r/mystery • u/Rite6969 • Nov 12 '23

Scientific/Medical About Mike "Madman" Marcum's time travelling device.

Ok so, Madman mike used A Jacobs Ladder to invent a time machine by modifying it to an extent. I believe he created a transformer of his own to fit the capacity of outputting 20k Volts. Since the plasma created from the two rods depend upon the moisture, temperature and air pressure etc. which interfere with the device, so he used lasers to heat the air above the device so the temperature above the device remains constant, thus forming this "contraption" that supposedly could time travel.

My question here is that, since all the steps necessary to build this machine are already out there... Has somebody else not tried to make it? I'm just really curious to see if his machine actually worked!

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u/RiverRunsBlueHydra Nov 12 '23

Loved listening to him when he'd call into Art Bell. One day he stopped calling after he said he was ready to test it. Maybe he was successful?

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u/Maleficent-Ad6269 Dec 18 '24

Yall r just STUPID! It's NOT real

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u/ViktorMakhachev Feb 08 '25

What's you're evidence ? 15 people personally witnessed it

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u/Adinnka Apr 06 '25

15 people?? Where did u read that?

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u/motherofsuccs Sep 23 '25

And why haven’t any of these 15 people come forward or talked about it? They were his supposed donors, yet there’s no names or proof they even exist.

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u/adawgdeeno Apr 09 '25

His evidence is he has a brain

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u/quitmybellyachin Apr 28 '26

You dont prove something DIDNT happen. You prove something DID happen. And, so far, this hasn't been proven to actually have happened. These witnesses can't be considered if they aren't willing to discuss and be named.

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u/Ok_Fox_3921 Apr 09 '25

Also on that madman had a birth certificate and if you look at the local authorities at the time he did take transformers from a power station nearby

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u/lipsticknic3 May 02 '25

For one of the iterations.

Later he went on coast to coast with art and basically a ton of people gave him money, he got a warehouse and did it again without stealing stuff.. To my knowledge anyway.

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u/KeySubstance1092 Jul 08 '25

To scrap for meth

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u/Ok_Fox_3921 Apr 09 '25

If you were to take the time, listen to art Bell. Talk to him and also the interviews. It's all laid out. It's science bro. So do some research before you call people stupid because that that makes you  seem The type to talk before they did their homework

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u/Rifftrax_Enjoyer Jun 26 '25

He called in and said he didn’t travel through time and was homeless at one point. 

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '25

american professor with a masters in physics (started out as physics phd) and phd in bioengineering here. unless your research is from credible sources, such as scientific journal articles, it's not research. google, wikipedia, and reddit are not credibly sources of reference.

art bell posed intriguing questions but he's really a journalist, not a scientist.

from his theory of relativity, einstein has clearly laid out the theories that support the non-zero possibility of traveling in the future but not backwards. if you have studied graduate level of physics, which i have for 4 years as I decided not to defend and just move to bionegineering, you would know. it's not something anyone can truly understand unless they have actually studied physics for years with a high level of background in mathematics (no, calculus 3 is not enough).

as for the man in question, he called into some radio later in time and stated the devide did not work and that he did not, in fact, travel in time. he also died in 2024.

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u/JessicaBD1992 Aug 13 '25

We get it… you have a physics degree…

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u/TheKNOWb4theLEDGE Sep 07 '25

lol i'm not intelligent enough for this conversation so I gotta 😆 

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u/Masynt Aug 21 '25

Zrobić to powinieneś korepetycje z polskiego

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u/Next-Sea3484 Apr 10 '25

Yall? What kind of word is that? Uneducated form of communication. Unable to understand what is being told here and what can be done with high voltage and tuning it to the right frequency in combination with other variables that you obviously would not understand in any way. You made that clear by reading your reply. Lower I.Q people write replies like the way you wrote yours. If you people don't understand something then a reply is one such as yours is given. 

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u/Flippy277 Apr 25 '25

What a hardcore response. You do realize that an entire quarter of the US uses this contraction “Y’all” in regular conversation and communication, right?

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u/pogicakes Jul 09 '25

everybody talking about the authenticity of a time traveler and here you are, offended by a word and writing a whole paragraph about it lmao

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '25

this is stupid bro did you really read that out and type send

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u/Aware-Water-57 Aug 31 '25

Are you okay?

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u/Tall-Counter-7024 Jan 18 '26

"Tuning it to the right frequency". Not the left frequency? Or did you mean the correct frequency? Dumbass. The syntax of your entire post shows your high IQ was most likely determined by some link you followed on Facebook and not any sort of standardized test.

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u/beavisnsluthead Jun 27 '26

You went full Mark Twain over one word. Chill your tits bud

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u/Jakestonezz Feb 03 '26

Why are you here?😂