Has A Time Vortex Been Found?

Pravda (with Editorial from Farshores - the James Donahue Collumn) ^ | March 24, 2004 | Pravada / James Donahue

[vannrox]

A disturbing story in the March 1 issue of Pravda suggests that the U. S. Government is working on the discovery of a mysterious point over the South Pole that may be a passageway backward in time.

According to the article, some American and British scientists working in Antarctica on January 27, 1995, noticed a spinning gray fog in the sky over the pole. U. S. physicist Mariann McLein said at first they believed it to be some kind of sandstorm. But after a while they noticed that the fog did not change its form and did not move so they decided to investigate.

They sent up a weather balloon, at the end of a rope, with some equipment attached. To their surprise the balloon immediately disappeared after entering the fog, although the rope hung there, as if still attached. After a few minutes the team pulled on the rope and the balloon reappeared. When they brought it back to the ground they were surprised to find that a chronometer on the balloon displayed the date as January 27, 1965, exactly 30 years earlier.

The team repeated the experiment several times, and each time the chronometer's date changed to the earlier time. The phenomenon was reported to the White House under the name "Time Gate."

According to the story the CIA and FBI are fighting to gain control over this project, which seems to be a link to a tunnel that permits penetration into the past. Experiments have advanced to the point of actually sending people through the rift. Their safe return is an unknown.

Of course the Russians are watching all of this with great interest. The story talked about various Russian experiments with time machines and theories about the possibility of slowing or speeding up time.

Russian author Gennady Belimov published an article in which he described experiments led by Vadim Chernobrov, the inventor of a time machine in 1987. Chernobrov claims his machine can slow or speed up the course of time by tinkering with the Earth's magnetic field. His biggest success was the slowing of time for 1.5 seconds.

While all of this sounds a bit like one of Grimm's Fairy Tales, I have to give the report some level of credibility. I know that time does not seem to exist in the spiritual or astral realm outside of our three-dimensional existence on this planet. Time appears to be an invention of third dimensional reality to allow humans to keep their bearings as we proceed through the brief life spans allowed in these bodies.

One of the problems remote viewers have is acquiring time lines for future or past events that they examine. For example, a viewer might foresee a major catastrophe like a volcanic eruption, airplane crash or hurricane, but pinning down an exact moment when it will occur is extremely difficult. To deal with this problem, Aaron C. Donahue spent years developing an advanced form of viewing, which he calls the acquisition and practical application of non-historical data.

Even with his new technique, Donahue has trouble pinning down exact dates of future events. For example, he said he foresees some kind of explosive thermal event occurring at Yellowstone National Park sometime this year and thinks it might happen this spring. But he can't give us an exact date.

As an old science fiction buff, I have had years to think and read about the consequences of human travel through time. Traveling forward in time would be strange enough. And we might be able to do something like that without upsetting the balance of things.

But if we could go backwards, even under the strictest of conditions, it is possible that by a single act, we could alter the entire course of history. Simply carrying an evolved bacteria or a genetically modified virus on our shirt sleeve into the distant past might launch a world-wide epidemic that would kill millions of people, some of whom would be the thinkers, inventers and composers of some of the great human offerings of that period.

That the CIA and/or FBI are tinkering with time travel is most distressing. The covert operations they perform could take on a whole new meaning if they are ever given the opportunity to travel into the past and make a few adjustments in world events.

What is troubling is that we have no way of knowing that they aren't already doing it. For those of us in the daily stream of world events, a shift in history might wipe out thousands of people and change entire governments. But for us, the change would go into our memory of events as they happened during our lives. That good friend we went bowling with last night might disappear before the next morning and we would not notice his loss. By the time we awake, the person never existed.

In the past I have thought how time travel, if available to a few of us, would be a most useful tool for saving the looming fate of our dying world. But then what would any of us do, short of going to war with the angelic realm, to make a significant difference?

Putting this tool in the hands of an angelic-Christian driven team of government agents can only mean worse trouble than we have already have. Come to think of it, that kind of time tinkering might explain how things have become as quickly out-of-whack as they currently are.

[redangus]

Final Countdown, a great movie.

[ArrogantBustard]

Dang! Ya beat me to it!

(Teal'c rocks!)

