Ancient Aliens - The Time Benders

Episode Date: September 25, 2025

Today, more people than ever before believe that Unidentified Flying Objects are of alien origin. But if extraterrestrials have come to Earth from lightyears away, could they be capable of be...nding both time and space? Might it even be possible that the UFOs in our skies are not visitors from other planets, but from our own future?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Extraordinary accounts of missing time. Once the aircraft penetrated in the tunnel, time started changing instantly. It only took three minutes and 20 seconds to fly 100 miles. Otherworldly events that seem to alter reality. It seemed like everything was going in slow motion, like everything was slowing down. Sightings of strange craft changing location instantaneously. These vehicles are able to pop in and pop out of either time or another dimension. Could extraterrestrials have mastered the ability to travel through time?
Starting point is 00:00:44 Is Earth being visited not only by entities from other planets, but also from the future or even the distant past? Perhaps an alien civilization in out of space, thousands of years more advanced than us, may be able to time travel. There is a doorway in the universe. Beyond it is the promise of truth. It demands we question everything we have ever been taught. The evidence is all around us. The future is right before our eyes. We are not alone. We have never been alone.
Starting point is 00:01:29 alone. Mount Pyon, Turkey. Here where the ancient Greek city of Ephesus once stood lie the ruins of a religious site known as the grotto of the seven sleepers. The grotto is thought to be the location where many centuries ago, a group of seven men experienced a shift in time. William Henry is an author and investigative mythologist. In the Christian and Islamic story of the seven sleepers of Ephesus, we learned the amazing story of seven warriors who professed Christianity in 250 AD when it was just beginning to emerge as a new religion. The Roman Emperor offered these warriors an opportunity to recant and to disavow their Christianity. Instead, they decide to sell all their possessions and go into a cave. And in response, the emperor decides to seal
Starting point is 00:02:31 this cave with the sleepers inside of it. This is David Childress, author of Technology of the Gods. Several hundred years go by and a shepherd chances upon this cave and he breaks down the wall and the seven people inside the cave have been sleeping for hundreds of years and it's now 300 years later and they're still alive these seven sleepers. these seven sleepers. These sleepers then go into Ephesus,
Starting point is 00:03:05 and nothing looks the same. Something they noticed is that there are Christian crosses everywhere, because by now, Christianity has taken over. Amir Hussein, PhD, is a professor of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University. The seven sleepers of Ephesus, you think, okay, is it there's a miracle here, or have they been in a place where the timeline, you know,
Starting point is 00:03:28 has shifted in. And so what seems 300 years to them has been a much shorter amount of time. While many scholars regard this story as fictional, millions of Christians and Muslims believe a true miracle took place, and that these seven warriors were transported into the future. In fact, hundreds of graves have been found at the grotto dating back to the fifth century, along with inscriptions indicating that people were buried there because it was consistent, a location of great power. Today, it remains a popular pilgrimage site,
Starting point is 00:04:07 serving as a testament to humankind's preoccupation with one of the most significant and least understood forces in the universe. Time. This is Ronald Mallet, PhD, author of Time Traveler. What is time? That's a great question. It's a fundamental question.
Starting point is 00:04:29 We all normally live along the straight line of time from the past, presence of the future. But the question is, is there a way around that, a way to travel through time? Dr. Jonathan Young is the founding curator of the Joseph Campbell Archives. Time is important to us. The passage of time is an item of grief that we all know is universal. We have a kind of longing to defeat time. Why is time travel stuck around for so long in human consciousness? I think this idea that you can go into the ancient past or travel into the future is the ultimate trip.
