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From: ken@hcrvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.physics,net.puzzle,net.sci,net.philosophy
Subject: Re: A Sane Man Proposes A Time Travel Experiment
Message-ID: <2452@hcrvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Jul-86 14:03:41 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 30 14:03:41 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 31-Jul-86 04:29:26 EDT
References: <289@axiom.UUCP> <1408@felix.UUCP> <5596@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: ken@hcrvax.UUCP (ken scott, [decvax,ihnp4]!utzoo!hcr!ken)
Organization: Human Computing Resources, Toronto
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Summary: The message is verifiable.

>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?

TO VERIFY MESSAGE:	Set up a random number generator (using atomic
decay or something equally uncontrollable, NOT a pseudo-random number
generating computer program).  Run the test on Friday.  On Saturday,
generate a 200 digit random number, and publish it along with info about
the experiment.  With any luck you will already know the number, because
the time traveller will have sent it back to you on Friday!

Mini-flame to skeptics:  You shouldn't use the word "impossible" with
regard to these ideas.  To be classed impossible, something should have
been *proven* impossible (like squaring a circle using only compasses and
straight-edge). It is not enough that it be "not possible in light of
current *theories*."  Especially given the incomplete state of the
science of physics.

	- The universe is not only stranger than we suppose, it is
	  stranger that we can suppose.		(Edwin Hubble)
-- 
 - Ken Scott
	[decvax,inhn4]!utzoo!hcr!ken

	"You say I contradict myself?  Very well, I contradict myself.
	 I am large, I contain multitudes."