Chapter Fifteen
At the Time Lab
"All of history is within the grasp of this machine."
"Theoretically, yes. But it's stuck on a twenty-five year window from 1885 to 1910. I don't know why. Alden was a little skimpy on the details. Well," I amended, "he said a lot of stuff, but it was all in geek-speak, so that doesn't count."
"When will we return?"
Alden stuck his head in the door. He had been puttering about the time lab, tweaking this and that while Holmes and I tried to stay out of the way.
"To avoid temporal paradoxes and destabilizing the fabric of space-time, it is only possible to move continuously along the temporal axis no matter what actually time frame you are in while you move forward." Alden announced and went back to his equipment. Holmes worked his way through the geek-speak for a minute.
"He means that we will have to return five days after we left?"
"Yeah. Time moves forward no matter where you are. Someguy's Law of Parallel Time, or something like that. Apparently if you tried to go back a minute after we left, it would cause a disruption in the space-time continuum because we weren't there." I wasn't sure how much sense this made. Temporal dynamics tended to give me a headache.
"So one would not be able to travel back a day and give one's self advice?"
"Nope. You can't go back before you left. Can't have two Auroras running around at the same time."
"Thank goodness."
"Hey!"
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