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Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
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Re: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
#32Isn'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…
"...say to kill Hitler." Everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. http://www.abyssapexzine.com/wikihistory/
Thanks for that link, i haven't laughed this hard in ages
Re: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
#33This only covers time travelers from the future. If one were to use similar methods to find time travelers from the past, we'd probably find millions of candidates :)
I believe finding time travellers from the past is trivial, especially those who travelled at a speed of 1s/s (or adimensional 1)
How does the measurement even work? 1s/s in what frame of reference?
Re: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
#34Isn'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…
"...say to kill Hitler." Everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. http://www.abyssapexzine.com/wikihistory/
Why just Hitler? Stalin and Mao were arguably equally as bad:
http://necrometrics.com/tyrants.htm
And there are monsters like Leopold II of Belgium (possible victims in the range 2-15 million) who hardly anyone remembers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium#Exploitat...
Actually, as hardly anyone remembers Leopold II maybe he is the ideal target.... :-|
[NB I eventually remembered that I'm against the death penalty - so what I am actually in favor of is apprehending the relevant individuals and bringing them back to face trial by the appropriate authorities. Although I admit there would be a distinct temptation to do a Cheradenine Zakalwe with Vasili Blokhin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Blokhin
Where was the Grey Area when we needed it!]
Re: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
#35Perhaps Twitter is run by a cabal of evil time travellers who have created technology to check whether tweets reveal temporal anomalies and delete them automatically to cover their tracks and protect the status of an elite class in the distant future. What if all communications technology has been built around this capability; everything routed through a network of 'security agencies' that ostensibly protect the func…
I work for Twitter and can confirm that.
Re: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
#36Isn'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…
"...say to kill Hitler." Everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. http://www.abyssapexzine.com/wikihistory/
See also [0] for explanation why no one ever succeeded.
Re: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
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#38I'm not sure why time travellers from the future would bother to leave prescient messages on the net. What's the motivation? Something like graffiti artists tagging difficult locations?
What I can see them (hypothetically) doing is manipulating present-day financial markets by exploiting their knowledge of future events (e.g. sudden commodity shortages or unexpected mineral discoveries) to increase their wealth. Even small manipulations would produce large downstream gains due to compound interest.
So perhaps market data is a place to look for abnormalities - particularly in existing systems that look for signs of insider trading, or investment accounts/trusts that are untouched over very long periods of time. Of course, such data is usually protected and inaccessible anyway.
Re: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
#39There is no such thing as time travel. There is only teleportation. Because you have to have 4(or 10) fixed coordinates to move. Just time travel means you will be in vacuum, rock or middle of a star the moment you arrive.
Since we already found the higgs I think the next line of research should be what exactly gives a particle "the where".
Re: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
#40I've never understood this logic. If say time travel is invented in year 3000. Then surely by 3050 it would be affordable for a certain segment of society. And be 3070 available for a mass market. And by 3100 available in watch form.
So shouldn't we expect there to be millions/billions of people interfering with the past. A significant percentage of which would be deliberately aiming to manipulate, destroy, communicate, affect and do all the things we expect people wouldn't.
Clearly it means either two things. 1: time travel is not possible. 2: going back in time forks the universe/space-time (About Time is a recent movie that proposes this).