Who is john titor real

A letter from Kay [John Titor's mother]. A letter from John. I more than likely will find out later. I received it in September of Pamela's existence as the primary contact put her at the center of many Titor conspiracy theories.

The quest for the "secret song" became as important as John's identity. Normally I do not speak of her out of respect. No one gives her any privacy. People keep forcing her into threads, which is hard to keep silent over. She's a very brave girl who has endured way too much. I don't know her in person, but I feel compelled to do my part in protecting her on whatever level, because of my participation in discussing John Titor.

Some people will never get it. Joseph Matheny: Pam, I think, is a true believer. I really do. I know she was talking to somebody. There were people who were having conversations as John Titor and we don't know who they were. They were coming out of the woodwork, they were not affiliated with us at all. That other Johns may arrive and they need the posts to stay up as long as possible.

Matheny believes his group stopped the Titor experiment before the Art Bell posts. Joseph Matheny: None of us were paying attention or curating this after a point. Sometime in is when we stopped doing it. It's impossible to know who was behind the later messages from the time traveler. Titor's only communications with the outside world were through text and internet postings. But shortly after the first batch of posts hit the Art Bell forum, a new name popped up.

I don't question whether or not -- I do the work that I'm hired to do. Titor himself never spoke to the public. All communications after the faxes and message board posts were handled by Haber. Larry Haber in an interview with Fade to Black Radio on January 4, I specialized in entertainment law, and a friend from law school referred me over to Kay, and that's how it started. Pamela Moore to Titor scholar Mike Sauve in January I thought he was just contracted for legal things in the entertainment area.

I don't really know if he is representing anyone real or not. John Razimus: I think they were fans of Art Bell, they created one of the first internet hoaxes, and it blew out of proportion.

Perhaps they have some book rights, movie rights they've been sitting on? Joseph Matheny: Larry Haber -- I don't know who he is. None of us do. He's not nor has he ever been involved with the group I was in. He's an entertainment attorney. He's somebody who jumped on the bandwagon. I haven't been involved.

Joseph Matheny: I saw some people that were clearly using the story as an effort to make money, which I am not cool with. John Razimus: It was a trailer to be sold to Hollywood. They wanted to cash in. But there's a Japanese anime that has John Titor as a character, they haven't done anything against that -- every day, if they do have those rights they're losing them by not contesting other people using them. Joseph Matheny: There have been a couple of indie films. There's a Japanese anime that I liked.

I was at my girlfriend's house in Hollywood, we were just really into watching sci-fi together, finding things and watching them together, she found a DVD set of Steins;Gate. When they started talking about John Titor I fell out of my chair laughing. At the same time, there was an ongoing story about a wrestler named Archibald Peck who got punched so hard it sent him back in time. It's really hard to explain, but it was a lot of fun. The only commercial product directly linked to the story is a book.

With Matheny's original group out of the picture, anybody could claim to be John Titor. And they did. Richard O'Connor, Coast to Coast listener: You can tell a time traveler because they'll have an odd accent, different syntax and completely new slang.

Anyway, that's my recollection. More important here is that such materials also experience what is known as the converse piezoelectric effect—an applied voltage induces mechanical deformation.

We take advantage of that phenomenon to induce oscillations in the flexible part of the tag. To accomplish this, we use lithography to fabricate a coil on the perimeter of the tag.

This coil is connected at one end to the top conductive layer and on the other end to the bottom conductive layer. Subjecting the tag to an oscillating magnetic field creates an oscillating voltage across the piezoelectric layer, as dictated by Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction.

The resulting mechanical deformation of the piezo film in turn causes the flexible parts of the tag to vibrate. This vibration will become most intense when the frequency of excitation matches the natural frequency of the tiny mechanical oscillator.

This is simple resonance, the phenomenon that allows an opera singer's voice to shatter a wine glass when the right note is hit and if the singer tries really, really hard. It's also what famously triggered the collapse of the Broughton suspension bridge near Manchester, England, in , when 74 members of the 60th Rifle Corps marched across it with their footsteps landing in time with the natural mechanical resonance of the bridge.

After that incident, British soldiers were instructed to break step when they marched across bridges! In our case, the relevant excitation is the oscillation of the magnetic field applied by a scanner, which induces the highest amplitude vibration when it matches the frequency of mechanical resonance of the flexible part of the tag.

These electron micrographs show some of the tags the authors have fabricated, which can take various forms. The preferred geometry top is a circular tag containing a piezoelectric ring suspended by four beams. It includes a coil lighter shade , which connects with electrode layers on the top and bottom of the ring.

