John Titor...Art Bell era
OutlineEdit
IBM 5100 computer
In his online postings, Titor claimed to be an American soldier from 2036, based in
Tampa, Florida.
He was assigned to a governmental time-travel project, and sent back to 1975 to retrieve an
IBM 5100 computer which he said was needed to
debug various legacy computer programs in 2036; a possible reference to the
UNIX year 2038 problem.
The IBM 5100 runs the
APL and
BASIC programming languages.
Titor had been selected for this mission specifically, given that his paternal grandfather was directly involved with the assembly and programming of the 5100.
Titor claimed to be on a stopover in the year 2000 for "personal reasons," to collect pictures lost in the (future) civil war and to visit his family, of whom he spoke often.
Titor also said he had been, for a few months, trying to alert anyone that would listen about the threat of
Creutzfeldt–Jakob diseasespread through beef products and about the possibility of civil war within the United States.
"THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED" around 2001 ...
.................
When questioned about them by an online subscriber, Titor also expressed an interest in mysteries such as
UFOs, which remained unexplained in his time. Titor suggested that UFOs and
extraterrestrialsmight be travelers from much further into the future than his own time, with superior time machines.
Time machineEdit
Titor described his time machine on several occasions. In an early post, he described it as a "stationary mass, temporal displacement unit powered by two top-spin, dual positive singularities", producing a "standard off-set
Tipler sinusoid".
The earliest post was more explicit, saying it contained the following:
- Two magnetic housing units for the dual micro singularities
- An electron injection manifold to alter mass and gravity of the micro singularities
- A cooling and X-ray venting system
- Gravity sensors, or a variable gravity lock
- Four main cesium clocks
- Three main computer units
According to the posts, the device was installed in the rear of a 1967
Chevrolet Corvette convertible and later moved to a 1987 truck having four-wheel drive.
Titor shared several scans of the manual of a "C204 Time Displacement Unit" with diagrams and schematics and posted some photographs of the device installed in the car.
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Titor claimed that the "Everett–Wheeler model of quantum physics," better known as the
many-worlds interpretation, was correct. The model posits that every possible outcome of a quantum decision occurs in a separate "universe." Titor stated that this was the reason the
grandfather paradox would not happen; following the logic of the argument, Titor would be killing a different John Titor's grandfather in a timeline other than his own.
...The grandfather paradox is impossible.
All possible
quantum states, events, possibilities, and outcomes are real, eventual, and occurring.
The chances of everything happening someplace at some time in the superverse are 100%.
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