By Milcho, Section Short Stories Posted on Wed Nov 03, 2004 at 11:09:49 AM PST
"Come on, George, so many people have tried this, and failed. What makes you think you succeeded?" asked Roger with a smile.
"Look, I have spent my whole life experimenting with time. I even showed you how you can prove the general theory of relativity using my axioms. They've got to be correct! I am telling you, this machine can control time."
"So, are you going to test it?"
"Sure, come on in my lab, and we'll run it. It's very simple." George started explaining while they walked towards his lab "We, my friend, are standing on the front of a time wave. The wave is not alone, however. There are an infinite number of waves one next to the other. They all have the same properties, except that this time wave is the only one that contains our universe. By jumping from wave to wave, we can accelerate, or slow down time effectively."
"But how do you jump from wave to wave? I mean so many experiments were conducted, and none have achieved anything. How come none of them triggered the jumping from wave to wave?"
"I'll tell you why. They were not looking in the right place. They were trying to control the matter in our space so that it moved through time at a different speed. I, however, used a different approach. I open a hole between the two wave fronts, that is, ours and the one before, and transfer energy into ours. The vacuum from the time front before us, as well as the overflow of energy in our front, push the only material thing from our time wave into the time front before us, and that material thing happens to be our universe. When this process is repeated continuously, I achieve an effect of standing in one point by jumping from front to front."
"If you ask me," said Roger "that's a little farfetched. No offence, but it is a little hard to believe you achieved that."
"Look, there is no need to believe me. You'll see it for yourself" said George as he opened the door to his lab. A conical object was standing in the center. " Here we go. The machine will only move keep us still for a few minutes, and will then release us back in a time wave. It will also record the time spent jumping from time front to time front" He adjusted the settings a bit.
"Are you going to run it now?" asked Roger alarmed.
"Why not?" said George, and closed a contact that seemed to be the power source of the machine.
A moment later the machine disappeared, with all the equipment and plans of the machine. George was gone as well. Roger looked around very puzzled. He spotted a yellow sticky note on the floor. It said:
"DON'T EVER ATTMEPT THIS CRAZY FEEDBACK LOOP AGAIN! WE DON'T HAVE ANOTHER MILLENIUM TO START UP TIME AGAIN YOU KNOW! Signed: thet imeru lers"
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