British and Japanese scientist claim a torpedo fired from a Japanese submarine in 1945 sailed through a time warp and sank the Titanic in 1912, and they’ve got the evidence to prove it a second, unexploded torpedo with Japanese markings that’s lodged in the ill-fated ship’s boiler room.

“The Titanic didn’t hit an iceberg: it was laid to waste by a Japanese torpedo fired from a submarine halfway around the world—31 years in the future, says Dr. Samuel Mullins, of the prestigious institute for Applied and Advanced Physics in London.

“The evidence we have found is irrefutable. A physical torpedo, unexploded and bearing Japanese markings specific to the World War Ⅱ era, is still lodged in the ship. The hole it punched in the Titanic’s hull confirms our belief that it couldn’t have been placed there after the fact. It was fired from a submarine—a Japanese submarine. And the submarine didn’t exist when the Titanic embarked from English in 1912 on its maiden voyage to New York.”

“The submarine wasn’t designed until 1939. It wasn’t built until 1943—and the markings on the torpedo prove it. The implications are staggering. We’ve learned that everything we thought we knew about the Titanic hitting an iceberg and sinking is wrong. We’ve also latched on to powerful evidence to suggest that the future and the past do, in fact, exist simultaneously with the present. And that means we might one day be able to find a way to travel in time, altering what was, what is and what will be, to our liking. We might even be able to travel back to 1912, or 1943, or both—and save the Titanic.”

A blockbuster report authored by Mullins and esteemed Japanese physicist Dr. Haruko Sugimura appeared in the issue of the scholarly British journal Physical World View. The controversy it touched off worldwide is expected to rage for months or even years to come.