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.
And the only question is when did this happen, and what did
the chrononauts discover there when they plunged into the
abyss of time?

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