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<blockquote data-quote="samzeman" data-source="post: 185969" data-attributes="member: 11182"><p>The ways to verify time travellers are these as far as I can tell:</p><p></p><p>1. Ask a question about the future: Unreliable - How many details, within any given week, would you know if transported any time in the last decade? I know major things like presidents getting elected, but like. 6th June 2015? It'd be a year or two before I could prove any future knowledge. Unless something jogged my memory, but that's an unpredictable mechanism to rely on.</p><p></p><p>2. Artifacts from the future: Falsifiable I guess. Paperwork obviously, but also any technology is either going to be understandable and feasibly created by a person now, or understandable and will cause a huge leap in our tech. Time travellers tend to be against this in popular lore - not sure why, might just be so the possiblity of time travel can still exist, cause that's more fun. There's the whole "huge unintended consequences thing" but anyone testing time travel equipment is probably messing with those forces anyway. Or the technology can't be understood, and it can't be replicated, and then it'll be a mystery but you can safely bet that most people will jump to some other conclusion than time travel. Like the anachronistic mechanisms (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-place_artifact" target="_blank">Out-of-place artifact - Wikipedia</a>) in various places, though those have all been mostly proven to have an explanation other than time travel. Even when they weren't proven to be normal items, people were speculating and time travel was still one of the crazier/less often believed speculations. Only those predisposed to believe in time travel are likely to believe that conclusion, even if someone comes back and claims they are a time traveller, and gives an example of anachronistic tech.</p><p></p><p>3. The question I haven't asked yet: Relies on them being able to rapidly travel forwards and backwards, instead of like.... a terminator style time machine where it takes a lot of energy, is one way etc. Though as with all speculations of time travel, there's no reason to believe it's one way or another really.</p><p></p><p>If anyone else has other methods I'd be fascinated to hear it. I love this stuff (as you may be able to tell)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="samzeman, post: 185969, member: 11182"] The ways to verify time travellers are these as far as I can tell: 1. Ask a question about the future: Unreliable - How many details, within any given week, would you know if transported any time in the last decade? I know major things like presidents getting elected, but like. 6th June 2015? It'd be a year or two before I could prove any future knowledge. Unless something jogged my memory, but that's an unpredictable mechanism to rely on. 2. Artifacts from the future: Falsifiable I guess. Paperwork obviously, but also any technology is either going to be understandable and feasibly created by a person now, or understandable and will cause a huge leap in our tech. Time travellers tend to be against this in popular lore - not sure why, might just be so the possiblity of time travel can still exist, cause that's more fun. There's the whole "huge unintended consequences thing" but anyone testing time travel equipment is probably messing with those forces anyway. Or the technology can't be understood, and it can't be replicated, and then it'll be a mystery but you can safely bet that most people will jump to some other conclusion than time travel. Like the anachronistic mechanisms ([URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-place_artifact"]Out-of-place artifact - Wikipedia[/URL]) in various places, though those have all been mostly proven to have an explanation other than time travel. Even when they weren't proven to be normal items, people were speculating and time travel was still one of the crazier/less often believed speculations. Only those predisposed to believe in time travel are likely to believe that conclusion, even if someone comes back and claims they are a time traveller, and gives an example of anachronistic tech. 3. The question I haven't asked yet: Relies on them being able to rapidly travel forwards and backwards, instead of like.... a terminator style time machine where it takes a lot of energy, is one way etc. Though as with all speculations of time travel, there's no reason to believe it's one way or another really. If anyone else has other methods I'd be fascinated to hear it. I love this stuff (as you may be able to tell) [/QUOTE]
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