Subj : How to Build a Time Machine: Final Report To : All From : roman Date : Fri Mar 27 2026 09:10:53 How to Build a Time Machine: Final Report Table of contents: 1. Preface 2. Herbert Wells 3. Velimir Khlebnikov 4. Amos Ori 5. Nikolai Kozyrev 6. Vailiy Kaznacheyev 7. Albert Weinnik 8. Boris Dodonov 9. Dangers 10. The Tree of Time 11. Conclusions 1. Preface Friends, what if I told you that a time machine has already been built and tested? And that it did not look like a massive spaceship or industrial apparatus? And that there are at least three working designs of such machines? Interesting, isn't it? This time, I will try to introduce you to the fundamentals of the theory and practice of time travel. I have endeavored to briefly compile all the main milestones in the development of this field to provide a key for those of you who wish to build your own time machine. But I warn you, playing with time is dangerous. It carries severe consequences primarily for the travelers themselves. So, I am beginning! 2. Herbert Wells Beneath the great scientific insights and human tragedies lies one of the greatest mysteries ever to stir minds: the possibility of traveling through the fabric of time. This story begins not in scientists' laboratories but in a humble room of a London haberdashery shop, where a young men servant-cleaner, exhausted by poverty and despair, was on the brink of self-destruction. But precisely at this moment of despair, a spark ignited in his consciousness - an idea so radical that it not only saved his life but also forever changed the course of human thought. This young man was Herbert George Wells. Following a meeting with his former teacher, Wells turned to teaching, but his mind was already captivated by a vision. In 1895, he expressed this idea in the novel The Time Machine, originally titled The Chronic Argonauts. His brilliant concept was that Time is not an abstraction but a physical medium, the fourth dimension, through which one can move just as through space. He claimed that humans could build an apparatus, a machine capable of conquering this realm. Although Wells was not the first to speak of time travel (ancient myths and chronicles are full of such hints), he was the first to describe in detail the creation of an artificial device for it. He challenged the world, declaring: we can build the Unknown Thing, and go to the Unknown Place. Wells's prophetic gift proved frighteningly accurate. From his pen came 76 books, and over 80% of his predictions came true with alarming precision. However, by the end of his life, shaken by the horrors of World War II and the rise of Hitler, Wells fell into pessimism. In his books The Fate of Homo Sapiens (1939) and The Mind on the Edge of the Abyss (1945), he expressed doubts about the victory of human reason over dark instincts. But the seed was sown. 3. Velimir Khlebnikov Almost simultaneously, in Russia, futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov regarded time travel as an inevitable reality. He was convinced that he had created a Time Machine using a system of mirrors. In his work Boards of Fate (1922), he undertook a titanic attempt to uncover the numerical laws of time. He described his visions of future Moscow - avenues with colossal buildings, the "House-Book" (the building of the Economic Cooperation Society?), the "Poplar House" (the Ostankino Tower?) - with a precision bordering on the supernatural. Khlebnikov believed that behind the apparent chaos of events lay strict numerical patterns, akin to physical laws. He was convinced that he had discovered the "laws of time." Khlebnikov built graphs correlating dates of major battles, uprisings, and the fall of empires. He claimed they formed regular "waves" with peaks separated by 317 * n years. For personal fate, he used 365 days. The scientific basis for these ideas came from the depths of Einstein's theory of relativity. His equations showed that massive bodies distort space-time, and movement at sub-light speeds slows down time for the moving object. In 1949, Kurt Godel mathematically proved that solutions to Einstein's equations allow for the existence of closed time-like curves - loops returning to their own past. This further opened the door. 4. Amos Ori Israeli physicist Amos Ori, building on these works, provided the most comprehensive mathematical justification to date in the early 2000s. His calculations, published in Physical Review, demonstrated that a time machine is possible if the space-time continuum is shaped into a ring or funnel. A traveler moving along such a concentric structure would, with each turn, delve deeper into the past. However, creating such a structure requires gravitational forces of monstrous magnitude, comparable to those near black holes. Black holes, predicted by Pierre-Simon Laplace in the 18th century, are natural candidates for portals. Their "event horizon" is a boundary where known physical laws cease to operate, and space and time are thought to switch places. Traveling through a black hole could be a journey through time. Yet Ori admits that our technology is still infinitely far from practically realizing such a project. Or not? 5. Nikolai Kozyrev While theorists worked with equations, enthusiasts sought to find the key to time experimentally. Under the bleakest conditions, in the GULAG prison, Soviet astrophysicist Nikolai Alexandrovich Kozyrev began designing his own time machine. According to a legend described by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago, he lacked astronomical data to complete his calculations. After days of desperate prayer, an astronomical reference book fell at his feet - only to be almost immediately confiscated by a guard. Years later, at the Pulkovo Observatory, Kozyrev began experiments. He worked with rotating gyroscopes and discovered he could influence the flow of time by tiny fractions of a second. But the main breakthrough was his experiments with mirrors. "Kozyrev mirrors" are spiral structures made of polished aluminum, wound clockwise by 1.5 turns. Viewed from above, they appear as spirals of right or left twist. Essentially, they are macro copies of spin rotation, manifesting as static torsion fields - a kind of natural generator of geometric thought-forms, like pyramids or planets. According to this hypothesis, such structures reflect and focus not light but physical time - the chronoparticle flow. Thus, anyone could immerse themselves in the chronoparticle flow in their garage or workshop by creating such a device. I would also recommend adding a slight rotation to the structure itself using electromagnetic bearings to enhance the torsion field effect. 