An old painting makes us question the question of whether time travel can be made once again. In a painting from 1937, a Native American man is seen looking at an object that resembles his smartphone.
Titled “Mr. Pynchon and the Settlement of Springfield,” the painting depicts William Pynchon, founder and colonist of Springfield, Massachusetts, during the development of the city.
Pynchon also wrote The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, the first book banned in Boston and burned on the Boston Common. Strangely enough, William Pynchon was the ancestor of acclaimed novelist Thomas Pynchon. While these are all pretty interesting things, the most striking thing about the painting is the presence of a clearly visible Native American man in the painting, holding an object that looks very much like a mobile phone.
The image was shared on Reddit and many people produced various scenarios. It was even rumored that the tied-up man next to him was a “time traveler” and that the phone belonged to him because his pants looked like modern clothes.
There’s also a painting by artist Umberto Romano featuring a woman who looks like she’s watching a video on her tablet, even though it was painted decades before it was even imagined.
From the standpoint of plausible explanations, it seems much more likely that a hand mirror was depicted, a traded item that was a popular item at the time the painting was drawn. In other words, we can say that there is a more logical explanation than a passenger who grabs his phone during time travel. But still, there are those who think that the one in the picture might be a mobile phone, and this painting is a candidate to be a new proof of time travel for them…
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