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[Zachary Quinto] One of the most mysterious parts of our human existance
is the nature of time.
What exactly is time?
How does it work?
Moving from past to present and into the future.
Does time only move forward?
Or can we manipulate it and go back?
The potential for time travel has been entertained
in our wildest imaginations, and in ancient texts.
But some believe it's more than fantasy.
I know that time travel is possible because I've done it.
When I traveled, I jumped through an elliptical boom
between a shimmering curtain of radiant energy.
A bluish-white tunnel opened up.
Moving forward in time at a great rate of speed.
It was both awe-inspiring and terrifying.
Contemporary physicists don't realize
that time travel was achieved 50 years ago,
because the file were kept back from science.
And I aim to change that.
[Quinto] Is time flexible, can it be manipulated,
and is it actually possible to travel through it?
My search begins now.
My Name is Zachary Quinto.
As an actor, I've played many supernatural characters
that blurred the line between science and fiction.
I'm drawn to the unknown, the otherworldly,
and those experiences so beyond belief,
they call everything into question.
I'm exploring some of the most enduring mysteries
that continue to haunt mankind in search of the truth...
wherever it leads me.
[metronome clicking rhythmically]
[ticking]
Ever since humans first began tracking time,
we've been obsessed with understanding and trying to control it.
With early Egyptian devices like sundials and shadow clocks
to later advancements like the hourglass,
pendulum clocks, and now the modern smartwatch,
time has always been a central topic in religion,
philosophy, and science.
But what exactly is time?
Is it a purely human construct?
Or is it an independent dimension
that can be explored and even traveled?
Movies and literature have only have only stoked our curiosity.
But what if you could move freely between past, present, and future?
Where would you go? What would you see?
And if you could travel back in time,
would you be able to alter our present reality?
[ticking]
I'm meeting with a man who claims to have answers for many of these questions,
because he says he's actually traveled through time.
I understand that you not only believe time is movable
and that you can travel through it, but you've actually done this.
Yes. By the mid-1960s,
my father was the nation's leading expert in teleportation
when he was a special projects engineer
at the Thomas A. Edison Research Laboratory
in West Orange New Jersey.
And I was primarily active in the program
from the fall of 1969
until the end of the summer of 1972,
with DARPA serving as the umbrella agency.
It's a government agency. Right? Right.
DARPA is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Mm-hmm. The primary
technical development laboratory for the US military.
So how do you explain the disparity
between the scientific point of view, right,
which is that we understand time only exists in a forward-moving pattern--
that there's no other dimension of it--
and your experience, being able to travel through time?
Because that information was kept as official state secrets.
And so, for example, an important discovery
was Nikola Tesla's discovery of radiant energy--
an energy he found that is latent and pervasive
in the entire universe
and has, among its capabilities,
the capability to bend the fabric of time space.
Let me show it to you.
Okay. Sure.
There was two elliptical booms,
about ten feet high
and about ten feet apart.
The device is a Tesla invention?
Yes.Mm.
Between these two booms
was a shimmering field of radiant energy--
energy that can bend the fabric of timespace.
My father explained that we were gonna jump through this field of energy.
We would go through a blueish-white tunnel of light.
[Quinto] It sounds like science fiction.
On one hand, I feel like this is
an incredibly compelling, fascinating, dramatic story.
I would love to believe. That would be amazing.
But it's like, I'm interested in the tangible.
I'm interested in the thing that we can look at and say
that that's what this is irrefutably.
I mean, there's so many questions that I have.
Tesla was a well-documented scientist,
and his experiments were chronicled catalogued.
So, if there was a scientific advancement that he discovered,
wouldn't that have been inrmation and knowledge
that would've been shared with the scientific community at the time?
There was a Tesla cover-up.
It was perpetuated by Tesla himself to protect the technology.
Contemporary physicists do not understand
how and why we achieved time travel
because the information was kept back from them.
They deserve to be told what everybody deserves to be told,
and that's the truth.
Andrew presents it like, "This is what I did,
and it was a secret government program.
You know, there are obviously other people that you can talk to
about things in our government's history
that are top secret and are classified.
But there's not that many people like Andrew
who are asserting that they've actually traveled through space and time.
So, I-I don't know.
I feel really conflicted about this one.
What he's talking about would be revolutionary
and change the world and how we move through this universe.
And that, to me, is really worth exploring.
Andrew is not the only one who claims
to have experience with time travel.
There are many other incredible stories
about people supposedly going back in time.
