Time Travel: An Impossibility?

David Calvert. It is a widely held belief that each of us travels in time every day at the speed of one second per second and that it is a rate of progress that never alters, and is a universal and immutable fact. However, it is a presumption based on ignorance. Time can and does indeed change. A young child, for example, experiences time at a different rate to that of an adult. This subjective time appears to depend on where and when you are. Einsteins theory of relativity shows us that real, physical, measurable time acts in the same way .Twin Paradox

According to the relativistic theory, if we take two perfectly synchronised clocks and put one close to a massive object, such as a planet, and the other a greater distance from the planet, the nearest clock will tick slower because the massive gravity distorts the flow of space-time. The resultant effect is known as the twin paradox. If one twin moves to a higher altitude than his sibling, he will age much faster. This effect has been confirmed in several classical experiments.

Einsteins theories of general and special relativity however only allow for time travel into the future and not the past and it is currently unknown as to whether the laws of physics would allow a time traveller to visit our past. Having said that, it would appear that there is evidence to suggest that our future scientists have overcome this problem and have indeed travelled back in time, and that UFOs may well be time machines as opposed to extraterrestrial spacecraft. Overcoming Spatial Displacement.

The ghostly legions of Roman soldiers witnessed in York, England, are a prime example of displacement. They seemed to be walking partially embedded in the ground. This is probably due to the fact that the ground level during their time, was lower than it is in ours. The same phenomenon is also witnessed when they walk through solid objects such as walls and closed doors, which may not have existed in their time. It would seem that the further through time you travel, either backwards or forwards, the worse this displacement becomes. The unwary time traveller could well end up in the middle of a mountain or the bottom of an ocean that didnt exist in their time. As you can no doubt appreciate any physical time machine could not travel whilst remaining on the ground. They would have to be well away from the surface in order to safely move through time, and where better than beyond the Earths atmosphere. No material object, however, can travel at light speed because, as Einstein and Lorentz established, it would of necessity become immaterial a radiation energy wave pattern. It would vanish and no longer be visible to our senses. Like all quantum mechanical particles it would have the ability to be a wave form or solid according to operational circumstances. In effect, a time machine would behave in the same manner as many UFOs appear to; appearing suddenly and vanishing in the blink of an eye. Furthermore, some UFOs seem to circumvent space and time. Unlike conventional aircraft many cannot be seen whilst making a journey from one spatial coordinate to another. Historical Records and Artefacts. If time travel is possible, then why havent we come across any evidence of it? It may come as a surprise to many that such evidence does exist and can be found in ancient historical records, cave paintings and drawings, and archaeological deposits. Historical Documentation Tellingly, ancient historical records seem to show that apart from a few basic kinds, UFOs have changed little in their appearances and capabilities. If the extraterrestrial hypothesis is to be believed then this should not be the case. We should see a progressive change in their technology if they inhabit the same time line as us. If, however, UFOs come from many different future eras and each one is capable of journeying to any point in time in our past we would see the same basic types from one historical era to another. There would be no trace of any scientific advancement, as seems to be the case. Written Evidence Written documents of strange objects in the sky are numerous and date back centuries before the first flying machines were ever built and, like their modern-day counterparts, were a worldwide phenomenon. Descriptions of these strange anomalies bear a striking resemblance to present-day UFOs. One of the earliest sightings dates back to ancient Egypt, circa 1504 BC, and was written during the reign of the pharaoh Thutmose III. It bears an uncanny resemblance to the events that took place in Guadalajara, Mexico, on June 10, 2004. Even the Bible contains accounts of strange

encounters with UFO-like objects. Click on the link below to read further on such cases. http://www.buzzle.com/articles/influence-of-extraterrestrial-ufos-in-the-history-ofmankind1.html Cave Paintings.

