Man claims to have met his future self
Mikey 39 commentsIn what could easily be dismissed as an elaborate hoax, a man claims to have met his future self as a seventy year old.
What gives this story more credibility than other similar stories though is the video footage he took of his present and future self together. Adding fuel to this amazing footage is that scientists can not dismiss the man as time travel is theoretically sound. Although the Grandfather Paradox would suggest time travel is impossible.
Combined with the simple assumption that to make up a story like this would make you look like an idiot, unless you had proof.
That said, it is more likely to be a hoax, and a convincing one at that. Watch this video.
Alisa
Friday 30th March 2007 | 09:40 AMI hate it when you get a plumber in to fix your kitchen sink and they leave a rip in the space-time continuum behind. Of course you don't know this until one day you're reaching for the draino and suddenly you've arrived at some random point in time. It's such a pain to get back.
andrew
Monday 2nd April 2007 | 10:09 PMwonder what dr who would think? though if he did travel in time then surely he should have broght something back other than a mobile phone video, at least the picture was clear unlike the UFO pics that were around for a while...
Franken
Tuesday 3rd April 2007 | 11:09 AMLook at the video at 1min 06, and pause it. Notice they have completely different smiles. Not the same person.
mcgrimus
Wednesday 16th May 2007 | 12:59 AMWould have been more believable if he had brought something back with him as proof.
In any case, if he makes any large bets on any sports teams, I would pay attention....
Jake Farr-Wharton
Wednesday 23rd May 2007 | 11:21 AMAlthough quantam physics has shown that a singular electron can exist in two places at the same time. Theoretically any form of time travel is possible and assuming that technology and science progress and evolve over the next 30-50 years, it may be a plausable story.
I'm happy to call myself enough of a sci-fi geek to beleive it is possible to travel in time with the aid of future technology. I assume that we'll all find out if he was telling the truth when his lotto numbers come up 72 time in a row.
Scepti Kal
Wednesday 6th June 2007 | 11:25 PMThat was interesting. He seems to think it happened.
Anonymous
Monday 11th June 2007 | 02:51 AMWell I guess we will know the truth in about 30 years....
eh
Friday 29th June 2007 | 11:06 AMTime travel huh? an interesting prospect, but this claim about crawling into the future from underneath his sink is pretty odd, maybe it was a randomly formed wormhole or something, how did he get back i wonder? did he just crawl back through the sink?
But im sure that he's aware that this makes him look extremely crazy, but if he believes that he met himself it doesnt really matter what anyone else thinks
Jake Farr-Wharton
Friday 29th June 2007 | 12:52 PMCould have been, though that is where most people store their harmfull, vaporous chemicles...
...in response to this comment by Alisa. shift left of the drain pipe and into the void... it bypasses the hyper excelerator (and it's painless)...in this regard, time is on your side.
Hafiz Albert
Tuesday 12th August 2008 | 12:19 PMI went under the sink and found no wormhole, nothing! All I saw was a kingdom of cockroaches! >:-( I can't believe this!
Henke
Monday 13th April 2009 | 06:23 AMThis is a Swedish commercial for retirement savings. The guy is an actor. Sorry you guys, I know this is true.
Time travel is possible, theoretically, just not in the sense you would assume. Time is just a label that humans attribute the forward motion of events. I personally believe that there is no possible way to go back to past events, since the past is only a label of previous events. I am no physicist but from a layman's point of view, if you could travel faster than the speed of light away from earth, then theoretically you could turn around and look at past events as they have happened, since that light is now just reaching your current position. Think of astronomy as a prime example, the light from stars we see in the sky has taken billions of years to reach earth. So when you look up at night, you are actually seeing that star not in it's current state but as it appeared several billion years ago. I think this is the premise that time travel is based on. But with cosmic radiation and many an object to reflect from, you would only be able to go back so far to get an undistorted view.
But yeah, this has gotta be fake and if Henke is correct, then the discussion is moot.
DN
Thursday 16th April 2009 | 10:58 AMFunny Dave the farthest star visble is only 500 million light years away, so we are seeing the star as is looked up to 500 Million years ago.......................Basis is correct but facts are sloppy to say the least.
...in response to this comment by DN. Funny still, the best I can find for an "object" that is visible to the naked eye is only 2.5 million light years away, and even that is a faint blot of the Andromeda Galaxy. So correcting sloppy facts with more sloppy facts is of no use. I never professed to know many facts in astronomy, but I do know with the likes of Hubble and even some land based large telescopes we can see 'Objects' ie galaxies that are a several billion lights years away. But at least my point is understandable to a fellow layman.
Macedonian
Saturday 3rd April 2010 | 08:34 PMPeople always limit time travel to either using a machine or traveling faster than the speed of light. You need to open up your minds and use them people! .
This story could very well be true. Also, there is no reason to limit time travel in one direction, namely forward. Going back is equally as possible since time is essentially an illusion created by humans to "mark" things.
Nice "theory" Dave. Unfortunately it's just an uneducated, er, layman's opinion. And the closest stars are NOT billions of light years away.
