Time Travel - John Titor

[Moondance]

OK, buckle up SoWal Loungers... I mentioned this to Smiling JOe and decided I would post it (sorry in advance for its length).

I am interested to learn if anyone else has heard of John TIToR (TIme TRaveler). I listened to this mind- and time-bender :shock: radio interview on the "Coast to Coast AM with George Noory" show July 8, 2005 and finally tracked it down (BTW, there is a news item on Hurricane Dennis over Cuba that is a bit eerie).

The site for the radio show and streamlink of the full broadcast is:
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2005/07/08.html

However, the 30-day registration is $6.95. I am NOT hawking the show or the site or anything, it is simply a topic that is fascinating to me. You can check the Titor link below and get plenty enough of the flavor for free. The interview is great and has callers that are pretty wild...

(one said the time travel "police" intentionally caused a car accident with him, so that he wouldn't DIE in a car accident later that day, so they would, in turn, be able to catch the rogue John Titor, who had failed to return to 2036 as scheduled and was AWOL !!)

The radio guest was Oliver Williams, the proprieter of a web site that purports to have collected a large volume of online messages posted by a "John Titor," a self-described time traveler from the year 2036. Here is the radio tease:

"All that is known about Titor, Williams explained, has been compiled from posts on internet discussions boards dating back to November 2000. According to Williams, Titor claimed to have traveled to our present from the year 2036 -- a period scarred by the devastation of World War 3 -- to find a computer made in 1975 needed to fix something in his time. Through his internet postings, Titor gave detailed descriptions of his time machine, as well as warnings about an impending civil conflict in the United States, mad cow disease, and the cancellation of the Olympics, Williams said."

The free link to Oliver Williams' John Titor site is:
http://www.johntitor.com/

I was hesitant to post this but since I no longer have any reputation to protect (Thanks SJ, k, RO and GB ;-) ), I thought, what the hell?

Happy Travels!!

 

[Cil]

I've read about him. I enjoy science fiction and love time travel stuff.
However, while his story is interesting, to me it is a well-done fake, especially looking at the fact that he said a new (USA) Civil War will begin in 2004. (We may be divided, but I can't think of any states which have seceded.)


Wikipedia's John Titor

John Titor debunked

 

[Miss Kitty]

I keep expecting Rod Sterling and that crazy theme from the "Twilight Zone" !

 

[Cil]

hee
Yes. My husband likes to listen to Art Bell's Radio Show as well. He doesn't take it too seriously but it is quite entertaining, especially the people who call in.

 

[Moondance]

Awesome, Cil !! I can't wait to read the links. This is all I am looking for, an exchange of ideas. It has occurred to me certainly that it is fake, but on that point Oliver Williams notes that Titor's knowledge on a variety of complex subjects and disciplines is so broad and thorough that, if a hoax, it would seem to have been a team rather than an individual.

I would love for it to be debunked since the upshot, if you will, of the Titor story is mostly gloom and doom on a grand scale in our and our kids' lifetimes.

Btw, I thought about that after I made the post. Time Travel seemed innocuous enough of a topic, then you get into some of his "predictions" and say man, this is a supreme drag... Sorry to be a buzzkill in that respect, but my interest is in the "science" behind the ideas, definitely not in "the end of civilization as we know it."

Final thought, regarding 2004, there is a concept that Titor referred to as "temporal divergence" between his worldline (timeline) and ours, that might account for variations in time. "weedooweedooweedoo"

Thanks for the post. I hope we get more!

 

[Moondance]

hee
Yes. My husband likes to listen to Art Bell's Radio Show as well. He doesn't take it too seriously but it is quite entertaining, especially the people who call in.

Me too. The callers can be beyond bizzarre...

 

[Moondance]

See an "interactive" time travel link at: http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2005/01/07.html

The kids (on this board) will love it!! ;-)
It looks like below and it really works (wow), no batteries needed.



"Albert Einstein theorized that time flowed at different rates. According to him, the faster one traveled, the slower time flowed. Einstein called this phenomenon time dilation, and invented the "Twin Paradox" to explain its effects. Click the above graphic (use the link above) to see an interactive example of the "Twin Paradox."

INSTRUCTIONS:
Click people (green) to set age
Click ship to set velocity
Click on a star to launch ship

After the ship returns, note the astronaut's age compared to the age of the person who stayed on Earth. Adjust the options and relaunch to see how things change."

 

[Cil]

Very cool, Moondance!
I sent the link to my niece and nephew.

 

[CastlesOfSand]

Didn't they make a movie about this......? :shock: Very interesting anyways.

 

[Moondance]

Didn't they make a movie about this......? :shock: Very interesting anyways.

If so, I'm not aware. Strangely, I generally dislike sci-fi, but I'd LOVE to see a Titor film that faithfully recreates (the fantasy or reality? of) John Titor, as reflected in his posts. Wild stuff!