Time Travel Does Not Exist On Social Media

An astrophysicist and his Michigan Technological University students in Houghton, Michigan searched for the existence of time travel.   They looked for tweets of Pope Francis and Comet ISON before they existed.  What did they find?  Nothing.

What did they conclude? If there are time travelers, they are not telling anyone about it. The premise was if someone mentioned these items either on twitter or Facebook, or a blog, they they have arrived from the future with special knowledge of the future.  They even asked people to tweet “"#Icanchangethepast2” and to do it before a certain date, and nobody did.  Its not too surprising that 3 physics journals rejected this study. The instructor said this was “merely summer fun that cost nothing to do.”The instructors name is Robert Nemiroff. They did their research with search engines.  Besides the physic journal rejection, several scientists did not take this information seriously.

My question is, how much time do these people have on their hands?   I could have told them that before they even started.  I suppose I have another question.   How lazy have we gotten?   Research is being done on social media?   Crazy.   I get it, they are students and learning something, right?