How would you prove that you're from the future?

[blackbrook@mander.xyz]

I was thinking maybe gramophone or earlier precursors. But looking at those things they're mechanically coupled not electrically, so not really the same thing.

[echolalia@lemmy.ml]

I mean.... Ramanujan was the GOAT, but he was still able to do his proofs. That's more or less my point. He didn't suddenly convert a bunch of Oxford mathematicians to Hinduism because he was able to do incredible math proofs (i think they would have been similarly unconvinced he was a time traveller). The proof was in the pudding.... in the proofs.

In order to do Wile's proof of Fermat's last theorem, you have to invent 100 years of math from memory, something Wiles himself would (almost certainly) struggle to do, but maybe he could pull it off. I remember reading an article about Wile's proof, and he was incredibly humble about it, and described it as a collaborative effort between himself and his peers IIRC. The proof itself wasn't complete without a correction from another math academic IIRC. This thread is like, kind of a misunderstanding of math academics.

In 1875 you don't have ZFC set theory and Cantor's works are bleeding edge (I think Cantor's work is controversial and incomplete in this time... fuck it, maybe you should just work with Cantor himself if you can find him. Maybe he'd believe you. I didn't take math history IDK)

I cannot find a source to link to it now but I remember reading through Godel's incompleteness theorem, a proof of Fermat's theorem isn't possible without the extensions of classical mathematics that were developed in the 20th century.

You'll have to take my word for it on that last bit. I'm a time traveling dolphin, after all.

Anyway, that's more or less my point, you'd have to basically be an incredibly talented math professor (in theoretical mathematics, not applied) to demonstrate this proof to satisfaction to a bunch of professors in 1875. You'd also probably have to be white and male. It's just not something a casual lemmy poster can like, do, you know? There's a reason that Fermat's theorem wasn't proven for 350 years despite being accepted as true.

(edit: I am tired so this is rambley)

[lifeinmultiplechoice@lemmy.world]

I can give you a 18 min tutorial and you'll know how they work as well. It isn't super"knowledge" I'm a doof like all others. DM me and I have no problem discussing how those mechanics work. I started college in Aerospace engineering. Left with a degree in Math/physics and spent most of my career in IT. I promise the aptitude to learn and the wanting to learn aren't on the same plane. Most of computer science proves such

[winni@lemmy.world]

I could prove that I am an AI because in the future Internet will be AI only with no humans left

[litebit@lemmy.world]

winning lotteries consistently.

[obi@sopuli.xyz]

I guess just showing my tattoo would do the trick, or the phone in my pocket?

[captainblagbird@lemmy.world]

Wait, can you please explain it further?

With that description I imagine it like a ticking clock/watch, is that accurate? How loud is it, do you hear it yourself, or is it only audible when resting an ear on your chest?

I never thought about this, but it's fascinating.

[nastynative@mander.xyz]

If they speak in hillbilly, valleygirl, inner-city slang and various grunts.

[acefuzzlord@lemm.ee]

I don't know how exactly to describe the ticking, what to compare it to. I can always hear it, but that's probably because it's an internal noise for me. I cannot say exactly how loud it is to other people. One time when it was quiet enough and I was right next to my brother, many years ago, he thought he was hearing some sort of time bomb ( probably because he was playing The Godfather ), but you can hear it a lot more clearly and more easily if you stick your head to to my chest. I presume it mixes with the sound of my heartbeat.

[crackhappy@lemmy.world]

Why the hell would you want to do that? Just do lots of cocaine and invent coca cola