What Happened When We Tried to Publish a Real Paper Investigating Time Travel
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#2For a paper like that I'd expect to see Haruhi Suzumiya as a co-author.
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#3It could be worse. You could have published a paper on gravity shielding, and be shunned for the rest of time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Podkletnov
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#4For a paper like that I'd expect to see Haruhi Suzumiya as a co-author.
are you an alien, time-traveler, or esper?
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#5Best Quote: "Possibly publication could be coupled with a small amount of Kickstarter-like funding. Cain and I have not discussed the idea further -- we are both too busy -- but if anyone out there on the Internet wants to explore this idea further, consider me a supporter."
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#6It could be worse. You could have published a paper on gravity shielding, and be shunned for the rest of time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Podkletnov
As unlikely as these findings are, has anyone actually replicated the experiment?
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#7Perhaps no evidence was found because people from the future have seen this paper and therefore know not to reveal themselves this way!
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#8Best Quote: "Possibly publication could be coupled with a small amount of Kickstarter-like funding. Cain and I have not discussed the idea further -- we are both too busy -- but if anyone out there on the Internet wants to explore this idea further, consider me a supporter."
I disagree. This is the best quote:
" On the money-wasted angle, when doing a Reddit interview about the manuscript, I respond to a question about how this research was funded with the fake answer that we used money left over from our study "Does Tax Payer Money Burn Any Better Than Regular Money?" (Nemiroff & Wilson 2014). In reality, this was an unfunded project."
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#9It's not surprising to me that no physics journals would accept it. Physics journals are, sadly, extremely wary of accepting anything that seems philosophical.
For example, serious people writing serious papers on the foundations of quantum mechanics used to have a hell of a time getting them published. To give a particular example (and I hope I'm not mis-remembering), I don't think Lucien Hardy was able to get this paper [1] accepted. (It now has 215 citations.)
[1] Lucien Hardy, Quantum Theory From Five Reasonable Axioms [quant-ph/0101012], https://scirate.com/arxiv/quant-ph/0101012
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#10It could be worse. You could have published a paper on gravity shielding, and be shunned for the rest of time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Podkletnov
As unlikely as these findings are, has anyone actually replicated the experiment?
There was a half hearted attempt
http://pdf.aiaa.org/preview/2001/PV2001_3363.pdf
However, it wasn't an identical attempt in terms of materials, process, etc...so I'm not sure it really counts.