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In the present time, when time capsule is opened, the professor's son happens to get Lucinda's letter, he sees a mysterious man.

In the present time, when time capsule is opened, the professor's son happens to get Lucinda's letter, he sees a mysterious man.

It only gets interesting when the professor happens to see the letter his son opened and starts playing around with the numbers. He happens to lock on to 9112996, a sequence he interprets as [[9/11]] and 2,996 people dead.  

It only gets interesting when the professor happens to see the letter his son opened and starts playing around with the numbers. He happens to lock on to 9112996, a sequence he interprets as [[9/11]] and 2,996 people dead. He finds fifty more disaster events, with the exact number of reported deaths in the message as in his web searches. His university colleague scoffs, calling it spooky, and suggesting Cage has lost his judgment to grief over his wife's death.

 

The reception he gets from his colleague is, while fictional, rather typical of experts rejecting new scientific ideas. Rather than giving the idea [[independent review]], he only points out that some of the number sequences remain uninterpreted. He does not check the 50 that Cage did interpret.