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Originally posted by Springer
Excellent question...
Is it possible to bring an artifact from the future and carbon date it? Would the artifact still retain the additional age it garnered between today and the time our time traveller retrieved it?
In other words, say our temporal traveller had a coin, the minting date on the coin establishes its age fairly well, if our time traveller was from several decades in the future (centuries would be better) could you not "date" the coin and establish it is actually several decades/centuries older than it "should be"?
Springer...
Originally posted by semperfortis
If one considers this a valid hypothesis, the possibilities become almost mathematically impossible to conceive.
Semper
Originally posted by Springer
In other words, say our temporal traveller had a coin, the minting date on the coin establishes its age fairly well, if our time traveller was from several decades in the future (centuries would be better) could you not "date" the coin and establish it is actually several decades/centuries older than it "should be"?
Springer...
Cosmic radiation strikes the atmosphere all the time. Every once in a while, a negatively charged electron strikes one of the positively charged protons in a nitrogen atom. The positive and negative charges cancel out, turning the proton into a neutron. The electron is so light compared to a proton or a neutron that it doesn’t change the weight of the proton. So, this nitrogen atom that used to have seven protons and seven neutrons now has six protons and eight neutrons and still has 14 atomic mass units (6 + 8 = 14). Since it has six protons, it is no longer nitrogen. It is carbon. Specifically, it is 14C.
Originally posted by Springer
Excellent question...
Is it possible to bring an artifact from the future and carbon date it? Would the artifact still retain the additional age it garnered between today and the time our time traveller retrieved it?
In other words, say our temporal traveller had a coin, the minting date on the coin establishes its age fairly well, if our time traveller was from several decades in the future (centuries would be better) could you not "date" the coin and establish it is actually several decades/centuries older than it "should be"?
Originally posted by Albert Steronia
Kind hello to all here.
Having regarded the "John Titor" material in detail, especially the wealth of information that appears to contrare the proposition, I have a question for you.
Assuming one from a "future" may wish to avoid causality by revealing events to be, how could this person prove he is from a "future"?