The Introverted Detective: Possible Proof Time Travelers Exist

This one is a bit of a joke for kicks and giggles. Can we find proof of time travel in old photos and other goodies? Let's go hunting.

Courtesy of Cracked.com

Today we're going to look at some photos. I have chosen a few of them for us to view. The rest are in my sources. Before we go there, let's talk about the possibility that it is or isn't possible to travel through time.

According to one source, it is possible to travel through time - just not to change it. It suggests that anything you try to change would be altered back in order to avoid a paradox. The grandfather paradox is the idea that if you kill your grandfather by going back in time you're never born, yet, who would kill the grandfather? According to physics events could move in a circle and the ducks would all come into place to correct the paradox. Something would always get in the way of you killing your grandfather or your grandmother would already be pregnant to prevent the paradox.

Richard Muller maintains that since we are forever creating the future, we can't go there. He says time is expanding to create the future, thus logic says we can't get to the future because "now" is forever in the way. It all sounds very complicated and simple at the same time. He's written a book about it. He's studied Einstein's work to come to this conclusion, but so did the previous paragraph's source...so believe what you want to.

Another article I found maintains the viewpoint that time travel is breaking the space-time continuum. They think that articles of past and future were dropped and people got whisked to different time periods on accident temporarily. What? He has a whole bunch of pictures to prove it, allegedly. A woman was also found with modern shoes - and she'd been buried for at least a thousand years! Andrew Basiago tells about project pegasus, which is allegedly government-funded time travel experiments done in secret (allegedly during the 1960s-70s). The jump room was apparently where this all happened, where a device that allowed time travel used to exist. No proof has surfaced of this room. There is also a story of a hotel being stayed in (the couple finding it oddly old-fashioned) and then it not existing (and the proof going missing). Another incident involved a stranger getting a tap on the shoulder just in time to save him from being run over by a truck (and the stranger showed up just in time, too).

The Pictures Worth A Thousand Words

Before we go on let's talk about Photoshop. You can bet your boots that Photoshop is likely to be the culprit in some photos believed to be time travel proof. I need you to remember that even way back when they painted on negatives and portraits to make waists thinner. A good artist could take a portrait and make it look real.

1. The 1962 World Cup

What you need to notice is directly in the middle of the photo at the bottom. Is that a flip phone? It sure looks like it to me.

2. 1928 on the set of silent film "The Circus"

Is that a woman talking on a cell phone? In 1928? Maybe not and maybe so. The world may never know.

Some have come to the conclusion it was a hearing aid being held up to her ear, not a cell phone.

3. 1860

What is this woman holding? Is this a cell phone again? This was from 1860, so quite possibly not, but still looks like it. It could be anything, really, so believe what you like.

4. Marilyn Monroe

Apparently, someone wanted a selfie with Marilyn Monroe, but is that a smartphone in their hand? Is it a mirror? A digital camera? Her eyes look like they are on the screen. It could be a mirror or a screen.

5. Celebrity look-alikes from way back when

I'm going to show you some disproven and questioned pictures that look like they could prove actors time traveling. The Nicolas Cage one has been messed with, for reference, and the same is possible for all of them.

Nicolas Cage

Conan O'Brien

Eddie Murphy

John Travolta

Matthew McConaughey

Peter Dinklage

Most of this is probably just genetics at work. Seriously, I look just like a relative on one side of the family and the resemblance is uncanny. My grandparents showed me her picture. It isn't unlikely that genetics could do this type of thing.

Conclusion

This one was just good, clean fun. I don't know if time travel is wise, even if we could do it. I'd advise we maybe don't. I think it'd do more harm than good. What if you can't get back? That would be concerning. What if you go too far or die? Oops. At any rate, let's not mess with our own heads any more than we already have. I'd imagine it'd get messy socially. How do you explain your 2023 perspective to the people? You might end up in an asylum.

Create a great future for yourself out there, readers!

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