Alrighty!
So have we all heard the story of the "time traveler"? No? Well here's a video explaining it, because I'm lazy
What you're looking at here is the old lady with her hand up to her face. Everyone is saying she's a time traveler and she's using a mobile phone. There are a lot of resons why this is not possible, and I'm gonna go through three of them.
1) How could she call anyone?
Mobile (cell) phones communicate by transmitting radio waves to and from towers (they are essentially radios). Now, there were radio towers at the time, the radio being invented a couple of decades before this movie, but people certainly hadn't figured out how to make a phone tap into those radio towers, or vica versa, so the lady wouldn't have been able to talk to anyone on a mobile phone if she was a time traveller.
2) She was probably just trying to hear someone.
There's this thing called an ear trumpet, I won't go into detail what it is, but it is essentially an old-fashioned hearing aid, and a lot of people with hearing trouble had one (in fact, you've probably seen one at some point without realising it was an actual thing)
It is highly likely that the woman was just carrying one of these around, slightly smaller to the one pictured as technology would've allowed them to shrink slightly.
3) Where are the rest of them?
If these woman was indeed a time traveller, surely she wasn't the only one? Why haven't we seen anyone walking around with weird, space-aged clothes or cruising around on their hoverboards?
Okay, maybe that was a bit over the top, but you get the idea, we would've noticed time travellers in the present if they did exist. And maybe you're thinking "most of them can go unnoticed, but this one made a mistake". The law of averages says that if time travel becomes common in the future, and even if it doesn't, this woman would not be the only one to get caught, the fact that we haven't suggests only one possibility. She. Is. Not. A. Time traveller. End of story.
Now that you've actually bothered reading this, please feel free to go to anyone you know that believes this and have some fun proving them wrong.
Ciao,
Shigure
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ReplyDeletea) Of course she's not a time traveler. That would be silly. Because there clearly aren't any silly things in life. That in itself would be silly.
b) If she, by some fortuitous chance HAD a mobile phone, and was a time traveler, it could be a peer-to-peer phone network (e.g. Serval), assuming its a phone in the first place.
c) You appear to be assuming that in time travelling you do not simply travel into a parallel universe, one identical save for the obvious changes that would be crafted by your mere presence. Hence, if there are time travellers, surely there is the possibility that each garners their own personal universe, speaking in respect to perspective.
d) Or of course there is the simpler and somewhat more logistically complicated version whereby in order to time travel, one requires a receiver at the other end, meaning there is no past travel beyond the production of said travel.
Yours rantingly,
~AR