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From: lyang@sun.uucp (Larry Yang)
Newsgroups: net.physics,net.puzzle,net.sci,net.philosophy
Subject: Re: A Sane Man Proposes A Time Travel Experiment
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Date: Tue, 29-Jul-86 14:04:21 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 29 14:04:21 1986
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In article <1408@felix.UUCP> daver@felix.UUCP (Dave Richards) writes:
>In article <289@axiom.UUCP> gts@axiom.UUCP (Guy Schafer) writes:
>>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.
>
>Or the message is from the present and is a hoax or a joke.  How do you verify
>the source of the message?
>

What could be done is a bunch of scientists secretely set up this 
equipment for about 60 seconds, then announce to the world the next day
that they did this.  Thus, in the future when time experiments are being
done, they know about this window to shoot for.  Of course, they should have
heard/recorded something during this session.

This way, in order for there to be a joke response, one would have to
invent a way to transmit info through time, no?

>
>Long ago I theorized that UFO's could be time travelers from our own people in
>the future.  I can think of no benefit to them of making this known to us, how-
>ever.  In fact, contact (and exchange of information) between future people and
>the present could be very risky to that future.  The paradox inherent in this
>has been debated before, I'm sure.
>
>Dave

How 'bout this theory that I thought of a while ago...  Time travellers go
back in time to explore the evolution of man and get stranded back there,
becoming ancestors to the human race.  But then, now we're getting into
science fiction and not physics....


-- Larry Yang