Starting point is 00:05:09 The notion of breaking free from the seemingly inescapable bonds of time has existed in the human imagination for centuries. But modern concepts of time travel are largely critical. are largely credited to the science fiction author H.G. Wells, who in his 1895 book, The Time Machine, speculated as to how time travel might be scientifically possible. Michi Okaku, Ph.D. is a theoretical physicist, an author of The Future of Humanity. H.G. Wells began to say to himself,
Starting point is 00:05:47 if we can move in space, why can't we move in time? And that's the beginning of his novel, The Time Machine. H.G. Wells said it takes three coordinates to locate an object in space. Time, therefore, is the fourth dimension. We need four coordinates to identify any event in our universe. Here is Andrew Collins, author of LightQuest. H.G. Wells talked about the idea
Starting point is 00:06:18 that space and time were somehow linked together. And the protagonist of the book was able to go at will any time into the future or any time into the past to actually experience and see what was going on. Could humankind one day be able to travel back in time or even into the future? Incredibly, just a decade after the publication of the Time Machine, Albert Einstein proposed a similar vision of time travel. This is Hugh Newman, author of Earth Grids. H.G. Wells in 1895 mentioned the idea of time and space being connected. This is interesting because Albert Einstein came up with a theory of relativity,
Starting point is 00:07:09 where he also proposed that time and space are connected. Michael Masters is a professor of biological and physical. anthropology at Montana Tech. Time used to be thought of in Newtonian classical physics is something absolute. It didn't change. It was the same for everybody everywhere. Einstein came along in a 1905,
Starting point is 00:07:30 published a paper on special relativity and demonstrated that time's actually relative. Now in Einstein's theory, space and time are linked to each other. That's why it's called space time. Whatever you do to space also happens to time. A rotating black hole can cause a twisting of space. Time is linked to space. So if I'm twisting space, I can twist time mathematically.
Starting point is 00:07:54 This has been shown. I can travel from the future back into the past. We haven't been able to do it yet experimentally, but it's a real part of Einstein's general theory of relativity. Is it possible that space time can be manipulated to travel into the past? And if so, how close is modern science? his modern science to achieving such an incredible feat. The University of Connecticut, 2021. Theoretical physicist and professor, Dr. Ronald Mallet, works closely with a team of researchers on a project to realize his lifelong dream. The creation of a time machine. By using a mechanism called a ring laser, Dr. Mallet believes that he can manipulate the fabric of space and time to create a door that can open to the past.
Starting point is 00:08:51 What I did was I solved Einstein's gravitational field equations, and I was able to show that a circulating beam of laser light will cause a twisting of space. There is a device. It's called a ring laser. All it is is a device that causes light to move around in a loop. You can get it to do that in a number of different. ways, bouncing off mirrors, for example. And I was able to show that a circulating beam of laser light will cause a twisting of space.
Starting point is 00:09:21 What I was able to show further is that if this twisting of space was strong enough, it could lead to time being twisted into a loop. And these loops in time could allow for the possibility of time travel to the past. This is all anchored in Einstein's general theory of relativity. While Dr. Mallet's time machine may be theoretically sound, one A major hurdle stands in his way, harnessing massive amounts of energy. This is physicist Michael Denon, Ph.D., from the University of California, Irvine.
Starting point is 00:09:54 The real constraint with the time machine at the moment is the energy involved, because you have to bend the dimension that's time. The energy at which you can create a gateway through space and time is called the Planck Energy. The Planck Energy is a quadrillion time. times more powerful than our most powerful machine, the large Hajon Collider. We're talking about the energy of a star, perhaps an alien civilization in outer space. Thousands of years more advanced than us may be able to access the Planck energy.
Starting point is 00:10:31 That cannot be ruled out. If extraterrestrial civilizations have the technology to traverse the vast distances of space, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest. Might they have also mastered the ability to travel through time. Perhaps further clues can be found by examining incredible stories of time travel found in some of the earliest texts ever written. Houston, Texas, 2016. After a record-breaking 340 days aboard the International Space Station, astronaut Scott Kelly returns
Starting point is 00:11:12 to the NASA Johnson Space Center. The mission was designed to help researchers understand the effects of long-term spaceflight on the human body. Scott's identical twin brother and former astronaut, Mark Kelly, remained on Earth to serve as the control subject. While Scott was in space, his immune system was more active, his vision deteriorated, and he lost more bone mass compared to Mark. But perhaps the most significant difference was that for Scott, time had slowed down.
