Time traveller caught at 1928 Chaplin film premiere

pjfan31 · October 2010

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/8 ... lm-footage

Video on page.
For years, humans have wondered if time travel is a possibility – a possibility that's caught the fancy of many a writer and theorist.

But if vintage footage from a Charlie Chaplin film premiere is any indication, that fantasy may well have been actualised.

Belfast filmmaker George Clarke, a keen collector of Charlie Chaplin memorabilia, has made a bizarre discovery in a DVD of the premiere of Chaplin's 'The Circus' made in 1928.

In the footage, he noticed a person dressed like a woman walking by the camera, talking into a flat black object that appears uncannily like a mobile phone.

The only catch - there were no mobile phones or towers back in 1928.

Clarke screened the intriguing footage for a select audience but did not find any convincing answers – except time travel – to explain what he saw.

The clip, also posted on YouTube, has already received a massive half-a-million views and members have offered up possibilities like microphones, hearing aids, walkie-talkies and even alien communication technology.
A time traveller, an alien or just someone with hearing trouble? Watch and decide for yourself.

81 · October 2010

Looks like it was filmed last week

catefrances · October 2010

i told them this could happen.

pjfan31 · October 2010

catefrances wrote:

i told them this could happen.

Has anyone ever told you cate that you would make a good taxi driver?

tvismyfriend · October 2010

They better get on making a time machine in my lifetime then. I want to go back and become a king of a country, preferably not France.

catefrances · October 2010

pjfan31 wrote:

catefrances wrote:

i told them this could happen.

Has anyone ever told you cate that you would make a good taxi driver?

like travis bickle you mean???

pjfan31 · October 2010

tvismyfriend wrote:

They better get on making a time machine in my lifetime then. I want to go back and become a king of a country, preferably not France.

Why don't you move to Tonga and marry the Tongan princess? Now she is a big girl, but you two would make a lovely couple. Then you can become King.

pjfan31 · October 2010

catefrances wrote:

pjfan31 wrote:

catefrances wrote:

i told them this could happen.

Has anyone ever told you cate that you would make a good taxi driver?

like travis bickle you mean???

No, like the guy I had a couple of weeks ago, who knows all about conspiracy, all about politics, all about what is wrong with the world, all about what's wrong with kids these days, all about what's wrong with public transport and education and hospitals.

But... He is a taxi driver.... makes me laugh but good luck to him.

catefrances · October 2010

pjfan31 wrote:

catefrances wrote:

pjfan31 wrote:

Has anyone ever told you cate that you would make a good taxi driver?

like travis bickle you mean???

No, like the guy I had a couple of weeks ago, who knows all about conspiracy, all about politics, all about what is wrong with the world, all about what's wrong with kids these days, all about what's wrong with public transport and education and hospitals.

But... He is a taxi driver.... makes me laugh but good luck to him.

ill just let you out here amd make you walk the rest of the way home i think.

oh and i dont think there anything wrong with kids these days. as for conspiracies.... let me tell you what i heard.....

LikeAnOcean · October 2010

It's definitely a time traveler, but what I find unbelievable is, how the hell are they getting any reception?

tvismyfriend · October 2010

pjfan31 wrote:

tvismyfriend wrote:

They better get on making a time machine in my lifetime then. I want to go back and become a king of a country, preferably not France.

Why don't you move to Tonga and marry the Tongan princess? Now she is a big girl, but you two would make a lovely couple. Then you can become King.

Apparently they're turning into a constitutional monarchy and I would prefer to be absolute.

Hugh Freaking Dillon · October 2010

dammit! I told Marty not to let his Gramma play with the flux capacitor!!

mookeywrench · October 2010

http://www.hearingaidmuseum.com/gallery/Carbon/WesternElectric/info/westelect34a.htm

81 · October 2010

LikeAnOcean wrote:

It's definitely a time traveler, but I find unbelievable is, how the hell are they getting any reception?

Clearly not an att customer

tvismyfriend · October 2010

mookeywrench wrote:

http://www.hearingaidmuseum.com/gallery/Carbon/WesternElectric/info/westelect34a.htm

Way to ruin my dreams of absolute power. Now I'm going to have to go to school for engineering and build myself a Death Star.

mookeywrench · October 2010

tvismyfriend wrote:

mookeywrench wrote:

http://www.hearingaidmuseum.com/gallery/Carbon/WesternElectric/info/westelect34a.htm

Way to ruin my dreams of absolute power. Now I'm going to have to go to school for engineering and build myself a Death Star.

Time travel to the future might still be possible. Then go into the future to the point where they invent time travel into the past, then your dreams will come back to life....but for now you're doomed.

OceanInDisguise13 · October 2010

wow this is some bizarre stuff.

catefrances · October 2010

mookeywrench wrote:

tvismyfriend wrote:

mookeywrench wrote:

http://www.hearingaidmuseum.com/gallery/Carbon/WesternElectric/info/westelect34a.htm

Way to ruin my dreams of absolute power. Now I'm going to have to go to school for engineering and build myself a Death Star.

Time travel to the future might still be possible. Then go into the future to the point where they invent time travel into the past, then your dreams will come back to life....but for now you're doomed.

how can you time travel to some place that doesnt exist yet??

Hugh Freaking Dillon · October 2010

time travel only exists in the context of time being a relative entity.

mookeywrench · October 2010

catefrances wrote:

how can you time travel to some place that doesnt exist yet??

