interrogated, everyone was quite surprised by the information that the man shared: according to him, he was born in 1965 in Angarsk, and worked as a PC operator. The man could not explain his appearance in the city in any way, but according to him, shortly before that he felt a strong headache, after which he lost consciousness. When he woke up, Krapivin saw an unfamiliar town. For inspection strange man A doctor was called to the police station and diagnosed “silent insanity.” After this, Krapivin was placed in a local insane asylum.

In May 1828, a teenager was caught in Nuremberg. Despite a thorough investigation and 49 volumes of the case, as well as portraits sent throughout Europe, it turned out to be impossible to find out his identity, just like the places where the boy came from. He was given the name Kaspar Hauser, and he had incredible abilities and habits: the boy saw perfectly in the dark, but did not know what fire or milk was. He died from an assassin's bullet, and his identity remained a mystery. However, there were suggestions that before appearing in Germany, the boy lived in a completely different world.

In 1901, two Englishwomen went to Paris for the Easter holidays. The women were delighted with the architecture. During the tour Palace of Versailles they decided to independently explore the most secluded corners, and in particular, Marie Antoinette’s house, which is located on the territory of the palace. But since women did not have detailed plan, then they are simply lost. Soon they met two men who were dressed in 18th century costumes. The tourists asked for directions, but instead of helping, the men looked at them strangely and pointed in an uncertain direction. After some time, the women met strange people again. This time it was a young woman and a girl, also dressed in old-fashioned clothes. This time the women did not suspect anything unusual until they came across another group of people dressed in ancient clothes. These people spoke an unfamiliar dialect of French. Soon the women realized that their own appearance caused amazement and bewilderment of those present. However, one of the men pointed them in the right direction. When the tourists reached their destination, they were amazed not by the house itself, but by the appearance of the lady who was sitting next to it and making sketches in an album. She was very beautiful, in a powdered wig, long dress, which was worn by aristocrats of the 18th century. And only then did the English women finally realize that they had gone back in time. Soon the landscape changed, the vision disappeared, and the women swore to each other not to tell anyone about their journey. However, later, in 1911, they jointly wrote a book about their experiences.

In 1930, a country doctor named Edward Moon was returning home after visiting his patient, Lord Edward Carson, who lived in Kent. The lord was very ill, so the doctor visited him daily and knew the area very well. One day, Moon, going outside the estate of his patient, noticed that the area looked a little different than before. Instead of a road there was a dirt path that led through deserted meadows. While the doctor was trying to understand what happened, he met a strange man who was walking a little ahead. He was dressed somewhat old-fashioned and carried an antique musket. The man also noticed the doctor and stopped, clearly in amazement. When Moon turned to look at the estate, the mysterious wanderer had disappeared and the entire landscape had returned to normal.

During the battles for the liberation of Estonia, which were fought throughout 1944, near the Gulf of Finland, a tank reconnaissance battalion commanded by Troshin came across a strange group of cavalrymen dressed in historical uniforms in the forest. When the cavalrymen saw the tanks, they fled. As a result of the pursuit, one of the strange people was detained. He spoke exclusively French, so he was mistaken for a soldier of the Allied army. The cavalryman was taken to headquarters, but everything he told shocked both the translator and the officers. The cavalryman claimed that he was a cuirassier of the Napoleonic army, and that its remnants were trying to get out of encirclement after retreating from Moscow. The soldier also said that he was born in 1772. The next day, the mysterious cavalryman was taken away by special department officers...

One NATO pilot told reporters about a strange story that happened to him. It all happened in May 1999. The plane took off from a NATO base in Holland on a mission to monitor the actions of parties conflicting in the Yugoslav war. As the plane flew over Germany, the pilot suddenly saw a group of fighters heading straight towards him. But they were all somehow strange. Having flown closer, the pilot saw that it was a German Messerschmitt. The pilot did not know what to do, because his plane was not equipped with weapons. However, he soon saw that a German fighter was targeted Soviet fighter. The vision lasted a few seconds, then everything disappeared. There is other evidence of penetrations into the past that occurred in the air.

Thus, in 1976, Soviet pilot V. Orlov said that he personally saw ground military operations being conducted under the wing of the MiG-25 aircraft he piloted. If the pilot's descriptions are to be believed, he was an eyewitness to the battle that took place in 1863 near Gettysburg.

In 1985, one of the NATO pilots, taking off from a NATO base located in Africa, saw a very strange picture: below, instead of a desert, he saw savannahs with a lot of trees and dinosaurs grazing on the lawns. Soon the vision disappeared.