Starting point is 00:11:50 This is ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Suclos. When they measured the aging acceleration of Scott Kelly and Mark Kelly, the twins, it turns out that Scott was 0.5 milliseconds younger than Mark. And so what's going on here? Travis Taylor, PhD, is an astrophysicist. So that actually fits with time dilation. It's a phenomenon that we have observed to be real, that the closer you go to the speed of light,
Starting point is 00:12:26 the more time slows down for you. According to Einstein's theory of special relativity, the faster you move, the slower time gets. So if you have a telescope and could look inside a rocket ship, speeding near the speed of light, everyone inside that rocket would be frozen, moving at a different rate in time. Given that the space station orbits around the planet Earth,
Starting point is 00:12:52 at about 17,500 miles per hour, you can actually calculate how slow time must be on the space station. And so we can actually measure this effect in the laboratory. Imagine in the future when we have rockets that can go close to the speed of light. They could find that days, maybe years, had passed for the people on board the rocket.
Starting point is 00:13:15 But when they come back, they would find out that decades had passed here on the Earth. They could come back and find that they are younger than their children. Time travel to the future is real. We've seen the baby steps of it, but it has happened. If space travel has revealed to humankind the possibilities that exist for manipulating time, Is it possible that somewhere in the vast expanse of the universe, other intelligent beings have advanced to the point
Starting point is 00:13:46 where they are able to move through time as easily as space? Ancient astronaut theorists believe evidence can be found in ancient texts that our ancestors may have already witnessed, or even experienced, the bending of time. There's this wonderful book of stories, an epic in Hindu culture, the Mahabharata. Written in the third century before the common era, but this was writing down oral traditions that were much, much older than that.
Starting point is 00:14:15 And one of the tales was when King Raveta goes up into the heavens and meets God, the great creator God Brahma himself. King Ravita was actually taken into the heavens in a chariot to visit this gigantic palace that was in the celestial realm. And when King Ravita came back, Much to his surprise, he did not recognize a single person
Starting point is 00:14:42 that was in his neighborhood. In fact, it turns out that he had returned hundreds of years later. Now, how is such a thing even possible? Here we have what is perhaps the first story of time dilation where someone has gone up into space, in, say, a spaceship, and all this time has passed. Which is exactly what Einstein had talked about in 1905, only this is a story from thousands of years ago.
Starting point is 00:15:16 Could King Revita's experience be a historical account of a time dilation event that occurred thousands of years ago? For ancient astronaut theorists, this possibility is made stronger when considering the fact that similar stories were told in other parts of the world. Like in Egypt, where ancient hieroglyphs describe a celestial craft called the solar barge of Ra. There are many references in ancient Egypt about Ra's solar barge, which was this vehicle that they described, that they saw cross the sky. This solar barge is also known as the ship of a million years.
Starting point is 00:16:03 According to an ancient document known as the Turin King List, which contains a record of all Egyptian rulers up until 1300 BC, the earliest pharaohs lived for hundreds or even thousands of years. These were the pharaohs who were said to have journeyed to the stars on the solar barge of Ra. You look at some of these records from the Egyptians, and you think, well, okay, if there is this phenomenon of time, time dilation, if these pharaohs really are traveling on craft at very high speeds, then when they come back, they're still young, the earth is aged tremendously, and so is that part of it?
Starting point is 00:16:46 Is that how you have pharaohs that lived hundreds of years? You see this effect that we now call time dilation in various ancient cultures. There is an artifact at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England that is called the WB44 Kingslist of ancient Sumeria. It lists the exact reigning periods of all the kings of ancient Samaria. The total is 266,000 years and there are crazy reigning periods that are recorded very specifically, and I think they knew perfectly well how to record time. You have these figures in the Bible that lived for hundreds of years. That the oldest figure in the Bible is Methuselah, the grandfather of Noah, and he dies.