Some even have evidence.
Like this 1928 film
of a woman who appears to be holding a cell phone
decades before that technology existed.
Or this modern-looking man in a photograph from the 1940s.
But if people have learned how to time travel,
why don't we all know about it?
For years, there have been rumors of time travel research
being conducted in secret, like the Montauk Project,
an alleged U.S. government program
experimenting with time travel to use in warfare.
Putting all this evidence together, is it possible
that Andrew's story might have some truth?
To find out, I need to understand more about how time works.
Hi, Zach. Good morning.How are you?
Mathematician Tom Van Baak
believes that time is not an absolute,
and that while clocks appear to tick at the exact same speed,
day by day, not all time is created equal.
It was only in the last hundred years, with the theories of Einstein,
that he proposed this radical idea that time wasn't fixed.
It's mind-blowing.How? How is that possible?
I mean--Well, it seems that gravity and time are somehow related.
If we have two clocks,
and one clock is here, at sea level,
where gravity is the strongest,
and one clock is raised far up into a mountain,
where there's less gravity, the clock closer to Earth
is actually running slower than the clock that's further away from Earth.
If you have excess gravity, time slows down.
It's incredible. So, someone who lives in New Orleans, for example,
and someone who lives in Denver--
these two clocks would, theoretically, be running at slightly different speeds?
Not just theoretical, but that's an example
of something you can actually verify.
Would you like to see how?I would love to.
These are all clocks.Uh-huh.
And that demonstrate the tremendous evolution of timekeeping.
There are all different types.
We have the classic sand timer. That old chestnut.
This is a chronometer
from the 1950s.
This is a military quartz crystal. Mm.
But still not as accurate as we would need for a relativity experiment.
Right. For that, we need an atomic clock.
So here's the inside of an atomic cesium clock.
It allows to measure down to one nanosecond in a day--Wow.
...for the relativity experiment. Great.
There's our man.
And he would agree.He would agree.
Our experiment will test
Einstein's theory of relativity
by placing two atomic clocks at vastly different elevations.
One clock will stay at sea level--
We need to synchronize the clocks-- Okay.
...so they're all equal. ...while the other
will be placed on a mountain
6,000 feet above sea level.
[Van Baak] Very simple experiment conceptually.
If the theory of relativity is true,
the clocks that are on the mountain
should come back a tiny bit ahead of the clocks left behind,
and that's because the clocks at higher elevation
run a little bit faster than clocks at sea level.
[Quinto] Theoretically, the greater the distance
the bigger the gap in time.
So if time runs at different speeds in these two locations,
does that mean that time is not fixed?
We're about to see, with our own eyes,
just how flexible time can be.
Coming up, I investigateve .
Uh-huh.Time's not fixed.
There's slight variations possible. It's mind-blowing.
[Quinto] I'm diving in to the true nature of time
to see how it works.
For generations, we've believed
that time only moves in one direction.
And now I've teamed up with mathematican Tom Van Baak
to see for myself how time moves differently
at different locations.
By using super-accurate atomic clocks,
we're testing the elasticity of time,
letting one clock run at sea level
while the other runs on top of a mountain.
Tom.Hey, Zach.
How are you, man?Really good.
Yeah? How have you been since I saw you last?
We've had quite an adventure--Okay.
...the clocks and I.
We went up to Mount Palomar,
and we've been gone one day, six hours, 25 minutes.
The prediction of general relativity
is that clocks at higher elevation run a little bit faster
than clocks running at sea level. Right.
And these clocks are accurate enough
that they should be able to measure that effect.
Okay. Let's check it out.
So this is the A clock, so--Right.
...this one went up the mountain, and you can see the time ticking away there.
Mm-hmm.And we can turn on the time of the base clocks,
and the answer is... 14 nanoseconds.Wow.
So sure enough, the A clock,
the one I brought down from the mountain,
somehow got 14.3 nanoseconds ahead.
That's amazing.
These measurements are tiny,
but they feel significant.
Being able to measure time passing, even if it's down to a nanosecond,
in any different way
kind of seems like a springboard for other possibilities.
It sounds like you want to be a physicist.
I'm-- I want to be a time traveler, Tom.
That's what I want to be.[laughing] Yes.
[Quinto] Do you think we'll ever see
the ability to travel through time?
I think what it does is kind of shake the foundations
of a naiïve view of the way the universe works.Mm-hmm.
[Van Baak] We don't fully understand everything,
and with all the technology that we have,
new discoveries are continually made.
