A man calling himself Alexander Smith, appearing on the YouTube channel ApexTV, claims to be a time traveller from the year 2118. He says he participated in classified CIA experiments in the 1980s that sent him to the future. Smith, wearing a latex mask to conceal his identity, asserts that a third world war will occur within the next century, but it will ultimately unite humanity.
The CIA Experiment and Journey to 2118
Smith claims the CIA transported him to 2118 in 1981. He says he decided to share his full story after previously releasing a video and a photograph from the future. “I believe the people deserve to know the truth because I feel it would be beneficial to the human race about what is happening behind closed doors,” he stated.
World War 3 and Its Aftermath
According to Smith, a conflict between the United States and North Korea will escalate into World War 3. Russia will side with North Korea, and missiles will be fired. While he cannot specify where the missiles hit, he claims the effects were undesirable. However, the war leads to a positive outcome: borders become meaningless, and people develop a love and appreciation for life, vowing not to harm one another. “As a result of that, of the conflict, which some might describe as a Third World War, the world became a better place,” he said.
Future Society: Technology, Aliens, and Time Travel
In the future, Smith says most people live in towering metropolises filled with advanced technology, AI, extraterrestrials, and flying vehicles. He also claims that commercial time travel will be available as early as 2028, and the US government will disclose the existence of intelligent alien life in the same year.
Scientific Perspective on Time Travel
Despite Smith’s claims, there is no credible evidence to support time travel. Physicist Gary Horowitz from the University of California, Santa Barbara, suggests time travel does not violate the laws of nature, but concrete proof remains elusive. William Hiscock, a physics professor at Montana State University, told Scientific American: “Time travel into the past, which is what people usually mean by time travel, is a much more uncertain proposition. There are many solutions to Einstein's equation of General Relativity that allow a person to follow a timeline that would result in her or him encountering himself - or her grandmother - at an earlier time. The problem is deciding whether these solutions represent situations that could occur in the real universe, or whether they are mathematical oddities incompatible with known physics.”