[Joee]

I could swear this first appeared on the editorial page of the Honolulu Advertiser.

[templar]

According to the article, some American and British scientists working in Antarctica on January 27, 1995, noticed a spinning gray fog in the sky over the pole. U. S. physicist Mariann McLein said at first they believed it to be some kind of sandstorm.

How common are sandstorms over the south pole?

[watchin]

If a man goes back in time and murders the inventor of his time machine, then he can't be where he is. What happens?

[Koblenz]

That guy should have put the $800 in a money market account and gone back to 2256 to collect the proceeds. Now THAT kind of haul would make insider trading profits look like chump change!

According to Bankrate.com, Money market funds are currently yielding 1.36%. 252 years of 1.36% yields a factor of 30.087, which would turn your $800 into $24,069.86.

Now, you may say to yourself that interest rates probably wouldn't stay at 1.36%, but would instead probably average somewhere around 4%. 1.04^252 = 19,606.56, which would turn your $800 into $15.685 million.

Of course, if you went 252 years in the future, you couldn't just get dollars and bring them back now, as they'd probably be different looking by then. Instead, you would have to go to an antique store, if they existed, and buy old dollar bills from the present. How much would old coins and dollars cost? Probably 20:1, so you'd have less than a million after all that, and you'd also have to assume no escheating law, and no taxes. But Social Security will be broke by then unless they raise taxes a lot.

[Brett66]

Putting this tool in the hands of an angelic-Christian driven team of government agents can only mean worse trouble than we have already have.

Oh no! Anything but that!

[watchin]

You mean ........ they don't?

[tet68]

That good friend we went bowling with last night might disappear before the next morning and we would not notice his loss. By the time we awake, the person never existed.

Kerry who?

[Koblenz]

I guess that if I am a scientist stationed at the South Pole for God knows how long I would begin to hallucinate too. If this would happen to be true, though, the Democrats would go back and change the 2000 election and we would never know it. In fact, maybe Gore did win and the Bush people went back and changed it. Who would know??

Geez, if Bush went back in time and rigged this election, then he is pretty damned incompetent. If you're going to rig an election, don't rig it by 537 votes.

[harrowup]

I just want to know where the sand came from.

[dpwiener]

In fact, maybe Gore did win and the Bush people went back and changed it. Who would know??

Gore invented time travel, but Bush stole it from him.

[Hank Rearden]

That brings back memories. When I was a kid in the 60s I got to set foot in The Time Tunnel! Friend's mom worked at the studio. A bit of a letdown to discover it wasn't really a tunnel - just a series of white-painted rings on a black background (which you can make out in the photo above).

Also got to watch them film an episode of Lost in Space (the whole cast was in pajamas, for some reason, and Dr. Smith turned out to be a really cool guy who gave snotnosed kids tours of a spaceship), wandered around the Seaview set from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and sat in the original George Barris Batmobile.

I was so excited that day I no doubt peed my pants. Hope I didn't mess up the Batmobile upholstery. Still a vivid memory a hundred years later.

And later, in a shopping mall, I got to sit in the original James Bond Aston Martin. This was the culmination of my life, and everything since then was/is pretty much downhill.

[watchin]

As common as blizzards over the Sahara?

[Steve Eisenberg]

Time has been one of the most complicated and less studied scientific issues

You're kidding, right? Einstein figured out the nature of time and the theories in question (special and general relatively) have been proven over and over. You time travel forward a tiny bit relative to those who do not every time you accelerate, even if you return to your starting point. Time travel is the past is probably a practical impossibility but, if not, would require stupendous quantities of every just to send a wee bit of matter backwards a tiny bit. Such a device would have grave, grave gravitational side effects and could not be hidden.

Go to the public library and check out one of the books at Dewey Decimal number 530.11. "Simply Einstein" by Richard Wolfson is good.

[John Locke]

[dogbyte12]

You all know that I didn't invent a time machine. Disco would not exist in our space time continuum if that occured.

[tet68]

By the way I'm putting my money on Mohammad Ali tonight,
it's a sure thing.

[battousai]

LOL someone's a Stargate fan (and I can't blame you for it either :)

[Fitzcarraldo]

One of the worst science fiction series ever broadcast. I'm amazed it lasted as long as it did.