³¼TIME TRAVELLING¼³ ¹ Humans dissapear into nothing. Were they or are they in another time? The young man on the busstop in Newark, USA, seemed to be confused. As though he would have just stood up, he looked at himself: His dress was dirty and used, the shoes didnt fit, in his pocket he had only 7 Cents. Helpless Bruce Burkan looked around: How did he get here ? From where did he get the clothes ? Why is he here ? What on earth had happened to him ? Two months and two days were deleted in his memory. The time stood still for him at the 22 of August 1967. The last thing he can remember: that he was smimming at the beach of Asbury, Paris, New Jersey and, only dressed with his smimming suit, wanted to fetch something out of the car. But he never got there. Some physicians which examined the totally downed Burkan after his appearance on the 24 of October 1967 believe that the 19years old got into a "Timetrap", kind of a "Timemachine" and lived the days in another dimension. But: In which ? And: Where does she take place ? The scientists the young man told: "I dont know anything about the passed months. It is just like i have stopped living." Bruce Burkan is not a single case. Time by time humans dissapear. But that cases are being reveled, because there can not be made a scientific statemant (not by now). So the investing officials stood before a riddle as the two british Air Pilots D.R. Stewart and W.T. Day disappeared: On 24 of Juli 1924 the pilots started one of their regular patrol over the arabian desert. As they did not come back and no radio contact could be made a search troup started. Uncanny: The totally working machine was found startable in the desert. The machine had enough fuel and there was no sign of combat. A track of two humans led from the machine gone. But suddenly they stopped in the sand. As though as the both had fly away. Did they stepped into the door of nothing, in another world, in another time ? Is that really possible ? And if yes, how ? In Science Fiction movies just like "Back to the Future" it happens over the speed: The hero of the story sits in a timemachine, gives speed, drives on - and dissapeares into nothing. He is racing through the endless of the univers or time - and lands in the past. Just fiction ? By no means. Albert Einstein has prooved with his special theory of relativity that for an astronaut who is moving nearly with light speed (nearly 300 000 km/s) through space, the time passes slower than for humans on earth. With photon-space ships such travels are theoreticly possible. By a travel of 20 years in space on earth 270 years would have passed. The hook is: the uncredibly energy thats is needed to make the space ship near light speed. Three Astrophysicians discovered a solution - kind of a shortening through space and time - the "wormholes". On 26 of September 1988 Michael S. Morris, Kip S. Thorne and Ulvi Yurtserver from California Institute of Technology (CALTECH) released their sensationell article in the highly reputed magacine "Physical Review Letters": "Wormholes, time machines and weak energy conditions". Following the puplication it would be possible to create holes - wormholes - in our universe. Would they be stable it would be possible to get through that holes into another time. Professor John L. Friedmann of the Wisconsin University in Milwaukee (USA) tryed to explain the timetravelling-theory of the astro-physicians for the layman. He compared the way through time with a cupboard with two doors - one door at the front, one at the back - that is sepperating two different worlds. Friedmann: "The walls of the cupboard seem from each side to enclose a little room. But on each side is a different univers. The cupboard himself is a wormhole - kind of a timetunnel between two worlds." The wormholes should work after the same way as the "black holes". This glowed planets compresses after their breakdown. They turn around much faster than the earth. So an eddy with a huge attraction is beeing made. Similar to water going out of a bathtub. In a cosmic eddy the laws of time, space and speed that we know dont exist. The theory: If a spaceship would be able to adjust to the eddy it could be able to pass the black hole. Just like a cork that is beeing drawed by the eddy of the bathtub. On another place in another world and time the space ship could appear. The scientists call that possible appearence point as opposite "White Hole". Friedman and three CALTECH-physicians believe strongly that the laws of physic will allow a later on generation to create artificial such wormholes and to hold them long enough open to get manned or not manned spaceships through them. But because wormholes not as their huge models in space would break down at once, each end has to be hold by a mettalplate. Such as a door-frame holds a door: Between that mettallplates enough energy had to be build to keep them from breaking down. And so a timetravell with a wormhole should work: One of the ends keeps fixed, the other one will be send with huge speed on a round trip. As though a rope would swing. Somewhere in the Nomanland beyond our fourdemension world - in the hyperspace - it would stop and retrun to the start point. By that a time difference between the two ends is beeing made. For the moved end - the rope that is flying through the time - the time passes slower as for the fixed starting point. That one has the moved wormhole so to say fetched over. Theoretical result: If a timetraveller leaves the moved end he will be in the earth past. If he passes the wormhole in the opposite direction he would return to his starting time. Thats the theory of the US-Scientists. The Isreal Physic-Professor Yakir Aharonov thinks that a time machine which is in a strong ball like cover is possible. If the Radius of the ball is beeing raised the time in the ball passes faster and if the radius is beeing reduced it passes slower. Another theory comes out of US too: The cosmopolitan Richard Gott from the highly reputed University Princeton would link his timemachine in so called "cosmic ropes". This long, thin Energypakets would be able to make short circuits that would capult timetraveller to the future or past. Critics of the timetravelling-idea say that the travell through time is not practicable because it would conjure up offences against the time sequences. Their arguement: It could give time travellers which, for what reason ever, kill their own ancestrys, what would cause, that they delete themselves, so to say, make they birth impossible. A painful end of a timetravell. Some scientists believe that they can explain the phenomenon of the undefined flying objects (UFO) with help of the timetravell. Their believes: UFOs are not space ships with creatures from the deep space, but timetravellers on a history-trip, which just look around to get a picture of how their ancestrys lived. This theory, that so called UFOs are nothing else than timetravell-machines, which jump around on the earth time through wormholes, are after their believs proofed through seen flyingmaneuvers. They should make crazy stop- and turning maneuvers, which totally contradict to our know physical laws. Because of that mockers speak of "wormhole-hoper". Timeanomalies in the near of UFOs, of which is often beeing told, could also be an proff for the timetravell-theory. Just bevore short time the TASS-reporter Sergej Bulantsew let he west colleague know that in sommer 89 at supposed UFO appearences in the near of Moscau such anomalies had been seen: "I am not sure if you dont know anything about the strange timeeffect, which had been registered in the near of the landing points. All clocks there worked slower. This also happened to electric clocks." Similar happened in the english Potten End. At the 9 of September 1969 it happened that all clocks stopped working for one hour. At 20 o clock they stopped. Familiars with the locality say that they heard in that night a continiuos dial hum and saw strange flying objects. A speaker of the Royal Navy ment helpless that never bevore they were confronted witch such a phenomenon. Perhaps we are closer to the solution of the UFO-mysery than we think. Certain is that in the visible future the dream of travelling through time will stay an utopia. And so at least the movie, in which everything already works, stays. ³Rainman/Robert¹