"BORROWED TIME"
In the future, science has conquered the technology that allows the manipulation of the flux of time; space-time limitations, as they were known by the first years of the 21st century are thing of the past...
Nowadays, an entire company is dedicated to the business of...
Nowadays, an entire company is dedicated to the business of...
"relocation"
”Relocation” is the name of the process in which a person is extracted from his or her space-time coordinates and teleported into the present ...
Clients use "relocation" to bring back and spend time with their loved ones, already deceased...
The technology only allows the "reloc" to remain in suspension for 24 hours before being returned...
The rules of the company are clear:
every "reloc" has to be returned to the exact moment in which the relocation took place and under the same circumstances.
No one has ever broken this rule before...
The rules of the company are clear:
every "reloc" has to be returned to the exact moment in which the relocation took place and under the same circumstances.
No one has ever broken this rule before...
"CURL"
How could we defend ourselves from someone in possession of a time machine?
"TECHNOMANCY"
"In principle, a quantum computer could break all the world’s codes, throwing the security of today’s computer systems into total disorder. The first country that is able to build such a system would be able to unlock the deepest secrets of other nations and organizations"
–Michio Kaku, Physicist and Futurist.
-Teaser-
On December 14th in 1900 a brilliant German scientist presented a theory to the Physics German Society that caught almost no attention. The title of his work was “On the Law of Distribution of Energy in the Normal Spectrum” and that scientist’s name was Max Planck. Nowadays, nearly over 100 years later, almost no scientist would dare to deny that that date would be remembered as the date of birth of the most enigmatic and flourishing new branches of sciences known as Quantum Mechanics . Thanks to Planck's work a path into the knowledge of a new facet of nature was open. While Newton decoded the laws behind gravity and motion of the planets and Maxwell unveiled the laws of electromagnetism and Einstein, on the other hand, had just revealed the laws of Physics at high speeds, Planck uncovered the Physics of the very very small… leaving everyone breathless!
He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.
Einstein, Bohr, Schrodinger, Heisenberg and other more contemporary scientists rushed en masse to understand the intricacies of the strange universe of electrons, photons and other infinitely smaller particles, unveiling a mosaic of contradictions and absurdities. In the quantum world, electrons could be in two places at the same time, possess an energy apparently infinite and traversing the universe with no inconvenient leaving ordered Einstein’s, Newton’s and Maxwell’s universe tumbling down.
The applications of this new knowledge, however its strangeness, didn’t take long to come. Nowadays we owe an endless set of inventions of the modern technology to Quantum Mechanics. For example, without the knowledge of the fundamental quantum principles governing the atom, the scientist would’ve been unable to build the atomic bomb or the currently existing nuclear power stations; likewise, the laser would be a fantasy and the knowledge of the chemistry and structure of DNA would still be a mystery. Today, billions of dollars are invested yearly in research looking to explore and exploit the most fundamental principles of the atomic behavior.
By the last years of the first decade of the 21st century, one of the most aggressive investors in this field was the extremely modern yet almost unknown telecommunications company called Korbec Quantum Devices (KQD), which swiftly made its way into the market of laser optics technology and the cryptography industry; shortly after, KQD caught the attention of the Pentagon and quickly assembled a research team supported with government funding.
One year later, the highly active KQD’s research team reported to the Department of Defense their latest discoveries and applications of the implausible phenomenon known as quantum teleportation, in which a particle can be literally transmitted instantaneously from one place to another via what scientists call an Einstein/Podolvsky/Rosen bridge.
Two months later, nevertheless the hectic activity within the core of the company, the funding was suddenly cut off and all the projects canceled.
No public statement was made.
Although the majority of the KQD research files were classified, some fractions of information managed to leak out to the public…
It was rumored that the ultimate effort of the KQD group turned out in the construction of machinery specifically designed to exploit the E.P.R. principle for military purposes.
The utilization of such equipment, however, was surrounded by a series of bizarre circumstances: several members from the research team were diagnosed with mental disorders; shortly later, the police department opened an investigation in regards of the mysterious deaths of some of them. It is said that in a particularly singular episode, one of the stages of the experiment turned out in the literal vanishing of one person, plus a large number of other events even harder to believe.
The most erudite scholars and theorists nevertheless conclude that the applications of the E.P.R. phenomena are nothing but theoretical speculations.
But, what if…
He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.
Einstein, Bohr, Schrodinger, Heisenberg and other more contemporary scientists rushed en masse to understand the intricacies of the strange universe of electrons, photons and other infinitely smaller particles, unveiling a mosaic of contradictions and absurdities. In the quantum world, electrons could be in two places at the same time, possess an energy apparently infinite and traversing the universe with no inconvenient leaving ordered Einstein’s, Newton’s and Maxwell’s universe tumbling down.
The applications of this new knowledge, however its strangeness, didn’t take long to come. Nowadays we owe an endless set of inventions of the modern technology to Quantum Mechanics. For example, without the knowledge of the fundamental quantum principles governing the atom, the scientist would’ve been unable to build the atomic bomb or the currently existing nuclear power stations; likewise, the laser would be a fantasy and the knowledge of the chemistry and structure of DNA would still be a mystery. Today, billions of dollars are invested yearly in research looking to explore and exploit the most fundamental principles of the atomic behavior.
By the last years of the first decade of the 21st century, one of the most aggressive investors in this field was the extremely modern yet almost unknown telecommunications company called Korbec Quantum Devices (KQD), which swiftly made its way into the market of laser optics technology and the cryptography industry; shortly after, KQD caught the attention of the Pentagon and quickly assembled a research team supported with government funding.
One year later, the highly active KQD’s research team reported to the Department of Defense their latest discoveries and applications of the implausible phenomenon known as quantum teleportation, in which a particle can be literally transmitted instantaneously from one place to another via what scientists call an Einstein/Podolvsky/Rosen bridge.
Two months later, nevertheless the hectic activity within the core of the company, the funding was suddenly cut off and all the projects canceled.
No public statement was made.
Although the majority of the KQD research files were classified, some fractions of information managed to leak out to the public…
It was rumored that the ultimate effort of the KQD group turned out in the construction of machinery specifically designed to exploit the E.P.R. principle for military purposes.
The utilization of such equipment, however, was surrounded by a series of bizarre circumstances: several members from the research team were diagnosed with mental disorders; shortly later, the police department opened an investigation in regards of the mysterious deaths of some of them. It is said that in a particularly singular episode, one of the stages of the experiment turned out in the literal vanishing of one person, plus a large number of other events even harder to believe.
The most erudite scholars and theorists nevertheless conclude that the applications of the E.P.R. phenomena are nothing but theoretical speculations.
But, what if…
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