Time travelers: are they among us or just memes?
Are time travelers living among us? A look at the most-cited cases: the Russian astronaut who aged less, the stock investor, and John Titor.
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Time travelers: myths, memes and the odd anomaly
The idea that time travelers walk among us resurfaces in cycles. The most-cited cases include a Russian astronaut who, after a stay in orbit, aged 0.02 seconds less than the planet; an investor who turned 800 dollars into a stock market fortune thanks to future information; and the recurring figure of John Titor, the supposed soldier from the year 2036 who warned of a nuclear war. Even Donald Trump has been singled out as a possible time traveler.
The thread quickly veers into the absurd: the mutation of time travelers into "chronodolphins," a superior race that would inherit the Earth, according to a shared link. The rest of the comments range from irony — crossing the border from Badajoz to Elvas "makes you an hour younger" — to the direct joke about how unintelligent it would be to travel through time only to end up in Spain during Antonio's terms in office.
At bottom, there is not a single piece of verifiable evidence. The Russian astronaut is explained by relativistic time dilation, a minimal and perfectly predicted effect. The stock investor belongs to urban legend. And John Titor was exposed as a nineties hoax. Time travelers, unless you accept the existence of temporal dolphins, remain exactly that: a modern myth, highly entertaining, but without a second's worth of proof.
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The idea that time travelers walk among us resurfaces in cycles. The most-cited cases include a Russian astronaut who, after a stay in orbit, aged 0.02 seconds less than the planet; an investor who turned 800 dollars into a stock market fortune thanks to future information; and the recurring figure of John Titor, the supposed soldier from the year 2036 who warned of a nuclear war. Even Donald Trump has been singled out as a possible time traveler.
The thread quickly veers into the absurd: the mutation of time travelers into "chronodolphins," a superior race that would inherit the Earth, according to a shared link. The rest of the comments range from irony — crossing the border from Badajoz to Elvas "makes you an hour younger" — to the direct joke about how unintelligent it would be to travel through time only to end up in Spain during Antonio's terms in office.
At bottom, there is not a single piece of verifiable evidence. The Russian astronaut is explained by relativistic time dilation, a minimal and perfectly predicted effect. The stock investor belongs to urban legend. And John Titor was exposed as a nineties hoax. Time travelers, unless you accept the existence of temporal dolphins, remain exactly that: a modern myth, highly entertaining, but without a second's worth of proof.
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