By Theophar, Sage of the Hidden Currents Time, that elusive river which carries us all forward, sometimes reveals strange eddies—pockets where the ordinary laws break down and something ancient, or alien, whispers through. Today, I contemplate the curious tale of Sergei Ponomarenko , a Ukrainian man who claimed to be from the year 1958 but vanished into thin air after being detained by Kyiv authorities in 2006. Captured by CCTV, carrying an outdated camera and wearing 1950s attire, Sergei offered a photo of his fiancée and claimed to have wandered the city lost before asking for help—only to disappear again, seemingly without a trace. Many call it a hoax. Others, like myself, ponder the deeper implications. Modern physics doesn’t dismiss time travel outright. According to Einstein’s theory of relativity , time is not a constant—it bends, stretches, and warps in the presence of gravity. The concept of closed timelike curves , first postulated by Kurt Gödel , suggests loops in time...