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From: gts@axiom.UUCP (Guy Schafer)
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Subject: A Sane Man Proposes A Time Travel Experiment
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Date: Thu, 24-Jul-86 13:58:42 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 24 13:58:42 1986
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I received a head injury the other day and I thought of this:

Get a bunch of detectors of all sorts--electromagnetic (video cameras,
thermal detectors, microwave detectors, etc), calibrated clocks,
sniffers (gas and various fluid detectors), microphones, and whatever
other kind you can think of or invent.
Then pick a spot that is durable (won't move very far over the course
of many years) and is PRECISELY known--note it's longitude, lattitude,
measure it from the poles (magnetic and actual) from geosyncronous
sattilites, even from other planets and the sun.
Then pick a time that is also precisely known--use several methods if
possible.

Then widely publicize and permanently store this information (time, place,
types and accuracy of detectors) in many places--especially where physics
research is being done.

At the time chosen, just listen for messages coming in from the future.

If a message comes in, we know that sometime in the future, the stored info
was retrieved and used to send info back in time using technology now
unknown.

If nothing comes in, we know that during the next x years (where x is the
probable durability of the stored information) technology to send info
back in time will not have been invented.

Comments?

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