These days the physics of time travel has become a hot topic, even among serious scientists.
Einstein started the temporal revolution with Special Relativity, which allows you to travel into the future, and later with General Relativity, which allows spacetime, the union of space and time, to be curved and deformed by gravitational and dark energy forces.
Sending information through time should be easier than sending massive physical objects, but the general principles are the same.
You may be wondering why I am addressing time machines in the 'Spies' blog, instead of my personal blog that often deals with physics issues.
It just happens that some of the spies, are quite interested in all things having to do with the bending of time, and the human mind. STAR GATE was a classified program that dealt, in part, with what I have called "human time machines" -- people with an uncanny ability to forecast future events, like predicting that the first major terrorist attack against New York City and Washington, D.C. would involve the use of airplanes crashing into buildings -- fifteen years before the events took place.
What you may not be aware of, is the intimate connection between human time machines, and otherworldly intelligence, sometimes but not always identified with UFOs, but typically related to the hynopompic and hypnagogic encounters popularly called "alien abductions."
And that, perhaps, explains in part, the time machine aspect of those special humans.
To quote one of our favorite ex-spies, we add a caveat, "Or not."
What's interesting is the latest theoretical work on time machines coming from Professor Ori and other researchers at Technion in Israel.
There have been several popular stories about this work posted on the Internet. A good pop introduction is available at Ynetnews:
The new model resolves some of time travel's more daunting challenges. For instance, scientists believed that time machines called for matter with negative density. However, such matter doesn't appear to exist in large enough quantities.
But Ori's model takes a completely different approach and therefore requires matter with positive density, which is far less exotic. "The machine is space-time itself," he declares. "If we were to now create a time machine - an area with a distortion like this in space which allows time lines to close on themselves - it's possible that future generations would be able to come back and visit our era."
"Apparently, we will not be able to return to previous eras, because our predecessors did not create this infrastructure for us."
Ori stresses that although his theoretical model indicates that gravitational fields can be manipulated as needed, we still don't have the necessary technology to do so.
"The model which we developed at the Technion is indeed a significant step," he emphasizes. "But we are still faced with several unresolved problems which are far from simple. Conceivably, some of these problems won't be resolved in the future either. It remains to be seen."
Now here's the rub: Imagine that some other intelligence, besides humans, had developed this technology long ago. And that somewhere along the way, they had also traveled and arrived here on the Earth, and observed or even controlled the development of the planet. They might even move back and forth across time in their machines, to explore alternative outcomes, a scenario that is highly likely given modern physical theories about the so-called multiverse of parallel universes.
Somewhere along the way, these otherworlders might have interacted with human beings, seeding memories of alternative future events into their minds, in order to explore alternative outcomes. These predictions of future events from alternative futures would be prophetic in nature, because they would not be absolute but would only point to potential real-events, allowing free will to intervene and change the outcome.
What is even more interesting, is that idea appears consistent with aspects of the so-called "disturbing message of the core story" of the spies involved with UFO tales.
I'll leave you with one last thought: how far would the secret black underbelly of a government go to protect the information about future events, information that might allow any enemy state to circumvent national defense strategies?
