Is time travel possible?
As the two women stood dumbfounded, a repulsive man with a pockmarked face approached and urged them to change their direction
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As the two women stood dumbfounded, a repulsive man with a pockmarked face approached and urged them to change their direction
The most dramatic story of time travel, which has been documented by the British Society for Psychical Research, covered the case of two Oxford professors, Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain. The story, which took place on 10 August 1901, is retold by Michael Talbot in his book, The Holographic Universe.
Here is the story:
"The two were walking through the garden of the Petit Trianon at Versailles, France, when they saw a shimmering effect pass over a landscape in front of them, not unlike the special effects in a movie when it changes from one scene to another. After the shimmering passed, they noticed that the landscape had changed. Suddenly, the people around them were wearing 18th-century costumes and wigs, and were behaving in an agitated manner.
"As the two women stood dumbfounded, a repulsive man with a pockmarked face approached and urged them to change their direction. They followed him past a line of trees to a garden where they heard strains of music floating through the air, and saw an aristocratic lady painting a watercolor.
"Eventually, the vision vanished, the landscape returned to normal, but the transformation had been so dramatic that when the women looked behind them, they realized the path they had just walked down was now blocked by an old stone wall.
"When they returned to England, they searched through historical records and concluded that they had been transported back in time to the day when the sacking of the Tuileries and the massacre of the Swiss Guards had taken place — which accounted for the agitated manner of the people in the garden — and the woman in the garden was none other than Marie Antoinette.
The transformation had been so dramatic that when the women looked behind them, they realized the path they had just walked down was now blocked by an old stone wall.
"So vivid was the experience that the women filled a book-length manuscript about the occurrence and presented it to the British Society for Psychical Research."
Changing the future
Now, the crucial question of my caller — if this is true, that we can travel back in time — can we then change the past? Apparently, the answer is no, if we base it purely on this and similar cases.
As mentioned in other books, when the two women tried to call the attention of the people they had seen there, they were ignored, as if they were not there at all! Except for that one person who asked them to change their direction, no one seemed to notice them. The scene they were transported to took place a hundred years before!
There were several other cases of time travel cited by Mr. Talbot in his book. In the end, he asked the following question:
"Is the boundary between the present and the past so flimsy that we can, under the right circumstances, stroll back into the past with the same ease that we can stroll through a garden?"
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