DID JOHN TITOR COME FROM THE FUTURE?

While the mystery and controversy over the John Titor issue has never resolved his claims to being a time traveler, it has served to demonstrate the power and reach of the Internet.What began as a series of anonymous postings to some bulletin boards soon became an Internet phenomenon.Although most were quick to brand his story a total hoax, his detailed descriptions of a grim and desolate future fascinated many Net surfers. Perhaps he articulated many of our own hidden fears. In any case, the

John Titor story quickly spread. By mid-2004, almost 50 websites were devoted to his story.
The messages initially were signed simply “Timetravel_0” but after January 2001, when the postings began to appear on some Art Bell forums which required a name, the name John Titor came into use. During one exchange, Titor was asked point blank if John Titor was his real name. His reply, “John Titor is a real name,” did not provide a definitive answer.
In short, Titor claimed to be a soldier living in 2036 Florida who was sent by the military via a time machine back to our time to obtain an IBM 5100 computer. He said this older model was needed to correct software problems in his time as the 5100 had the ability to use old IBM code to reconcile incompatible programming languages of the future. His most astounding claim was that the United States, having fallen into a civil war beginning in 2004,will be devastated by a nuclear war in 2015. Most major cities will be destroyed and the nation will be split into five separate divisions, each with its own president.Titor stated he made a stop in the year 2000 to visit family members and collect photographs lost in the civil war. He said he also felt compelled to warn people about the coming wars as well as their diet.
He said many lives will be lost in his future through Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), today a rare but incurable degenerative brain disorder which leads to loss of brain function and death. Some researchers have compared Creutzfeldt-Jakob to the current growth of Alzheimer’s patients. It is a disease from infectious particles of protein (prions) comparable to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) commonly known as Mad Cow Disease. According to Titor, this disease is contracted through the ingestion of infected meat and will grow to epidemic proportions in his future.Titor described his time machine as containing “two magnetic housing units for the dual micro singularities [and] an electron injection manifold to alter mass and gravity micro singularities.” Singularities are defined as distinctive and unique or in quantum physics as a point in spacetime when matter is infinitely dense. He also said it contained three separate computers along with a cooling and X-ray venting system, gravity sensors, or a variable gravity lock, and four primary clocks containing caesium, a silver-gold alkali metal used in today’s extremely accurate atomic clocks.
This description of the time machine, which he said was mounted in the rear of a 1967 Chevrolet Corvette convertible, has been described as “a pastiche of pop-science terminology.” The somewhat fuzzy photos of his time machine that he posted depicted what appeared to be parts from a military surplus store. However, Titor must have had some insight into advanced quantum physics since black holes,

“t was accepted by scientific circles in 1904 that rocket propulsion in space was impossible because

the rocket’s gases had nothing to push against. This logic was one of the reasons why [rocket pioneer Robert] Goddard had to (later on) receive funding from people like Henry Ford ... he was considered a ‘quack’ and many scientific circles shunned him. vortex singularities, and zero point energy are currently on the cutting edge of recent research. Never forget that more than half of the Manhattan Project scientists, creators of the first atom bomb,sincerely believed that a nuclear chain reaction could not be stopped but would set the atmosphere on fire and incinerate the entire Earth. Luckily for us, they were wrong. All new science is initially considered nonsense or magic. Not too long ago, great scientists like Sir Isaac Newton believed that time was akin to a fired arrow, shooting out straight and true in only one direction. Einstein altered this perception with his theory that time wound around through the universe much like a river. Today, some speculative physicists believe that, again like a river, time sometimes forms eddies or whirlpools, vortexes providing shortcuts through both time and space.
The Casimir Effect has demonstrated that two electrically conducting metal plates brought close together in a vacuum can create a space that negates gravity. Since gravity and time seem to be interrelated,canceling one may cancel the other. This relationship can be seen within the UFO literature in which witnesses often describe loss of time as well as the cessation of all electromagnetic devices when a UFO is nearby. Once past Titor’s eyebrow-raising statements about nuclear war and contaminated meat deaths, he also shows a keen knowledge of recent time travel theories by asserting that everything that can happen does happen in a multi-dimensional universe. In other words, rather than living in a linear time-space dimension, we actually occupy one timeline in an infinite number of timelines, somewhat like being the needle on an old phonograph record. We only perceive the groove in which the needle rests while all about us are many, many other grooves.

