The philosophy of time travel
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An interesting fact about time traveling. You are stuck traveling within your lifetime. You cannot go back before your birth, or forward past your death.
This is where most scientist’s fail. They hop into their device and want to see the future, only they go too far forward and die.
I found this effect by sending some fruit flies forward into my lab, and having the machine set to return. All the flies that went back before their egg stage died, and did those that went forward beyond their normal 23 day life cycle. The time window was only open for a millisecond, and no adverse effects were felt.
When I stepped into the device for the first time, I did not expect the results to be so dramatic. Somehow I kept finding myself inside my own younger body and having he same conversations I had back then.
I finally determined that those weird kids you knew as a child that seemed just “too smart” and were creepy were just other time travelers also stuck in the same life-cycle problem. Johnny wasn’t weird, he was just speaking from a lifetime of experience that he shouldn’t have had. I continued these experiments for several weeks trying to see if I could change any small part of my previous life. I found that I always made the same decisions. Then on my last trip back to 1914, disaster struck.
I went back, and mainly observed my old classmates. An hour went by, then two, then 12. I had not popped back! I must’ve calibrated my machine improperly for the return. 4 years went by until I suddenly found myself back in the lab. Puberty was bad enough the first time I went through it. Being an observer for a second time almost drove me mad. I immediately started smashing everything in the lab. A fire broke out, a loud explosion, then I awoke in my neighbors barn. I was thrown out the lab window and landed in the farmers field. Hearing the explosion, he and his wife hurried over and found me. I was out for several days.
After exploring the remains of my lab, I started to rebuild. I brought in new machinery… Caterpillars they call them and we dug a large underground bunker. Three levels deep, and sound proof. Above it all I build an electrified barn and asked my neighbor to please use it as repayment for their kindness.
I started experimenting with combinations of objects to try and break free from my life cycle. Several attempts were made with many organic objects, but the most dramatic example came from the use of a fossilized Ammonite, and a lock of my hair.
The time window opened larger than it ever did before. Suddenly a large creature came at me. I ran for the exit and it lumbered, screaming in fright. A young dinosaur had burst through the rift. I managed to subdue it by feeding it several cows then after it had calmed down, I dragged a large hunk of beef back into the lab and lured it back into the open time window.
The Time dilator as I call it has managed to open a window in time beyond my life cycle, but I am still unable to control the windows duration without reseting the entire machine.
A second machine, a Time Compressor is being created that will compress the time stream first, then the dilator will reach in, and precisely open the small era that I wish to enter.
To test this new machine out, I have linked it with the fore-finger from an Egyptian mummy. This should allow me to open a small window into the time of the pharaohs.
So the mummy’s finger will be an attempt to control the time window and make the travel safer for myself. By linking it with the Time Compressor, I should be able to compress an even wider window of time. Not knowing the history of this finger, I may be placed back in the Dawn of Rome, of in the middle of the Nile flood plains while huge stones are being moved to build the pyramids. I’d better try sending one of the cows back first to ensure that it can return safely.
-Prof Fate.
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