safety not guaranteed
Posted on 05/10/2021 5:16:14 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
John Titor was an alleged time traveler from the year 2036, who shared detailed information about his time machine, mission, and original timeline with forum users in the years 2000 and 2001.
A Brief History Of John Titor In 1998, late night paranormal talk show host Art Bell received two faxes from an individual claiming to have pertinent information on the nature of time travel.
In the first fax, the sender (at that time, unnamed) detailed the discovery of time travel (involving the particle accelerator at CERN) in the year 2034. He also claimed that a “brick wall” existed in the timeline, and that no traveler could breach the year 2564.
The second fax, while less detailed, promised photographic evidence, as well as scans of the traveler’s time machine operations manual.
On November 2, 2000, an individual using the forum username TimeTravel_0 posted at the Time Travel Institute (TTI), in a thread titled Time-travel Paradoxes!: “Wow! Paul is right on the money. I was just about to give up hope on anyone knowing who Tipler or Kerr was on this worldline.
By the way, #2 is the correct answer and the basics for time travel start at CERN in about a year and end in 2034 with the first “time machine” built by GE. Too bad we can’t post pictures or I’de show it to you.” On January 27, 2001, this same user appeared on Art Bell’s Post to Post BBS, creating a new thread titled I am from 2036:
“Greetings. I am a time traveler from the year 2036. I am on my way home after getting an IBM 5100 computer system from the year 1975.
My “time” machine is a stationary mass, temporal displacement unit manufactured by General Electric. The unit is powered by two, top-spin, dual-positive singularities that produce a standard, off-set Tipler sinusoid.
I will be happy to post pictures of the unit.” The individual posting as John Titor went on to answer questions, detail the function and design of his time machine, and provide alleged photographs of the time machine and its operations manual. On March 24, 2001 John Titor shared his final message. “I will be leaving this worldline shortly and this will be my final post,” he wrote. True to his word, he never posted again.
To this day, no one knows John Titor’s true identity. His true name, his appearance, his location — all of it remains a mystery. If he was an actual time traveler, as he claimed, that version of John Titor no longer exists on this worldline. If he was a hoax, an individual playing a character, that person has yet to officially come forward to reveal the truth with evidence.
It’s not just location. You left an entire universe intact and alive. You need another exact same universe to land in - albeit a replica of the date you want to be in, populated with exact replicas of folks who were around in that time. Replicans, perhaps? Stage actors?
I’ll leave the time-travel folks to figure all that out.
I like it.
My take is that time-travel cannot exist (except perhaps as a tour through a read-only-memory of the past or a sim-city of the past with non-player-characters).
You cannot actually change the past, but only play out scenarios. Because if you could change the past, nothing could ever in fact get done (since some doofus would just come along and change it so why bother doing anything).
safety not guaranteed
As far as traveling into the future, we are all doing that. No one can get there any faster than anyone else. But if you run or fly really fast, you can age slower, for what that’s worth.
You just did. Awhile back, in the past.
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He should have grabbed an Apple I instead.
Exactly. At a particular time, the earth will be at a particular place and you will have to calculate that place to the nth degree or you will end up inside the earth or millions of miles away in space. And the further away from the present time you get, the more imprecise your calculations will be. For this reason, any time machine would also need to be a spacecraft unless there was some way of fixing the time machine to a place on earth.
I remember reading about him years ago.
Ah, not this silly stuff again. This is Coast-to-Coast type crap, right up there with shapeshifters, holes that have no end, Bigfoot, and all that foolishness.
Thank you for clearing that up.
I was perplexed myself but I just couldn’t come up with the answer.
I went back and watched Interstellar to see if it would trigger something in my Brain to no avail.
Isn’t GE nearly defunct?
Old news.
He has a wife, you know. You know what she's called? She's called...
'Incontinentia'. 'Incontinentia Buttocks'.
The thing is, he warned about Y2K in 1998
Please anyone that work computer networking knew about y2k for years
The company I work for forbid anyone taking time off new years 2000 starting two years before in 1998.. but had to allow me off as I had book my vacation time for new years 2000 four years before in 1996
Lol I used to tape the show all night and listen during work the next day. Had a voice activated cassette recorder from CC radio with low rpm that would hold the entire show. Art was also a ham radio operator so we had that in common too.
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