Note: The theories used in this story are based on those from leading scientists so are completely plausible except for the use of a wormhole which is actually used for future travelling, not travelling into the past which is how I used it. Just thought you'd like to know that to travel into the past, you'd actually need a black hole, not a worm hole.
Important author's note at the end.
Chapter Three: Scientist- Coldplay
I was just guessing at numbers and figures
Pulling the puzzles apart.
Questions of science, science and progress
Don't speak as loud as my heart.
Tell me you love me, and come back and haunt me,
Oh, when I rush to the start
Running in circles, chasing tails
coming back as we are.
Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy.
No one ever said it would be so hard
I'm going back to the start.
"Sonny, are you alright?"
Sonny blinked her eyes open. At first, the light was too blinding to see anything, but after a few seconds, it cleared to reveal Chad and Zora leaning over her.
Chad offered her his hand and lifted her to her feet.
"You started walking backwards and then suddenly fainted," Zora said, looking at her worriedly.
Sonny blinked again. "I had the strangest dream that I went back in time with you two. Chad disappeared and when we came back, So Random! were rich. You, Chad were on So Random! with us and you were dating…"
At that moment Tawni came up and hugged Chad from behind.
"…Tawni!" Sonny finished.
Zora patted her on the arm, giving her a reassuring look.
"But you…" Sonny sighed. "Zora, let's go and find the box."
"The box?" Chad asked.
"Yeah," Sonny said. "It's a time machine. We need to go back and change this."
Chad looked like he was about to say something, and Sonny hoped that he remembered, but instead he said: "Ha funny. Sounds like something Nico and Grady would say."
Sonny closed her eyes and took a deep breath. We'll go back and everything will go back to what it was before, she thought. Chad and I will be dating and no one will remember this whole ordeal.
"Will Nico and Grady even have made the box?" Zora suddenly asked as she and Sonny made the way to the stage` where they usually kept the box.
It turned out, no, Nico and Grady hadn't made the box as they had no reason to try and impress girls with it because they were rich.
"So uh, what do we do?" Sonny asked Zora.
She shrugged. "Find a way to make a time machine using the theoretical ideas of Back to the Future."
Sonny racked her brain to what Chad said about Back to the Future time travel but seemed to only remember that there was a word beginning with 'd' involved and another starting with 'Flux'.
"Have you seen it?" Sonny asked Zora.
Zora nodded. "Duh," she said. "But quite a while ago so I can't really remember it."
Sonny tried to think of someone who could help. She couldn't ask Chad as she couldn't face him at that moment.
"Charis!" she suddenly exclaimed. "Chad's sister would be able to help! But where would you find a normal fifteen year old at one thirty on a Tuesday?"
"School!" they both said at once.
"I need to talk to you immediately." Sonny figured that if they weren't dating, that she'd act the same as she did before they started going out.
He turned to look at her. "Actually I'm glad you're here, I need a favour."
"I don't have time to help you write a sketch," she said. She really didn't want to delve too deep into So Random! until all this was figured out.
"Please, I'm a comic genius," he replied. "I need you to give this to Tawni for me." He handed Sonny a note.
She skimmed her eyes over it. "You're breaking up with her?" she asked.
"Yeah," Chad said. "I've decided that she's not really my type."
Sonny couldn't help but grin for a short few seconds. "I don't think that's for me to do. Call her if you have to."
Chad sighed. "So what do you want?"
"I need to know what school your sister goes to," Sonny replied.
"How do you know that I have a sister?"
"Uh…" Sonny hadn't thought of that. "Lucky guess?"
Chad's eyes widened. "You weren't lying, were you?" he asked. "You really did change the past and it's all my fault."
"No, no!" Sonny said. "It's not all your fault. Chad-uh-you and I should have been more careful with keeping it from you." Sonny frowned a little in confusion.
"It's St Margaret's."
"What?"
"The school that Charis goes to," Chad said. "You can use my car if you want. I assume you know which one it is?"
"Uh…" Sonny said. "That depends which one you have. In my past, you got a new car which we dumped manure into…then you got another car."
"I've got a BMW Z4," he said. At Sonny's blank look, he added. "It's black."
She nodded. "Where's it parked?"
Chad explained the details then pulled the keys from his pocket. "Please don't break her," he said. Sonny tried to grab them. "Bababa!" he said. "Don't scratch her…" He pulled the keys from Sonny's grasp. "And don't turn her into a time machine!"
"I won't!" Sonny said. "Just give me the keys!"
He passed them to her, giving her the crooked grin that he gave her when they were dating.
Sonny grinned back, jingling the keys. "I'll see you in the real world."