Starting point is 00:17:42 The Bible tells us the age of 969. According to the Hebrew Bible, Methuselah's father, Enoch, left the earth in a fiery chariot and was 365 years old when God chose for him to remain in the heavenly realm. All other pre-flood patriarchs are recorded as living more than 700 years. Certainly one way that they would be able to have these incredibly extended lives would be that they are traveling through space and coming back, and therefore 400, 900 years can go by, and that's essentially their age on Earth.
Starting point is 00:18:25 These concepts should not be described. by our ancestors because it should have exceeded their knowledge at the time. But the fact that multiple stories exist where someone wakes up or gets returned hundreds of years after certain events, that's strange. Could these stories be historical accounts of ancient people experiencing time dilation after traveling aboard alien spacecraft? Ancient astronaut theorists say, yes. Yes, and suggest other accounts, both ancient and modern, may reveal that extraterrestrials have the ability to manipulate time in even more extraordinary ways.
Starting point is 00:19:19 Andover, England, 1935. Royal Air Force Wing Commander Sir Robert Victor Goddard is dispatched to inspect an old, disused airfield near Edinburgh, Scotland. Sir Robert Victor Goddard was flying over an airfield to survey and see if the airfield could be used in the future. And while he's flying over, he noticed there's cracks in the airfield and there's grass growing up and cows are eating the grass and so on. He's flying home and he gets kind of lost or turned around a bit in a storm. So he decides to fly back to where he was to get a bearing.
Starting point is 00:19:55 On the return journey, he encountered very strange yellow and brown clasps. almost like he entered into some kind of otherworldly portal. And he came out of it and found himself in bright sunlight. And going over the same airfield, everything was renovated. And there were aircraft out there on the tarmac. But they were painted yellow. And there were people tending these aircraft dressed in blue. When Goddard landed and told me,
Starting point is 00:20:30 Goddard landed and told his colleagues what he saw, they insisted it was not possible, since RAF planes were painted silver at the time and mechanics uniforms were tan-colored. However, just a few years later, the RAF changed the color of both their training planes and mechanics uniforms, which Goddard witnessed when he flew over Drem Airfield again in 1939. This is EarthFiles investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe. He's making another flight and realizes there are the planes. At Dren, they are painting them yellow. The people have on blue uniforms.
Starting point is 00:21:16 It is exactly what he remembered seeing when he came out from beyond this yellow cloud four years before in 1935. Some people have suggested that Victor Goddard's experience could be extraterrestrial in nature and that just maybe he was thrust through time by yellow and brown cloud that he encountered. There are many examples of these weird clouds being encountered in different parts of the world. Ancient astronaut theorists propose that an alien civilization advanced enough to achieve interstellar travel, may also possess the technology to create portals through time. And they suggest further evidence that such gateways have been established here on Earth
Starting point is 00:22:08 can be found by examining the extraordinary events that have occurred in the Bermuda Triangle. The Bahamas, December 4, 1970. At 3 in the afternoon, pilot Bruce Gurnan departs from Andros Island, bound for Palm Beach, Florida. just north of Miami. It's a route he's flown many times before without incident, but this flight will be unlike any other. Here is Bruce Gurnan. Since I've been flying for 47 years now,
Starting point is 00:22:48 I've had a lot of flights in that area. But this experience, I'll never forget. I'll start at 100 miles east in Miami. When I found myself surrounded by this strange storm, time started changing instantly. And I believe I actually got to see the fabric of time itself. As I watched the tunnel rotate. When I reached the other end, the tunnel collapsed.
Starting point is 00:23:21 And I reached the shoreline of Miami Beach. It only took three minutes and 20 seconds. minutes and 20 seconds to fly 100 miles. I should have been able to fly only 10 miles approximately, not 100 miles. I think that what he must have experienced is perhaps some kind of a time shift, or he entered into an anomalous vortex that perhaps was some kind of a time portal. We don't know, but it's a very curious example of time travel. Could it be that the route Bruce Gurnan travel led him into a portal through time? As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, this incredible possibility is even more intriguing because of the area where it happened.
