In 2001, a Japanese tourist appeared on the threshold of the Reed Flute Cave, near the city of Guilin. An arrogant inhabitant of the Land of the Rising Sun alone made a journey through a huge underground labyrinth, where others do not dare to meddle without a guide. The Japanese sparkled with happiness: he overcame all the tangled corridors - and only once took a nap in one of the caves. Not a trace of joy remained when it turned out that he had spent no less than three years in the dungeon - the Japanese entered the cave in 1998 … Time sometimes throws out amazing tricks
Time always flows at one speed, which cannot be changed. Physicists, chemists, and philosophers agree on this. However, many people, describing dramatic events, say: "It was as if time stood still." Beautiful words? Not. Participants in the hostilities, in particular, said: they survived only because they saw the bullets flying at them and managed to hide. At first glance, this is impossible, because the human eye is not able to perceive objects moving at such a speed. But the words of the narrators are confirmed: the soldier suddenly dives to the bottom of the trench, and the next second a bullet or shrapnel plows the parapet where his head had just been.
"Time stops" occur, as a rule, in moments of mortal danger. The townspeople manage to notice icicles falling from the roof and jump aside. Workers at construction sites dodge diving bricks. Tellingly, all the "victims" said that the object did not fly at them, but slowly descended, and they calmly walked aside, without fear.
Cosmonaut Vladimir AKSENOV told how one day his "Muscovite" stalled on a railway crossing. At that moment, a rushing electric train appeared from around the corner about 50 meters away: in a second or two it should have inevitably crashed into the car, and the driver would not even have time to get out of it. Aksenov pulled out of the socket, and then again inserted the ignition key and gently pressed the starter. The engine immediately started, the car went off the rails and came to a standstill a few meters from the speeding train. However, it seemed to the astronaut that the carriages had sailed in front of him, as in slow motion. He even made out a chalk-white face of a driver who did not even have time to start braking …
There was a Georgian instructor named Vakhtang in an alpine camp on Dombai. He had not yet turned 25, and there was already a gray strand in his black hair. He admitted that he turned gray in one minute, being caught in an avalanche:
- I walked in conjunction with my friend Gogi. I moved first, and Gogi stayed to belay me at the edge of the snowfield. When I was almost halfway there, I saw cracks snaking in the snow above and on either side of me. Then, broken by their steepness, slowly, as if reluctantly, huge layers of snow and ice rushed down, although in fact all this happens in a split second. I did not feel fear, I acted as if I had nowhere to hurry: I looked out for a larger piece of frozen snow that had swam past, jumped onto it and chose the next one. When I got out of the avalanche, Gogi couldn’t believe his eyes …
I do what I want
What happens when it seems to a person that time passes very slowly or has stopped altogether?
Physicists are categorical: any events develop in strictly defined time frames. This means that the whole point is that biological processes in the body in critical situations are accelerated - nerve impulses pass faster, muscle fibers contract more often - although a person does not realize and does not feel this.
After analyzing the stories of people about their feelings and making the appropriate calculations, the researchers came to the conclusion: the course of individual time accelerates 120-130 times. As a result, everything around happens at the same time slower and it seems to a person that time has stopped.
The following fact works for the same hypothesis. Those who have experienced the "time stop" say that everything happened in a strange silence. This is simply explained: when individual time is accelerated more than 100 times, sounds entering the ear turn into infrasounds that are not perceived by a human hearing aid …
Nobel Prize-winning chemist and physicist Ilya PRIGOZHIN argued that each person's own time is constructed at every moment being. At critical moments, the brain controls its own time - it can accelerate it almost hundreds of times, and maybe slow it down.
There is a good example of this. In the 1780s, the Boers, who began to seize the lands of the Zulu and the scythe, faced a striking phenomenon - African healers spoke to their soldiers from bullets. As a result, they attacked the Europeans, not paying attention to the fierce fire, and some remained safe and sound even when they were shot at point-blank range. The bullets did not bounce off the blacks, but also … did not hit them!
The colonialists did not begin to deal with this riddle, since in the end all the conspirators were killed. But today the secret of their invulnerability can be explained: African warriors had the gift of voluntarily speeding up the flow of their own time and dodging bullets. But this could not continue indefinitely, and they died …
Long short minutes
At the end of the 18th century, the director of the Greenwich Observatory in England, MAXLINE, fired his assistant: his data on the movement of stars in the sky differed from the values obtained by him. For a whole second. 25 years later, the German astronomer Friedrich BESSEL acquitted his unjustly injured English colleague.
He proved that there are no two astronomers in nature whose time stamps would completely coincide. All observers register the moment of passage of the star through the cross-hair of the lines, which they see in the telescope eyepiece, strictly individually: some - a little earlier, others - later. The difference in these readings is called "personal time".
And recently it was found that this error depends on the age, temperament, state of health of the observer and even the air temperature in the observatory.