"I hate schools," moaned Zora as they crept around the back of the main building, trying to find an entrance.
"At least it's not like the one we all dreamed that we'd end up in," Sonny said. "And they'll all know who we are so we need to be careful. Especially since So Random! seems to be more popular than MacKenzie Falls."
It was funny how sometimes things figured things out on their own.
"Sonny Munroe?" said a voice behind Sonny and Zora.
They jumped around to see Charis with a bag on her back, holding a study folder in one hand.
"What are you guys doing here?" she asked.
"To find you," Sonny said. "Something bad has happened and we need your help to fix it."
"Someone from So Random! needs my help?" Charis asked. "I should feel honoured."
Sonny smiled, relieved. "Do you have some time now?"
"I've got maths," Charis said. "So sure."
They found an area around the back of the sport's centre where they could sit and not be seen.
Sonny took a deep breath. "I don't know if you remember, Charis. But a year ago future Zora, Chad and I appeared in Chad's room. We changed the course of last year."
Charis thought about it. "I remember it, that's for sure. But I thought I was imagining it after a while as Chad denied that it happened at all after Mr Condor shut down MacKenzie Falls because apparently Chad was a nut job and would be better on So Random!"
"That would explain why So Random! is so popular!" Sonny said. "And why Chad was discussing sketches with Tawni."
"Yeah," Charis said. "Well Chad had to talk to a councillor every week until he was sure that it was just a figment of his imagination. He always knew that he couldn't date you, though it was obvious that he fell for you. So he did the only thing that he could and date Tawni Hart instead so he wouldn't have an urge to date you."
Sonny sighed. "Well that explains a lot…though he told me when I borrowed his car that he was going to break up with her."
Charis smirked. "That's because somewhere in his subconscious he knows that he loves you."
"Now, Charis," Zora interrupted. "The real reason we're here is to ask you about the time machine in Back to the Future."
Charis's interest piqued. "Go on…"
"What exactly did they use to make the car into a time machine?"
"A flux capacitor run by plutonium. Once the car reached eighty eight miles per hour, the car would go forward or back in time. Though if the car ran out of plutonium, then you would need one point two one gigawatts of power."
"That's a lot of power," Zora said. "Is that why they had to use the lightening bolt to take them back to the future?"
Sonny was looking between the two of them, completely confused. This was rather sad as she was the oldest by two years.
"So where do we find this 'flux thing'?" she asked.
Charis and Zora looked at each other and cracked up laughing.
"You can't 'find' it," Zora said. "You have to make it."
"Make it?" Sonny asked, her eyes wide. "And how would we do that?"
"I have no idea." Charis paused, a malicious grin crossing her face. "But I know someone who will."
Professor H. Boson was one of the smartest people in the world. She was known for her advanced knowledge on Physics and her theories involving the manipulation of time travel. So far her extensive research was based on theories that seemed far too dangerous to test, but she was definitely the one person to go to when having a 'Time Travel' problem.
Professor Boson had decided, after her many experiments had been rejected by governments and other scientists because they were 'too dangerous', to move to teaching basic physics to those who were much easier to manipulate than time and space: teenagers.
"Uh…Professor Boson?" Charis cautiously poked her head around the door of her physics classroom to make sure that no one else was there so they wouldn't see Sonny and Zora.
"Miss Dylan Cooper?" came the reply.
Charis grinned and walked into the room. "I know that we were told by the principal never to ask you about this but…I need some help with understanding time travel. A couple of my friends are stuck in a very sticky situation."
Sonny smiled sheepishly at the physics teacher, who lowered her half moon spectacles from her piercing green eyes to look at them.
"Sonny Munroe and Zora Lancaster from So Random!" she said. "Isn't this a nice surprise? So what can I do for you ladies?"
Explaining the situation to Professor Boson was easy. She was a professional so she understood the theories, so didn't get confused like everybody else they'd tried to explain time travel to…like Sonny.
She also knew a lot more about the situation than any of them.
"The problem with the theories in Back to the Future," she said, "is that they are purely fiction and we don't have the resources or the technology to recreate such thing as a flux capacitor. That box of Mr Mitchell and Mr Harris's seems very interesting. I have no idea how it could have possibly could have been made by two teenagers playing around."
She drummed her fingers on her desk as the three girls sat impatiently biting their nails. "So do you have to go back?" she asked. "The only thing that seems to have been altered is you and Master Dylan Cooper's relationship and that MacKenzie Falls has been discontinued."
"Chad's also on So Random!" Zora brought up disdainfully. The thought of Chad ever being 'funny' was horrifying.
"True." Professor Boson hummed in thought. "The only thing that I can possible think of is a wormhole."
