They knew that time travel was possible. The theory was
sound, the equations balanced and the apparatus calibrated. But the first dozen
unfortunate souls that tried it just simply disappeared. They knew not where.
Until a sixteen year old son of one of the primary researchers made an off
comment while lounging in a recliner in the corner of the office.
“I wish I could go back a day. Yesterday I was a thousand
miles away on the beach enjoying life, this place sucks. It is so boring.”
Immediately it clicked in the minds of the all the
researches sitting in the room. Of course you can travel in time, but not in
space. There is nothing rooting you to this particular place in space. It is like hitting the pause button on your existence, but the rest of
time AND space moves on. The world is not only spinning around and around, but
it is also moving around the sun. And the sun and it’s satellites are speeding
through space.
With a few speedy calculations they were able to find eight
of the ten lost souls. The last two were to far out in deep space to be
recovered.
The next day they started working on time vectoring. They
realized they would never be able to achieve time travel and remain on the
planet. But they could, with enough number crunching, travel vast distances in
space by standing still in time. There is only one thing that is faster than
light, and that it is time. They had inadvertently invented the first FTL
capable device.
Copyright
David Corbet 2012
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