- 50-year-old Maxline and his 30-year-old assistant, in principle, could not indicate the same time, - emphasizes psychologist Peter MANGEN from the University of Virginia. - The difference of just a second is incredibly small: the discrepancy could be ten times greater, since in old age the perception of the passage of time is different than in younger years …
The psychologist conducted a very illustrative experiment. He divided the subjects into three age groups and asked each participant to press a button whenever he thought 3 minutes had elapsed. It turned out that the most accurate time intervals are determined by young people of 20 years. Middle-aged persons, as the final recalculation showed, estimated the same time interval at 3 minutes 16 seconds, the elderly - at 3 minutes 40 seconds! When the researcher repeated the experiment, but at the same time complicated it by asking the subjects to sort the letters, the error in the estimates increased dramatically. Young people began to make mistakes on average by 46 seconds, and older people - by 1 minute 48 seconds:
- The older a person is, the more he overestimates the past tense. That is why it seems to him that over the years it all accelerates its run …
However, not only age determines the accuracy of the sense of time. Fatigue, nervousness, enthusiasm can noticeably distort the perception of the passage of time. A person's internal clock is influenced by temperature - both the environment and his body. When a person gets sick, he gets a fever, time for him begins to drag on unbearably long. This state is especially painful at night, when "morning does not come in any way."
Recent experiments made it possible to clarify the average statistical error in such cases. If a person's temperature is increased by 2-3 degrees, then he marks the minute interval with an error of 35 seconds. This is a direct consequence of the fact that at elevated temperatures, many processes in the body proceed faster. Moreover, this phenomenon is observed even when a healthy person is in the heat.
By lowering the temperature, you can achieve the opposite effect: if you “cool” a person in the cold by the same 2-3 degrees, then after 30 seconds it will seem to him that a minute has passed.
Finding out why the course of objective universal time is perceived by people in different ways, scientists have come to the conclusion that this is primarily due to the different speed of metabolic processes in the body. In addition, as research by Dr. Laura KLEIN of the University of Pennsylvania has shown, "discrepancies" are associated with the release of hormones such as cortisol and vasopressin, which affect the sense of the passage of time. It is because of them that it seems to lovers that the minutes of the date fly by too quickly …
In the loop of time
And yet the most mysterious phenomenon of time is the so-called time loop, when people and material objects from the past are somehow incomprehensibly transferred to the future.
In the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the coast of Italy, there is the island of Ischia, which is occupied by tourists all year round. The place is quiet, nothing extraordinary happens here, and therefore time passes slowly. But, of course, not so much that a person in their right mind could confuse the past hours with years. This happens with memory lapses.
This is exactly what the case with Kurt RAINER looked like. One day in August 1997, this 25-year-old guy, all dirty and scratched, limped, walked up to the entrance to the Poseidon Gardens thermal park. He told the clerk that he had gone downhill on a motorcycle and now had a problem with where he was. Reiner was sent to the hospital and the next day he gave his name, surname and the hotel where he was staying. However, no Reiner was found on the guest list.
The police took up the mysterious incident. Soon it was established: in 1981, a German tourist named Rainer did stay in this hotel, who then disappeared. Then the investigation concluded that he most likely drowned while swimming in the sea. All long 16 years (!) Kurt was considered dead. Where he was all this time remained a mystery …
An even more exciting story happened in 1961. An American pilot flew over Ohio. The weather was disgusting. The plane now and then dived into the clouds, and in the gaps the sun beat in the eyes. That is why, once again emerging from the cloudy milk, the pilot did not immediately notice another plane several tens of meters straight ahead of him. Having laid a desperate turn, he miraculously managed to avoid a collision, but still struck with the end of the wing on the side of another car.
After landing, the pilot filed a flight accident report, which greatly surprised the airfield authorities. The pilot described the plane he nearly collided with as a single-seat biplane with fabric-covered wings and guy wires between them. In the open cockpit sat a pilot wearing a leather helmet and large canned glasses.
Specialists in charge of flight safety decided that a copy of an old plane made for the filming of some historical film was the cause of the almost accident. Driving her to the filming location, the filmmakers did not bother to get a flight permit. This incident was safely forgotten.
However, a few months later, in an old abandoned hangar at one of the small private airfields, a biplane was accidentally discovered, exactly similar to the one described by the American pilot. The experts who examined it came to the conclusion: it is impossible to fly on it - it will crumble even at a glance due to dilapidation. But the case was finally confused by the logbook found in the cockpit. It contained an entry dated 1911. The pilot wrote that during the last flight he almost collided with "a large silvery airplane of an amazing design", which was rushing at great speed and struck the side of his car with the end of its wing. On board the biplane, the experts actually found a scratch, in which there were microparticles of paint and aluminum, which completely coincided in composition with the material of a modern aircraft! It turned out to be something fantastic:the biplane not only made a 50-year chronal leap, but also returned back in time …
Attention: white fog
To understand this mysterious phenomenon, the famous expert in the field of anomalous phenomena, the Englishwoman Jenny RANDLZ decided to track down and interview those who have been in the time loop. For 20 years she managed to find more than 300 people. The veracity of their testimony is beyond doubt, since their loss of time was confirmed by witnesses.
