Time Travel Story

By Andre Barker

Trent Scarberry has a weird dream. It is unlike any other dream he had before. When he wakes up from this dream, there is a note on top of his blankets. The note gives him full instructions, with clear schematics on how to build a time-machine. The thing is, Trent is not interested in time-travel. The only thing he can think of to use time-travel for is to get the next day’s lotto numbers. So why not build it and give it a go? Building the thing is so easy; a six year old can do it. He has nothing else to do and decides to build the time-machine, as a joke...

...and this is where the most amazing adventure starts.

By reading this story, you will enter a topsy-turvy world from which you might never return. Nor even want to return. Be careful, though. Time-travel is not a shortcut to solve your problems...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bakerman Books
• Release date: Dec 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005926038

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Time Travel Story

by

André Barker

Copyright © 2022 André Barker

Published by André Barker@Smashwords

This is a work of Fiction.

Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents

are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner.

Any resemblance to actual person, living or dead or actual events is purely coincidental.

Copyright © 2022 André Barker

All right reserved

Foreword

In Time Travel Story a young man suddenly finds a method to travel through time. This method is foolproof and very easy with no danger at all. Will he use this stroke of luck for good or bad? He quickly finds out that time-travel is not a shortcut to a happy life.

Trent Scarberry has a weird dream. It is unlike any other dream he had before. When he wakes up from this dream, there is a note on top of his blankets. The note gives him full instructions, with clear schematics on how to build a time-machine. The thing is, Trent is not interested in time-travel. The only thing he can think of to use time-travel for is to get the next day’s lotto numbers. So why not build it and give it a go? Building the thing is so easy; a six year old can do it. He has nothing else to do and decides to build the time-machine, as a joke…

…and this is where the most amazing adventure starts.

By reading this story, you will enter a topsy-turvy world from which you might never return. Nor even want to return. Be careful, though. Time-travel is not a shortcut to solve your problems…

Epilogue

Hot breath is burning in his chest as he runs at full speed through the twilight tunnel. The fear course through his veins as this is a life-or-death situation. The strange thing is that when he entered the tunnel, it was an ordinary passageway to the toilet. The deeper he went into it, the darker it became until it is now a purplish twilight color. This purplish light is the only thing showing him the way. He wouldn't have started running if it wasn't for the man in black with the huge gun who suddenly started following him down the corridor. The man looked straight at him and it was clear that he's intention was to kill him.

He is very certain this is not a dream. He was just looking at the Xbox that he plans to buy as soon as he has the money for it. He talked to two people in the shop and he bought a flash-drive. There is no way that this is a dream.

With crime out of control in the country this is no exception and in actual fact there is nothing strange about it. Someone wakes up one morning and decides to kill somebody or even a group of people. He can do that to his heart's content as the police will not intervene. At all. The police are too busy committing crime themselves to try to stop or investigate crime.

It is every man, woman and child for himself.

Then, as he ran to escape certain death, the brightly lit passageway changed into this purplish twilight tunnel he cannot explain. That is not on the agenda and he never heard of something like this happening before. There is also a strange echo vibrating through this cold place now. He is running at full speed, but still the strange man is coming towards him.

The echo gets louder.

The echo builds up to a crescendo and then he sees the other man coming around the corner from the front. Strangely, he looks exactly like the man behind him. He quickly looks around, but the original assailant is still there and still coming for him.

The one in front already aims his big gun towards him and is ready to shoot.

He sees the door to his right. The door is closed, but he's sure it's unlocked. This is used as a fire escape, so the doors won't be lock...

THE END

How It All Began

Time-travel Is Just Impossible

Time travel is not possible and it NEVER will be possible. Trad says as he slightly opens the curtains in his room and peeks out by his window. He always imagined himself to be some sort of a rogue secret agent who is hunted by the police as well as his former colleagues, and he does this out of habit. His real name is Traddeus Berkshire, but of course in the suburb where they live no one would ever call him by that name.