[Quinto] This experiment reinforces the idea
that time is not fixed
but can move faster or slower,
depending on your location.
But if time is not fixed,
could you travel through it,
like Andrew Basiago claims he did?
There is actually a place
where this might be possible.
[bell tolling]
Famous for being the birthplace of the Beatles,
Liverpool, England, has also become known for
a very strange phenomenon.
For decades, people have been reporting sudden shifts in time
while walking down Liverpool's city streets.
These slips have been experienced by people
who don't know each other and have no obvious connection.
Ann Winsper has been investigating
the phenomenon of time slips in Liverpool.
Ann. Hi.Hi, Zach.
[Quinto] And she's one of the many individuals
who claims to have had one.
What is going on with these experiences referred to as time slips?
It's a very difficult experience to contextualize
because, rather than time travel,
'cause that has all the connotations of
actually preparing for it,
whereas a slip is you just suddenly seem to slip into this different era.
It happens so randomly,
and it is like the just slipping back to a place
that existed 20 years ago, 50 years ago,
100 years ago...
and then slip back out again.
Can you talk me through how it usually happens?
A typical experience would be that
someone is just walking along minding their own business,
and suddenly the light starts to go dim
and sounds seem to go muted.
Everything seems slightly unusual,
and then they notice that the people they see
seem to be wearing old-fashioned clothes,
dressed in long coats, bowler hats,
canes, and umbrellas.
And if there' s cars, they seem to be old-fashioned cars.
And then suddenly the light will go back to normal.
The sounds will go back to normal,
and they're back in the present day again.
This is so crazy-sounding, right?[laughing]
I know. It does sound mad.
So how many people would you say
you've talked to that have had this experience?
Oh, gosh.
Probably at least 40 people.Wow.
There's something there because a number of people
who have no relationship to one another are telling their experiences,
and their experiences are eerily similar.
That is weird. I mean, there's no two ways about it.
Liverpool has a pretty high concentration of time slips.
What do you think's happening?
There's absolutely no way that you can try
and pin it down to one single thing
because you can't take somebody
and stick them in a lab
because you've taken them
out of the area where it happens,
but we came up with an idea.
It might be just to do with the Underground Railway.
There's a lot of electromagnetic fields.
It could be, because it's in a loop,
it might be affecting people's perception.
With the electromagnetic fields,
people have spoken about it
affecting the temporal lobe in the brain.
Do you feel like there is something about this place
that has a supernatural connection?
And, if that's the case, then what do we do about it?
This is one of the problems.
I'm concentrating really at the moment
on the psychology of it
and is it something that's just happening
internally with the person.
Because, if it isn't, how do we look at time?
Right. Is it a slip in time?
Are we then moving on to things
like multiple dimensions?
What is it?
It would be unsettling
to have one of these experiences,
but I almost want to have one just to understand what it is.
If I put myself in the spot
where these time slips are happening,
can I discover a portal to the past?
I'm about to find out.
Coming up...
There's been a lot of experiences,
and of course it's from around this area.
[Quinto] I'm on a mission to determine
whether or not time travel is possible.
And right now I'm investigating reports
of a time altering phenomenon
experienced by multiple unrelated people,
called time slips...
where, without warning,
everything around them changes
and they fall into what appears to be
another era in history.
But why is this happening?
One widely held theory
is that low frequency sounds, or infrasound,
occurring at extremely high levels in some areas,
may be having harmful effects
on parts of the human brain.
And in Liverpool, England,
there are clusters of these time slips
reported along Bold Street.
Toward the top of the street sits St. Luke's Church.
Bombed during World War II, the church is situated
above a mysterious underground crypt
which could have ideal conditions
for low frequency sounds.
Steve.
Zach, hi.Pleasure.
So I've asked paranormal investigator Steve Parsons
to come test the area.
Since 2006, he's been collecting audio data
at various locations around Liverpool
in search of evidence of infrasound.
So how would you explain
a soundwave of any frequency
having an impact on a human being's experience
to the degree that they are suddenly in a different era?
Well, there was some research done in Europe
on the effects of low frequency sound
on truck drivers...
and how the sound from the big diesel engine
was affecting their performance,
and it found that,
when they were subjected to these sounds,
it would put them into a sort of dreamlike state.
So it might be more of a waking dream
than a real time slip. Interesting.
There's a crypt underneath this church
where we've set up to measure
those particular band of low frequency, um, soundwaves.