Macedonian
Saturday 3rd April 2010 | 08:43 PMOops, didn't mean "light" years. My bad. In light years, closest stars are only around 8 light years away FYI.
Squallxxx
Tuesday 3rd August 2010 | 01:39 PMGrandfather Paradox doesnt even apply to this basically because he claims he went to the future. Not his future self came to the past.
Henk V
Tuesday 3rd August 2010 | 02:58 PMPermutations, combination think of the time wrought masturbation....
its not a surprise, I saw a lot of it above.
Why do they make us scientists always look like weirdo's. Why couldn't the actor have been a muscled hulk with long blonde hair in a football shirt?
gilly
Tuesday 3rd August 2010 | 06:45 PMTattoo ink that doesnt fade after 40 years
He should have got the recipe, oh wait, does he have it now
Greg, another Swede
Friday 6th August 2010 | 03:07 AMFreaky though. Really would like to know how he believes he came back. This definitely should have been covered, perhaps he saw his wife and daughter too? The obvious questions not covered, wish I knew why?
Absolutea
Thursday 16th September 2010 | 04:31 PMIt's funny that a so-called "Swedish commercial", last's 2:48 (maybe more)...and is in English. LOL!
Heck Henke, if you're gonna come up with childish lies..do it somewhere else!
hello
Friday 17th September 2010 | 11:33 PMYou can just see a glimps of the scenery in the background, wonder ifs the same on the video as it is back in this day? Also the older mans nose is more pointy and the younger blokes nose is more round. Surely your nose doesnt alter that much as you get older?
Capt. Obvious
Monday 20th September 2010 | 03:46 PMThis is extremely easy to debunk. Anyone with any sort of software that can take measurements of the two men would easily come to the same conclusions I did with just a pen and a piece of scrap paper. It was a very convincing match at the tattoo showing part because the skin tones are visually identical and the tatoo on the older man's arm has less sharply defined edges and looks slightly faded as would be expected, BUT it's also what would be expected from a fresh ink copy on the younger man's arm. The problem is that barring that the ground wasn't level the older man is taller. There's a myriad of age related reasons why he should be shorter. The width of the shoulders differs in that the older man's is broader..again not what would be possible in the OLDER self version especially considering that the two are about the same weight and muscle build. That is also a factor in what nailed the debunking for me..the older man's tattoo is longer. There is no obvious weight, skin elasticity, or muscle gain issues that would make that possible. All it would take is some face recognition software to throw this out without even worrying about what is visually obvious. The nose arguement doesn't work on the basis that your nose doesn't change THAT much because the ears and the nose of men, especially, continues to grow throughout the lifetime and can be significantly larger and different looking as one ages. Also, wouldn't you take CLOSE UPS of you and your future self's faces if you had the mind to film anything in the first place? And wouldn't you record more than a half a minute or so? I'd be filming birthmarks and moles, scars...that would be more convincing. Just my 10 cents.
Birdman
Friday 29th October 2010 | 01:24 PMHe says he doesn't care what people think, right after he says to took the picture because he knew nobody would believe him.
Callin' BS.
"Missing: one frightened little girl. Name: Bettina Miller. Description: six years of age, average height and build, light brown hair, quite pretty. Last seen being tucked into bed by her mother a few hours ago. Last heard--aye, there's the rub, as Hamlet put it. For Bettina Miller can be heard quite clearly, despite the rather curious fact that she can't be seen at all. Present location? Let's say for the moment--in the Twilight Zone."
The hole into the other dimension is an example of a "Riemannian cut", which is a type of wormhole formed by two spaces being joined at the same set of points. The uncertainty of whether the other dimension was the fourth or fifth would point to a question of the dimensionality of the space our three dimensional universe is connected to or embedded in.
"The other half where? The fourth dimension? The fifth? Perhaps. They never found the answer. Despite a battery of research physicists equipped with every device known to man, electronic and otherwise, no result was ever achieved, except perhaps a little more respect for and uncertainty about the mechanisms of the Twilight Zone."
Once again, The Twilight Zone trumps all in the explanation of the shadow worlds.
Episode 91 Season 3 Written by Richard Matheson (1953) Original air date March 16, 1962
The article above was originally posted by Mikey on March 29th 2007, over three years ago. Once again the "Something Random" function of the blog turns out to be a terrific feature of Rusty Lime. Too bad we can's embed and put HTML into our comments; at least on a limited basis.
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Oh...sorry...I'm "All In!" on this one.
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...in response to this comment by hello. "Also the older mans nose is more pointy and the younger blokes nose is more round. Surely your nose doesnt alter that much as you get older?"
Indeed, surely not! But we're dancing a thin line here when we start confusing the under part of one's sink with the Lagrange points that come into play here. We're trying to blend plumbing with locations in space where gravitational forces and the orbital motion of a body balance each other.
Or, how can we rule out the obvious here? How can we possibly rule out the fundamental truths? How do we know that aliens didn't slip through the sink-space continuum and modify the guys features. It strikes me as "quite unusual" that people like Mr./Ms. Hello (if that is your real name) can just ignore the obvious to make their point.