You are crazy, Trad, Trent says as he looks over at his friend from where he lie-sit on his bed. Time travel IS possible. The greatest scientists the world ever produced all claim that time-travel is possible. Einstein, Hawking, Godel, Novikov, Tipler, Deutsch, etc. etc. He counts the scientists off on his fingers to put emphasis on his statement.

Einstein even said that time travel is possible with his speed of light theory. Someone who moves away from earth at the speed of light will age much slower than his twin here on earth. Although time would seem the same to the one moving away, when he returns, his twin might be hundreds of years old, while he had only aged a few days. This had actually been proven when people went to the moon and moved at enormous speeds away from earth. They gained only a few seconds, but then they never even came close to the speed of light...

"Bull, none of that was ever proven. How is aging a few seconds proof of time travel in any case?

In fact they can't prove anything of what they say, because they don't have the relevant equipment. Such equipment might never even be invented. Trad says as he takes a sip of his coffee. "Einstein was only speculating about it. How would they know in any case that an astronaut is now a few seconds younger than his twin on earth?

These scientists and so called experts are lying to gain fame for themselves. And that isn't time travel in any case. For me time travel is when one goes from 2026 to 1999 or to 2109. Hawking was the one who specifically said that time travel will never be invented; otherwise we would have been visited by time-travellers already. Remember that party he was having for time-travellers. He advertised it a year AFTER it was held, but no one showed up.

Trent laughs at this, his body shaking the bed.

Ha, that doesn't prove anything. I doubt that time-travellers would reveal themselves just because old professor Hawking invited them to a party. Time travellers from the future would have known about Hawking's party in any case, because it was wildly publicized in our time and I am sure they would have read about it in their time. Who in his right mind would want to party with Hawking in any case?

They both laugh at this.

When you are from the future and you time-travel I am sure one would want to keep it secret, as it can lead to complications if exposed. Inviting time-travellers to expose themselves and no one showing up is no proof that time travel does not exist...no way. I am sure that time travel would include rules for the time-travellers. More than rules, protocols. For example they would not be allowed to expose themselves or their technology to people of the time they are traveling to. It might have a ripple effect that may affect their own time in a bad way. In fact many stories had been written about just such events.

How would a person time travel in any case? In fiction, in the movies, they usually show a machine or some other contraption which the hero uses to travel through the ages. Look at that one in The Time Machine. A chair with lots of spinning gears and dials, even with gear levers. How on earth can something like that make one to move through time? Ask yourself that. If time-travel was possible - and it is not - it would definitely not be via using a machine, a vehicle. Even the time travel machine in The Terminator is also a thing with spinning wheels and some strange rays. A machine like that won't be able to make one move through time, no way.

Trent sits up on the bed.

"I agree on that one. It was Asimov who said that if a time-machine was ever invented, it would also have to be a space ship. If you move through time, the earth is not going to be where you left it when you left your own time. The earth not only spins on its own axis, it also moves through space. So, by traveling through time, you are also traveling through space, otherwise you will be very dead when you arrive at your destination.

But let me ask you this. You talk about time travellers from the future. So as if you want to say time travellers from the past might exist?

Why not? Someone like Tesla would easily have been able to invent a time machine. Didn't he just disappear from general life? Most people don't even know anything about Tesla and the wonderful things he brought forth. Any person who has a time-machine would of course keep it out of the hands of the authorities. He would know governments would only use such a device for evil.

They both laugh at this. The Fictivid-hoax had finally come to an end, and with it everyone in the world discovered how evil their governments really are.

"But maybe you are right. Maybe a machine - a vehicle - won't be the way to do it with. There must be some other method that no one had thought of before. What it is, I wouldn't know. I must admit that I am not that much interested in real time travel. I like to watch time-travel movies and read the books, just to have a look at all the possibilities that time travel provide. Or at least what the author of the story provides - time-travel is not real.

"Like that classic; Back to the Future. Marty who had to fight for the survival of himself and his whole family when he travels forward and even backwards in time with that beautiful DeLorean. Who would have guessed that a DeLorean can also be a time-machine? Everyone who saw the movie knows it is nonsense and doesn't make any sense, but it's still great fun to watch.