Okay. I'd be, uh, interested in checking that out.
Let's go check it out.I'll follow you.
Steve believes
there might be evidence of infrasound nearby,
and he'll be testing for this in the underground tunnels.
Welcome to the crypt.
[chuckles] This is a little bit, um, spooky, you know.
Mm-hmm.
So how do we test
for the low frequency sound?
We have a sound monitoring device
to look at the frequencies
that ordinary sound equipment can't detect.
Sound frequencies exist on a spectrum
from very high to very low,
including inaudible sounds
like certain high-pitched noises made by animals--
[dolphin barking]
...or very low sounds such as sonic booms.
[boom]
It has been reported
that high levels of low frequency sounds
can be very harmful to the human brain
and one possible cause for time slips.
What we have on the display
is low frequency at the left, high frequency at the right.
Mm-hmm. And what's hearable by the naked ear?
You won't hear anything much below 40 or 50 hertz.
Oh, okay.
But you will still be affected by it.
It just takes a-- a few seconds to self-calibrate.
You'll be able to see the results in real time.
[beep]There we go.
There it is.All right, so...
obviously there's a whole spectrum of sound.
It's currently peaking around 12 hertz.
Oh, yeah. Is this a lot?
It is a lot. If I could--
If I could relate this to a hearing sound--
Mm-hmm.
...you are standing next to something
as loud as a jet engine.
Really? Really.
It's that loud,
but it's at a frequency that you can't hear.
So are you surprised to see these results,
or is this what you expected?
Yeah. These are the sort of figures
that could certainly in some people
induce those trance-like, dreamlike states.
And do you expect that if we were
to take these same measurements
up on the street outside
that they would be this high?
Oh, absolutely.
Steve has been able
to provide tangible evidence
that there are low frequency inaudible sounds
engulfing this region,
which could mean that these experiences
of slipping through time
could all be in someone's head.
But that doesn't explain other important details
shared by these time slip reports.
The disconnect for me is
why is it that these low frequency sounds
would elicit time slips?
Why not some other
dreamlike trance?
One might expect that.
But this is only one potential factor.
Problem is unless we can measure the anomaly
at the same time that somebody said,
"Whoa, time just slipped"-- Right.
...it's all pretty speculative.
Right.
There, I think, will always remain
the conundrum of the paranormal.
Steve has been able to provide tangible evidence
that there are low frequency inaudible sounds
engulfing this region,
which could mean that these experiences
of slipping through time
could all be in someone's head.
Now I'm heading
to an advanced underground research facility
called CERN,
where a group of scientists may be close
to solving the mystery of time travel
once and for all.
500 feet beneath the city of Geneva, Switzerland,
they've built a $9 billion facility
with the most powerful machine in the world.
It's called the Large Hadron Collider,
or...
and it stretches 17 miles long.
Behind elaborate security measures,
they're using this machine to run experiments
that might actually allow us to peer back in time.
So this is where it all happens.
Yeah. This is the CERN control center
which controls the Large Hadron Collider
and monitors it when it's running.
And what is a Hadron Collider?
The-- The LHC is kind of like a time travel machine
in that we can recreate the conditions
that the universe was like
14 billion years ago,
just after the Big Bang.
Wow.
Okay, so the LHC--
how would you explain how it works?
Okay, so we start off with a bunch of hydrogen gas.
[gas hissing]
Get rid of the electrons.
You're left with a bunch of protons.
When they come into the LHC,
they're already going at quite a fast speed.
Once we fill up the entire machine
with bunches of protons,
we start accelerating them all together.
To accelerate them,
we have to give them "kicks" of energy.
When the protons collide,
you get a spray of particles-- Right.
...coming out.
It can be anything that nature decides
to roll the dice and give us.
Could be creatin some n particle
we didn't even know of.
[Quinto] By smashing these protons together,
they're able to recreate
the conditions of the universe
at the beginning of time.
And for CERN, this means they might discover something
that changes what we know about how the world works
and how time runs.
I mean, a hundred years ago,
we thought we had physics all wrapped up.
In a century,
everything has completely been turned on its head.
It's not unreasonable to think
that maybe there are parts of the universe
where the laws of physics do change.
Mm-hmm.
Maybe there is a part of the universe
where time runs differently.
We don't really know.
It's amazing that the LHC
can recreate the conditions of the Big Bang.
But to do this, they're using
incredible amounts of energy and power.
And some fear this could lead
to ramifications for the whole world.
[Female reporter] Critics suggest this mammoth machine
could destroy the world.