"A wormhole?" Sonny asked. "Aren't those out in space or something?"
"No," Professor Boson said patiently. "Those are black holes. A wormhole is a microscopic particle that theoretically could aid those in time travel if enlargened."
"And where would we find one?" Charis asked.
"That's the problem," Professor Boson said. "Because the wormhole is a microscopic particle, it's almost impossible to find." She grinned. "Unless you have the right equipment. Follow me."
Charis had never been into the school basement, but she had heard rumours from those who had.
The most likely of these rumours was that there was a giant armadillo down there. I think that pretty much states the extremity of the stories forming.
"Have you girls heard of the Large Hadron Collider?" Professor Boson asked as they took the lift down to the basement.
"The what?" Sonny asked.
"Yes," Zora said, ignoring Sonny's reply. "The Large Hadron Collider, or the LHC is the largest artificial experiment on, or in this case, under the earth."
"Correct, Miss Lancaster," Professor Boson said. "It is one hundred and seventy five metres under Switzerland and it twenty seven kilometres long."
"Uh…" Sonny said. "What is this collider thingy?"
Professor Boson smiled, as if talking about her eldest child who was now a very successful doctor and a lawyer. "The Large Hadron Collider is basically a large machine which fires two protons at each other from opposite directions to make them collide. The hope for this machine is to uncover secrets of the universe that scientists, such as myself, have been pondering over for years."
"But we can't exactly go to Switzerland," Sonny said. "So unless you have a time machine down here…"
"Look, Miss Munroe," Professor Boson said. "I don't have a time machine, but I have something that could possibly help with your situation."
The lift opened and Professor Boson stepped through, closely followed by the three girls.
"Welcome," she said dramatically, "to the Minimus ad Maximum!"
"Creative," muttered Charis sarcastically.
Sonny assumed that she did Latin as she personally had no idea what the physics teacher had said.
The machine was, to say it simply, huge.
"What does it do?" Sonny asked, prodding one of the rods tentatively.
"It enlarges pretty much anything," Professor Boson replied. "In this case, we are hoping to enlarge a wormhole."
"This should be interesting," Zora muttered to herself. "And what will we use to detect a wormhole?"
"A spot in the air where light has a characteristic angular intensity distribution," the professor said casually.
"What?" Sonny and Charis asked at the same time.
"The light will bend slightly," Zora explained. "So now we need a room wide microscope."
"Already done," Boson said. "Take a look at this computer screen."
She led the three girls over to one of the walls that was literally covered in computer screens, some showing CNN or other news channels while others were research panels or Google searches.
The screen which Professor Boson was pointing to looked blurry if you were staring at it from a distance. But once you focused on it, it showed tiny particles darting around.
"Electrons," Boson explained. "There are also protons and neutrons but the electrons are the most obvious as they are moving."
"And how will this show us if there are any wormholes?" Sonny asked.
"Watch."
Professor Boson zoomed right in and focused the image, moving the lens left and right.
"Light reflecting off the screen, my glasses, your button…" she paused, eyes growing wide and zooming in a dramatic distance, "…a wormhole."
The wormhole looked like it did in movies: a sideways tornado, swirling madly. For a moment, the four just stared at it in awe.
"Right," Boson said. "Now to enlarge it." She kept one hand on the microscope controls to make sure that the wormhole didn't move, and the other on the Minimus ad Maximum, trying to focus the scope on the wormhole.
"Aha!" she said triumphantly as cluster of particles collected on the screen right next to the wormhole.
The three girls watched in awe as from seemingly nothing, the wormhole grew larger and larger until it was the size of a small car.
"Alright, girls," Professor Boson said. "Before you step through the wormhole, there is something that you might want to know about it. What happens in the movies is purely fiction. Scientists have no way of actually knowing if you can go through a wormhole and actually survive. In fact, before this, the idea of a wormhole was only a theory. When you walk through this, you may be cooked to a crisp from the radiation, taken to a parallel universe or even forward in time instead of back. I'm just warning you, that once you step through, there is no going back."
Charis and Zora looked at Sonny. She was the only one who could make this decision.
She looked nervous but stood up straighter, putting her head high in determination.
"Let's do this thing."
GASP! So they're going into a wormhole into the past (which isn't actually possible as you'd need a black hole but it makes my story easier to write)
IF YOU'VE SEEN SONNY WITH A KISS PLEASE REVIEW I NEED SOMEONE TO TALK TO WHO DOESN'T MIND ME SPOILING THE PLOT!
Those who haven't seen it, watch it on YouTube, it's AMAZING.
Fire_Breath_ (a.k.a. Grady's dragon guy...a.k.a. Chad)
