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A photograph of a man who some claim is a time traveler in 1917 has resurfaced on the internet, and some have questioned the laws of physics.
100-year-old photograph
The photograph was taken more than 100 years ago in Canada and shows a group of men, women and children sitting on some kind of slope.
Sharp-eyed observers, however, noticed that the photograph stood out for a very strange reason – what appears to be a 20th-century man.
The photograph was discovered in Lester Ray Peterson’s 1974 book The Great Cape Scott Story – a tale about the history of the Canadian region.
What’s wrong with the photograph?
What fascinated those who came across this photograph appears to be the “surfer,” as some called him.
He is wearing a very baggy T-shirt and shorts with a modern wind-blown hairstyle and is clearly at odds with everyone else around him.
A closer look at the people around him shows that the man to his left appears utterly astonished by his presence.
Further to the right, a woman seems to be pointing at the alleged time traveler, leading to speculation that the man was out of place and out of his time.
Time travel
In fact, it almost looks as if he jumped straight into the scene as the photograph was taken.
YouTuber Jamie D. Grant went into a frenzy when he took the book and came across the mysterious photograph.
In the YouTube video titled Time Travel proof found. Truth or illusion? he says: “Notice the groups, their clothing, their hats. Even how they sit ready for the photograph.
“Look closer.” His head exposed, the hair, the shorts. The man on the left stares in disbelief.
Surfer
“Did the mysterious traveler demonstrate the impossible — time travel? What do you think?”
The “surfer” joined the so-called “hipster time traveler” who appeared in a 1940s photograph in a fashion-forward sense, seemingly decades ahead of the people around him.
One viewer commented on the video: “I looked at this book as a child and noticed this picture; it’s not just real; but even then I felt his clothing in this picture was somewhat ahead, I still get goosebumps.”
Photographs
Why doesn’t he belong in the picture?
Another person said: “That guy looks surprised in the picture.
“It seems like he’s from another time period. Great video.”
But as some pointed out, the “surfer” may seem to stick out like a sore thumb from the rest of the crowd, but his clothing could simply be very fashionable.
One person commenting on the book on GoodReads.com mentioned an article in the Post Gazette and said: 20th century.
“This article says that US Navy sailors were already wearing them in 1913.”
Photographs
Is it truth or a hoax?
“Since the other boys in the picture are wearing shorts, I’ll say he’s not a time traveler.”
“Besides Bill and Ted, would a time traveler think it best to wear a T-shirt and shorts when traveling back in time?”
In either case, all physicists agree that traveling back in time is impossible according to our current understanding of the universe and its laws.
According to Professor William Hiscock of Montana State University, we can advance with the effect of special relativity on time dilation. However, movement backward is a dead end.
Conclusion
The expert stated: “Time travel to the past, which people usually consider time travel, is a far more uncertain proposition.
“There are many solutions to Einstein’s equations of general relativity that allow a person to follow a worldline that would lead him (or himself) to meet earlier (or meet his grandmother).”
“The problem is deciding whether these solutions represent situations that could occur in the real universe, or whether they are merely mathematical oddities incompatible with known physics.”
The professor emphasized that no experiment or observation in the universe has ever suggested that such time travel would occur.
