I don't know if this is true or not but I really hope it is I heard a while back that the astrophysicist I think that's what his job description is Stephen Hawking through a time-traveler's party he put out invitations and posted all the dates and times and locations and everything on the internet and I don't know if you went catered stuff and hung out and just waited for time travelers to show up and as far as I have heard no time travelers showed up which means there's no time travelers and it's a

really interesting thing that he did there if you think about it logically he's

kind of playing a game on the one hand like hey maybe you lock out and you throw this out there and then time travelers show up and you're like how's the future and it's amazing and time collapses on itself and we now operate outside of time and humanity takes a giant leap forward. I mean that would have been

interesting that didn't happen. Then in case that doesn't happen you still look

real smart because you're making this really great epistemological point about

confirmation bias and some of the logical circles that we can use in an

abstraction to create truths using only silence or the negative side of the discussion.

To prove that time travelers are real, if they showed up,

that would be positive evidence that they are real.

But the fact that a time traveler didn't show up,

well by no means disproves time travel, it doesn't really show up, well by no means disproves time travel.

It doesn't really prove anything.

Because there are lots of reasons a time traveler

wouldn't show up.

Surely someone in the future could get your invitation

and just think the party looked lame.

Or maybe there's some kind of time

cop in the future that goes around protecting people from traveling because it would melt the

brains of people in the past. The point is as ridiculous as it's all sounds, it doesn't prove anything. And the Simpsons, we've talked about this before, had an episode

or in just one little incident they jabbed at the mind of the Theist, my tribe, and how sometimes we will use

these same goofy arguments from silence to try to

craft a positive reality or a positive truth about God.

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