Astrophysicist Robert Nemiroff and his research students at Michigan Technological University had fun doing exhaustive web searches on the possibility of time travel.
The idea of doing research came up during an idle poker game while researchers chatted about time travellers. If they existed, they would certainly tweet or boast about their time exploits on social media. The group further proffered that if it can be found in the internet that someone mentioned about Pope Francis earlier than when he got elected by the cardinals in March 2013, or Comet ISON before it was spotted in September 2012, then it can be proven that people have come back from the future.
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The research team also invited people in September 2013 to tweet “#Icanchangethepast2” but do so in August 2013.
Both efforts yielded nothing. The team didn’t find any mention of Pope Francis or Comet ISON in social media in the dates before those events became part of history. The research was presented to the American Astronomical Society conference held in Washington. Earlier, it was rejected by three physics journals. Apparently, the research was not taken seriously. As Astronomer Avi Loeb of Harvard stated, the internet is not a credible place to search for truths about physical reality.
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