In 1986, the Soviet pilot A. Ustimov, during a mission, discovered that he was over Ancient Egypt. According to him, he saw one pyramid that was completely built, as well as the foundations of others, around which many people were swarming.

At the end of the 80s of the last century, captain of the second rank, military sailor Ivan Zalygin found himself in a very interesting and mysterious story. It all started when his diesel submarine was caught in a severe thunderstorm. The captain decided to surface, but as soon as the ship took the surface position, the watchman reported that an unidentified craft was directly ahead. It turned out to be a rescue boat, in which Soviet sailors found a military man in the uniform of a Japanese sailor from the Second World War. During a search of this man, documents were found that were issued back in 1940. As soon as the incident was reported, the captain received an order to proceed to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, where counterintelligence representatives were already waiting for the Japanese sailor. The team members signed a non-disclosure agreement for a period of ten years.

A mysterious story happened in 1952 in New York. In November, an unknown man was hit and killed on Broadway. His body was taken to the morgue. The police were surprised that the young man was dressed in antique clothes, and in his trouser pocket they found the same antique watch and a knife made at the beginning of the century. However, the surprise of the police knew no bounds when they saw a certificate issued about 8 decades ago, as well as business cards indicating the profession (travelling salesman). After checking the address, it was possible to establish that the street indicated in the documents has not existed for about half a century. As a result of the investigation, it was possible to find out that the deceased was the father of one of the centenarians of New York, who disappeared about 70 years ago during a regular walk. To prove her words, the woman presented a photo: it had the date on it - 1884, and the photo itself depicted a man in the same strange suit who died under the wheels of a car.

In 1954, after civil unrest in Japan, a man was detained during passport control. All his documents were in order, except that they were issued by the non-existent state of Tuared. The man himself claimed that his country is located on the African continent between French Sudan and Mauritania. Moreover, he was amazed when he saw that Algeria was in the place of his Tuared. True, the Tuareg tribe did live there, but it never had sovereignty.

In 1980, a young man disappeared in Paris after his car was covered in a bright glowing ball of fog. A week later he appeared in the same place where he had disappeared, but at the same time he thought that he had been absent for only a few minutes.

In 1985, on the first day of the new school year Second-grader Vlad Heineman played war with his friends during recess. To throw the “enemy” off the scent, he dived into the nearest gateway. However, when the boy jumped out a few seconds later, he did not recognize the school yard - it was completely empty. The boy rushed to the school, but was stopped by his stepfather, who had been looking for him for a long time to take him home. As it turned out, more than an hour and a half had passed since the moment he decided to hide. But Vlad himself did not remember what happened to him during this time.

No less strange story happened to the Englishman Peter Williams. According to him, he got into some kind of strange place during a thunderstorm. After being struck by lightning, he lost consciousness, and when he came to, he discovered that he was lost. Walking along a narrow road, he managed to stop the car and ask for help. The man was taken to the hospital. After some time, health young man got better, and he could already go for a walk. But since his clothes were completely ruined, his roommate lent him his. When Peter went out into the garden, he realized that he was in the place where the thunderstorm had overtaken him. Williams wanted to thank the medical staff and a kind neighbor. He managed to find a hospital, but no one there recognized him, and all the clinic staff looked much older. There were no records of Peter’s admission in the registration book, nor was there any roommate. When the man remembered the trousers, he was told that they were an outdated model that had not been produced for more than 20 years!

In 1991, one railway worker saw that from the side of the old branch, where there were not even rails left, a train was coming: a steam locomotive and three cars. It was very strange-looking, and clearly not made in Russia. The train passed the worker and went in the direction in which Sevastopol was located. Information about this incident was even published in one of the publications in 1992. It contained information that back in 1911, a pleasure train left Rome with a large number of passengers. He walked into thick fog and then drove into a tunnel. He was never seen again. The tunnel itself was blocked with stones. Perhaps this would have been forgotten if the train had not appeared in the Poltava region. Many scientists then put forward the version that this train somehow managed to pass through time. Some of them associate this ability with the fact that almost at the same time as the train set off, a powerful earthquake occurred in Italy, as a result of which large cracks appeared not only on the surface of the earth, but also in the chronal field.

In 1994, the crew of a Norwegian fishing vessel in the Atlantic northern waters a ten-month-old girl was discovered. She was very cold, but she was alive. The girl was tied to a lifebuoy that had the inscription “Titanic” on it. It is worth noting that the baby was found exactly where the famous ship sank in 1912. Of course, it was simply impossible to believe in the reality of what was happening, but when they raised the documents, they actually found a 10-month-old child on the Titanic passenger list. There is other evidence associated with this ship. Thus, some sailors claimed that they saw the ghost of the sinking Titanic. According to some scientists, the ship fell into a so-called time trap, in which people can disappear without a trace and then appear in a completely unexpected place. The list of disappearances can be continued for a very, very long time.

