Articles are not scientific research. The data has simply never been made available for peer review.
What? Articles are the end-product of scientific research. In order to get them published, both the article and the data must be submitted for peer review. That's how it works.
The cool part is that this would render timetraveling into the future no longer impossible due to the uncertainty of the future, however other laws might still kill the theory.
Time-traveling to the future is not impossible. You are doing it right now.
Getting back is the hard part.
I recently did exactly this with a friend of mine, and I'm going to have to disagree with the majority of the posters here. We both brought laptops, and they were very useful. Particularly since we were trying to maintain a website about the trip as we were going.
We didn't want to spend hours of useful time sitting in internet cafes upkeeping various portions of the website (blog entries, photo albums). But, because of the way we traveled (a lot of buses, trains, and the occasional plane), we ended up with a lot of dead time. Time that would have normally be spent staring out the window, reading some uninteresting book, or sleeping because of boredom, we actually spent creating content for the website. It was a good way to crystallize our most recent experiences and publish them out to interested friends and family.
Now, we did travel a bit more upscale than the "standard" backpacker trip. We occasionally stayed in dorm-style hostels, but those were the exceptions. For the most part, we always tried to find a double room with a lockable door. It's a bit more expensive, but the peace-of-mind it gave was well worth it. And not just because we were carrying laptops.
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Articles are not scientific research. The data has simply never been made available for peer review.
What? Articles are the end-product of scientific research. In order to get them published, both the article and the data must be submitted for peer review. That's how it works.
Time-traveling to the future is not impossible. You are doing it right now. Getting back is the hard part.
I recently did exactly this with a friend of mine, and I'm going to have to disagree with the majority of the posters here. We both brought laptops, and they were very useful. Particularly since we were trying to maintain a website about the trip as we were going.
We didn't want to spend hours of useful time sitting in internet cafes upkeeping various portions of the website (blog entries, photo albums). But, because of the way we traveled (a lot of buses, trains, and the occasional plane), we ended up with a lot of dead time. Time that would have normally be spent staring out the window, reading some uninteresting book, or sleeping because of boredom, we actually spent creating content for the website. It was a good way to crystallize our most recent experiences and publish them out to interested friends and family.
Now, we did travel a bit more upscale than the "standard" backpacker trip. We occasionally stayed in dorm-style hostels, but those were the exceptions. For the most part, we always tried to find a double room with a lockable door. It's a bit more expensive, but the peace-of-mind it gave was well worth it. And not just because we were carrying laptops.