Time Traveler Web Search and Robert Nimeroff, PhD Slammed By Marshall Barnes, R&D Eng

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio - Feb. 5, 2014 - PRLog -- January 26th, Coast To Coast AM Sunday host George Knapp, had on Michigan Technology University professor of physics, Robert Nimeroff. Nimeroff was getting a good amount of publicity due to an experiment he and student Teresa Wilson conducted obstensively to discover any evidence of future time travelers on the Internet. The primary methods used were to search using social media and email, looking for mentions of Pope Francis and comet ISON before either would have been known to the general public. They also used Twitter to place messages with the hash tag, #Icanchangethepast2 or #Icannotchangethepast2.

As elaborate as the project may seem, they not only found no evidence of time travelers but have earned the ire of the world's expert on the subject - research and development engineer, Marshall Barnes (see about.me/marshallbarnes ) who saw several of the twitter tweets and just thought it was another vain stunt like the "I Am Time Loop" effort of 2012 (see https://www.facebook.com/IAmTimeLoop ). That was an attempt to have people promise if time travel exists in the future, they'd return to prove it on New Year's Eve 2013. No one showed.

Marshall is the first scientist to build a time machine. It works on a particle scale currently but could be scaled up with more power. His seems to be sending subatomic particles back in time via torsion induced openings in space-time that are probably from wormholes that are temporally captured and held open in the torsion field created by his machine, the Verdrehung Fan™. With it, he won a race with Dr. Ronald Mallett of UConn who was internationally famous for trying to create a time machine from a rotating ring laser array. Marshall's device has functional connections to Einsten's Unified Field Theory. Marshall has demonstrated it in science presentations, to the media, and he showed video of how the Verdrehung Fan™ was causing video transmissions to disappear over time at the 100 Year Starship Symposium, last September in Houston. He recently published a special report for select members of Congress titled, Paradox Lost: The True Geometries of Time Travel, which he will be discussing with them later this month. He is heavily engaged in making sure the correct concepts about time travel are known and not the misconceptions he's been able to disprove that are promoted by many physcists and others. He's done it  conclusively with caluclations and thought and physical experiments. One of those was the example that Stephen Hawking gave on his Discovery Channel Special, Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking involving a rock band's feedback (see http://www.prlog.org/11812513-six-thomas-worthington-stud... ).

When Marshall heard Nimeroff on Coast To Coast AM, he was less than impressed.

"George Knapp introduced Nimeroff by saying, in part, that he was going to cover the physics of time travel. What Nimeroff did do was the most shallow and out of date talk that I've ever heard. Several times he proved that he really is clueless when it comes to the subject".

Marshall saw two main issues. First, he feels the way in which the search for time travelers was conducted was assinine and showed little thought as to the way time travelers would behave.

"Let's say your neighbor came up to you talking about Pope Francis...", Nimeroff gave as an example on Coast To Coast as to how a conversation could reveal foreknowledge of an event a time travel would know about before hand. Marshall wasn't buying any of it.

"First of all, if a person is a time traveler, why would they post anything on social media or even discuss anything with someone that would tip that person off? Answer - they wouldn't. The time traveler would already know what was going to happen and how and so there's no need to discuss it. That's the benefit of being from the future. Second, according to Nimeroff their whole way of looking at this was like borrowing ideas from science fiction stories"

Nimeroff did say, "This happens a lot in science fiction". This was especially significant to Marshall and his report to Congress.

"He's talking about what people do in science fiction that is integral to the plot. I talk about this exact kind of thinking in my report and it's one of the main reasons physicists have all these wrong ideas about time travel".

Marshall continued. "The exact type of thing he''s talking about happened with John Titor, who some people believe was from the future. He was posting predictions on the internet, so much so that he created a following before he disappeared. Personally, I know from John's technical description in the literature, that he was a hoax. The way he describes time travel isn't possible. Secondly, his predictions about the future are off. However, Titor was on the Internet telling people he was from the future and had a very engaging story. Nimeroff seems ignorant of this, like he didn't know about a lot of things, including the fact that even Ronald Mallett has been trying to work on a time machine. He used the phrase, 'not that I'm aware of' in response to questions more times than I found tolerable".

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Marshall conducted a similar search with a team back in 1994 but using entirely different methods. It  was successful.

"We weren't looking for time travelers per se, but people who might be working on similar technologies in secret. People trying out strange research. The approach was to find places on the internet where they might show up. This was all conducted on bulletin boards as there was no Twitter or Facebook then. It all very close to the way that the police and private investigators find contacts and connections. It worked".

Based on his experiences, Marshall feels that Nimeroff's project was pure "amateur hour" but doesn't blame Wilson for her part.

"As far as I'm concerned she was just a student. Nimeroff was the professor and he's the one that should have made sure that the project had some kind of credible process."

"I looked him up. He hasn't written one paper on time travel, time machines, CTCs temporal mechanics, nothing. And I can see why - he has no practical knowledge whatsoever in that area. He's exactly the reason that Paradox Lost is such an important document. I'm going to add an addendum about this".

It would appear that Marshall's assement of Nimeroff would be accurate. Although he didn't admit to it on Coast To Coast AM, in an article from the Mother Earth Network (see http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/space/stories/astrophysi... ) it states "Nemiroff said that time travel isn't his field of expertise and that he didn't believe in it very much before; and believes even less in it now".

"The bottom line is the idea was stupid. Stupidity trying to pass as science. No wonder three journals turned it down. Hell, if I were a journal editor I would have done the same thing..."