… At the beginning of May 1968, the Argentinean Gerado VIDAL and his wife went to visit friends in a car. At the last moment, another married couple joined them. We decided that they would go ahead, because they knew the road better from the town of Chaskomus to the town of Maizu.
Soon, the time driving in the vanguard discovered that the Vidal's car was not behind. Deciding that something had broken with those, they turned back, drove almost to Chaskomus, but Vidalov was never found, although no exits from the highway were found along the way. The spouses already wanted to go to the police with a statement about the missing friends, when on the second day Vidal called them from … Mexico City. How they got there, the missing did not really know. According to them, they were following the first car when they suddenly found themselves in a strip of dense fog and almost immediately lost consciousness. And when, according to them, they came to their senses and looked at the clock, only two hours had passed. They found their car parked on the side of a completely unfamiliar road. Moreover, the paint on the car was all in small cracks, as if it had been scorched by fire. The Vidal turned to the first they met and learned with amazement,that are in another country …
The Englishman Paul BROMHEM also spoke about a whitish cloud like fog. He drove out of Little Houghton late that night. Suddenly a milky streak appeared in the headlights ahead, into which his car drove, after which Bromham lost consciousness. Paul came to himself in the morning on the outskirts of the town of Tervey, 16 miles from the scene. His car was gone. Police later found her in the middle of a soggy field five miles outside Tervey. No one could understand how she got there, since there were no tire marks on the clay soil …
The most objective information on how the time loop captures a person was provided by a unique video made in 1995 at a chemical plant in Florida. Late in the evening, the security guard saw on the monitors a worker walking to one of the warehouses. Suddenly the entire courtyard was filled with a shimmering whitish mist that hid the man. At the same time, the monitor screens blinked, and the picture on them disappeared. After a few seconds the image appeared again, but there was no fog or a worker in the yard.
This surprised the guard, because in a few seconds a person could not reach the warehouse, and there was nowhere to hide in the yard. The puzzled guard went there himself, examined the entire site, but did not find the missing worker.
The guard returned to the office and resumed the interrupted surveillance. An hour and a half later, the monitor screens flickered again, and the figure of a "evaporated" worker suddenly appeared on them: he was a table on all fours at the far end of the factory territory, and he was vomiting. The guard rushed into the yard to help the poor man, with whom something had obviously happened. Somehow he dragged him to the office, sat him in a chair and called an ambulance, since the victim was in a trance and did not remember anything …
Whirlpools are spinning …
Dr. Jenny Randles believes that the spontaneous movement of people and objects in time and space occurs when they fall into abnormal areas in the stream of time.
“We use the familiar expression“river of time”without thinking about its possible physical meaning,” she says. - Meanwhile, there is a scientific hypothesis that time is material. Then, in this chronorec, the same phenomena can occur as in an ordinary river. For example, whirlpools. When they appear in a real river, then a leaf or splinter caught in them whirls in one place for a long time, then sinking to the bottom, then rising again to the surface. It is possible that the same eddies can appear in the river of time. They disrupt its smooth flow by capturing people and material objects and transferring them from one time period to another. Visually, such anomalies or "whirlpools of time" appear in the form of glowing clouds …
By its nature, the river of time is nothing more than a flow of energy, most likely electromagnetic. Under the influence of the strongest electromagnetic field, people begin to ache and dizzy, vomiting appears, severe weakness, and coordination is impaired. The same symptomatology is observed in those who fall into the "whirlpools of time."
- If a whirlpool in the endless river of time sucks the victim very deeply, then it can throw it to the surface after many years and even centuries. Well, weak vortices pull out and return a person at his own time. I believe that they arise as a result of disturbances in the structure of the Universe, emphasizes Dr. Jenny Randles. “In turn, these anomalies form windows into parallel worlds and alternative streams of time. Someday a person will learn to use them. And then it will be possible to travel from one era to another and to other worlds …
Secrets of yogis
One of the tricks that yogis do is that they disappear before the eyes of numerous spectators, and then appear - however, already behind the gathered crowd.
Paranormal researchers explain the phenomenon of this sudden disappearance by instant teleportation. However, it may well be that yogis repeatedly accelerate the flow of personal time, as if "dissolving" due to this in the air, and so quickly slip past the audience that they simply do not notice them. One characteristic detail speaks in favor of this version. Western observers who attended such performances noticed that yogis always made sure that there was a free passage behind them. It is not needed for teleportation, but for super-fast escape it is necessary …