Starting point is 00:24:14 The Bermuda Triangle. The Bermuda Triangle is really located off of Florida. The northern point of it is the island of Bermuda. It then goes down to essentially southern Florida and then out into the Bahamas. And this is an area that has historically had strange phenomenon. While Gernan was fortunate enough
Starting point is 00:24:39 to have survived this harrowing experience, many ships and aircraft traveling through this region have disappeared without a trace. In one extraordinary case that occurred December 5, 1945, five Navy Avenger torpedo bombers known as Flight 19, all went missing at the same time. All five of their compasses were not working correctly,
Starting point is 00:25:06 and they had two navigational instruments that they could use, and they were not working properly either. The planes disappeared from radar, and their last communication consisted of nothing but eerie static. The Navy immediately sent a team to search for the missing bombers, but they never recovered any debris. Is it possible that the Bermuda Triangle is subject to portals or vortices
Starting point is 00:25:35 that create these mysteries? What we do know is that it is a place of intensive electromagnetic activity. And this is something that we can tell from the fact that so many aircraft and ships experience problems with their experimentation. Might the Bermuda Triangle be an electromagnetic hotspot where portals are capable of manipulating time, open, and close?
Starting point is 00:26:07 Ancient astronaut theorists say, yes, and they believe that these portals may help explain some of the strange, otherworldly activity reported in the area. Many UFO sightings and more modern UAP videos that have been released show unusual flight dynamics and capabilities of these whatever they are. Well, maybe they're creating portals in our universe and in our time, in our space, that they can move in and out of at will. There's no reason to say they can't until we know what they are. Is it possible that visitors from other worlds are utilizing portals in their personal? Bermuda Triangle to travel through time and space.
Starting point is 00:26:57 And if so, do such portals already exist naturally, or are they being created with some type of extraterrestrial technology? Perhaps the answer can be found by examining the account of a UFO witness who claimed to have received a message from the future. In Suffolk County, England, there is a remote forest in the village of Rendlesham that has become famous for being the site of one of the most extraordinary UFO encounters ever reported. And some of those who experienced it believe this incident also involved time travel. The event occurred on December 26, 1980.
Starting point is 00:27:43 Airman John Burroughs was performing a routine security check at a U.S. Air Force Base when he received orders to investigate a possible downed aircraft. My supervisor called me on the radio and asked me to meet up with him so we couldn't check the gate. We're driving down the road leading to the east gate to check on it when all of a sudden he saw some strange lights in the forest. So I decided we called in and let him know something strange was going on. They decided to send one of the security units down, which was Sergeant Penison.
Starting point is 00:28:14 He got down there and he saw the same strange lights that we were seeing. This is retired technical sergeant James Penniston of the United States Air Force. I could see all these multiple color lights and things like that. And the air felt different. I don't know how to really explain that. But it did feel like there was electricity on our skin and hair and stuff. But that progressively got worse, the closer we got to the tree. And it got more intense.
Starting point is 00:28:42 There seemed to be like an electricity charged atmosphere. And then also there were points where it seemed like everything was going in slow motion. As the servicemen approached the strange lights, Sergeant Peniston reportedly saw a large craft just beyond the tree line. The craft was triangular in shape, measuring about six to seven feet high, black in color. I had come around to the far side of the craft, and that's what I noticed that there was, you know, inscription on the side. You know, it was about three feet long, maybe six inches high. And so I'm expecting to find, I don't know, some kind of prototype stuff, USAF.
Starting point is 00:29:23 I'm looking for something very familiar. Instead of something familiar, I see these pictorial-type glyphs and got running my hand over the side of the craft. I don't know how to explain this. It's like someone was holding a picture up, okay? I could see it in my mind's eye. Zerals and ones. So I recorded those one after another.