From everyone's "go-to" time travel resource guide, Wikipedia:

Time travel to the future in physics

Twin paradox diagramThere are various ways in which a person could "travel into the future" in a limited sense: the person could set things up so that in a small amount of his own subjective time, a large amount of subjective time has passed for other people on Earth. For example, an observer might take a trip away from the Earth and back at relativistic velocities, with the trip only lasting a few years according to the observer's own clocks, and return to find that thousands of years had passed on Earth. It should be noted, though, that according to relativity there is no objective answer to the question of how much time "really" passed during the trip; it would be equally valid to say that the trip had lasted only a few years or that the trip had lasted thousands of years, depending on your choice of reference frame.

This form of "travel into the future" is theoretically allowed (and has been demonstrated at very small time scales) using the following methods:[22]

Using velocity-based time dilation under the theory of special relativity, for instance:
Traveling at almost the speed of light to a distant star, then slowing down, turning around, and traveling at almost the speed of light back to Earth[48] (see the Twin paradox)
Using gravitational time dilation under the theory of general relativity, for instance:
Residing inside of a hollow, high-mass object;
Residing just outside of the event horizon of a black hole, or sufficiently near an object whose mass or density causes the gravitational time dilation near it to be larger than the time dilation factor on Earth.
Additionally, it might be possible to see the distant future of the Earth using methods which do not involve relativity at all, although it is even more debatable whether these should be deemed a form of "time travel":

pickupyourwill · October 2010

pjfan31 wrote:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/8205080/time-traveler-caught-on-1928-film-footage

my first guess would be some kind of walkie talkie. second, could just be a crazy person talking with their hand up to their ear. could be a guy in drag, but there was such a thing as ugly, manly-like women back then.
also, the whole video could be a hoax meant to stir up fun on youtube.

catefrances · October 2010

mookeywrench wrote:

catefrances wrote:

how can you time travel to some place that doesnt exist yet??

From everyone's "go-to" time travel resource guide, Wikipedia:

Time travel to the future in physics

Twin paradox diagramThere are various ways in which a person could "travel into the future" in a limited sense: the person could set things up so that in a small amount of his own subjective time, a large amount of subjective time has passed for other people on Earth. For example, an observer might take a trip away from the Earth and back at relativistic velocities, with the trip only lasting a few years according to the observer's own clocks, and return to find that thousands of years had passed on Earth. It should be noted, though, that according to relativity there is no objective answer to the question of how much time "really" passed during the trip; it would be equally valid to say that the trip had lasted only a few years or that the trip had lasted thousands of years, depending on your choice of reference frame.

This form of "travel into the future" is theoretically allowed (and has been demonstrated at very small time scales) using the following methods:[22]

Using velocity-based time dilation under the theory of special relativity, for instance:
Traveling at almost the speed of light to a distant star, then slowing down, turning around, and traveling at almost the speed of light back to Earth[48] (see the Twin paradox)
Using gravitational time dilation under the theory of general relativity, for instance:
Residing inside of a hollow, high-mass object;
Residing just outside of the event horizon of a black hole, or sufficiently near an object whose mass or density causes the gravitational time dilation near it to be larger than the time dilation factor on Earth.
Additionally, it might be possible to see the distant future of the Earth using methods which do not involve relativity at all, although it is even more debatable whether these should be deemed a form of "time travel":

you hurt my head.
but i have to tell you.. i have travelled into the future. for me february 29th 2008 didnt exist. i went from 28th feb straight to march 1st. admittedly i was crossing the pacific ocean from east to west at the time but still... thats a day ill never get back.

Hugh Freaking Dillon · October 2010

exactly. like I said (much simpler!

) :relativity.

mookeywrench wrote:

catefrances wrote:

how can you time travel to some place that doesnt exist yet??

From everyone's "go-to" time travel resource guide, Wikipedia:

Time travel to the future in physics

Twin paradox diagramThere are various ways in which a person could "travel into the future" in a limited sense: the person could set things up so that in a small amount of his own subjective time, a large amount of subjective time has passed for other people on Earth. For example, an observer might take a trip away from the Earth and back at relativistic velocities, with the trip only lasting a few years according to the observer's own clocks, and return to find that thousands of years had passed on Earth. It should be noted, though, that according to relativity there is no objective answer to the question of how much time "really" passed during the trip; it would be equally valid to say that the trip had lasted only a few years or that the trip had lasted thousands of years, depending on your choice of reference frame.

This form of "travel into the future" is theoretically allowed (and has been demonstrated at very small time scales) using the following methods:[22]

Using velocity-based time dilation under the theory of special relativity, for instance:
Traveling at almost the speed of light to a distant star, then slowing down, turning around, and traveling at almost the speed of light back to Earth[48] (see the Twin paradox)
Using gravitational time dilation under the theory of general relativity, for instance:
Residing inside of a hollow, high-mass object;
Residing just outside of the event horizon of a black hole, or sufficiently near an object whose mass or density causes the gravitational time dilation near it to be larger than the time dilation factor on Earth.
Additionally, it might be possible to see the distant future of the Earth using methods which do not involve relativity at all, although it is even more debatable whether these should be deemed a form of "time travel":

DaveyG · October 2010

I don't see anything, it looks to me like she's just scratching her head.

cincybearcat · October 2010

mookeywrench wrote:

http://www.hearingaidmuseum.com/gallery/Carbon/WesternElectric/info/westelect34a.htm

Me thinks some company should be suing Apple over the design of the Ipod.

Hugh Freaking Dillon · October 2010

it's a primitive hearing aid.

polaris_x · October 2010

if it was indeed a time traveler with a cell phone - it would mean that there were cell phone towers back then ... not possible to create the infrastructure needed to use cell phones ...