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Time Travel True Stories: Amazing Real Life Stories In The News
What do Scientists Say About Time Travel?
It's fair to say that most scientists today will tell you that time travel is impossible. Three of today's top physicists - Charles Liu, Brian Green and Michio Kaku - all hold that time travel is, if not impossible, unlikely in the extreme. However, one of the most brilliant minds of our time, physicist Stephen Hawking, disagrees - although only partially. He believes that time travel is theoretically possible, but only into the future.
.... But What Do Real People Experience?
The opinion of science, however, has never stopped thousands of people around the world from reporting what they firmly believe are actual experiences of spontaneous time travel! Still others insist that time travel is not only possible, but they have already done it as part of top secret government programmes.
Claims for time travel range from the highly flaky to the astoundingly believable. They are especially difficult to dismiss when time travel reports come from absolutely ordinary, rock-solid people who have nothing to gain by proclaiming they travelled in time.
Many people who report time travel experiences don't necessarily believe it themselves. What happened to them was so strange, so unexpected, yet so real; they simply have no other good explanation for their experience.
You will meet a number of such individuals in this book, most of their stories straight out of the headline of local newspapers. No doubt, a story or two will strike the reader as pure balderdash. On the other hand, some of these cases of time travel are tantalizing and unexplainable. They also come with a certain amount of solid evidence, such as stopped clocks, frozen machines and electromagnetic devices acting in inexplicable ways.
Physicist and NASA scientist Tom Campbell said that scientific advances always 'come from the fringe.' Thus, even if you consider some of these stories stepping dangerously 'out there' onto that fringy edge, remember that many of yesterday's fringe theories are today's scientific fact. At the very least, it doesn't hurt to approach the idea of time travel with an open mind and a sense of wonder.
It's fair to say that most scientists today will tell you that time travel is impossible. Three of today's top physicists - Charles Liu, Brian Green and Michio Kaku - all hold that time travel is, if not impossible, unlikely in the extreme. However, one of the most brilliant minds of our time, physicist Stephen Hawking, disagrees - although only partially. He believes that time travel is theoretically possible, but only into the future.
.... But What Do Real People Experience?
The opinion of science, however, has never stopped thousands of people around the world from reporting what they firmly believe are actual experiences of spontaneous time travel! Still others insist that time travel is not only possible, but they have already done it as part of top secret government programmes.
Claims for time travel range from the highly flaky to the astoundingly believable. They are especially difficult to dismiss when time travel reports come from absolutely ordinary, rock-solid people who have nothing to gain by proclaiming they travelled in time.
Many people who report time travel experiences don't necessarily believe it themselves. What happened to them was so strange, so unexpected, yet so real; they simply have no other good explanation for their experience.
You will meet a number of such individuals in this book, most of their stories straight out of the headline of local newspapers. No doubt, a story or two will strike the reader as pure balderdash. On the other hand, some of these cases of time travel are tantalizing and unexplainable. They also come with a certain amount of solid evidence, such as stopped clocks, frozen machines and electromagnetic devices acting in inexplicable ways.
Physicist and NASA scientist Tom Campbell said that scientific advances always 'come from the fringe.' Thus, even if you consider some of these stories stepping dangerously 'out there' onto that fringy edge, remember that many of yesterday's fringe theories are today's scientific fact. At the very least, it doesn't hurt to approach the idea of time travel with an open mind and a sense of wonder.
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186 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2013
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January 10, 2018
Very fascinating collection of "true" time travel stories. Book has 186 pages but font is pretty large so stories are very short which is a shame as most of them are very interesting and curious reader would like stories to have more details & content.
February 20, 2022
Many of the stories were time "slips" (randomly finding yourself in another time period for only a few minutes) rather than time travel as it's generally understood and conveyed in movies. The only conventional time travel story (and perhaps the most bizarre since he also claims to have traveled to Mars) was that of Andrew Basiago's who claimed to have travel back in time to the Lincoln assassination on several occasions in an attempt to identify the shooter, which he was never able to do.
The phenomenon of retro-causality is interesting, but I don't think the book's description of it does it as much justice as just doing a web search and reading about it.
Nonetheless, it was an interesting read with some puzzling stories and compelled me to look up Andrew Basiago podcast appearances, information on the multiverse, and the research of Daryl Bem.
The phenomenon of retro-causality is interesting, but I don't think the book's description of it does it as much justice as just doing a web search and reading about it.
Nonetheless, it was an interesting read with some puzzling stories and compelled me to look up Andrew Basiago podcast appearances, information on the multiverse, and the research of Daryl Bem.
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December 8, 2017
Yes!
This book certainly encourages thought and discourages skepticism. The evidence seems to point more towards belief and away from doubt. Whatever your opinion it will give you much more to think about, so do read it please.
This book certainly encourages thought and discourages skepticism. The evidence seems to point more towards belief and away from doubt. Whatever your opinion it will give you much more to think about, so do read it please.
June 23, 2018
Interesting
It was an interesting read if you like that sort of thing. Capturing the imagination while anchoring it down with a little bit of science. A good start for the potential time traveller.
It was an interesting read if you like that sort of thing. Capturing the imagination while anchoring it down with a little bit of science. A good start for the potential time traveller.
February 5, 2020
Good
Good for podcast research. Nice collection of short easy to read cases. Not sure if worth full price but as a kindle unlimited subscriber well worth the time.
Good for podcast research. Nice collection of short easy to read cases. Not sure if worth full price but as a kindle unlimited subscriber well worth the time.
August 25, 2016
I thought this book was great! It's well written and so fascinating. I'd recommend it to people who like 'weird but true' stories. I've held back giving it 5 stars only because a few of the stories seemed pretty tenuously linked to time travel, in that they seemed more like alien abduction/ghost/OOBE stories, although the author does argue his case for including them. Either way, I like that kind of thing and I thank the author for introducing me to some new people to research further, as he really only summarises some experiences that I want to know more about, including Andrew Basiago's time travel for the CIA, and Joe McMoneagle's remote viewing of Mars. The time slips in Liverpool were so exciting! There is a sequel to this book that I'll definitely be reading now.
April 20, 2014
I didn't realise there was many time travel stories out there until,you read this book, it is fascinating, but I'd like for it to have been a little it more longer. I found the mention of aliens a bit off putting in some of the stories. Intriguing stories for anyone with an open mind.
September 3, 2016
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It would have been nice if it was longer, but it gives excellent sources to find additional information on the subject.
April 1, 2016
Great read.
I enjoyed this book very much. I did not realize there were so many "time travel/slip" stories. Enjoy. It's a fascinating read.
I enjoyed this book very much. I did not realize there were so many "time travel/slip" stories. Enjoy. It's a fascinating read.
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