Starting point is 00:29:48 This is Gary Heseltine, VP of the International Coalition for Extraterrestrial Research. When Penniston touched the craft, he then said that he felt a strange download of information to his mind, and he felt compelled the next day to write down a series of zeros and ones, which we now regard as binary code. Nick Pope is a former member of the UK Ministry of Defence. Years later, a computer programmer took a computer programmer took a computer. this information, ran it through a translation program, and a message emerged. The message read, Exploration of Humanity, Continuous for Planetary Advance, Eyes of Your Eyes, Origin Year 8,100. When one sees Origin Year 8,100, one is forced to speculate, might we be looking not just at extraterrestrials, but time travelers from the future.
Starting point is 00:30:59 After the incident, the U.S. military conducted a brief investigation, but allegedly tried to keep the eyewitnesses away from the press. But for Airman Burroughs and Officer Peniston, the event wasn't easy to leave behind. Both men had lasting physical effects from the encounter and even reported strange dreams. After the incident, I started having throat and eye problems. At one point, my gums turned white. I also had vision problems, and when I went and saw the doctor, one of his first questions was, had I been ever exposed in radiation.
Starting point is 00:31:37 I've definitely had dreams about it, and I still have feelings about what happened and what could happen in the future. I got out of service in 1993. Then I was out about maybe three months. And then I started getting these dreams and nightmares. During the dreams, I could see that these were time travelers, 40 to 50,000 years in the future. I see that the purpose to come back was to correct things,
Starting point is 00:32:08 was to fix things. Something horrible has happened. Something they have to correct. But it requires time travel. It requires going back into the past. I never had a feeling of it being extraterrestrial. It's always been that they were simply us in the future. Could it be that the craft reportedly witnessed by James Penniston and John Burroughs
Starting point is 00:32:39 came not from a distant star, but from a distant point in time? Perhaps further clues can be found by examining trends in evolution and what humans may look like in the future. If we look at past trends in our biological form, we see that we're likely to look very similar to what's most commonly described in these instances of close encounters. Butte, Montana, 2019.
Starting point is 00:33:09 Professor of Biological Anthropology at Montana Technological University, Dr. Michael Masters, publishes identified flying objects. This groundbreaking book explores the profound notion that the UFO phenomenon may involve our distant human descendants, traveling backwards across the landscape of time.
Starting point is 00:33:32 One of the big questions about backward time travel is why aren't we inundated by time tourists if backward time travel exists? And the answer may simply be, we do. We do see them in the form of UFOs, in the form of these alien beings that are most likely traveling backwards from the human future using more advanced technology and with a more advanced physical form than what we have now.
Starting point is 00:33:57 Dr. Masters points out that current accounts of humanoid aliens, the Grays in particular, bear a striking resemblance to what many biologists predict humans may look like in the distant future. If we look at past trends in our biological form and in our technology, we see the same dominant trends in our morphology. Our neurocrania have become enlarged, becoming more rounded. Our mid-facial and lower facial anatomy is retracted. If these are to continue into the future,
Starting point is 00:34:31 we're likely to look very similar to what's most commonly described in these instances of close encounters, where the beings, they have big heads, small faces, big eyes. Many of the types of aliens, if you like, or strange beings that are in these crafts, They're often taller, they've got larger heads, larger eyes, and that could be a sign of evolution of our species going thousands or possibly hundreds of thousands of years into the future. Could the so-called grey aliens that many people believe they have encountered actually be human time-travelers?
Starting point is 00:35:11 According to some researchers, further evidence that Earth is being visited by future humans can be found by examining a accounts of unidentified flying objects. If we look at the craft too, they seem to have a form that indicates the function of backward time travel. It's very consistent with research since Einstein's paper in 1915, demonstrating how the rotation of a massive or highly energetic disk or cylinder could create backward time travel capabilities. This is ancient astronaut theorist Eric von Danikin, author of Cherokee of the gods. Sometimes I ask myself, these UFOs are not time travelers.