That's because the Collider
is scheduled to generate energies
seven times higher than any other machine in history.
In the Large Hadron Collider,
we are taking particles,
accelerating them
to very close to the speed of light,
running them in this gigantic
ring that has a 17-mile circumference.
And then we slam them together
and see what happens.
One of the big concerns with the LHC
was that it might open up a black hole
through one of these particle collisions.
Now, the danger is
there's a lot we don't know about black holes.
It could be a Pandora's box type of situation.
We would have no idea how to close it.
[Quinto] There's so much mystery and controversy
surrounding CERN.
But to really understand
the experiments they do here,
I need to take a closer look.
[Automated female voice] Thank you. Please enter.
[Claire Lee] These are security doors.
They make sure people are authorized to go underground.
So how dangerous is it here?
Yeah, so we have a very, very high-energy particle beam
that we're shooting around almost at the speed of light.
Uh, in times that the, uh, beam goes off track,
this could cause, uh, potential damage.
Mm-hmm.Uh, it does produce a lot of radiation.
You want to press the button?
All right. I'll do the honors.
So we're gonna go all the way down.
[laughing] Oh, my God.
[Claire] These are security doors.
Pretty big, huh?
Unbelievable. That's so massive.
Being in this massive manmade structure
designed to look billions of years into the past,
it really is dwarfing.
It's kind of ironic that, to see the smallest particles of nature,
you have to build something this big.
Yeah, right?
What I'm really searching for
is how this applies to time travel.
So time is a very tricky thing.
We don't yet understand what time is.
Mm-hmm. You know,
time just happens to us,
but we haven't mastered it.
And so one of the things that we're kind of hoping
is that we will see something in the detector
that nothing can explain.Okay.
But I also understand,
by looking at something this big,
how people are afraid of it.
Right. It's-- It's huge, and it can be pretty scary.
I know there's some concern
around what you're flirting with
that could have catastrophic impacts on our planet,
you know, create black holes that would swallow the Earth.
The first thing is
we hear a lot about big, huge, massive black holes
in astronomy:
a hundred thousand times the mass of the sun
sitting at the center of our galaxy,
swallowing up objects as they go.
The black holes
that we would create inside the LHC,
if we could create them, are so small.
They're smaller than the size of a proton.
In fact, what actually happens
is these black holes just evaporate
in a puff of particles. Uh-huh.
So I'm not worried
that we're going to do anything
that's going to destroy us.Uh-huh.
While the researchers at CERN continue their quest
to understand the mysteries of time...
I've already found, through my own exploration,
how time can change based on external factors
like gravity,
magnetic fields,
and infrasound.
If time is actually flexible,
then there might even be more ways
we can bend and travel through it.
One way to think about time
is as a measure of our experiences.
Each day we travel through time,
going through a series of events that add up
to the same number of hours, minutes, and seconds.
In other words, time seems
to be constant and unchanging,
but that's not how we experience it.
Some days whisk by...
while others drag on.
There's another side to time beyond counting and calendars
that is fluid.
But why?
What is actually going on
that creates our ever-changing
perception of time?
And can it be controlled?
What gives us our perception of time?
There is something interesting with time
when it comes to our own experience.
[Paul Sutter] When in a state
of heightened awareness of extreme danger,
of important moments,
all our senses are alive.
We are paying attention to those tiny detailed moments
that usually just pass us by, that we ignore.
So we get the sense that time is movings slower.
Even though our clock
still only ticks one second at a time,
and that rate stays fixed,
our perception of those moments increases.
[Quinto] Coming up...
And while it seems to flow in one direction,
we know from our own everyday experience
that time does not always feel
like it's moving at the same speed.
If our perception of time
is also flexible,
does that mean we have the power
to change how we experience it?
Many people say their perception of time changes
when they're in extreme situations.
And I want to experience for myself
how and why that happens...
by leaping out of a plane from 13,000 feet.
Hey, man. I'm Zach. Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you, Zach.
Neuroscientist Chess Stetson
has a theory about how our brains
are actually controlling the passage of time.
In my work in particular,
we started studying this feeling
that time slows down when you get really, really scared.
That's what we're gonna get a chance
testing our probe today,
which I'm pretty excited about.
I'm literally jumping out of an airplane.
I spent a lot of time in my life
being afraid of that idea.
Wow. My brain's like,
"I can't believe you're about to do this."
Adrenaline certainly will be rushing.
