Even her presence would disrupt things, though, because it signals that Something Important happened, and the people involved are going to have that weighing on their decisions. The same thing happened in an episode of TNG, although in that case the traveling "historian" was faking it. He was from the PAST, I believe, and was trying to steal technology after having gotten access to a time machine through something-or-another..
@ Stephen: Very true. The only way to really safely observe some important event is either be effectively invisible or be as unobtrusive and least interactive as possible. For ages whenever I saw a detailed photograph of an important historical event I always looked for things that didn't quite 'fit' hoping to see evidence of time-travellers caught unawares. Nothing so far...! [grin] But logically, if time-travel does exist, then historical events MUST have a time traveller presence.... Probably... [lol]
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and even then...
..all in the interpretation of the observable data.
Even her presence would disrupt things, though, because it signals that Something Important happened, and the people involved are going to have that weighing on their decisions. The same thing happened in an episode of TNG, although in that case the traveling "historian" was faking it. He was from the PAST, I believe, and was trying to steal technology after having gotten access to a time machine through something-or-another..
@ Stephen: Very true. The only way to really safely observe some important event is either be effectively invisible or be as unobtrusive and least interactive as possible. For ages whenever I saw a detailed photograph of an important historical event I always looked for things that didn't quite 'fit' hoping to see evidence of time-travellers caught unawares. Nothing so far...! [grin] But logically, if time-travel does exist, then historical events MUST have a time traveller presence.... Probably... [lol]
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