Time Travelers

[89coupe]

Interesting events capturing possible time travelers.

Share your stories.

Here is one, thats intriguing.

Allegedly a guy was watching Charlie Chaplin's 1928 silent film 'The Circus' and spotted a woman in a scene walking by talking on a cell phone.

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[st184]

I wonder what kind of reception he gets with no towers built yet. Maybe the guy invented a phone that had a signal that traveled forward in time to check in :P.

[taemo]

wasn't that proved wrong and that it might have been just a hearing aid.
http://www.phisick.com/a7et82lutz.htm
http://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/chaplin-time-travel-video-solved/

[Phenix]

the guy could have been using a satellite phone?

[HHURICANE1]

It was likely a satellite phone that she was using to contact the mothership in orbit. Doesn't everyone know aliens have lived among us for a long time?

[Tik-Tok]

If it were a time traveler, they would just go back in time and tell themselves to get the fuck out of the footage, and we'd never see the woman in the first place.

[almerick]

Came across this interesting concept:


Suppose you get visited by a man claiming to be the future you. he tells you the plans to build a time machine, and tells you that you must build it, and use it to tell your younger self about the invention (like he is doing now) You then grow up, and use the man's plans to build a time machine, and visit your younger self. Where did the actual "idea" of the time machine come from?? Who or what generated that idea, and set those series of events into motion? I have heard that time travel BACK in time is permitted by physics so that makes this scenario is possible.

Where it gets interesting:

What you describe is probably the ONLY time travel permitted. The act of time travel reinforces itself in the scenario. How you would actually get into this loop is perplexing though. I believe Hawing has described something like this. Travel back in time to kill yourself and you will NEVER succeed. The fact that you exist at all to travel back guarantees you will NOT be able to do so. Something will always happen. Time machine break down, get hit by a bus on the way, crazy things of this nature are guaranteed to happen. Otherwise, you would not exist to travel back in time. The loop you described reinforces itself. Going back to kill someone who has caused you grief cannot succeed because once you change history you no longer have a reason to go back. Your plans will always be foiled by physics.

Discuss.

Edit: Found on physics forums, quoted original posters

[Myrrinda]

There is no way that's a woman.

[ClearBluewater]

Originally posted by Myrrinda
There is no way that's a woman.

Its an alien

[RY213]

Does anybody remember the guy from the late 1990's, early 2000's that posted on a message board claiming to be a time traveller? He also posted pics of his time machine and a few technical drawings. He claimed he was travelling back to the future on a certain date, and was never heard from again once that date passed. I think his name was John Titor???

[Graham_A_M]

^ wow.... Any link? I dont remember that but I've only been a member here since Jan '06.

[ClearBluewater]

http://johntitor.com/

[D'z Nutz]

http://forums.beyond.ca/st/43795/john-titor-time-traveller-from-2036-/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor

[Graham_A_M]

^ Oh crazy, I'll have to start reading thanks guys.


"16) There is a civil war in the United States that starts in 2005. That conflict flares up and down for 10 years. In 2015, Russia launches a nuclear strike against the major cities in the United States (which is the "other side" of the civil war from my perspective), China and Europe. The United States counter attacks. The US cities are destroyed along with the AFE (American Federal Empire)...thus we (in the country) won. The European Union and China were also destroyed. Russia is now our largest trading partner and the Capitol of the US was moved to Omaha Nebraska.



Originally posted by Zephyr
Are the Olympics still being played in the future?

60. As a result of the many conflicts, no, there were no official Olympics after 2004. However, it appears they may be revived in 2040.
Oh okay. :)

[e31]

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h35/lesser_satan/Napoleon-Dynamite-fs21.jpg

Re-live the past OR electrocute your "future". The choice is yours.

[derpderp]

I'm a time traveler.

[Little Dragon]

You can travel into the future, not into the past though (because of paradoxes).
Watched Stephen Hawkings' documentary on it.

[B20EF]

Plus Hawking through a party for time travellers and no one showed up. He was quite dissapointed.

[soobad]

Stuff that belongs in a psuedo-philosophy forum aside, we all are "time travellers" in a literal sense as we are hurtling through space. It's all just about speed and relativity.

However, the Russian Cosmonaut that's orbited the earth for the longest holds the record;

http://www.omg-facts.com/view/Facts/3307

[roopi]

Originally posted by derpderp
I'm a time traveler.

So when are you leaving so we never have to hear from you again?

[xxviet]

Has cancer or AIDS been cured yet?
"Aids, no. Cancer, some progress."

:nut:

[msommers]

Hawking did a show on time travel. It's technically possible, the way we perceive time, however one of his examples was that we could orbit a particular point around a black hole and then come back to earth and we wouldn't have aged as much (or got older, I forgot). Another example was travelling at the speed of light.

Clearly, theoretical but possible ways of "time travel" which in and of itself is just a comparison to our normal view of time.

[oupzwrongthread]

We time travel every time we fly in a plane yo

[arian_ma]

The "rate" at which you travel through time is affected by the speed at which you travel through it, from what I understand. Therefore, if you travel at the speed of light, you are instantaneously traveling through time.

[BigMass]

it's 2011 and there's a black man in the white house
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2008/02/OmniBig.jpg

[BigMass]

PS: I loved Titor. That was an amazingly well done story that caputred the attention of a lot of people. Props to whomever thought it up and carried it out

http://www.johntitor.com/Pages/ChatLog01.htm

I had a ball following it.

Especially the parts where physicists and university physics professors were trying to debunk him.

[kertejud2]

http://www.viruscomix.com/obersalzberg.jpg

[Idiot Stick]

Potentially the very first troll?

[n1zm0]

Originally posted by Graham_A_M

There is a civil war in the United States that starts in 2005.

i forgot to read the newspaper in 2005 then...

[89coupe]

Stephen Hawkings shows you how to build a time machine.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1269288/STEPHEN-HAWKING-How-build-time-machine.html