I mean, I imagine I'll be...
probably pretty scared.
Perfect.
We talked about that adrenaline
that you're likely to feel,
and in the brain that's called epinephrine.
That can cause more memories to be laid down.
Hmm.When you're in a really heightened fear scenario...
Chess' theory is that,
when a person goes into survival mode,
their brain not only perceives
but also stores more information than normal,
effectively making more memories
and causing it to feel like time slows down.
To test Chess' theory,
I'll be wearing special goggles during the jump
that will flash images,
and I'll try to memorize as many of them as I can
to see if my brain actually stores more information
when I'm in a state of fear.
But in the meantime, we're gonna try that on the ground,
and that'll be our controlled experiment.
Uh-huh.So we're basically gonna show you
a bunch of images flashing in front of your eyes.
And then, when it's over, I'm gonna wait ten minutes
and ask you to tell me what they were.
All right.
Okay. Okay. So let's wait ten minutes.
Do you want to go meet the guys that are gonna do the jump with?
Yeah. Let's do it.Fantastic.
Hey, man. All right, you ready to do this?
I think I am.
Put your foot in there.
We're going up to 13,000 feet,
and we're gonna be hitting about 120 miles an hour.
Yeah. Why not?
All I'll have you do
is kind of hold on the harness,
and then I'll tap you
when to release.Okay.
And after that, you're on a roller coaster ride.Okay.
Okay, Zach,
so now tell me what you saw.
Okay, uh, there was a fireplace,
a piggy bank, a rainbow, a candle,
um...
and I think that's all I have.
You don't remember any others, do you?
Uh-uh. Okay.
Oh, octopus. Aha.
I knew there night be something back there. Yeah.
So you're around half.Okay.
We'll do the same thing
after you've been falling
for 50 seconds through thin air.
All right, let's do it.
All right, Zach, watch your head on top.
Whoo. All right.
As we get closer to the moment,
I'm getting more and more
like, uh, freaked out about it.
Now I'm gonna strap us
into the airplane.
All right, Zach, here we go, man.
I am tense and really nervous.
I'm gonna hit the ground one way or another.
Oh, my God, you guys!
there was almost like a white noise quality
to everything that was around me.
Time just elongated.
When I just took the goggles down,
the-- the ground flying toward you
and the air rushing around you.
And then, when the chute opens...
there's this incredible
slowing down of everything.
So cool.
You just go into a mode
where self-preservation kicks in.
The moments felt like they were taking longer,
and there was much more heightened.
Time lost all meaning. It really did.
Stand up.
All the way up.
Wow.
Oh!
[laughing]
[woman] All right.
Nice diving.
Oh, my God, it was so crazy!
I was so scared. I was so scared up there.
[laughing]
I definitely got the sense that time passed more slowly.
But was it actually because my brain
was taking in more information?
One way to find out
is to see how many images I can recall
from the memory test.
Okay, so, Zach,
can you tell me now
what were the images that you saw
when you were in free fall?
Uh...
tennis racquet, teddy bear,
bow tie, a rainbow,
a candle,
fireplace, comb,
like a cruise ship,
um...
pine cone...
um...
maybe a match?
All right.
That might actually be everything.Really?
Wow. It's amazing
that you could see all of that
while you were falling.
What I kind of think might be going on
is you're not necessarily
taking in more information,
but more of the information
that you are taking in gets stored.
And that's why it feel
like more time passed.
It's also possible
that my ability to memorize lines as an actor
may have given me an edge.
I mean, I don't know if maybe
you actually are a little bit of a Vulcan.
Maybe, maybe.Uh, but, uh--
When I left the plane, I was just falling.
There's this, like, constant ticking in my head
of, like, I can't believe
that this is actually happening.
I think I was much more aware of the moments
when we were sailing down.
I definitely think
that's a little kind of portal
that you slip into.
I get it. There's something really powerful about it.
Time is the thing that I was curious about coming here,
and time's the thing that I feel like I leave
having at least a better sense of understanding
how it can bend and change.
It's really cool.
Time is a riddle
that we may never fully solve.
We know you can physically move through time
faster or slower,
depending on where you are
and what you're doing.
It felt like minutes between when I jumped out of the plane
and when the chute was opened.
And we know some people believe
they've actually traveled back in time.
When I first teleported, I was 6 years old.
You just suddenly seem to slip into this different era.
While time travel has been explored
by some of the most brilliant minds in history...
tomorrow we might just discover
that we can travel through time
in ways we never thought possible.
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