Anyone who reads the bible on a regular basis can confirm that this type of human modification can occur on a regular basis.
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wrong 5th dimensions?
One problem with the script of the girl, if matter matter interactions can occur so as to allow sound to travel between dimensions then this would be an extra noisy place for all the events that occur between this and that dimensions in contiguous time... after all, a few days and she would have starved to death if these was no food and water.
The stupid thing about the ad (and thats why its only a prank) is that anyone can see that you have to be a time and space traveller and not just a time traveller. There is a hell of a monstrous distance between where the earth and the solar systems are over a 70 year return trip.
would have been a pity if he died on the return trip because he didnt calculate day light savings or leap years. In space, you have about 30 seconds to think about it!
Secondly, anyone as old as I may have read E.E. Doc Smiths Lensman series (top notch sci fi in the class of the Sharpe style of romantic swash buckling). You had to match vectors in his parlance when docking etc.
Try moving from one frame of reference to another.
of course, you could get your news from the Huffington post as well...
lord
Thursday 24th March 2011 | 07:47 AMi have a theory he hit his head on the pipe when he was going in he blacked out he had a dream
the mobile video runed my theory fuck you germans
Axel
Thursday 14th July 2011 | 11:05 PMIts fake, a swedish commercial. I know, im swedish.
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Jake
Sunday 23rd October 2011 | 12:39 AMI believe time travel is possible and occurs all the time... in space only, that is- through wormholes. Space bends all the time, shifting time and moving irregularly. Linking parallel universes. Einstein was able to convince everyone, and their are sciences revolving all around it. We however, do not. Maybe in hundreds or even thousands of years with a great deal of energy. But come on! How does plumbing move you through time? Even so, these are just two bald guys with identical tattoos. They look nothing alike. They don't even have the same face shape.
If we COULD travel through time, we couldn't see ourselves in the future, because we are ourselves so we wouldn't be there, because we left to travel through time. So we wouldn't have aged a bit. Unless your future self came back to see you, but again, that guy looks looks nothing like him, except for the fact that they have identical tattoos and are bald.
(According to Physics and well-explained sci-fi, two of the same materials or people from alternate time periods/universes cannot physically interact with itself or the result would be catastrophic and destructive. Like matter and anti-matter interacting. I can even disprove this myself.)
In other words, HOAX.
(I'll believe it when either I experience it, or scientists and politicians officially announced we can do it.)
Jake
Sunday 23rd October 2011 | 12:39 AMI believe time travel is possible and occurs all the time... in space only, that is- through wormholes. Space bends all the time, shifting time and moving irregularly. Linking parallel universes. Einstein was able to convince everyone, and their are sciences revolving all around it. We however, do not. Maybe in hundreds or even thousands of years with a great deal of energy. But come on! How does plumbing move you through time? Even so, these are just two bald guys with identical tattoos. They look nothing alike. They don't even have the same face shape.
If we COULD travel through time, we couldn't see ourselves in the future, because we are ourselves so we wouldn't be there, because we left to travel through time. So we wouldn't have aged a bit. Unless your future self came back to see you, but again, that guy looks looks nothing like him, except for the fact that they have identical tattoos and are bald.
(According to Physics and well-explained sci-fi, two of the same materials or people from alternate time periods/universes cannot physically interact with itself or the result would be catastrophic and destructive. Like matter and anti-matter interacting. I can even disprove this myself.)
In other words, HOAX.
(I'll believe it when either I experience it, or scientists and politicians officially announced we can do it.)
Jacob
Sunday 23rd October 2011 | 01:32 AM...in response to this comment by Dave VB. Dave, what you say is BASICALLY true except for a few things: time is an occurrence that does exist. It's not merely a mark or label in how we measure the series of events. Time is an occurrence that moves and shifts differently throughout the universe. If one cosmic event is altered, it will lead to multiple altered events following. Altering one event will change a timeline, bringing X (us, or whatever) to an alternate reality. Theoretically, there is an infinite number of alternate realities of universes that coexist outside of our universe. The difference can be miniscule, from barely noticed, to colossal- where nothing at all would be recognized.
Anyway, even today NASA can prove that time is an occurrence and not just a mark because time shifts differently the farther away from Earth you go. For example, if we were to send a ship to Mars with astronauts in it, the clock would measure that it took ( just a guess) 6 months to get there. But for those on Earth, their clock would have measured 8 years. This is because the closer to the speed of light you travel, the slower time moves around you. Time just moves differently in space period. But speed also is a huge variable. These aren't exact calculations, but it's just an example of how the speed of time can vary.
Otherwise, you are correct in that the light reaching us from stars and other celestial objects/occurrences are not accurate to the naked eye. Only with technology can we get a more accurate view. The Hubble telescope was a breakthrough. Within ten years NASA will soon have the most powerful telescope on a Satellite showing us more than we have ever seen. It is also in NASA's agenda to have an even more powerful one on the Moon. We're getting closer to become a space faring race. Look into Michio Kaku's theories.
Lomak
Friday 30th March 2007 | 09:28 AMPretty cool video. The guy may have been the victim of a bad prank himself though. As long as he believes it is all that matters.