Re: JT\'s motive
I'd like to understand why everyone says its a hoax?
I've always thought (even before john's posting) that tiem was like he explains it.
1 starting point, with millions of branches. for every choice a new world is made wher that choice was done the other way. (ie: i went left, the other branch is the timeline where i went right)
But I don't understand why he is called a hoax, just because there is no civil war. His Divergance was after all 2.5%. thats a small number, but in the grand scheme of things, that number is HUGE!
His timeline did suffer through the Y2k Bug, we didnt.
It just seems odd that everyone says its a hoax by associating things that make no sense or are pure coincidence to his story. Like the story that he is a fraud cus he took the story from a game called gurps, i read the story and its simmilar but not very close at all.
maybe in his divergence the presidant made a bad choice, like "I want more control" while in this timeline the pres said "meh, i dont need that much power"
Just like he said, if he "predicts" anything and we change it then he becomes a fraud, so tere is no way for him to prove it to us. and there is technically no possible way to prove him wrong either...
so its hard for anyone to say he's a fraud, his story was exactly that, a STORY.
wether you choose to believe any part or the whole or none, is up to you, but you cant call him a fraud. Either way his message was a very good one.
look in the 2005 guiness book of records, scientist have agreed that Sergei Avdeyev (astronaut) has time traveled 1/50th of a second into the future. Through Time Dilation (which is part of JTs story)
If he is real, how are we to argue about wether or not his machine makes sense, we arent all knowing. People think that everything in the world has to apply to our "Earth" physics. well a day here is 24 hours, on venus a day is longer than a year, and gravity is diffrent on the moon.
So we cant say that because it makes no sense to us its impossible (just like he explained about the jet engine to the wright brothers). in 30 years they could discover something to take control of singularities. back in the 1800s they never could imagine something like a 3.4ghz computer with a 20 inch flat monitor playing movies....
Anyway, thats a bit of a rant im sorry.
I believe in Timelines/worldlines, and I belive in time travel. as for JT his story is his world, not ours, we still have our own choices to make, and when the time comes we will deal with them.
So basically out of all that i still ask why are there some out there 100% positive he is a hoax?