Chronovisor
The Chronovisor was a supposedly existing time machine . The term goes back to François Brune , author of several books with paranormal and religious content. In his book Le nouveau mystère du Vatican , he claimed that the device was developed under the direction of the Italian priest and scientist Father Pellegrino Maria Ernetti (1925-1994). The alleged construction of the time machine could never be confirmed.
history
Ernetti is said to have told François Brune, himself a Roman Catholic priest, that he developed the time machine in a team with twelve famous scientists, including Enrico Fermi and Wernher von Braun . The "Chronovisor" was described as a long showcase with a standard CRT screen on which past events could be viewed. A series of buttons, switches, and other control devices purportedly allowed the time and place to be selected to be viewed. Furthermore, according to Ernetti, people could be focused and observed over a longer period of time. Brune is also said to have been told that the device worked by receiving, decrypting and reproducing the electromagnetic waves left behind by past events, and that it was also possible to pick up sound waves .
Falsification of evidence
Ernetti apparently lacked any evidence to support these claims. According to Brune, he is said to have testified that he saw and photographed the crucifixion of Jesus Christ , along with various other historical events . The photo was published on May 2, 1972 in an issue of the Italian magazine La Domenica del Corriere . However, a mirrored , otherwise almost identical image soon appeared , showing a woodcut by Lorenzo Coullaut Valera , which is why the authenticity of the photo can be doubted.
Ernetti also stated that he had lived in Rome in 169 BC. Attended a performance of the lost tragedy Thyestes by Quintus Ennius . Dr. Katherine Owen Eldred from Princeton University announced that it had found evidence that Ernettis alleged transcript was a forgery and was written by himself. According to an anonymous testimony from the family, shortly before his death, Ernetti admitted to having written the drama himself and that the image of Jesus Christ was a forgery. In the same breath, however, Ernetti also emphasized that the machine still exists and works.
Web links
- Mark Pilkington: Do the time warp. Science far out. June 9, 2005, accessed January 20, 2017 .
- The others are to blame. Reality that is too difficult. The daily newspaper . November 30, 2015, accessed January 20, 2017 .
- Enrico Speranza: Una finestra sul passato? The curiosa storia del "Cronovisore" by Padre Pellegrino Maria Ernetti. Comitato Italiano per il Controllo delle Affermazioni sul Paranormale. September 17, 2009. Retrieved January 20, 2017 (Contains an image of the alleged photo of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ).
literature
- Massimo Polidoro: I remember doing the time warp. Notes on a strange world. The Incredible Story of Father Ernetti's Chronovisor . In: Skeptical Inquirer . Volume 27, Issue 3, 2003, ISSN 0194-6730 , p. 22 ( Copy of the original article in archive.li ( Memento from December 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )).
- Peter Krassa : Father Ernetti's Chronovisor. The Creation and Disappearance of the World's First Time Machine. New Paradigm Books, Boca Raton FL 2000, ISBN 1-892138-02-6 .
- Peter Krassa: Your fate is predetermined. Peter Ernetti's time machine and the secret of the Akashic Record. Herbig, Munich, 1997, ISBN 3-7766-2003-X .
Individual evidence
- ^ Père François Brune: Le nouveau mystère du Vatican . Albin Michel, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-226-13070-5 .
- ↑ Vincenzo Maddaloni: Inventata la macchina che fotografa il passato . In: La Domenica del Corriere . No. 18 , May 2, 1972, p. 26-29 .