Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
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#2Ever so slightly disappointed at the complete lack of mention of Steins;Gate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steins;Gate) in the paper. Interesting read all the same :)
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#3Quite interesting with the methods used, alas the conclusion:
> Unfortunately, as of this writing, no prescient tweets or emails were received. Given the additional exposure that the public listing of this manuscript gains, we will continue to search, on occasion, for active tweets and emails involving potential time travel.
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#4Ever so slightly disappointed at the complete lack of mention of Steins;Gate ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steins;Gate ) in the paper. Interesting read all the same :)
And no John Titor!
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#5PDF of paper in case it wasn't obvious:
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#6Well great. Now time travelers can't make prescient tweets because if they do it will reveal them.
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#7I thought this kind of stuff goes to http://vixra.org/
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#8Of course the search didn't find anything. They already know what will be (was?) looked for...
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#9Looks like an Ig Nobel prize winner to me.
> Although these negative results do not disprove time travel, given the great reach of the Internet, this search is perhaps the most comprehensive to date.
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#10Isn't the issue here that they are describing the methods through which they are trying to determine time travel. In effect, telling anyone in the future exactly what not to do.
Let's also assume that somebody had a reason to travel into the past, say to kill Hitler. Our timeline would record that an Austrian artist was murdered in the 1920s. We would not consider this historically significant.
I think time travel is inherently very difficult to detect. Even if a time traveller 'dropped' tech. This tech would be recoverable by popping back in time and recovering it.