{"id":428,"date":"2010-10-31T00:04:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T00:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.novodantis.com\/?p=428"},"modified":"2016-05-21T00:11:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T23:11:29","slug":"the-absence-theory-or-where-are-all-the-time-travellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novodantis.com\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"The Absence Theory; or, &#8220;Where Are All The Time Travellers?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most compelling evidence for the impossibility of Time Travel has always been the complete lack of people from the future, when such things will inevitably come to exist.<\/p>\n<p>With the advent of <strong>Chronoportology<\/strong>, it became clear that the reason for a lack of travellers from the future was to do with the availability of information, or lack thereof. 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