Hello everyone, it’s nice to meet you! This will be my first post, hopefully an interesting one.
Let’s assume that John Titor was a real time traveler, and that Pamela Moore can be trusted. We know that John provided Pamela with a secret song that could be used to verify anyone who’d claim to be him. If my suspicion is correct, then we can narrow our search to songs released between March 24, 2001 (the date of his last message) and 2036. That’s right, I strongly believe the name was one only John, who came from the future, would know. A bulletproof password… were it not for time itself.
Of course, we still have a decade to live until the fated year arrives, but finding the needle in the haystack becomes slightly easier if we change our perspective, don’t you think?
If I were a time traveler using songs to prove who I am I would have given her a popular band name that already existed in 2001 but make sure the song I told her hadn’t been released yet so she knows I know the future.
He did not want to claim to her, or to us, that he knew the future.
Simply by existing in our worldline, he created a divergence from his original worldline. Therefore, he had no knowledge whatsoever of what would happen in our worldline after March 24, 2001.
The password was meant to prove his identity, not the fact that he knew the future.
As for the divergence, I don’t think a 2.5% difference would invalidate this discussion.
~QS