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https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09157 #timeTravelers #cosmicTrafficJam #arXiv34 #birthdayGift #academicPapers #nerdCulture #HackerNews #ngated
Where Are All The Tourists From 3025?
This paper examines the distinct lack of clear examples of time-travellers and proposes an explanation for their absence without assuming technical barriers to constructing time machines. Instead, it develops and then analyses a model of the consequences of time-travellers; finding that time travel is self-suppressing.