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The probability of time travel existing is high, and once time travel is achieved then it exists throughout time.
Knowing that traveling through time is possible and that the universe is already billions of years old, it’s conceivable that some other civilization has already manipulated time and perhaps even found ways to travel though it. It’s even quite possible that humans someday create ways to travel backwards and forwards in time. If that’s true, then time travel already exists
Impossible artifacts litter many of the abandoned, forgotten basements of the world’s greatest natural history museums. In the dim, dusty corners—stuck away with the other embarrassments of archaelogy—lie some of the keys to the greatest mysteries of Mankind. Strange and unlikely artifacts found, studied and discarded are more common than most people know. Thousands of things have been discovered that argue against the natural order that scientists have deemed as the official record of the rise of humanity.
What is one to make of a machined screw found embedded in a lump of coal estimated to be 60 million years old? How did the screw get there? Who dropped it in a swamp bed that became a coal bed tens of millions of years later?
Non-humans visiting the planet accidentally dropped it, or, The science of the history and origins of Mankind is completely wrong and the human race existed many tens or hundreds of millions of years ago and had very advanced societies that all collapsed into barbarism, or, Time travelers from the future surveying the prehistoric past accidentally lost a screw. Sixty million years later coal miners discovered it.
A small steel cube was found in a block of coal in Austria in 1885. A few years later, in 1891, a woman in Illinois reportedly discovered a gold chain in a chunk of coal. An iron pot was found in coal in Oklahoma in 1912. A woman found a child's spoon in coal in 1937. In 1944 a bell was discovered (shown below) inside a lump of coal that was mined in West Virginia. What are such objects doing inside coal dated as hundreds of millions of years old?
The scientific journals Nature (London,1886) and L'Astronomie (Paris,1887) published confirmation that in 1886, in the foundry of the Austrian Isador Braun of Vocklabruck, a block of coal dating from the Tertiary period was broken open. A small metal cube was discovered inside. Tests indicated that the cube was composed of a steel-nickel alloy. It measured 2.64 by 2.64 by 1.85 inches, weighed 1.73 pounds, and had a specific gravity of 7.75. The edges of this ancient cube were perfectly straight and sharp; four of its sides were flat, while the two remaining opposite sides were convex. A deep groove had been cut all the way around the cube. It appeared that the cube had been machine made and was part of a larger mechanism.
It was perhaps with uncanny insight that historian Will Durant wrote, "Immense volumes have been written to expound our knowledge, and conceal our ignorance, of primitive man...primitive cultures were not necessarily the ancestors of our own; for all we know they may be the degenerate remnants of higher cultures..."
Originally posted by anon72
Sorry about the blank post. Drop something on the dam keyboard an sent it. It's Monday and I have been off for a week... ugh.
Time doesn't exist, clocks exist.
Originally posted by ZeroKnowledge
Adding few personal considerations -
Time travelers from future Earth to present/past Earth will most probably need a spacecraft too, - since Earth is not sitting in the same place all the time but flying through space at enormous speeds.
Time travelers from future Earth will not look like us due to technology "advancement",but probably will still be very similar.
Time travelers from future Earth will not be interested in any form of officially recognized contact since it does not benefit them in any way.
Originally posted by anon72
reply to post by JibbyJedi
Time doesn't exist, clocks exist.
You know, you make a very interesting point. Let me chew on that for a bit......
Hmmm. Time doesn't exist-except in our realm of thought.... (as far as we know). So, if a dog... were to be sent back in time... and it doesn't understand our concept of time... therefore he couldn't actually "time travel". Am I on track?
Lost super-civilizations, ancient astronauts…or time travelers?
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There can only be three possible answers
as it is now known, was originally housed in a wooden box about the size of a shoebox, with dials on the outside and a complex assembly of bronze gear wheels within. X-ray photographs of the fragments, in which around 30 separate gears can be distinguished, led the late Derek Price, a science historian at Yale University, to conclude that the device was an astronomical computer capable of predicting the positions of the sun and moon in the zodiac on any given date. A new analysis, though, suggests that the device was cleverer than Price thought, and reinforces the evidence for his theory of an ancient Greek tradition of complex mechanical technology.