Proof of time travel? Swiss watch discovered in ancient tomb - Polidicks

The article is 2 years old. If it had any validity, it would have been huge news.

It's not fake, this is a snippit from a legit article that's like two years old.

It's either a coincidence or forgery which made it to the mainstream. Time travel backward through time is improbable.

It's a practical joke from douchebags in the future.

God damnit I'm going to build a time machine and travel in time to somewhere in asia or europe, leave, say, a swiss' pocket knife and carve a message saying "FUCK YEAH TIME TRAVEL" on it and leave it in somewhere or to someone. And due to that, today's news would be about a proof of time-travel rather than some shitty tiny clock.

People sure have thin wrists in the future.

I'm not exactly sure how accurate carbon dating is, but isn't it used for fossils that are like hundreds of millions of years old? I don't know if it will be able to tell the difference between something 50-400 years old.

[QUOTE=Explosions;26967150]:colbert:[/QUOTE] OP is clearly a timetraveler

OP is a time traveler and he's posting old news.

Graverobbers playing tricks, or cameramen playing tricks, or producers playing tricks. Even if they carbon-date it, I won't believe it, because it could have been carved from a really old rock.

Only time mystery is why the op is so late.

oh my god the world will be taken over by oompa-loompas and we will be made their slaves.

Some swiss guy was walking around were he shouldnt have

I think it'd be funny to see the consequences of whoever did time travel and left it there. "You could've changed the whole time line of history! What were you thinking?!" I wish I could've came up with something better but you get the picture.

[QUOTE=Regulas021;26967720]If this proved time travel was real, wouldn't the time travelers just go back in time and remove it, since they've worked so hard to stay secret[/QUOTE] It'd be impossible anyway. They wouldn't "find out" they left something behind, because this discovery would alter their history, and complexity theory suggests it would change enough to alter them going back in that scenario at all. But if they don't go back, then there's no watch to be found, so reality reverts back to the way it was, and so the travelers DO go back and lose the watch... It creates an endless time-loop that of a "dropped" timeline and a "non-dropped" timeline constantly switching between themselves because of the event breaking and fixing itself. Likely it would happen rapidly, near instantaneously. This alone could put stresses upon the entire Universe. But it's more likely that for these reasons the past can't be altered at all. Observing points in the past may become possible, but altering or even entering them would not be. Even the very air you'd displace by being present in the past could cause a chain reaction, and wouldn't let you in it. In fact, simply adding new matter to the Universe where that matter is accounted for already might stress the Universe's spacial limits. Serious shit, in other words.

Somebody had to open the tomb to find it, so why couldn't they just plant this watch? I don't see what the big deal is.

Someone just dropped it, jeez.

[QUOTE=**Chris**;26967530]Carbon dating the thing will reveal all. Most likely a hoax. I thrive off your boxes, little kids. They sustain me.[/QUOTE] Carbon dating mostly only works on remnants of living creatures or things made out of it, dating back around 10k years.

you guys do realize that there exist ring-watches, right?