Time Travel Controversy

TIME TRAVEL CONTROVERSY: With the advent of Quantum Communication and the Q-Net, scientists began arguing about the theoretical possibility of time travel and whether scientists should start developing rules and regulations regarding the ethics of time travel before it is actually invented

Other scientists argue that time travel is an impossibility and that it is better to use scientific brainpower to consider feasible uses of quantum data and physics. The argument is that the rules of science prohibit the crossing of time, though that is rebutted via advanced string theory and the continuing question regarding the number of dimensions in existence.

This discussion was changed in Year +14 when a Q-Net author going by the identity of 'Sven Haugse' of announced he had successfully caused a neutrino to jump five milliseconds into the past and then moved it five milliseconds into the future in a second experiment. Hackers, both corporate and government, quickly tried to identify Sven Haugse but were unable to do so. Haugse had posted links to his work, consciously mimicking the actions of Hans Baeder, but those links were quickly eliminated--though the World League of Nations and the System-wide Computer Account and Tracking Association (SCATA) refuse to provide an accounting of how many views or downloads 'Sven Haugse' 's work received.

No one has been able to identify Haugse's real identity, nor has any one stepped forward to validate his work. All that is known is that all references to his posts, ideas, and formulae have disappeared.

EXPLANATIONS: Most likely, the whole Haugse question is a sign of the nerves and tension within the scientific community as well as relations between corporations and the various national governments and the WLN.
 * 1) The most commonly held belief amongst science cogniscenti is that it was all a hoax designed to draw attention or add to the arguments regarding theoretical time travel, most likely by a bored graduate student.
 * 2) The wildest rumor whispered is that Haugse was fro the future and visited Year +14 to prepare mankind for the concept of time travel, making sure the timeline went a certain way. At that point, Haugse returned to the future.
 * 3) Some believe Haugse's formulae were on the right track and may have provided proof that time travel was mathmatically allowable.
 * 4) A rumor that the WLN and several corporations were quick to quash, including direct statements from WLN Secretary of Media Operations Tawayyia Sidawaraja, was that 'Sven Haugse' was the anonymous Q-Net handle for Hans Baeder.

If it was an attempt to gain media attention, it failed as no one beyond the scientific community paid much attention, not to mention no one has come forward to claim responsibilty.

See also Wild Rumors.