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Originally Posted by Detoxing
Somewhat off subject here, but i don't think i wanna make a thread about it either.
Lets say, oh...20 years from now we develop a way to time travel. We time travel back 10,000 years into the past. While we are in the past, one of out time travelers drop a Year 2030 Nickel.
Then, in the year 2011, archeoligists discover this nickel.
Would the nickel be determined to be from the past, or the future? What would Carbon Dating show? How would this nickel fit in with any other artifacts from that area in that time period? How would that nickel change the future?
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Well, as far as dating goes (can't be done, but lets say there is a way), the Nickel would show that it was 11,980 years old since it will have existed through that length of time. Now it is somewhat about semantics as far as being from the future or past. If we knew it was from the future I suppose it would be just that, a nickel that was created in 2030 but then left in the past. If we did not know it was from us in the future then I would assume we would say that it was from ~12,000 years ago.