In Faraday's personal point of view, he did not remember telling Des to tell the settings to the 1996 Faraday, because he did not tell Des until 2004.

Anyone watch Dr. Who? He would say things like..."Yes, I've been here, but not yet"
which meant in HIS timeline he had been to the planet, but in the planets future.

I once had a modern physics professor that would skip all chapters based on particle theory! He did research in plasma physics at NASA.