Physical design method for detecting time travelers - SlashGear

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of Michigan Technological University published a paper describes a practical methodology for find time travelers , using Internet. “The time travel have captured the public imagination for much of the last century, but little has been done to find time travelers,” says the paper published in arXiv.

The study evaluated three methods for searching the Internet looking ‘clairvoyant’ mentions of information not previously available. The first method covers Twitter search, the second search engine like Google or Bing, and the third direct communications via the Internet, by e-mail or Twitter.

“If a time traveler from the future accede to Internet in recent years, could have left clairvoyant content that persists today,” the researchers Robert J Nemiroff and Teresa Wilson.

. Specifically two search terms were used: the comet ISON and Pope Francisco The comet was discovered on September 21, 2012, so that the name began to be used since. The researchers looked for indications of previous comet at that time, as a possible future clairvoyant content.

Meanwhile, Francisco was elected Pope on March 16, 2013, being the first pope to use that name and therefore it is a relatively unique search term. As in the previous case, the Pope mentions searched Francisco before 16 March last year.

After investigation, “rating is not discovered in time,” points out the document. “Although the negative results reported here may indicate that the time travelers of the future are not between us and can not communicate with us through the modern Internet, does not make it a test,” the paper .

may be other reasons why no traces of travelers, as the possibility that it is physically impossible to leave information in the past for unknown physical laws, or travelers wanting to avoid detection was found to be very good and erasing their fingerprint, for example.

Stephen Hawking

did a similar experiment to detect time travelers, also with negative results, organizing a party that was announced just after it happened. If someone came to the party, means that traveled to the past after learning that there was a party.

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