So we can come to the conclusion that the original Titor was NOT a time traveler.
Posting pictures of moon-heads and music videos means you admit Titor was fake.
The core error is conflating energy release with energy concentration.
What matter-antimatter annihilation actually does: When a particle and its antiparticle collide, they annihilate into photons (or other particle-antiparticle pairs) that fly apart at or near the speed of light. The energy doesn’t compress into a small region — it disperses outward. This is the opposite of what you need to make a black hole.
What making a black hole actually requires: You need to concentrate a given amount of energy within its own Schwarzschild radius — i.e., pack it into a small enough volume that its gravitational self-attraction exceeds every other force. Annihilation is an explosive, outward-radiating process, not a compressive, inward-collapsing one. The reaction products actively resist concentration; they stream away from the collision point.
The energy scale is also wrong by many orders of magnitude. Even the highest-energy collisions humans have produced (LHC, ~10 TeV) are roughly 15 orders of magnitude below the Planck energy (~10^19 GeV), which is the scale at which quantum gravity effects — and semiclassical microscopic black hole formation — are expected to become relevant in standard 4D general relativity. Some beyond-Standard-Model theories with large extra dimensions lower this threshold substantially, which is why LHC microscopic-black-hole searches were performed at all — but they came back null, and matter-antimatter annihilation specifically was never the proposed mechanism in those models (it was high-energy parton collisions at TeV-ish scales in scenarios with extra dimensions, not annihilation events).
So the claim fails on two independent grounds: annihilation is the wrong kind of process (dispersive, not compressive), and even if it were the right kind, it’s nowhere near the right scale.
Topological defects (cosmic strings, domain walls, monopoles) arise when a symmetry-breaking phase transition in the early universe leaves behind regions where the field can’t smoothly relax to its vacuum state — the field configuration gets topologically “stuck.” A cosmic string, for instance, is a line defect where circling around it doesn’t return the field to the same value; spacetime around it is conical rather than flat, with a deficit angle. That’s the “kink” — a genuine, permanent distortion in the geometry, not just a perturbation that dilutes away.
The CTC connection is specific and well-known:
- Gott’s 1991 solution: two infinite, parallel cosmic strings moving past each other at sufficiently high relative velocity produce closed timelike curves in the region between them. The combined conical deficits from both strings, boosted relativistically, tip light cones far enough that a path can close on itself in time. This is the canonical “cosmic strings → time travel” result.
- Tipler cylinder (1974, predates the string literature but same spirit): an infinitely long, rapidly rotating massive cylinder drags spacetime around it strongly enough (frame dragging) to permit CTCs outside it. Van Stockum found a related rotating dust solution in 1937.
- Common thread: all of these need either infinite extent or unphysical energy conditions (negative energy density, or the “infinite cylinder” idealization) to actually work. Finite, realistic cosmic strings don’t produce CTCs — Gott’s mechanism specifically requires the idealized infinite-string limit and superluminal-looking relative motion between the pair.
Topological quantum field theory (TQFT) is a branch of physics that studies field configurations whose important properties don’t depend on the exact shape or size of space, only on its overall “topology” — the number of holes, twists, or loops it has, in the sense that a coffee cup and a donut are topologically identical but a sphere is not. Discovered independently by physicists and mathematicians in the 1980s, TQFTs strip away most of the messy detail of ordinary physics (distances, angles, local energy) and keep only the global, unchangeable features. This turns out to be enormously useful: it’s the mathematical language behind topological phases of matter (like the quantum Hall effect), certain approaches to quantum gravity, and — most relevant here — a rigorous way to describe defects that can’t be smoothed away no matter how you deform the underlying field.
Topological defects are the physical objects that TQFT-style thinking helps classify. They form when a field undergoes a symmetry-breaking transition — think of water freezing into ice, but happening to a fundamental field that fills all of space, such as one thought to have existed in the very early universe. If different regions of space “choose” slightly different final states as they cool, the boundaries between those regions can get topologically trapped: point defects (monopoles), line defects (cosmic strings), or sheet defects (domain walls), each carrying a permanent kink in the geometry or field structure that ordinary physical processes cannot iron out. Cosmic strings are the most famous candidate for astrophysical topological defects — hypothetical thread-like objects, potentially stretching across the universe, that would warp spacetime into a cone shape around them rather than the usual flat geometry we experience locally.
Turning defects into a time machine is a genuine, if highly speculative, theoretical proposal. In 1991 the physicist J. Richard Gott showed that two long, parallel cosmic strings, passing each other at sufficiently high speed, would each drag spacetime into a cone shape, and where those two cones overlap, light cones tip over far enough to allow a path through spacetime that loops back on itself in time — a closed timelike curve, the technical term for a route a time-traveling observer could follow. A related idea from 1974, the Tipler cylinder, imagines an infinitely long, extremely dense, rapidly spinning cylinder producing the same effect through pure frame-dragging. Both proposals work mathematically within Einstein’s equations, but both also require idealized, physically implausible conditions — infinite length, in particular — that real, finite cosmic strings (if they exist at all) would never satisfy. So while the mathematics genuinely permits time machines built from topological defects, nature almost certainly doesn’t offer the raw materials to build one.