6. Vailiy Kaznacheyev In the early 1990s, under the leadership of Academician Vailiy Kaznacheyev at the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, experiments with people placed inside Kozyrev mirror cylinders were conducted. The results were staggering. Subjects reported out-of-body experiences, demonstrated telekinesis and telepathy. But the most mysterious was that they began to see past events as if they were participants. Historical scenes, amiliar and unfamiliar, unfolded before them. The question arose: were they transported into the past, or was the chronoreal - the reflection of events - projected into the present? The experiments were halted due to an inexplicable sense of danger. 7. Albert Weinnik These works were continued by other scientists. Corresponding member of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences Albert (later Viktor) Weinnik and physicist Anatoly Okhatryn repeated and expanded Kozyrev's experiments. Weinnik developed a theory of the chronal field (time field), claiming that objects could be rejuvenated or aged, but categorically denying the possibility of physical movement through time. Later, after a deep spiritual crisis, Weinnik publicly renounced his work, burned his books in the yard of the academy, and declared that time is an illusion, nonexistent in nature. This act of self-immolation of knowledge confused many but did not stop researchers. In the 1960s-80s, as a thermal engineer, Weinnik developed his own "temporalogical" theory of time. He believed that time is not just a physical quantity but a special form of matter (along with substance and field), possessing properties similar to a viscous fluid - it can be "accumulated," "spent," and flow at different speeds in different systems. Chronal matter of time is like radio waves: invisible and inaudible, but with a transmitter (the brain) and receiver (another brain), information can be transmitted (telepathy), and with a powerful impulse, devices can be affected (telekinesis). 8. Boris Dodonov Engineer Boris Dodonov, without delving into theoretical disputes between Weinnik and Kaznacheyev, approached the problem practically. He built a large spiral device from sheet metal. At its center, a suspended disk began to rotate spontaneously, which Soviet scientists believed was a direct consequence of some force - possibly pressure of time or ether. This supported Kozyrev's theory. In 1991, Dodonov patented a "motor using cosmic energy," and later developed medical devices based on it for biopolar correction and disease treatment. 9. Dangers However, behind all these discoveries lurk colossal, possibly insurmountable responsibilities and dangers. As early as 1990, in an informal conversation, a key question was posed: "Can we change history?" The answer was categorical: "Impossible! Any attempt will destroy the travelers themselves." This dilemma is brilliantly illustrated in Ray Bradbury's story A Sound of Thunder, where a crushed butterfly in the past catastrophically alters all future. Movies like The Terminator, Back to the Future, and Time Race predict the terrible possibility that one careless or malicious traveler could irreparably alter history. paradoxes arise. If history is a "film reel" in a single copy (as Laplace and his followers, such as ufologist Yuri Fomin, believed), then everything is predestined, including the very appearance of the traveler who will go into the past and change everything. Who then wrote this scenario? Science fiction writers proposed their solutions: travelers embody in dinosaur bodies ("I am a Dinosaur" by V. Khristoforov); their interference is prevented by a future, wiser version ("Crossroads" by D. Payson); they get stuck in a time loop of the same day - as in the Soviet movie Mirror for a Hero. 10. The Tree of Time The most logical model appears to be that of time as a sprawling tree. The present is a point where the broad, multi-variant future (the crown) narrows into a single, one-variant past (the trunk). Travel to the past is only possible along this single trunk. Travel to the future - along one of many branches. If a traveler in the past disrupts the course of events, they cannot return along their trunk. They will return to their present but on another branch, in a parallel world where history took a different path. For them, everything will change, but for those remaining in the original reality, nothing will happen. Thus, the past is a museum where you can look but cannot touch the exhibits. This implies that time machines are already present at all major historical events, secretly observing. Could some of the UFOs observed be, in fact, time machines of our descendants? Colonel Philip Corso, in his book The Day After Roswell, suggested that the Roswell incident might have involved not a spaceship but a time machine, and that the pilots could have been specialized humanoid robots created for long journeys through time. If so, their cautious, non-interfering behavior perfectly fits the rules of time travel. They hovered over battlefields, observed key political events, and tested new technology without ever revealing their presence openly. 11. Conclusions Creating a time machine is not merely a technical challenge. It is the ultimate test for humanity - a test of wisdom and readiness to accept the burden of knowledge about all its secrets and crimes. Those who fear a time machine fear the truth about themselves. And therefore, its use is inevitable. 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