Channeled from Isaac Asimov to the future by me, Rushe Statser, Spring 2006
The future of humanity is missing. The future is gone. I am locked in this room this room trying to warn them but no one will listen. We do not have time. The end is near. I know the exact day it will happen. I can not say the hour but I am within 12 hours accurate. And on that day not only will humanity’s future be lost but my mind will also be lost.
How do I know this terrible date? I have been there. My mind will be lost however in 4 years 7 months 3 days 5 hours 15 minutes and 23 seconds. I have seen the lack of a future. I have not found the reason but I have found the result. Not the cause but the effect. The reason for my lost mind is I have found the future.
Time machines are possible. Theoretically possible if you can rend the space time contiuum. Nothing says you can not go forward. Everything says you can’t go back. The trick is to leave the door open to the past, t make a loop. Quantum physics and the unified theory to the rescue. All manner of things finally made possible by its completion. I was in a race to be first.
Time is quantized, each instant, a definite piece, happening one after the other, only a Planck unit long. Each instant so short you can’t imagine how long it is, so short that you can’t cut it in half. But it doesn’t take much to move along to the next instant, some 4.2×10 [-43] joules worth of energy, that is, 42 zeros followed by a 42. Time also seems to spiral around as it travels forward. As the instances pile up, one “side” seems to be tighter than the other causing a helical shape to form. There is not straight line for time. This may help the string theory guy, but I doubt it. To describe the spiral, a pitch is needed. The distance between the loops in the spiral is a ratio π of φ, two numbers that reappear over and over again in the natural world. π of course is the product of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. φ or phi “phee” as some would pronounce it is sometimes called the golden number or golden ratio. It can be seen in the spiral of a sunflower to the spiral of a snail’s shell to the spiral of galaxies. It also appears in the spiral of time. Time repeats its spiral every 5 years 30 days 9 hours 21 minutes and 48.5 seconds. Adding proof that the earth is not the center of everything and that man is not the pentacle the time between loops corresponds to no regularly occuring event on earth.Through quantum tunneling of a worm-hole it is possible to jump forward n number of loops. You can’t jump between the loops, or if you did it would not be on our space time continuum. This also points to the quantum nature of time. Once the worm hole is formed it can remain stable indefinitely, allowing travel back and forth. You cannot, however, form a worm hole to the past. It has been shown to be impossible to travel back in time. Time arrow points in one direction, from the past to the future. The worm hole to the future move present time forward so that the traveler is still in the “present” even though he may be in a future date. The worm hole connects him to his “correct” temporal existence.This is what I set out to do. This is what I succeeded in doing. This is what I wished I had never done.
My math was good, my mechanical skills were excellent, my materials adequate. My time machine was built with little trouble and was so ready to send me forward, I didn’t want to travel too far so I only jumped one loop. I prepared the room so that nothing would interfere with the forming worm hole. I made a depression in the floor so that no furniture would be placed in the way. I wrote notes instructing the future occupants, if I didn’t remain the sole occupant of the building, not to interfere with the room on a particular date. I did this before to avoid any “temporal paradoxes” caused by my knowledge of the future.
But hold it you say. The earth is always moving and will never be in the same spot twice. What keeps you from going into the vacuum of space or the fiery depths of a star or the crushing grip of a black hole? I discovered that worm holes can be directed to follow the gravitational field of where they are created. In this manner I was able to direct my path forward in relative safety.
So I set off. Into the future I went. The room was empty. It made sense. No one to get in the way of my arrival. The building was empty, a bit odd. Outside, no one. Everything looked normal except for the lack of people. Cars were nicely parked, or not, depending on the state stamped on the license plate. Everything seemed in order. I went exploring, trying to find a living soul. I looked in windows, Shops were ready for customers, doors unlocked during business hours. It was a while before I realized that it was incredibly quiet. There were no birds in the air, their songs not present. I did not see any insect life; no mosquitoes, flies or ants. No stray dogs or cats. No animals at all. I started looking to see how long this condition had existed. I found a grocery store. No sign of rotten produce, the power was still on, the milk fresh, no mold on the bread. The donuts were a tad stale. The date on the paper was from yesterday. I try to call someone on the phone. First someone from the city, no answer. The next county over. No answer. Another state, still no answer. My contact at the capital. Nothing. My associate in Europe, nothing. A random number, nothing. Another random number, still nothing. I look for bodies. No bodies anywhere. No dead birds, no dead cats or mice, not even a squished bug. All animal life gone. Plants were still present. Trees still being trees. Grass still growing. I had to find out what happened, but with a lack of evidence there was no way to find out. I check the newspapers. All the common things that happen in the world were still happening. No mention of any extraordinary events occurring the next day. I find the library, I check back weeks. Nothing to help. There is no reason I can find. By the end of the day I am on the edge of reason. The power starts to fail. The absence of people finally dawns on technology and it decides to shut down. I had to race back to the lab. I had to warn the past present. We have to find out what will happen. We have to find out. I make it back; there is still power in the building. I check the emergency generator. It’s missing. I check my office. It’s not my office. The lab is still intact. It may only be because it’s in a secret place. Something has happened to me in the future that has passed. No time to wonder, lights are flickering. I activate the circuits, the worm hole appears. I see the lab through the hole as I left it. I see my assistant. I walk through.
I try to warn him. Everyone is gone I say. I find myself repeating the words, everyone is gone, everyone is gone. I must have passed out. The room I wake up in is padded. I seems I didn’t pass out, they stuck me here. For the past six months all I could communicate was everyone is gone. No one could break through. Now the doctors come and ask me questions. They don’t believe me. I say ask my assistant. It seems he has disappeared. Maybe he understands, maybe he went forward. If he did he’s trapped there. I have heard my lease is up and office cleaned out. My government funding has dried up. No use in funding an insanity machine. That is the opinoin of the doctors. My machine causes one to lose their mind. Only I know what loses minds and it will happen in 4 years 7 months 3 days 10 minutes and 45 seconds.
