Any data about Comet ISON or Pope Francis have you seen on the net before it came out to the public?
Scientists scour internet for proof of time travel - TelegraphA team of scientists searching for evidence of time travellers from the future have drawn a blank, but stress that it may just be because they are “good at covering their tracks”.Robert Nemiroff and Teresa Wilson from Michigan Technological University’s physics department developed a strategy for tracking down time travellers by trawling the internet for references to prescient information posted before it should be possible.For instance, they searched for mentions of “Comet ISON” prior to its discovery in September 2012, theorising that it was a large enough event that it would be known to those even far in the future and possibly mentioned online by accident after they travelled back in time.
Similarly, they looked for mentions of “Pope Francis” proper to March 2013, as the current pontiff is the first to have ever had the name.
The researchers scoured popular search engines such as Google, but also turned to Twitter and Facebook.