So far, 2018 is really setting up to be the year of the time traveler. Every week or so, someone emerges on YouTube or gives an interview to the media claiming that they're from the future - albeit always with very little evidence to prove they're telling the truth.

One of the first prominent "time travelers" was a man called Noah Novak, who claimed at the end of last year that he was part of a "government project in America" and had traveled back in time from the year 2030. "It is not my intent to deceive anybody, my sole objective is to prove to you that time travel exists in the next few years," he said in his first video.

Then, in a later clip, Noah apparently passed a polygraph test - thus proving that he was indeed from the future - but the results were never shown on screen. Now, in the most recent update, the self-declared time lord (or con artist) claims that the future version of himself is also here in this timeline, and so they decided to meet.

In a clip on YouTube, the Noah from 2030 supposedly met an older version of himself from 2070. According to young Noah, the older man knew too much about him for it to be a lie.

"He showed a bunch of personal information, he said a bunch of things about what I did, he said all the sequence of events and stuff since I came back from 2017," said young Noah. "He said everything that I did, and this is the type of stuff that someone would have to stalk me for my whole life to figure out."

But is there a possibility that the older man has just done his research? Young Noah doesn't think so.

"Obviously it would be really hard for him to figure out all of this information. There is no way that he could figure all this out unless he stalked me from the very beginning. I believe he is me from the future."

But wait, if both these people are Noah, shouldn't that cause a time loop or a paradox or something? You know, like in Back to the Future when Marty prevents his own existence. Well, it seems that young Noah was wondering the same thing - but old Noah had a conveniently basic answer: science.

"How are you able to talk with me?" young Noah asked.

"They inject time travelers with microchips that help prevent the person to prevent paradoxes so they don’t say something out of order," said old Noah.

Right. Microchips.

Anyway, the pair then discuss future technology, and ongoing war in space, and "very fast" cars. Unfortunately, neither version of the time traveler could disclose too much information because - obviously - that would cause a paradox, and we don't want to go tearing any holes in the universe now, do we?

The way I see it, there are three possible scenarios here. Either both men are in on it together, and have come up with this elaborate claim to bolster both their stories; or older Noah is conning younger Noah for some unexplained reason; or - and I secretly hope it's this one - they are the same person, and time travel is possible.

Unfortunately, I think it's most likely to be option one.

So far, 2018 is really setting up to be the year of the time traveler. Every week or so, someone emerges on YouTube or gives an interview to the media claiming that they're from the future - albeit always with very little evidence to prove they're telling the truth.

One of the first prominent "time travelers" was a man called Noah Novak, who claimed at the end of last year that he was part of a "government project in America" and had traveled back in time from the year 2030. "It is not my intent to deceive anybody, my sole objective is to prove to you that time travel exists in the next few years," he said in his first video.

Then, in a later clip, Noah apparently passed a polygraph test - thus proving that he was indeed from the future - but the results were never shown on screen. Now, in the most recent update, the self-declared time lord (or con artist) claims that the future version of himself is also here in this timeline, and so they decided to meet.

In a clip on YouTube, the Noah from 2030 supposedly met an older version of himself from 2070. According to young Noah, the older man knew too much about him for it to be a lie.

"He showed a bunch of personal information, he said a bunch of things about what I did, he said all the sequence of events and stuff since I came back from 2017," said young Noah. "He said everything that I did, and this is the type of stuff that someone would have to stalk me for my whole life to figure out."

But is there a possibility that the older man has just done his research? Young Noah doesn't think so.

"Obviously it would be really hard for him to figure out all of this information. There is no way that he could figure all this out unless he stalked me from the very beginning. I believe he is me from the future."

But wait, if both these people are Noah, shouldn't that cause a time loop or a paradox or something? You know, like in Back to the Future when Marty prevents his own existence. Well, it seems that young Noah was wondering the same thing - but old Noah had a conveniently basic answer: science.

"How are you able to talk with me?" young Noah asked.

"They inject time travelers with microchips that help prevent the person to prevent paradoxes so they don’t say something out of order," said old Noah.

Right. Microchips.

Anyway, the pair then discuss future technology, and ongoing war in space, and "very fast" cars. Unfortunately, neither version of the time traveler could disclose too much information because - obviously - that would cause a paradox, and we don't want to go tearing any holes in the universe now, do we?

The way I see it, there are three possible scenarios here. Either both men are in on it together, and have come up with this elaborate claim to bolster both their stories; or older Noah is conning younger Noah for some unexplained reason; or - and I secretly hope it's this one - they are the same person, and time travel is possible.

Unfortunately, I think it's most likely to be option one.