Time Beings: Extreme Time Travel Conspiracies

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In 2007,

U.S. astronaut Michael López-Alegría

broke the American record for the longest space flight.

He spent more than seven months in space.

But as he orbited the planet

at nearly five miles per second,

something remarkable happened.

The astronaut aged at a different rate

than anyone else on Earth.

Time slowed down for him.

If you were to hop in a spaceship

and travel near the speed of light,

well, what would happen is

two days elapsed for you in the spaceship,

but two years passed here on Earth.

But how is that possible?

The riddle was solved in 1905.

Albert Einstein's theories of relativity

proved that time can speed up, slow down,

warp, and bend.

But is time travel more than a theory?

Is it science fact?

The greatest minds in science

like Einstein and Stephen Hawking

opened our understanding.

Once you see that evidence,

and you realize that it's real,

you go, "Oh, my God. This is amazing stuff."

Is there any proof

time travel is already happening?

There's every possibility that there are time travelers today.

Could time travel

have affected the events in history?

Stephen Hawking once said one of the ways to investigate time travel now

is not to try and invent a time machine.

It's to try and find time travelers.

Is the evidence out there?

These are the theories

that are perhaps too outrageous to ignore.

If that machine can do what you say it can,

destroy it, George, before it destroys you!

Human beings have been fascinated with time travel

since H.G. Wells published "The Time Machine" in 1895.

Literature and movies

have long captivated audiences

with stories of time travel,

but today the Internet brings not just stories

but a vast amount of knowledge,

and interest in time travel is reaching a fever pitch.

Technology and innovation are turning science fiction

into science fact.

One of the most popular searches

on the Internet is time travel.

If you look up time travel evidence,

you get 124 million search returns.

2010,

the tiny town of Bralorne in British Columbia, Canada.

The town's museum is closing its doors

and puts its collection of photographs online.

But one particular photo goes viral.

It was taken at the opening of a local bridge in 1941.

Is it possible that this picture

inadvertently captured the image of a time traveler?

The radically different appearance

of this man soon touches off a firestorm

of controversy.

The photo becomes widely viewed

and is soon known as the time traveling hipster.

A closer examination of the photo

reveals that the weathered edge

is consistent with the print dating from the 1940s.

Investigators quickly began analyzing

what seemed to be anomalous elements.

The camera he's holding

appears to be sleek and miniaturized,

not the bulky models of the period.

His sunglasses also look out of place.

They appear to be a style that wouldn't be sold

until at least the 1980s.

Others claim he's wearing a printed logo T-shirt,

but a machine to print images directly onto fabric

wasn't developed until 1947.

Lastly, his hairstyle.

It appears more modern,

compared to everyone else in the photo.

Is this a man out of time?

Believers say yes, but critics of time travel theory

say his miniature camera is not necessarily modern.

In fact, the man in front appears to have a similar model.

These types of cameras were available in the 1940s.

His so-called hipster sunglasses

were also not unknown at the time.

They were popular in northern climates,

where people needed to protect their eyes

from snow blindness.

The logo on his sweater could be a piece of fabric sewn on,

not a silkscreened image.

This was common practice for sports teams of the era.

Finally, his hairstyle.

While it definitely looks more modern

than anyone else in the picture,

hockey players of the time wore clumsy leather helmets,

which could easily result in hair

like the man in the picture.

A simple Internet search reveals other alleged instances of time travel.

You can go into any direction, and then we've had

some pretty fascinating cases on the Internet.

So, that just has amplified

the fascination with time travel.

In 2011, an Irish filmmaker uploaded bonus features

from a 1928 Charlie Chaplin movie called "The Circus."

Thousands of people watched it,

but the filmmaker noticed something others hadn't.

A woman in the background

seemed to be talking on a cell phone.

She became known as the Charlie Chaplin time traveler.

Some of the best examples of time travelers

are on the Internet, and one of them

is from a Charlie Chaplin movie

from the 1920s with... which clearly shows

a woman walking and talking on a phone.

Critics of time travel theory say

the alleged phone could simply be

a large 1920s hearing aid.

Hearing aids like the Acousticon model 56

were bulky and had handheld components.

Still, believers point out an interesting detail.

When the film is slowed down

and the frames carefully examined,

the woman's lips appear to be moving

as if she is talking.

Some experts believe that technology is possible

to allow people in different times to communicate.

I think that, if we're going to start

commercializing time travel, that the first thing...

the first mass market version of that will be a time phone.

Is there any basis in science for such a device?

The Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland

may provide an explanation.

Scientists there are searching for something

called the Higgs singlet.

It's a subatomic particle

believed to be able to travel through time dimensions.

The very time dimensions predicted by Albert Einstein.

Particles like these might be able to carry information,

such as a human voice,

back and forth between different timelines.

Einstein's special theory of relativity

suggests there are other time dimensions,

that there probably are,

and we just don't know how to access them.

The anomaly in the Charlie Chaplin film

and the so-called time traveling hipster photo

are part of a growing body

of possible time travel evidence

being examined on the Internet.

While neither of these images are definitive proof,

they are clearly worthy of investigation.

There are different theories

of how time travel might work in the real world,

If it's already been invented in the future, then it's here now.

It is undeniable that technology is improving by leaps and bounds.

An example is your smartphone.

It has more computing power

than all the computers combined

that sent a man to the moon in 1969.

So, the logic goes, if tech continues to evolve so quickly,

could time travel become possible?

And if that's the case,

could time travelers from the future

already be making the trip?

It is possible that time travelers

might already have come back,

using some other process or using a wormhole.

Another possibility has drawn the attention of researchers.

They allege that the U.S. government

already has secret time travel technology.

Attention is focused on the secretive agency known as DARPA.

DARPA stands for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

They have made advances in all of this,

time travel, antigravity, cognitive research,

artificial intelligence.

I held a secret clearance for about 20 years,

and many of the things that we worked on

were highly advanced and are still not published today.

Believers in time travel say it doesn't stop there.

They believe NASA is developing technology

straight out of "Star Trek."

A NASA engineer proposed real-life warp drive,

that basically could supply enough energy

to actually warp space.

This is being worked on right now.

The hidden part of this, of course, is if you're warping space,

Einstein showed us you're also warping time.

So, the flip side of NASA's current warp drive research

is that it's also time machine research.

Are we at the threshold