Time Travellers

If you were able to time travel back into the past, how would you go about proving you were from the future? Is there a set of predictions you could offer that would improve your chances of being believed?

In this week’s podcast, we discuss what it is that makes a person from the future different to those from the present day and what technology or innovation we might replicate to persuade the disbelieving. We also look at the illusion of explanatory depth, the concept of proof, rationality and the Flashman Papers Series. Finally, we disclose our desired guest list for a dinner party made up of historical attendees.

- Javier, alleged time-travelling TikToker
- I, Pencil by Leonard Read
- Why it took so long to invent the wheel
- The science of cycology
- The misunderstood limits of folk science: an illusion of explanatory depth

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