Most significantly, she claims that John Titor mailed her a piece of the IBM logo, and that while it came with no return address, there was an Orlando postmark. She also sent me this picture of the label. From there things grew considerably more interesting. She has to leave She has to go The fastest way Is by trism Steps off the curb Stella Corona hopes for the best To be home by sunset Gotta be home by sunset.
She asked me to give her a ride She said she had to go Dropped her off by the trism Through the atmosphere by prism. It was a human race to get away And then back again Like the sun bends light through a prism She bends herself through the trism.
This may correspond with the dream I shared with him [that] I had. But the truth was I had a detailed dream of a time traveler in The questions I was asking him and his answers are what I saw in the dream so I kept asking detailed questions. By then I was intrigued by him. In my dream I was in a car time traveling with a man where what he described […] exactly matched my dream. Later before he left he said he had to stop in April of I went and grabbed my note book and at the top was the date April My mouth dropped then I told John about my dream.
What intrigued me most was something Pamela had to say about the faxes sent to Art Bell in that bare a strong resemblance to the John Titor story.
I had to fax when I heard other time travelers calling in from any time past the year AD. Please let me explain. Time travel was invented in The basic design involves rotating singularities inside a magnetic field.
By altering the speed and direction of rotation, you can travel both forward and backward in time. Time itself can be understood in terms of connected lines.
When you go back in time, you travel on your original timeline. When you turn your singularity engine off, a new timeline is created, due to the fact that you and your time machine are now there.
In other words, a new universe is created. To get back to your original line, you must travel a split second father back, and immediately throw the engine into forward without turning it off. One, you meet yourself. I have done it often, even taken a younger version of myself along for a few rides before returning myself to the new timeline and going back to mine.
Two, you can alter history in the new universe that you have just created. Most of the time, the changes are subtle. Interestingly, when you travel in time, you must compensate for the orbit of the earth. Unfortunately, it was also discovered that anyone going forward in time, from my , hit a brick wall in the year Everyone who has ever been there has reported that nothing exists. When the machine is turned off, you find yourself surrounded by blackness and silence. Now, most time travelers are trying to find out where the line went bad by going into the past, creating a new universe, and proceeding forward to see if the same thing results in It appears the line went bad around the year One, Y2K is a disaster.
Many people die on the highways when they freeze to death trying to get to warmer weather. Two, the government tries to keep power by instituting Marshall Law, but all of it collapses when their efforts to bring the power back up fail. Three, a power facility in Denver is able to restart itself, but is mobbed by hundreds of thousands of people and destroyed. Four, a few years later, communal government system is developed, after the constitution takes a few twists.
It's essentially a creative writing exercise that brings hyper-realism in terms of character acting into the dubious world of time travel, even if that juxtaposition can be difficult to digest at times. The fascinating part is the idea that the character of John Titor was developed almost entirely in an "ask me anything" type platform, where he was just answering questions about the future, the time machine, why he was here, etc, and setting the groundwork for his sto This is a fascinating read.
The fascinating part is the idea that the character of John Titor was developed almost entirely in an "ask me anything" type platform, where he was just answering questions about the future, the time machine, why he was here, etc, and setting the groundwork for his story perpetually, and on the fly.
There are no particularly interesting or unique aspects of the time travel story told, however. It's got all the basics of your average, every day post apocalyptic setting, the "mission", and all of the plot issues that come with it paradoxes, meeting your past self, etc. Jul 14, Aakash rated it it was amazing Shelves: time. Isme book. Feb 14, Nate rated it it was ok. An interesting historical document.
However, very repetitive and not at all fun to read even for this huge time travel nerd. Nov 09, Patrick St-Amand rated it it was ok. Interesting premise but reads like a scientific paper, very repetitive and frankly boring. Oct 14, Musharrat Asgari rated it it was amazing. Dec 16, Richard Huang rated it it was amazing. This certainly was an interesting read for those who love science related books.
Furthermore, it gave me a new perspective on the world. I think the most entertaining thought is that we will never know whether or not John Titor existed or if what he said was true or not. I guess it's another one of the mysteries of this world that will never be solved. ReaderVyom rated it it was amazing May 25, Dark Power rated it it was amazing May 09, Sathish rated it it was amazing May 26, Handy Trak rated it it was amazing Mar 27, Priscilla Vogelbacher rated it liked it Aug 27, Suzanne rated it it was ok Dec 01, Kim Brown rated it it was amazing Jan 23, Morgan rated it liked it Sep 29, Nishat rated it did not like it Sep 10, Lara Sharma rated it it was ok May 02, Harsirat rated it liked it Sep 06, JA rated it it was amazing Mar 05, Bitten Heine rated it really liked it Aug 23, Jackie Polakovsky rated it it was amazing Jun 13, Futuro Gato rated it liked it May 13, Shinku Clafouti rated it it was amazing Jul 27, Tanzim Kawnine rated it it was amazing Sep 17, There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
This started another round of speculation that Pohlman, himself, was the original Titor poster. Last March, he was arrested for drugging and sexually assaulting four women. A new piece of information comes out, a tech-savvy kid with some time to kill sees it, decides to give the puzzle a shot, and on and on it goes, the cycle never reaching an end.
The trail burns hot, the trail goes cold, but the trail never disappears. An itch in the back of the throat remains, unscratched. Today, everything posted online gets a healthy dose of skepticism. Let's call it the Post-Snopes Era. We've been conditioned—from everyone having access to Photoshop, to Punk'd and Jackass , to found footage films, to big budget viral marketing campaigns, to emails from faux Nigerian princes offering a portion of their riches if we simply send them our bank account number—to suspect everything.
And the Titor legend persists, in part, because no one ever claimed to be behind it. Our skepticism needs a party responsible, a grand designer that allows it to make sense. When we find out—think the wizard behind the curtain in Oz, or whoever Jacob was supposed to be in that final season of Lost —the mystery ends.
No one has claimed Titor, so the story continues. But there's also a much easier explanation. It's Urban Legend Darwinism. Among all of the hoaxes, Internet rumors, ghost stories, and Satanic voices you can hear if you play the vinyl backwards, some have to become popular.
Might as well be Titor. There is one other distant, remote, nearly scientifically impossible possibility, though. The great thing about time travel: the story cannot be refuted.
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