[dssagar93]

I'm gonna throw some Hindu mythology- time travel here.

Did you know that time-travel is a modern concept but in the Indian scriptures, which dates back to thousands of years already mentioned about it. It is a story about King Kakudmi, who sought a husband for his beautiful daughter, Revati. They both had travel to Lord Bhrama's(Creator of the universe) place which was apparently very far from our planet to seek advice. Lord Bhrama then explains them that time moves very differently on his plane of existence and the people they knew on their planet are already dead as it's been 116 million years that has passed in last 20 minutes of Bhrama's time.

They then travel back to Earth after seeking the advice.

Hindu scriptures mentioned a lot of "modern-day concepts" thousands of years back. Isn't it fascinating?

[new_learner]

I mean isn't this just how fiction supposed to be ? I am sure you can find a huge number of "modern day devices" mentioned in science-fiction of yesteryears as well. All inventions start with imagination after all.

[LargoLasskhyfv]

Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation by moving at high relativistic speeds close to the speed of light?

Even more fascinating for me is the concept of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_lightbulb in the context of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimana s

Imagine they had a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamaterial which would have enabled that. I mean withstanding 22.000°C while being transparent to hard ultraviolet. And some sort of 'ultravoltaic' cells behind that...

...while at least some texts speak of those things as full of crystals and mirrors as part of their engines and on board power plants.

[aldebran]

If you got a kick out of that, it gets better!

There’s a publication called “Date Panchang” that gets a new version for every new Hindu year. The first few pages talk about time and how Brahma experiences time.

If you can read sanskrit/Marathi, it’s page 5 here: https://pdfcoffee.com/qdownload/date-panchang-2020-pdf-free....

It talks about how long Brahma’s life is and where I’m his life he is right now. Not sure how they calculated that but it’s pretty wild to think about.