One of the most extraordinary cave paintings of apparent UFOs comes from Niaux, in the French Pyrenees. It shows two domed UFOs side by side, one of which is apparently giving off a trail of sparks as reported in many modern-day sightings. It is estimated that this picture is around 14,000 years old and this is not an isolated example. There are literally dozens of images like these, so we cannot simply dismiss them out of hand. Have ancient artists depicted some of the earliest temporal sojourns of the same time travellers we see today in our skies? Geological Evidence:

The Fisher Canyon Imprint. This footprint was laid down in Nevada limestone some 200 million years ago. It is clearly the imprint of a shoe with a leather sole. By any normal definition this is utterly impossible as this was long before the emergence of mankind on Earth. Nor is this the only footprint to have been discovered that predates humanity by millions of years. The footprints, particularly the barefooted variety, are human as the following image clearly shows.

. It has been postulated that lost human super-civilisations may be responsible for these artefacts that span the eons of time. Whilst it is true that written and physical evidence exists that some advanced human civilisations may have preceded ours, those civilisations would have existed no more than 100, 000 years ago. None could have existed 260 million years ago, which is the age given for some of these footprints. One of the most incredible finds by far comes from a rock that dates back 500 million years. It was discovered within a piece of Utah limestone. Beneath the shoe cast a squashed trilobite, a small prehistoric marine anthropod, was discovered. It had apparently been crushed by the individual who had walked over it. Trilobites became extinct long before the emergence of even the most primitive ancestors of mankind walked the Earth. In 1987 palaeontologist Jerry MacDonald found a variety of fossilised tracks laid down in the Permian strata. Among them was the undeniable print of a naked human foot. The Permian strata dates from 290 to 248 million years ago many millions of years before man came into existence. Whilst the foregoing anomalies are highly problematic and difficult to come to terms with, especially within the scientific community, there are yet other artefacts that are even more intractable. A short list of these finds follows. In 1901 STRAND magazine published an article on the discovery of a coin, dated 1397, found inside a 300 million-year-old coal seam.

 A gold chain, complete with cast, was accidentally discovered in a lump of coal millions of years old when it was dropped before being put onto the fire by a woman from Illinois, USA. The discovery of aluminium alloy screws, dated as being 100 million years old, and the list goes on. Several books have been written by author and researcher Michael Cremo cataloguing aberrant discoveries made over the last 200 years. He has documented them with eyewitness accounts, original newspaper articles and unaltered photographs. Many of these artifacts are currently gathering dust in the basements of some of the worlds most illustrious natural history museums. There can be only three possible answers to this conundrum: That we have been, and still are, being visited by extraterrestrials. That our understanding and the history and origins of mankind is completely wrong and there have been many advanced human societies that had once existed over tens of hundreds of millions of years, but eventually died out. Or that we have been visited by time travellers surveying our prehistoric past, leaving behind unintentional evidence of their temporal sojourns. ET v Future Man

The visionary author and science fiction writer H. G. Wells wrote an essay titled The Man of the Year Million (1893) in which he explored a barely conceivable future, and

how humanity might look physically. Above is a representation of his description. Look familiar to you? This iconic figure, with its bulbous head and spindly body, is what Wells envisioned man would look like after 1,000,000 years of evolutionary changes. Extraterrestrial hypothesists have catalogued this species of aliens as Greys, due to their skin pigmentation. They are believed to originate in the Pleiades star system. However, there may well be a cultural, rather than cosmological explanation for these so-called interplanetary entities. Wells future vision of Mankind might be closer to the truth, with regards to the Greys terrestrial origins. The debate as to why many of these entities look so terrestrial continues in ufological circles. Anatomically, they are as close to humans as it is possible to get. Moreover, they even speak the same languages as we do. They even appear to act and think as we do. For some ufologists and scientists this flies in the face of reason. A truly alien species, they believe, would be nothing like us, anatomically, or culturally, because their evolutionary paths would be entirely different to that of our own. If we apply the time travel hypothesis, however, these apparent inconsistencies suddenly make some kind of sense. So, is time travel an impossibility? I personally think not. The dream of powered flight was believed to be unachievable not so long ago. However, in that short space of time we have not only attained it but have travelled to the Moon and back and have even sent spacecraft out beyond the confines of our solar system. Are we perhaps witnessing the future fruits and attainments of our progenitors scientific achievements as they traverse the barriers of space and time, leaving in their wake tantalising clues of their temporal journeys? The evidence certainly seems to hint at it.