You know, in the Star Trek: TNG episode, "A Matter of Time", 1991, Matt Frewer plays Berlinghoff Rasmussen, an alleged historian from the 26th century, who claims to just be studying their era. He later turns out to be a con man trying to deceive the crew. But you know, I was thinking, about historians from the future. Stephen Hawking once asked, if time travel is possible, where are all the visitors from the future? Well, what makes you think they aren't here? Just because you haven't seen an Artesian doesn't mean they don't exist. They are from Artois, France. And the reason why you don't see too many is because it is a very small village. Only about 40,000 people now. But my point is, the time traveling historians and scientist might be here, but they are hidden. So that they can do a natural observational study if us, and not influence us in any way (unlike Berlinghoff Rasmussen). That is calle the Hawthorne effect. That human behavior changes because individuals modify their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed.
So, you don't believe in an immutable history? A Fixed Timeline? Alexander Hardigen traveled more than 800,000 years into the future just to ask why he couldn't change the past only to be told that History is fixed. If an event has happened it will always happen, even if the circumstances are slightly different. He tried to keep his lady love from being killed only to discover that she will always die in that time. He travels to stop a tragic fire but accidentally knocks over a lantern, starting the very fire he intended to prevent. Hardigen's story serves as a cautionary tale about the illusion of control over time. It highlights the idea that even with the power to traverse history, one might be powerless to rewrite it. Instead, the journey could reveal the deeper interconnectedness of actions and consequences across time.