Starting point is 00:35:56 It's our own people of the future who study some history, and they send some vehicles to measure, to observe, to photograph us. But they don't make direct contact. So I would exclude nothing, not even time travel. But if future humans have traveled back in time, Are they simply observing events of the past, or could they have a more profound agenda? One of the other ideas relating to this
Starting point is 00:36:27 is the idea that ourselves from the future are actually trying to help us in some way. There's some kind of interaction going on. They could be giving us information about advances in technology. They could be giving us information about other planets. They could be given us scientific data that we need to be be given a scientific data that we need to survive that they know about in the future, but we're yet to get to that point.
Starting point is 00:36:53 Could they be coming back to help evolve us in some way, to help us learn new technologies and innovations, perhaps to steer us towards their own future? Maybe these technologies involve everything from quantum computers to nuclear fusion, to AI and even nanotechnology. All of these are at the cutting edge of science, and we are actually looking for answers to how to better perfect these technologies. If UFOs are craft from our future,
Starting point is 00:37:35 if the being seen in association with them are our distant descendants, and they crashed into Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, it's possible that we've been reverse engineering this technology, and not just for the purposes of flying through space at tremendous speeds or having anti-gravity propulsion systems, but also potentially to figure out how to travel through time. We may be eventually reaching the point where that technology is ours, coming back through time again,
Starting point is 00:38:05 where there's this constant loop through the past and the future. If time travel is possible, could it be able, could it be that Earth is being visited by both extraterrestrials and humans from our own future? Perhaps further clues can be found by examining the possibility that the true nature of time is much different than we think. Boulder, Colorado. Housed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology are two atomic clocks that together serve as the United States. States primary time and frequency standard. Around the world, similar clocks with incredible precision set the time by which all humankind operates. It is a relentless
Starting point is 00:38:56 march of seconds, minutes, hours, and days determining when we wake up, go to work, eat, sleep, celebrate, and ultimately die. But what if how we perceive time, we perceive time, is nothing more than a human construct. An attempt to quantify and control a universal force that modern science hasn't even begun to understand. We live in the fantasy of linear time because we have to remember, but all the notions of time are imposed on reality.
Starting point is 00:39:35 Reality flows in its own way. We imagine that our clocks measure it. We claim to be able to mark it off in hours and days and things, but that's all just. just imposed on it. Physicists point out that going by modern science's linear concept of time, even the idea of the here and now, is merely an illusion, since light and sound do not travel instantaneously.
Starting point is 00:39:59 When you look at a mirror, you're not really looking at yourself as you are, you're looking at yourself as you were about a billionth of a second ago. When you look at the moon, you're not really looking at the moon as it is now. You're looking at the moon as it was about a second ago. So when you look at the Pleiades, you're looking at the Pleiades as they were 400 years ago. Some of the stars viewable in the night sky burnt out long ago, which according to a linear model of time means they no longer exist. They are no longer reachable.
Starting point is 00:40:36 But what if this model of time is wrong? Another take on time travel is that when the Big Bang occurred, all of space and time and everything is in it was created. So all of time is in the universe already. For some reason, we can only experience the now. Could it be that our understanding of time is limited by how we experience it? And might a more technologically advanced extraterrestrial species or even future humans have discovered how to manipulate time and space, to travel both to the past and to the future. The idea that we may simply be dealing with space people
Starting point is 00:41:20 from other star systems may not be the full answer. We could be dealing with time travellers. Could these intelligences have been aiding us, perhaps guiding us, perhaps controlling the evolution of humanity? I rather am a believer in time travel. I say nothing will be impossible for us in the future. Even if you think it's completely crazy, it will happen. Whatever humans are able to think, to calculate, even to fantasies,
Starting point is 00:41:55 will one day become reality. Is Earth being visited by highly advanced civilizations that have overcome limitations of time and space? And if so, could they even be our own human descendants, traveling back from the future? Perhaps our own notions of time, space, and our place in the universe are about to be radically altered. Only time will tell. Aw! Pay off your home, travel for life, drive a Ferrari.
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