Image by John Dove © 2007

Golden Ball Hill: a spacetime "ringhole" used for time travel

Last year in 2006, a series of increasingly complex "wormhole" crop pictures appeared in Wiltshire fields. There were five in total, beginning with Avebury Trusloe, continuing with Savernake Forest, then New Barn, Old Hayward and Blowingstone. Despite the incredible complexity of those wormhole-type crop pictures, some researchers still believed that they might have been human-made fakes.

The simplest showed two spacetime singularities joining to create a single wormhole, while others showed two or four-wormhole combinations known as "Roman rings", a topologically stabilized wormhole called a "ringhole", or a "closed timelike curve in expanding spacetime".

Now one year later on June 29, 2007, those mysterious crop artists have continued the same theme, by drawing an even more theoretically advanced picture of a ringhole at Golden Ball Hill. It shows the expected "two angular horizons", and also a "shielded craft" entering from one side.

The concept of a spacetime "ringhole" was not discovered theoretically until 1996, when a Spanish physicist called Pedro Gonzalez-Diaz found such a solution mathematically in Einstein's equations for general relativity:

Unlike for an ordinary wormhole, which has the shape of a sphere and is unstable, his new ringhole had the shape of a torus and would be quite stable. A further new feature of Gonzalez-Diaz's ringhole was "two angular horizons", whereas an ordinary wormhole has just one:

That new crop picture which appeared on June 29 at Golden Ball Hill shows not only "two angular horizons", but also a "shielded craft" of some kind, entering the ringhole on the other side:

Very seldom in science does any new theoretical prediction receive such a dramatic confirmation, after only 11 years! Unless of course, you choose to believe that two old guys with boards and rope made the picture shown below, in the middle of the night with no one watching: