Vadim Chernobrov is way out there. An energetic Russian with an
Abe Lincoln beard and a polyester three-piece suit, Chernobrov
cut his teeth in UFO research as an employee of the "spacecraft
department" of Moscow's Aviation Institute. At one stage
Chernobrov decided to branch into time travel. Not surprisingly,
he had problems getting state funding. With his meager savings
he built a time machine himself. To avoid ridicule, Chernobrov
and his team didn't actually call it a time machine. They
preferred "Prospective Space Transportation System." The system
is small: slightly larger than a basketball, in fact, and
covered, apparently, in "electromagnetic skins."
The orb has a top panel that could lift up, revealing a tangle
of wires and several small clocks. One wire pokes out,
connecting the device to an electrical transformer. Chernobrov
claims the Prospective Space Transportation System could control
time rates. In his tests he claims to show that for every 3,600
seconds outside of the system that only 3,560 seconds would pass
inside -- 40 seconds slower. The electromagnetic fields, he
said, altered the passage of time. |
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