Speculation is speculation.. we'll see what really happens (or not, and life goes on).
Dear Art ,
I had to fax when I heard other time travelers calling in from any time past
the year 2500 AD.
please let me explain....
Time travel was invented in 2034
off shoots of certain successful fusion reactor research allowed scientists at CERN to produce the worlds first contained singularity engine.
The basic design involves rotating singularities inside a magnetic field.
By altering the speed and direction
of rotation you can travel both forward and backward in time.
time itself can be understood in terms of connected lines. When you go back in time you travel on your original time line when you turn the singularity engine off a new time line is created due to the fact that you and your time machine are now there.
In other words a new universe is created. To get back to your original line you must travel a split second farther back and immediately throw the engine into forward without turning it off.
some interesting outcomes of this are:
you meet yourself I have done it often
even taken a younger version of myself along for a few rides before returning myself to the new timeline and going back to mine.
You can alter history in the new universe
that you have just created. Most of the time the changes are subtle. the oldest one was a sky scraper that don't exist in New York .
Interestingly when you travel in time you must compensate for the orbit of the Earth since the time machine doesn't move you have to adjust the engine so you remain on the planet when you turn it off.
Now for the future you might want to know about..Y2K is a disaster . Many people die on the highways when they freeze to death trying to get to warmer weather. The gov. tries to keep power by instituting marshal law but all of it collapses when their efforts to bring the power back up fail.
A few years later a communal government system is developed after the constitution takes a few twists.
China retakes Taiwan
Israel wins the largest battle for their life.
and Russia is covered in Nuclear snow
from their collapsed reactors.
It is as impossible to prove that he was not a time traveller as it is to prove that he was.
For example: I may be wrong, but I'll assume that you've never been to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. You may not know this but the last three hundred feet up the mountain is actually coated with chocolate cream cheese.
Well now, Budweiser is WAY off the list. And my answer is going to seem funny since I was doing a bit of German-bashing.Heineken or Budweiser?