Kozyrev’s Mirrors and the Mystery of Time

When Russian scientists bent aluminum into massive spiral mirrors, thousands of test subjects reported shocking experiences – from glimpses of the future to unexplained UFO sightings overhead.

Curious about how to slow down time? For centuries, scientists and thinkers have sought to understand time. Most scientists think that time perseveres only forward, like a river that cannot run upstream. But some researchers have attempted to debunk this concept. One was Nikolai Kozyrev, a scientist with some pretty wild theories about time.

Kozyrev was a Russian scientist, who studied the stars. He saw time not as the passage of days and months, but as a kind of energy that could pass through objects, and through people’s minds. Researchers later developed specialized devices known as Kozyrev Mirrors to experimentally test his ideas. These were no ordinary mirrors — they were carved from bent aluminum, an effort to help people embrace different notions of time.

The Story of Nikolai Kozyrev

Nikolai Kozyrev was born in 1908 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He was a brilliant scientist who studied stars, and then his life took a hard turn in 1936. He spent a decade in a prison camp during a dark time in Russian history. Even behind bars, he continued to ruminate on scientific questions, particularly what makes stars burn.

While other scientists were convinced that stars derived their energy from nuclear fusion (the process that fuels hydrogen bombs), Kozyrev had another theory. He believed that time itself might transform stars into energy. He attempted to validate his original theories — which were at odds with the views of many other scientists — after he was released from prison in 1946.

The Mysterious Mirrors

Eventually years later, scientists developed special mirrors based on Kozyrev’s concepts. They weren’t bathroom mirrors — they were huge, curved sheets of aluminum in spiral-shaped configuration. It was thought that these mirrors could focus special types of energy, allowing people to experience events in modalities beyond their normal senses.

Russian scientists experimented with these mirrors in the 1990s. They constructed special rooms where people could sit enveloped in the curved aluminum surfaces. Over the next few day, something remarkable happened: folks spent time in thee mirror chambers and shared odd experiences. Others claimed they could glimpse events from the past or future. Some had a sensation of floating outside of their bodies. (Alternately: Mind-to-mind thoughts, or telepathic impulses sent over great distance.)

The Evidence and Questions

The scientists used these mirrors to test over 5,000 people in twelve countries. In trials where his team tested if people could transmit their thoughts to each other, they got surprisingly high rates of successful transmission – in one test, 95% of the information passed between the subjects was correct. The scientists also noticed other weird things going on during their tests: fluctuations in temperature, blood pressure and heart rate. Others claimed to have witnessed enigmatic lights and symbols in the mirrors as well.

Even stranger, UFOs started appearing above buildings hosting mirror experiments. Some of the researchers wondered whether the mirrors were attracting the attention of unknown sources somehow.

Understanding the Mystery

As to how the mirrors work, some scientists attempted to explain with “torsion fields” — invisible energy fields that could instantaneously transfer information across any distance. They said Earth’s magnetic field typically prevents us from feeling these fields, but the mirrors could help us get around that block.

And it raised an intriguing question: Is modern technology, such as cell phones and Wi-Fi, preventing us from attuning to any special abilities our minds might possess by default as part of their contingency plan?

The Debate Continues

Today, most scientists reject Kozyrev’s ideas about time and his mirrors. They argue that there has not been sufficient, rigorous scientific testing to prove these mirrors actually work. But new findings about the nature of time in quantum physics (the physics of very small things) indicate we still don’t understand time as well as we might think.

Whether Kozyrev’s ideas are ultimately correct or not, they offer a fresh perspective on time and reality. Some of the greatest scientific breakthroughs begin with questions that appear to be impossible to answer. Perhaps the secret of how to make sense of time is still waiting to be discovered, hiding in plain sight, as in a mirror.

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Cover photo: Amazon.com
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