“His timeline is a different timeline to ours, ours is just very similar. (Within 1–2% if I recall

according to his story).In addressing objections to time travel on the basis of time paradoxes—you know, if you went back in time and killed your grandfather, would you still exist?—Titor wrote, “It has always surprised me why that concept [of multiple timelines] is so hard for people to imagine and accept. Nothing would happen. The universe would not end and there are no paradox problems that threaten existence … Temporal spacetime is made up of every possible quantum state. The Everett-Wheeler model is correct. [This is the universal relative state theory postulated by Princeton physicist Hugh Everett and his thesis advisor John Archibald Wheeler] I have met and/or seen myself twice on different world lines. The first was a training mission and the second is now. I was born in 1998 so the other ‘me’ is the second on this world line. There is a saying where I come from, ‘Every possible thing that can happen or will happen has already happened somewhere.’ British science writer Jenny Randles, in her 2005 book, Breaking the Time Barrier presented compelling
examples of recent discoveries in physics indicating the very real possibility of time travel. She noted that “a race to build a time machine has been going on since at least the Second World War.” So the notion of time travel—especially one working within a series of parallel timelines—is not as far fetched as it may seem to those who have not kept up with recent research.
Titor’s predictions of future history become less acceptable. It appeared that Titor was making predictions from the standpoint of our present knowledge. For example,
he failed to specifically mention the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, accepted by now as a turning point in U.S. history. He did, however, mention huge arsenals of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, a concept believed by most Americans prior to the 2003 invasion.
It is understandable that someone could have missed the underreported news stories in 2003 of massive anti-war demonstrations in every American city in

“Hell, why not warn us that there would be a massive terrorist attack on U.S. soil in a little over a year?” [referring to Titor’s 2000 postings]”

the weeks leading up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Some of these demonstrations were larger than the largest anti-war demonstrations during the Vietnam War. Simply because the corporate-controlled mass media does not headline a story does not mean it didn’t happen. Others might point out that a man from a future that had experienced global nuclear war and the death of millions might not have been that concerned about 3,000 dead in 2001, when, according to Titor, he was three years old.
But it is understandable that all but the most credulous would suspect the Titor postings as a fake, a “quite well researched and executed hoax,” as noted on the ATS forum. “But a hoax nonetheless …”
It is easy to dismiss Titor because of his contention that the United States would begin to slide into civil war beginning in 2004. Obviously, the nation is not yet in any kind of shooting war. However, for those astute observers of the national scene who are not caught up in the matrix of the corporate mass media, there are discernible and frightening signs of a degeneration of the national spirit since the controversial election of 2004.
Everyone recalls the contentious (s)election of 2000. Most citizens expected honest investigations and that the system would correct itself. The 2004 election ended any thought that the political system could be salvaged by traditional means. Despite the fact that “computer glitches” were blamed for votes wrongly going to President Bush, his cousin and opponent, John Kerry, declined to pursue the matter. The law of averages, of course, would dictate that computer glitches should have been meted out roughly equally in each candidate’s favor. Instead, all mistakes meant votes for Bush.
In the near future, 2004 may well be marked as the beginning of real and deep-seated distrust of the federal government which might degenerate into local confrontations with authorities such as the 1992 shooting of Randy Weaver’s wife and dog

“Now [2004], we haven’t seen any Waco type events so far. Nor any Civil Unrest leading up to this coming

election.”by federal agents at Ruby Ridge, the 1993 Waco debacle, and the 2007 New Hampshire standoff between federal agents and Ed and Elaine Brown who barricaded themselves in their solar and wind-powered home after being convicted of not paying income taxes. Already there is a great disparity of outlook between individualistic and freedom-loving Americans living in small towns and rural areas and denizens of the inner-city urban areas who have been conditioned to think of government as the provider of food and the panacea for all their ills.
If whoever is elected president in 2008 continues to push for the North American Union and other New World Order policies against the desires of the majority of Americans, the stage could indeed be set for outbreaks of violence, which most likely would divide along urban-rural lines.
Another point to consider is how quickly the world can change. In August 1939, the world was at peace. One year later, it was embroiled in a world war. As for nuclear war in 2015, this will remain to be seen but the stage is being set. Russia is rearming and beginning to launch bomber practice missions again in response to President Bush’s plans to place offensive missiles in Eastern Europe. Chinese military officials have stated publicly that war with the United States is “inevitable.” More than two dozen small “suitcase” atomic weapons are missing from the defunct Soviet Union, and many smaller nations, such as Pakistan, India, Israel, North Korea and Iran, now have, or are rumored to be developing, nuclear capability.
In the midst of the squabbling over the science and politics in this story, many seemed to miss the message that Titor said he wanted to bring from the future.

“He was guessing about the civil war. At the time there was a big fuss about the 2000 U.S. elections, (he hinted that Florida’s votes would be discounted at one stage). He timed the ‘civil war’ to start around the next U.S. elections. [A] fairly safe guess at the time because it was still four years down the track. He didn’t mention the War on Terror because he didn’t know. He, like the rest of us, didn’t see it coming.”

On November 21, 2000, Titor posted this message, “How can you possibly criticize me for any conflict that comes to you? I watch every day what you are doing as a society. While you sit by and watch your Constitution being torn away from you, you willfully eat poisoned food, buy manufactured products no one needs and turn an uncaring eye away from millions of people suffering and dying all around you. Is this the ‘Universal Law’ you subscribe to? Perhaps I should let you all in on a little secret. No one likes you in the future. This time period is looked at as being full of lazy, self-centered, civically ignorant sheep. Perhaps you should be less concerned about me and more concerned about that.”
From the future or not, this message from Titor seems to be right on the mark.