I mean, what happened the first time when he didn't have the time-machine and he didn't travel through time? How did his parents get together then? And what would have happened if he failed to bring his mother and father together or allow their town to be developed? Wouldn't it have been a paradox, because he never existed to do any of what he did?

Exactly, Trad says. "Time travel makes no sense in the first place, because it has to change things that already happened. Impossible. To get pass this impossibility there are some people who claim there are different time-dimensions. If something doesn't happen in this dimension, it happens in another dimension. In the end that would mean that there are an infinity of dimensions, all with the same people, same countries, etc, but each one would be just slightly different from the next. There would be a dimension where you become the president of the country, but there's another dimension where you are a drug addicted bum, who lives on the street and have to eat road-kill. Bullshit.

"See what I mean when I say it doesn't make sense. Why waste such a lot of effort and energy for nothing. What would the end goal of it all be? If you look at the sciences…and even the world around you, it is clear that the universe is a very ordered and logical place. Everything that is around us has a specific and also a general purpose. What would the purpose be of billions upon billions of dimension, each one only slightly different from the next? It doesn't make sense.

Ah, it can be because of a billion things we have no concept of. It might be God who is testing out things that he himself is not sure about. It might not make sense to us, but it does to Him. Our thought processes are limited in the bigger scheme of things, I believe. So an infinite number of dimensions might not make sense to us, but to a greater mind it makes perfect sense. The same like our pots and pans and stove, etc does not makes sense to an ant, because he simply cannot compute what the purpose of it all is, but it makes sense to us. It would be the same with a mind that works on a much higher level than ours. Trent says as he gets up to drink some coffee.

Greater mind. What greater mind? Trad asks as he gets a slight smile on his face.

That I don't know, my friend. That is something we might never know. But it IS something we ought to keep in mind. We might be wrong about everything we believe to be true. There might be forces at work around us that we will never understand, even if we discover it tomorrow. It is like when you play The Sims. They believe they are the greatest minds in their world, but if they could see our world, they would be astonished and realize that they are nothing but pixels on a computer screen.

The Black-and-White Dream

Trad had been his best friend since they were in crèche together. The two of them just simply understood each other.

He and Trad had been interested in science-fiction since they were in primary school. As the years went by they speculated about a lot of stuff that they read in the comics and in the many other books that they read. Most of the things they didn't understand at the time. But layer by layer all the intricacies were revealed to them. The problem was, the more things became clearer to them, the more problems showed up and the more questions they had. This thing explains this, but what if this happens?

By watching documentaries and reading scientific books they could now see how their favorite authors used the speculations and theories of scientists to create the fiction that they enjoyed so much. The thing was, the more they discovered, the more there was to discover. For everything that had a logical explanation, there were still hundreds more that were undiscovered or unexplainable.

With the video games there were playing it was always as if those future scientific discoveries came to life in front of their eyes. They could travel in space ships, some even moving at faster than light speed. They could use ray guns that really kill. They wore suits that makes them invisible in the game, or even gave them super powers. All of this was mind blowing. Playing video games became the next best thing to reading comic books. Comic books offered a lot, but video games made it all seem real.

But he knew that it was only in the game that this was possible. Trent wanted to know what this would be like in real life. In real life things are never as easy and simple as it was in the video games. And even in fiction. In real life stuff might not even work, even after it worked at the beginning. The bottom line is, you never know what to expect in real life.

If there really are time-travellers they would make very sure that they are not discovered by the people of the time they are visiting. With their advanced technology it would actually be easy for them to do that. Time travellers would be here illegally in the first place, if one looks at it from one perspective. More importantly; what if they are detained by the wrong people? They would know that governments would go so far as to torture them to learn their secrets of time-travel.

So for a time traveller from the future it would be a very dangerous undertaking to visit our current time. Whole governments and government departments are completely corrupt and those from the future would know that. That would mean they should never be allowed them to get their hands on advanced technology.

Time travellers from the future - and they would have to be from the future, because time travel was never discovered - would have to follow very strict