When I look at the entire history of the field, and especially the last decades, I notice that the phenomenon behaves in a way that reminds me of a time traveler trying to change the past but failing due to causality constraints.
One of the stronger arguments of the skeptics is that it is terribly improbable that such a widespread and prolonged phenomenon never leaves unequivocal evidence to the public.
I understand this argument, but recently I realized that this is actually exactly what we should expect from a phenomenon originating from visitors from the future who fail to change the timeline. There will be many encounters and incidents, but the phenomenon cannot be revealed yet, because it would lead to a paradox.
Why a paradox? Because if this is indeed time travel technology, what do you think will happen if it is revealed before it is invented? In such a situation there will be no motivation to invent it, because it will already exist, which will lead to the grandfather paradox – if you don’t invent it, how does it exist?
Governments can own this technology, it is not contradictory. The general public is the one who has to invent it in the future.
Finally, as long as we are approaching significant breakthroughs in the field of artificial intelligence, we are probably also approaching new physical discoveries that may in a relatively short time lead to the realization of advanced technologies including time travel. It is possible that the singularity point, where we will achieve good enough artificial intelligence, will more or less be the point where the phenomenon can be revealed to the public.
Disclosure may be imminent precisely for the reason that significant breakthroughs in artificial intelligence are also imminent.
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