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American Physical seek time travelers via the Internet and social networks

Travellers film in time, Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) and Marty McFly ( Michael J. Fox), in a scene from ‘Back to the Future’. (STOCK)

A team of physicists from Michigan Technological University has conducted a study to find time travelers through social networks like Facebook or Twitter.

The experts selected search terms related to two recent events, the election of Pope Francisco approach to the Sun and the comet ISON, and began to search the Internet for references to the latest official information.

had a discussion on this topic and the conclusion was that we should do a fun job, but seriously The lead author, Robert Nemiroff, explained that this study was born of a conversation with his team during a game of cards. “We had a discussion on this topic and the conclusion was that we do a fun job, but seriously , to discover whether travelers visiting us from the future through the Internet there,” he noted.

To do this, they developed a search strategy based on what they call the “prophetic knowledge”, ie, find a mention of something or about a topic on the network that is earlier than time that information reached the people. In his view, this could indicate that whoever wrote it would have traveled from the future.

“The work has been thorough,” noted physicist, who said that a variety of search engines , such as Google and Bing was used to comb the comments entered on Facebook and Twitter during certain period of time.

Thus, they have found that in the case of Comet ISON there were indications before the rock was discovered in September 2012.

As for the Pope, as has team explained on the website of the university, one was found a blog post that references a potato Francisco was chosen as head of the Catholic Church 16 March but, in his view, was more accidental than prophetic .

Unfortunately, the invitation went unanswered also created a message, in September 2013, asking readers to send email or a tweet messages # # ICannotChangeThePast2 ICanChangeThePast2 or before August 2013.

“Unfortunately, the invitation went unanswered,” he pointed the scientist who conducted the study on their own, without subsidies.