Where Are All The Tourists From 3025?

TL;DR

This paper explores the paradox of the absence of time-travellers by developing a model that suggests time travel is inherently self-suppressing, explaining their scarcity without assuming technical limitations.

Contribution

It introduces a novel model analyzing the consequences of time-travellers, providing a new explanation for their absence that does not rely on technological barriers.

Findings

Time travel leads to self-suppression of time-travellers.

The model explains the lack of observed time-travellers.

Time travel may be inherently limited by its own consequences.

Abstract

This paper examines the distinct lack of clear examples of time-travellers and proposes an explanation for their absence without assuming technical barriers to constructing time machines. Instead, it develops and then analyses a model of the consequences of time-travellers; finding that time travel is self-suppressing.