Tevun-Krus #14 - Time Travel

The Higher Dimensional Computer

The Higher Dimensional Computer
An original shortby @HardeeBurger

It seems the world has more than four dimensions – the Lower Dimensions, and Time. It’s so obvious in hindsight – Length and Width and Depth are interchangeable, so where are Time's interchangeable partners?

These partners are being found. Time has Life and Space as two of its partners. This knowledge is already in use, as a Higher Dimensional Computer (HDC) has been created. Like a solid block of silica that weighs more than Thor's Hammer, the HDC has a unique feature – it answers questions a split second before they're asked.

The military is very interested in the HDC. They want to use it to build an anti-ballistic missile system, but the HDC has another, more exciting capability. If an object oscillates fast enough, the HDC can make it decohere – it can make the object be in two places at the same time.

An object in two places simultaneously is mathematically everywhere in Space. And if it's everywhere in Space, it's also anywhere in Time. There's still one little bug, though. The Time Memory Machine (TMM) needs two more things – a method of 'latching' onto a Space and Time to 'recohere' into, and a power source that's delivers a blast of energy about the size of a nuclear explosion.

Those are kinda some pretty big bugs.

Believe it or not, a neutron generator (basically a self-contained neutron bomb) has been proven to deliver the necessary amount of power, so long as it doesn't explode and kill ten million people. And a method of latching onto a certain Space and Time? That's an easy one.

The TMM requires a living human brain.

And thus, Time Travel is born. What could possibly go wrong?

The Time Memory Machine is amazing, but it suffers from a setback, not the least of which is that it’s powered by a nuclear bomb. There's no way to tell if it works, short of actually using it. Without a human mind telling the TMM when and where to recohere, it simply does so at the earliest convenience. This 'earliest convenience' occurs after exactly one Planck Time – the time it takes for light to travel one Planck Length.

It’s a ridiculously small amount of time. Still, the TMM is amazing, even if it can only Time Travel for .0000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 second. That's because of what the TMM does when it Time Travels – it decoheres. The term isn't being used in its strictest sense, where a particle loses the ability to superposition, and must obey the laws of Classical Physics. The math behind it, however, is the same. (Trust me!)

When the TMM decoheres, Probability Theory tell us it's everywhere in Space. And due to Space and Time being interchangeable dimensionally, the TMM is also anywhere in Time. So a high speed film taken of the TMM as it decoheres and recoheres over and over again has the tiniest chance of catching the TMM in more than one place at one time.

It's simple, really. Just keep taking videos of the TMM zipping in and out of the Lower Dimensions, hoping that someday a single frame shows the TMM in two places at once. Then Nobel Prize, here we come!

Just don't get on the darn thing, please. There's a lot more to Time Travel than sitting there thinking about someplace else. Remember, the HDC gives answers a split second before any question is asked, so it's hard to tell the TMM where you want to go, being as you'll be there before you know about it yourself. Plus, Time has more than two Dimensional Mates. Like a Tesseract, there are hidden vertices at Higher Dimensions – those being Memory, Force and Soul.

It's bad enough risking your Life on the TMM. You don't want to mess with your Memory and Soul as well, do you?