In medieval Europe, those places where space-time anomalies occurred were called “devil’s traps.” So, on the road leading to Dresden, there is a large boulder, in the middle of which there was a large hole. Outwardly, this stone resembled a gate. And if you believe the Dresden Chronicles, which claim that any traveler who passed through this hole in the stone disappeared without a trace, then it is quite possible to assume that this is the “Gate of Time”. In 1546, the city magistrate decided to dig a large hole next to this boulder, after which the stone was dumped into this hole and covered with earth. But that didn't help either. And although the stone was no longer there, people periodically disappeared in its place. Sicilian chronicles for 1753 tell that in the small settlement of Tacona, in the courtyard of an abandoned castle, an artisan named Alberto Gordoni literally disappeared into thin air. Moreover, this happened in front of astonished witnesses. Almost three decades later, the man appeared in the same place where he disappeared. He was extremely surprised by people’s questions, but said that he had found himself in some strange tunnel white, at the end of which a bright light was visible, and the man walked towards this light. And, as it seemed to the artisan himself, literally after a few minutes he managed to get back to the castle courtyard. The man was examined by doctors, and they came to the conclusion that the man was not crazy, but he was not lying either. Then local residents decided to check the veracity of Gordoni's words. When they all arrived at the place of disappearance, the artisan took another step and disappeared. But no one saw him again. Then the priest ordered to fence off the cursed place with a high stone wall, and then sprinkled it with holy water.

There is a belief that the gates of time open exclusively under the influence of natural elements - thunderstorms, earthquakes, storms and tsunamis. One of the first written mentions of this anomaly dates back to the 12th century. It is contained in the “Pantheon” of the Italian Bishop Godfrey of Viterbsk. In his work, the priest described one story that happened to the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Mathieu. The monks on the ship were heading to the Pillars of Hercules, but they were caught in a terrible storm. When the storm subsided, the passengers and crew of the ship saw that the ship was off the coast of some island. On the island there was a fortress made of pure gold, and all the paths were lined with gold tiles. Already when the day was setting, the monks met two elders. But they met the strangers very unfriendly and, after listening to the monks’ stories about their misadventures, told them to go back, since one day on the island is equal to three hundred years on Earth. The monks listened to the advice of the elders, quickly boarded the ship and sailed home. Three weeks later, the monks arrived in their home harbor, but it was very different from the place they left several months ago. In addition, the people who surrounded them were dressed very strangely and unusually. When the traveling monks arrived at their native monastery, they did not recognize either the abbot or the inhabitants. When the abbot listened to the story of the monks, he looked through the archives, in which he found the names of all the travelers. But it turned out that the note about their sailing was made three hundred years ago. By the end of that day, all the monks who had endured such a strange journey died.

Leningrad region. In September 1990, idle Soviet engineer Nikolai went into the forest to pick mushrooms. In the forest he was enveloped in a thick bluish fog. Afraid of getting lost, he went back to the road where he had left his old “Cossack”, but when he got out onto the road he did not recognize a familiar place. Instead of a broken dirt road, there was an asphalt highway along which unusual cars were driving. There was a parked car nearby, and next to it was a man and a woman. Nikolai approached them to say that he was lost and ask for directions. The woman took out an atlas from the car on the title page of which it was written in large letters “2022 map Leningrad region". The man took out of his pocket a small black flat device on which a map was also visible. After a long conversation, it turned out that he was in the right place but ended up in the future in 2024, which Soviet Union fell apart, that difficult times would come, but then everything would work out. The man persistently invited him to stay. Nikolai replied that he had a family and two children and he wanted to go back to 1990. The strange couple then suggested that he quickly return to the fog before it dissipates. Nikolai ran with all his might back into the forest. Having found an unusual fog, he passed through it and after a while, having gotten a little lost, he came out to his “Cossack”.

The list of disappearances can be continued for a very, very long time. There is no point in mentioning all of them, because most of them are similar to each other. Almost always, time travel is irreversible, but sometimes it turns out that people who have disappeared for some time then return safely. Unfortunately, many of them end up in insane asylums, because no one wants to believe their stories, and they themselves do not really understand whether what happened to them is true.

Scientists have been trying to solve the problem of temporary movements for several centuries. It may well happen that soon this problem will become an objective reality, and not the plot of science fiction books and films.