Turk Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 This story was published: 6 hours ago January 07, 2014 2:57AMA study has found no evidence of time travel like that in Back to the Future starring Christopher Lloyd (as Dr. Emmett Brown) and Michael J. Fox (as Marty McFly). Source: SuppliedA US study has trawled the internet for time travellers looking for evidence of anyone mentioning future events before they happened.The study's author, Robert Nemiroff, a physicist at Michigan Technological University, scoured Twitter, Facebook, Google Google+ and Bing for any mention of Pope Francis or the comet ISON between the early 2000s to mid-2013.Their searching, the largest study of its kind to date, came up short suggesting there is no such thing as time travel, according to Popular Science.Mr Nemiroff said he and his colleague Teresa Wilson found Twitter to be the most useful service; Google turned up too many false-positives, and Facebook allows user to backdate posts, confusing the search effort.The scientists presented their study at a scientific meeting overnight and have submitted it to several journals. Mr Nemiroff said he came up with the idea for the research during a poker game with students.It isn't the first time people have tried to prove the existence of time travel.In 2012 physicist Stephen Hawking held a party for time travellers but sadly nobody came.http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/robert-nemiroff-a-physicist-at-michigan-technological-university-trawls-internet-in-search-of-time-travel-by/story-fn5fsgyc-1226796201070 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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