Time travel testimony and the 'john titor' Fiasco

Think 9 (26):7-20 (2010)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Around 1998, internet postings began appearing under the alias ‘ Timetravel_0 ’. This alias was later replaced by ‘John Titor’, and it's as such I'll designate the posts' author. Remarkably, Titor claimed to have time-travelled from 2036 on a mission to retrieve an IBM 5100 in 1975. Titor refrained from public appearances and any evidence for his story remains web-bound but before closing shop c. March 24 th 2001, he described various future events, e.g.: Y2K is a disaster. Many people die on the highways when they freeze to death trying to get to warmer weather. Cancellation of the Olympics after 2004 due to world conflict. America will soon be engaged in civil war with itself; a civil war that we'll see the beginnings of during 2004 and 2005, escalating until it is indisputable by 2008. This equivocal civil war fizzles until global nuclear war kills three billion people in 2015

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,752

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

On going backward in time.John Earman - 1967 - Philosophy of Science 34 (3):211-222.
No Time Travel for Presentists.Steven D. Hales - 2010 - Logos and Episteme 1 (2):353-360.
Troubles with time travel.William Grey - 1999 - Philosophy 74 (1):55-70.
The Time Machine in Our Mind.Kurt Stocker - 2012 - Cognitive Science 36 (3):385-420.
Time Travel and the Reality of Spontaneity.C. K. Raju - 2005 - Foundations of Physics 36 (7):1099-1113.
Time Travel and Time Machines.Douglas Kutach - 2013 - In Adrian Bardon & Heather Dyke (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Time. Chichester, UK: Blackwell. pp. 301–314.
The case for time travel.Phil Dowe - 2000 - Philosophy 75 (3):441-451.
Paradoxes and Hypodoxes of Time Travel.Peter Eldridge-Smith - 2007 - In Jan Lloyd Jones, Paul Campbell & Peter Wylie (eds.), Art and Time. Australian Scholarly Publishing. pp. 172--189.

Analytics

Added to PP
2013-12-01

Downloads
89 (#190,731)

6 months
15 (#164,728)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Alasdair Richmond
University of Edinburgh

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references