Many famous scientists and philosophers believe that time is more than a simple chain of events.
“There are no clear boundaries between the past and the future,” A. Einstein said. And D. Dunn (1875 1949) defined time as "a moving point on the plane of probabilities" and declared that "everything that ever existed in the world exists to this day."
Everyone who has ever had a chance to make a "jump in time" had to be convinced of the validity of these theories on their own experience. Such people turned out to be witnesses of events that happened in the distant past or which are yet to happen. The most reliable case of the "temporary jump" is considered the adventures of two famous teachers from England in 1901 - Mrs. Eleanor Jourdain and Charlotte Moberly.
Arriving on an excursion to Versailles and approaching the Small Trianon Palace - the place of children's amusements of the unfortunate French queen Marie Antoinette - they suddenly saw people in costumes of the 18th century. The landscape around them changed and did not resemble at all the descriptions contained in their guidebooks. The glamor soon disappeared, but detailed questioning by historians made it possible to establish that both girls saw Versailles as it looked in the 70s and 80s of the 18th century. Worthy ladies, whose veracity it is impossible to doubt, repeatedly came to Versailles, but they no longer managed to repeat their amazing experience.
Some scientists attribute the ability of the prophets to predict the future precisely by "leaps in time", and by no means their superpowers. So, for example, in October 1966, when in Aberfan (Wells) a coal trolley that fell into a mine killed 144 people, British scientists invited everyone who foresaw the misfortune to respond. 76 people responded, and 24 of them were able to provide convincing evidence of their prophecies.
The historian Adolph Joseph Toynbee (1889 1975) spoke directly of his "sinking into the pockets of time." In Greece, he watched the revolt raised in Ephesus by Saint Paul, witnessed the massacre in Mietra (1820) during the Greek War of Independence, and once, to his horror, found himself in the thick of the Battle of Phareal (197 BC).). These "failures", according to Toynbee, prompted him to write a ten-volume History of the World.
Here's another case. Squadron commander of the British Royal Air Force (later Air Marshal) Victor Goddard in 1934, to his amazement, traveled to the future. Flying over the moorlands in Scotland, he fell into a thundercloud and was forced to descend in order to clarify the course, orienting himself along an abandoned airfield near the town of Sandman. A moment later, he was above the Dream under the bright rays of the sun. The buildings below, which he believed to have been destroyed, appeared to be unharmed, airplanes of unknown design were on the runway, around which ground workers in blue uniforms (different from the one adopted at that time in the air force) scurried around. In 1939, Goddard was assigned to serve at the newly reopened Sandman airfield. He hastened to fly in … to see the painting that he remembered from 1934.
Some scientists also talk about a very interesting and mysterious phenomenon of "instantaneous replay of the past" (MVP), as a kind of "leaps in time". The point is that in moments of mortal danger, a picture of the entire previous life, especially childhood, in the smallest detail can be scrolled in front of a person's mind's eye in one super-brief instant. But it should be noted that in this kind of biologically critical or fatal situations, a person can see not only his past, but also the future. And this is already inexplicable …
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