In the second half, Art is joined by Dr. David Anderson, a former U.S. Air Force officer and founder of the Time Travel Research Center. Anderson discusses his time-warped field theory, developed over 20 years of research that began at the Air Force Flight Test Center. He explains how properly modulated electromagnetic fields may produce secondary fields capable of affecting the flow of time, and describes his Time Travel Research Association, which networks researchers from over 80 countries.
Art weaves the two halves together, balancing the entertaining strangeness of the callers' personal accounts with Anderson's scientific framework for understanding time as something that can potentially be measured, influenced, and controlled.
Key Moments
Robert From The Confederate States Of America: A caller named Robert says he is from a parallel dimension where the South won the Civil War at First Bull Run, Lincoln resigned, the Confederates annexed Mexico, and the United States swallowed Canada, with Art Bell serving as a senator from Arizona.
Atlanta Is Detroit, Cars Run On Electric: Pressed by a Canadian caller about cars in his dimension, Robert reveals Atlanta is the equivalent of Detroit through a company called Trafalgar Ironworks, that automobiles mostly run on electric, and that there is a town in Iowa called New Jerusalem where freed Black populations resettled.
The 8-Year-Old Who Met His White-Haired Future Self: Bob from California recounts being eight years old, playing alone with army men behind a tree at recess, when a man dressed all in white with gray-white hair appeared and quizzed him about his brother and parents, whom he later identified as his future self by his distinctive bicuspid teeth and a mole that has since grown on his own cheek.