Albert Einstein's
incredible legacy which includes over
300 scientific papers continues to influence the
world more than a half century since his death. And while Einstein redefined our
understanding of the universe, perhaps his greatest
contribution to mankind is still to come-- time travel. RONALD L. MALLETT: It's
Einstein's special theory of relativity, speed of
light, and the general theory of relativity, which allows for
the real possibility of time travel. NARRATOR: Some scientists today
believe that Einstein's theory of relativity creates
the possibility to travel through a portal or
wormhole called an Einstein Rosen Bridge, a space anomaly
that may actually be a gateway to parallel universes. MICHAEL DENNIN: In the
theory of general relativity, space actually
acts like something that you can bend and
warp and make holes in. Then Einstein Rosen Bridge
is a particular example of a wormhole. And a wormhole as a
structure in space and time that involves kind of
tearing a hole in space, stretching the material--
if you think of space being a material-- and reconnecting
it somewhere else. An Einstein Rosen Bridge
takes two points in space and connects them. So that if you travel in one
end, you come out the other. Even though those two points
appear in different universes, it's essentially a
teleport or something that allows you to get
between two distant places instantaneously. NARRATOR: Could Einstein's
theoretical wormhole actually serve as a portal
to another universe? Perhaps opening a
gateway that will one day establish contact between
humans and extraterrestrials? DOC BARHAM: When we
take a look at the idea that there are wormholes,
and that these are actually generally accepted by some of
the most brilliant individuals on the planet, what you begin to
see is that all of these pieces are in place to suggest that
there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe
and that there is also the likelihood or possibility
that we have had contact in the past or have
ongoing contact now or may have contact
in the future as well. NARRATOR: Was Albert Einstein's
monumental work actually a lifelong quest to establish
contact with extraterrestrials? Did otherworldly beings
provide him with information about how to transcend
both space and time? If so, why? PHILIP COPPENS: We find that
the greatest discoveries across time and space don't
come through hard work or intensive labor, but that
really the genius somehow is able to access a realm,
and that that realm is able to pretty much download
that information to them and makes them remember
forever onwards as geniuses. DAVID CHILDRESS: In history,
you have certain people whose genius is just so incredible. It's like they're
able to see the future and they're not going to
just influence the world then and in the future. But what they're going to do
is going to dramatically change the world forever. PHILIP COPPENS: We tend to think
of civilization as this flow ebb of information, that
somehow across the flow of time, we have progressed. But really, this
is not the case. We have made giant strides
forwards because at pockets in time, there were
certain geniuses living. NARRATOR: Are
extraterrestrials accelerating the cognitive abilities
of a select few to help further the development
of human civilization as some ancient astronaut
theorists believe? Could this explain
Albert Einstein's extraordinary neural anatomy? GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
Is it only a coincidence that arguably the greatest mind
in the history of the world had a higher concentration
of glial cells and a wider parietal lobe than the
average human brain and was as healthy as the brain
of a young man when he died? That is extraordinary evidence. DAVID CHILDRESS: If you were
able to study the brains of some of these other genius-- Isaac Newton, of Nikola
Tesla, and perhaps now, with someone like
Stephen Hawking-- I think we would find that their
brains too are significantly different than a normal human's. PHILIP COPPENS: There seems
to be something within our DNA whereby we go in
one direction and we seem to have in
normal human being but also certain
things within our DNA are able to make us a genius. And definitely, Einstein
was one of them. But what makes this switch work
is something which we have been completely incapable
of answering. "The Mahabharata," in
this sacred Indian text written in the 8th
century BC, King Revaita is described as
traveling to the heavens to meet with the
creator god Brahma, only to return to Earth
hundreds of years in the future. Some researchers
believe this Hindu tale may be one of the oldest
records of successful time travel in the ancient past. There's the story of
a king called Revaita. And he is taken into
space to see the gods. And when he returns
to the Earth, he finds that many
ages have gone by, and it's been hundreds of years. And this is the
kind of thing that would happen to space travelers
and in time travel as well. You think you're gone
for only a few days, but when you return
to Earth you find out that you've been gone
for hundreds of years. NARRATOR: Like the
legend of Chaco Canyon, similar tales of time
travel can be found all around the ancient world. In Japan, the legend
of Urashima Taro details a fisherman's visit to
the protector god of the sea, Ryujin, in an underwater palace
for what seemed like only three days. When he returns to
his fishing village, he finds that it's been 300
years that he's been gone. And his house is in ruins. Everybody he knows is long dead. No one remembers
him or his family. NARRATOR: And in
the Hebrew Bible, descriptions of the prophet
Jeremiah in Jerusalem are eerily similar to both of
these accounts of time travel. Even in the Bible,
the prophet Jeremiah was sitting together with
a few of his friends. And there was a young boy. His name was Abimelech. And Jeremiah said to Abimelech,
go out of Jerusalem-- there's a hill-- and collect some figs for us. The boy went out and
collected the fresh figs. All of a sudden, Abimelech hears
some noise and wind in the air, and he became unconscious. He had a blackout. After a time, he
wakes up again, and he saw it was nearly the evening. So he runs back to the
society, and the city was full of strange soldiers. And he said, what's
going on here? Where is Jeremiah
and all the others? And an old man said,
that was 62 years ago. It's a time travel story
written in the Bible. NARRATOR: Southern Egypt,
Agilkia Island, here, just six miles upstream from Aswan,
in the Nile River Valley, lies the Temple of Isis. Built in the 4th
century BC, the temple was a center of worship for the
Egyptian goddess of fertility and nature until
the 6th century AD. Isis became the most important
deity which ancient Egypt ever had. She was married to
her brother, Osiris. And together they really became
the popular husband and wife to which everybody
wanted to be like. She is seen as a symbol of
life, whereas the Cyrus is seen as the deity who
rules over the death. And so whether you are alive
or whether you are dead, you can always identify
with Isis and Osiris. NARRATOR: According to ancient
Egyptian religious belief, the goddess Isis was
known as the divine mother and believed to be the
soul of the brightest star in the sky, Sirius. To the ancient Egyptians,
Osiris was Orion. That constellation actually
was a literal living embodiment of the great God Osiris. Sirius was the representation of
his wife, sister, and consort, Isis. Together those two
essentially ruled the skies and the life of the
Egyptian people themselves. Many ancient cultures,
including the Egyptians, Chinese, the Greeks,
and Japanese, all had beliefs and legends
that our gods who created us have come from Sirius. And this star is an
extremely important star to almost all ancient cultures. This knowledge originally
emerged in ancient Egypt and in Africa with
the Dogon tribe, who taught that beings
of light came from Sirius and created humankind. And it's clear that so many
cultures possessed information about Sirius, and
they single out Sirius apart from everything else. And it's got nothing to
do with its brightness. It has to do with the fact
that somehow Sirius is responsible for sending us
emissaries who educate us. The Singapore Air
Show, February, 2014. An Israeli army company known as
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems reveals details of a
laser defense system capable of shooting missiles
from the sky with a pulse of energy. [missile zooming] The futuristic military
hardware is called iron beam. The concept of iron beam is that
it's essentially a high energy laser that is designed to
rapidly heat up the target that it's aimed at. We're talking about
aircraft, drones, missiles. Anything that could
launch an attack on a city could be literally destroyed
in the sky by iron beam. This sounds very much
like Tesla's death ray. DAVID CHILDRESS: This is
exactly the kind of technology that Tesla was talking
about in the 1920s and 30s of using these beam
weapons to shoot down missiles and projectiles. DAVID WILCOCK: The war
department sided with Einstein and Oppenheimer's atomic
bomb, not with Tesla. But now what we're seeing
is that Israel is developing this ion beam technology,
because they realized that atomic weapons were
far too destructive. Is it possible that Tesla
developed a time-viewing or time-travel technology,
and that he became aware of these developments. NARRATOR: Tesla was once quoted
as saying the present is theirs but the future for which I
have really worked is mine. Did Tesla, in fact,
see into the future. Might iron beam be proof
that plans for the death ray not only existed but also may
have even been confiscated and carried out by the
United States government. There are those who believe
that Nikola Tesla was not only in contact with
extraterrestrials but was sent here to Earth
by them to fulfill a mission and usher in a new
age for mankind. MARC SEIFER: One of the big
questions is who is Tesla. Is he in a sense an avatar
or an enlightened being that comes to the
Earth to help humans? No one really knows exactly
what's going on, but I think all great artists-- and Tesla
saw himself as an artist-- feel that their instruments
of a higher purpose, and Tesla certainly felt that he was
working along those lines. RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK: There
is an agenda for humanity. There is a, plan and in every
generation, whatever power it is that's behind the plan sends
to Earth certain specific souls who are by birth more inclined
and able to be receptors to the higher knowledge. Storrs, Connecticut,
January 2012-- in a lab at the
University of Connecticut, theoretical physicist
Ronald Mallett demonstrates his large scale
model of a time machine. Using a device called a
ring laser that produces a circulating beam of
light, the professor hopes to prove that the twisting
light actually bends space, forming a loop in time. Now, what's happening
here is that these lasers, even though you can't see
it, they're actually creating a circulating pattern of light. And that's circulating
pattern of light is actually twisting
the empty space in here. The twisting of
space will eventually lead to a twisting of time. In Einstein's theory,
the two are connected. And that twisting
of time will be where time travel is occurring. Because if you think of time
as being a straight line, then if we twist space, then
what will happen eventually is that the space will
twist time into a loop. So the breakthrough
in my work is to use light to manipulate
time, and actually allow for the possibility of
going back in time using light. NARRATOR: Although this
is only a prototype, Mallett believes he may be
able to create a working time machine in as
little as 10 years. He believes the energy
of the light beams will produce a gravitational
field strong enough to drag a spinning
neutron through time. Let's say I'll call
the spin up a one, and I'll call spin down a zero. So imagine I send a
stream of neutrons with spin up, spin up,
spin down, spin up. What do you call that? That's binary code. So by using the
spin of neutrons, I could send a binary code,
which could be translated into a message. NARRATOR: But could this
technology ultimately be able to send larger
objects through time, like a person or a spacecraft? Einstein's theory
of relativity allowed for something called the
Einstein-Rosen Bridge, which is what we
today call a wormhole. It opened up the possibility
that we can travel from point A to point B somewhere
else in the universe as if there were
nothing in between. NARRATOR: If the possibility
exists to travel instantly from one end of the universe
to another through wormholes, might there be evidence
that such technology was used in the ancient past? The ancient Egyptians knew
about stargate and wormhole travel. The evidence that I discovered
is at the Temple of Hathor at Dendera. When you enter into
this temple, you look up on the ceiling, which
is called the astronomical ceiling, and you see the gods as
ascended light beings traveling on their ships of eternity. And it suggests to me that the
ancients didn't use the term wormhole for these
time travel portals, but were clearly talking
about the same thing.