Voltages induced in this coil by an external scanner set up mechanical oscillations in the ring. In truth, the situation is more complicated than this. The flexible portion of the tag doesn't have just one resonant frequency—it has many. It's like the membrane on a drum, which can oscillate in various ways.

The left side might go up as the right side goes down, and vice versa. Or the middle might be rising as the perimeter shifts downward. Indeed, there are all sorts of ways that the membrane of a drum deforms when it is struck. And each of those oscillation patterns has its own resonant frequency.

We designed our nanometer-scale tags to vibrate like tiny drumheads, with many possible modes of oscillation. The tags are so tiny—just a few micrometers across—that their vibrations take place at radio frequencies in the range of 80 to 90 megahertz. At this scale, more than the geometry of the tag matters: the vagaries of manufacturing also come into play.

For example, the thickness of the sandwich, which is nominally around nm, will vary slightly from place to place. The diameter or the circularity of the ring-shaped portion is also not going to be identical from sample to sample. These subtle manufacturing variations will affect the mechanical properties of the device, including its resonant frequencies. In addition, at this scale the materials used to make the device are not perfectly homogeneous.

In particular, in the piezoelectric layer there are intrinsic variations in the crystal structure. Because of the ample amount of scandium doping, conical clusters of cubic crystals form randomly within the matrix of hexagonal crystals that make up the aluminum nitride grains.

The random positioning of those tiny cones creates significant differences in the resonances that arise in seemingly identical tags. Random variations like these can give rise to troublesome defects in the manufacture of some microelectronic devices. Here, though, random variation is not a bug—it's a feature! It allows each tag that is fabricated to serve as a unique marker.

That is, while the resonances exhibited by a tag are controlled in a general way by its geometry, the exact frequencies, amplitudes, and sharpness of each of its resonances are the result of random variations.

That makes each of these items unique and prevents a tag from being cloned, counterfeited, or otherwise manufactured in a way that would reproduce all the properties of the resonances seen in the original. In between dire urgings to learn first aid and stop eating beef—Mad Cow was a serious threat in his reality—Titor provided a number of technical specs regarding how time travel worked, with overly complex algorithms and grainy, hard-to-make-out photos of his actual machine.

Which, yes, of course, was an automobile: a Chevy Suburban. He even showed off his cool futuristic military insignia. He was never heard from again. In , members of George Mason University threw together a multimedia rock opera based on Titor.

A summary of the tale at io9. What seemingly should have been dismissed as a four-month hoax, the work of some nerd killing time at his boring temp job, somehow turned into a phenomenon. George Noory, who replaced Bell in , has continued carrying the torch, devoting entire episodes to the ongoing mystery, fielding inane questions from callers and somehow answering with a straight face.

I'll hang up and listen. An interview followed between Noory and Kay—with Haber acting as a phone go-between—and it ended up answering, well, pretty much nothing at all. After that episode, the show intermittently tracked Titor's proposed timeline, looking at current events like tea leaves, possible harbingers of a nuclear armageddon. The Italian investigative TV show Voyager took up the case in , hiring a private eye to locate the folks behind the LLC, and a search led back to the aforementioned Lawrence Haber, who was listed as the company's CEO.

A group of friends with some downtime between gigs at their production company checked out the P. Box themselves but found nothing worthwhile. To take a break. Then he had to drive back to Tampa in to travel to Tampa in The machine only moved through time, not space.

Most airline pilots are probably not aerospace engineers. He answered questions. Does time travel affect you physically? I do, however, seem to be more susceptible to colds. Talked about his life in The river floods sometimes and we have access to the Gulf.

Most of our neighbors make a living off the sea or in moving cargo by boat. Even chastised us. 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. Then presumably left Rochester—maybe drove south down Broadway to catch 52 south to I east—to head back to Florida. To head back to Having planted a flag on Amazon, I knew certifiable loons would contact me claiming to be involved in temporal hi-jinx.

I have no hard evidence, only glimmers of this nature, but as a theory, the breaching of temporality would explain a lot of the anomalous activity in the world today. Michael Sauve. Titor is a creation. You can trace the whole thing back to people who worked on the IBM and other ideas, but what is the fun in that?

What amazes me is the ability the posts have to leave just enough nagging doubt about this being fiction so you can never really put it to rest. His tale boggles the mind, whether he was whom he said he was, or an astoundingly resourceful trickster. He provided schematics, diagrams, photographs, and documents from his service in a TemporalRecon time travel unit in ; these visual aids can be laughed at or marveled at or both.

He presented a credible theory and description of time travel, both how it works, and how he does it. He clearly depicts the prevailing thinking, from Stephen Hawking to Philip K. Dick, on alternate worldlines, the multiverse and the mutability of time.

Kirby Malone.