In the past couple of weeks, news has come out about two seemingly random events. The first was that Albert Einstein was proven right about gravity waves, which seems to show that time travel is possible. The second event was that iPhones and other iOS devices can stop working, aka become a brick, when you manually change the current date to May 1970.
What the news media won’t tell you is that the two events are related. It happened two weeks ago when scientists sent a person back in time to May 1970. The test subject, we’ll call her Cheryl, was sent back to May 1, 1970, and she accidentally took her iPhone with her. While back in 1970 she changed the date on her phone to the date she was experiencing, so she wouldn’t get confused. Unfortunately for Cheryl that is when she found the bug in the current iOS, and her phone became a brick.
Update:
Cheryl is facing disciplinary actions for taking the phone back to 1970. Meanwhile the scientists try to understand the calendar book (printed on paper!) that Cheryl back with her. One scientist says they may never know how a calendar was printed on paper, as he checked his upcoming appointments on his phone.