What the heck?
Monday morning had finally arrived after the long holiday weekend, the scientists and technicians were all arriving at work. Everyone seemed very rested and ready for the big test of the time machine.
You may be able to imagine the excitement that seemed to fill the air, as this would be a historic event. The first person to travel in time, would be from their group. Everyone knew this would be an earthshaking event, with the probability of many awards and much recognition. The names of each person involved would be written in the history books.
With all the team members present in the lab, it was decided that they would go to the conference room and review the entire procedure one last time before execution.
Coffee and donuts were served as each member of this, possibly over confident team, explained their portion of the process. Everyone knew what they were to do, during what would be a 30 minute time travel event. They were going to turn the cameras on at 10:00am and there would be continuous video of the event.
At this point Dr. Stanton said, “We should soon see another Dr. Owen, other than the one sitting here, come into this conference room, from the past”. All eyes were on the door. No one entered.
They waited for several minutes but the only Dr. Owen in the room was the present day Dr. Owen.
Something must have gone wrong, said Dr. Stanton. If the experiment would have worked, we would have seen Dr. Owen come back in time 2 hours, and he would have come from the time machine to this conference room to prove that he had travelled back in time.
The team, somewhat deflated, returned to the laboratory to attempt to learn what had gone wrong.
They opened the door to the laboratory containing the time machine. Each person began double checking their part of the project. Dr. Owen went to the time machine to power up the computer. He opened the door and exclaimed in a loud voice, “What the heck!”
All eyes turned to Dr. Owen. “Who put these clothes in here”? Everyone gathered around to see what was in the capsule. There was a jacket, shirt, pants underwear, shoes and socks and under the clothes was an ID.
They removed the clothing from the machine and Dr. Stanton called the security supervisor to the lab.
“Is this the ID of the maintenance person that you couldn’t find the other day”?
“Yes it is”, replied the supervisor, “where did you find it”. “It was inside a machine in the other room with these clothes”. Even though everyone kind of knew this department was working on a time machine, they did not like to refer to it as such.
“Why were the clothes and ID in the machine”, asked the supervisor? “We want to know that too”, was the response from the doctor. “Get this Freddy person up here immediately, I want to talk to him”, Dr. Stanton demanded.
He didn’t come to work today and we haven’t been able to contact him,” said the supervisor. “As soon as you find him I want to see him”, was Dr. Stanton’s response!
“Do you want me to take the clothes and ID”, asked the security supervisor? “NO, leave them here, they may be used as evidence of vandalism”, said Dr. Stanton.
That is when someone noticed what appeared to be blood, on the sleeve of the shirt. “That can’t be good”, said the doctor, “now we will need to get the police involved”.
It was decided to get the campus police involved rather than call the local authorities. The security supervisor called the lieutenant of the campus police.
The police arrived a few minutes later and reviewed the clothing and the scene where it was found. There were no signs of struggle and nothing was missing. All they had was a shirt with a little blood on the sleeve and the possibility of a nude maintenance worker.
Using the driver’s license from Freddys wallet that was in his pants pocket and the ID card, it was decided to run a check to see what they could find on this subject.
Later; the lieutenant reported to Dr. Stanton that the person Freddy, had died more than two years earlier, from a gunshot wound. It appeared that Freddy had possibly been shot by a clerk at a quick shop and then turned the gun on the clerk and killed her.
The lieutenant asked, if all that is true, then who was the Freddy that worked here as a maintenance person, and how did the clothes and ID get in that machine?
Dr. Stanton said, we know from computer records that the maintenance person came into these two labs, we can only assume he changed clothes, tossing his old clothes into the machine, and has assumed another identity.
Even though it seemed like something from a movie, the lieutenant accepted that theory and considered the case closed.
Dr. Stanton had another theory that only he and one of the computer techs knew.
One of the techs was running a test of the computer in the time machine when he discovered that it had apparently been programed to go back in time a little over two years. He also found that it had come back to present time, the day and time that the maintenance worker went missing. It appeared the maintenance man had somehow used the time machine.
Dr. Stanton’s theory was as follows, and is correct, although they could not tell anyone. Freddy from the past had died of a gunshot wound.
Freddy from the future, no longer had a past because Freddy from the past was dead. Freddy got into the time machine to return to the future? The time machine, working properly, disintegrated the machine and all that was in it. That is when all went black for Freddy. The time machine then reintegrated everything except the being of Freddy, since he no longer existed in the past, he cannot exist in the future. His clothes and other objects could exist and they were left in the time machine.
Could the above story be true, but not yet happened?
How does this time movement interfere with past and present events?
Will there be more?
Stay tuned and be enlightened!
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