You can all say John Titor was just a big hoax, and you may very well be right, still, through all my research on the topic, it may be plausible that
he was the real deal.
Sure, his predictions are inacurate, but if he was from an alternate future, this would be unavoidable.
Rather ironic that I came across this thread, I just saw Obama on TV, he was visiting the Lincoln memorial. Maybe you're not looking at this from the
right angle; Obama is turning out to be possibly the most controversial president elect in history. With questions surrounding his actual religious
beliefs and birth (some make a case that he was actually born in Africa, and not Hawaii) I see him more likely being a cause of civil war rather than
one to unify the country.
Considering the above, as well as the legacy that Bush is leaving him (a country on the verge of depression, an ongoing unpopular war and a
constitution full of holes) Not to mention those shallow-minded people in this country who don't like the prospect of the country's first black
president, it could be that he will be the one to break the country rather than fix it.
On a personal note, I'm not sure if the guy has the experience needed to run the country, but I will say I voted for him when I lived in Illinois to
represent our state. I hope he's ready for what's in store for him, he's got one hell of a big job ahead, and I can only hope he does better than
GWB did. (FYI, I didn't vote for him in the presidential race, I voted Libertarian.)
All that aside, the whole "worldline" model that Titor spoke about makes a lot of sense. In his explaination, he said CERN would be the source of
the time-travel breakthrough, and it very well may be someday, in the terms of what we think of as a time machine, but I believe this is wrong, in our
reality, the real breakthough may be made by Ronald Mallett, who's experiments and theory are coming together to make the worlds first actual time
machine. If you haven't heard about Ron, you need to watch this clip on Youtube:
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His theory is sound, and his papers have been peer reviewed by several scientists. they are sure his device will work. Now, transporting individual
particles through time may not sound like much, but it will open the door to a cross-time telegraph system, and possibly even data transfer (from when
the machine is first switched on to any point in the future in which the machine still functions).
If his machine works, it will suddenly make a true time machine much more feasible, and could lead to a dicovery that would make Titor's time machine
an eventual reality.
Oh, one final note, for those that say you can only travel to a time at which point the time machine invented, some have theorized that there is a
loophole, if aincient alien civilizations have mastered time travel before us, that means we could go back farther (and possibly to other worlds). Of
course, it all hinges on wether or not there are aliens, and their ability to construct such a device.
Regardless, our understanding of things only evolves over time, and any breakthrough, no matter how insignificant, could lead to other breakthroughs
that could render earlier concepts of space, time and energy irrelevant.
Still not sure if John Titor was real, but anything is possible, and if he was real, we could learn a lot from him. it doesn't help to be a skeptic
in this case, imho.