And I thought I was a geek
TIME TRAVELERS CONVENTION!
May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC) (event starts at 8:00pm) East Campus Courtyard, MIT 42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W (42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)
A chord of three strands is not quickly broken...
May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC) (event starts at 8:00pm) East Campus Courtyard, MIT 42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W (42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)
It’s actually a quite ingenious experiment. While it cannot prove time-travel to be impossible, if someone from the future were to show up, it would be easy to catalog the occurance and prove that time-travel is possible.
Of course, verifying the autheniticity of one’s claim to be from the future is difficult — but not impossible.
I believe that this (and history in general) demonstrates overwhelming evidence that significant time travel is impossible. If it were possible, someone somewhere from the future would have come back and talked to someone and showed some evidence of such a thing. As of today, there are no legitimate reports of such an occurance. I think that it would be nearly impossible for someone to keep it a secret indefinitely or to guard the technology to such a degree that it does not fall into the hands of some careless people forever.