Temporal Prime Directive
Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
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Re: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
#42Isn'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…
And have you thought about how many potential hitlers were pruned in the WW2 ... every one that died in the conflict could be much worse than him. So maybe Hitler was a historical fuse. A maniac just 20 years later could have destroyed humanity. Dead serious here, assume that nuclear weapons were available from day1.
So maybe there was time travel manipulation to ensure WWII so that humanity could survive.
Re: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
#43I'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, communica…
It's been 60 years since nuclear power was invented, so in 10 years it'll be available for mass market? I'd also like my watch form plane.
What if it's so energy intensive that a future dyson sphere can only power it once a year. It doesn't matter how cheap the machine is, if the resources are expensive.
Re: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
#44This is interesting, but these methods don't strike me as really viable. The Twitter outreach was specifically targeted at the cooperation of Twitter-using time travelers, and while Pope Francis might or might not be historically significant enough to warrant prescient mentioning, I'm sure comet ISON is not. The assumption is also (and maybe it has to be) that time travelers would blurp out important prescient inform…
"Hand-picked phrases are not be enough to discover this,"
"... are not be..."
- AHA! We've GOT YOU! Now, tell me my future! ;-)
Re: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
#45Isn'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…
> 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. This would prevent World War 2 and the associated advances in technology, possibly including those leading to the time travel being possible in the first place.
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Re: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
#46Isn'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…
And have you thought about how many potential hitlers were pruned in the WW2 ... every one that died in the conflict could be much worse than him. So maybe Hitler was a historical fuse. A maniac just 20 years later could have destroyed humanity. Dead serious here, assume that nuclear weapons were available from day1. So maybe there was time travel manipulation to ensure WWII so that humanity could survive.
Now you're just messing with my mind.
Re: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
#47This is interesting, but these methods don't strike me as really viable. The Twitter outreach was specifically targeted at the cooperation of Twitter-using time travelers, and while Pope Francis might or might not be historically significant enough to warrant prescient mentioning, I'm sure comet ISON is not. The assumption is also (and maybe it has to be) that time travelers would blurp out important prescient inform…
"Hand-picked phrases are not be enough to discover this," "... are not be..." - AHA! We've GOT YOU! Now, tell me my future! ;-)
Dammit, not again ;)
Re: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
#48There 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".
Doesn't relativity say there is no such thing as fixed coordinates? That it all depends on frame of reference.
Re: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
#49I'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…
Yes, I would probably go back to 2009 and mine bitcoins (or fill captchas for 5 BTC a piece..) with a CPU..
Re: Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
#50There's a relevant Mitchell and Web scetch. Someone travels back in time and meets Faraday. Faraday asks a bunch of questions, none of which can be answered because the traveller is just an everyday person who has little clue about how things work.
Armstrong and Miller actually: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6c2kyNJ3Omo