Persistent Illusion: Time Travellers

We are accustomed to thinking of time as a fourth dimension, though Einstein says space and time are really, when you get down to it, the same thing. As he once said, “The distinction between the past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

This makes us wonder – will it one day be possible to travel in time the same way we do in space? If so, one can only assume that, if time travel exists at some future date, there must be some people from our future walking around today, in our present. There have certainly been plenty of claims to that effect.

SECTIONS

02:21 - Across the Track Blues - The Zanetti Ghost Train
07:01 - August in Versailles - The Moberly–Jourdain Incident, stone tape theory, retrocognition, time slips
12:06 - Air Marshal Victor Goddard
14:41 - As Time Goes By - Mr. Squirrel, the Simpson-Grisby Incident, Bold Street, in Brugges, Regency theatre, Twidders
20:38 - Let’s Do the Time Warp Again - The Aryayek Time Travelling Machine, Madman Marcum, spam in Woburn
27:08 - Let the Bells Ring - The Time Traveling Hipster & other photos, the Expected One, Chaplin's "The Circus"
30:34 - Die Glocke - a Nazi Wuderwaffe
32:39 - The Chronovisor & the Vatican
36:05 - Traveler in Time - John Titor
42:32 - Andrew Carlssin & "Noah"

LAPSUS LINGUAE: In the Victor Goddard story, I say he flew over Diem Airfield, but it was, in fact, Diem Airfield. Perhaps I wasn't wearing my glasses, or perhaps I mistyped it.