
Historic Text Analysis To Spot Time Travel Canditates
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Historic Text Analysis To Spot Time Travel Canditates
The idea is to do with time travel what is already being done with ETs via SETI ie using somekind of statisitcal analysis of mass data to spot canditate signals. For instance the precise introduction year of the word 'french fries' is 1883. So texts predating 1883 via somekind of Google text search could be used to locate any prior occurances, if these are statisically significant they can be given a rating. If several words show a signal pattern prior to their accepted first usage - say within a thirty year window, average productive lifespan for a human, then that would be given a rating of 1 out of 5 with 5 showing a extemely significant cluster of many words. This could be done for the twentieth century, when large numbers of new words were introduced via a storm of text, and done with a fine grain accuracy of days rather than months or years unlike the historic time preceding mass communication. Unlike SETI the hard work of initial data accumulation is already done, there is no need for a dish to collect the primary data. Which means focus could be on analysis of the data which may have pay offs for SETI research even if no signal is discovered. Say a signal occurs just before the economic crash of 1929 showing words emenating from the year 1996, wouldn't it be wonderful to find someone had invented the means to rob banks in the past sometime in 1996 and they are still around? 

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You would't need to rob, if you had a time machine.
I would just go back fifty years, with a list of the last fifty years Grand National and Derby winners, and leave it where my previous self was sure to find it.
( note to self, get your money on this lot ).
Or just recommend that I bought microsoft and google shares.
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I would just go back fifty years, with a list of the last fifty years Grand National and Derby winners, and leave it where my previous self was sure to find it.
( note to self, get your money on this lot ).
Or just recommend that I bought microsoft and google shares.
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While there is a market for shit, there will be assholes to supply it.
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Re: Historic Text Analysis To Spot Time Travel Canditates
mistermack wrote:You would't need to rob, if you had a time machine.
I would just go back fifty years, with a list of the last fifty years Grand National and Derby winners, and leave it where my previous self was sure to find it.
( note to self, get your money on this lot ).
Or just recommend that I bought microsoft and google shares.
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Depends on your options for time travel? It may taake more energy or information than you currenty possess to go back very far. If accurate observational data(photographs) of the past are required to travel there, without being smashed to pieces by the time winds, then you may not be able to go beyond the 1860s/1870s? This will limit the cultural uses of time travel to those activities like sex, tourism and crime and maybe a little bit of scientific research; somekind of analysis of genes might also uncover temporal imposters?

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I can't see why people who invented a time machine, and travelled back in time, would feel compelled to do it in secret. It's more likely that they would tell people, and brag about it. I would. How could you avoid the temptation to have a word with Isaac Newton, and tell him about relativity. Or Darwin, and introduce him to Mendel?
The only chance of time travel that I can imagine, is to be able to OBSERVE the past, but not actually go there. We can do that now in a way, with old cine film, and books.
Maybe it's feasible for light that left the earth 100 years ago to bounce off some object fifty light years distant, and come back, so that some vast computer could de-scramble it and we could watch the past as it happened.
Or, some aliens fifty light years away, recorded the images from Earth, and re-broadcast them back to us, just for fun.
I wouldn't want to put any money on it though.
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The only chance of time travel that I can imagine, is to be able to OBSERVE the past, but not actually go there. We can do that now in a way, with old cine film, and books.
Maybe it's feasible for light that left the earth 100 years ago to bounce off some object fifty light years distant, and come back, so that some vast computer could de-scramble it and we could watch the past as it happened.
Or, some aliens fifty light years away, recorded the images from Earth, and re-broadcast them back to us, just for fun.
I wouldn't want to put any money on it though.
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Re: Historic Text Analysis To Spot Time Travel Canditates
Maybe there's some reason, just like ET, that time travellers are keeping chilled about their presence? Maybe they don't fully understand their own technology and have safeguards as a consequence? 

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Perhaps they haven't been secret. Maybe they tried to brag about it but were called crazy. Maybe that's how we got the idea of time travel in the first place? (Which subsequently lead to the invention of the time machine that brought us the idea)


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I found this in Sir Thomas More's diary - it is a record of Henry VIII's response to Catherine of Aragon upon her arrival back at court in 1519 after taking the air in the country during the summer:
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