“Yes, it will,” replied Stacey. “You just make sure that you get back here an hour from now, Sean Harrison. And you be good when you’re away,” she joked.
Sean let go of his wife, took off the earpiece and waved farewell to the camera and to his colleagues in the room. Then he stepped into the time machine.
Like previous experiments, Sean’s activities inside the time machine were captured by a little camera and fed into a monitor in the room. He looked calm as a technician closed the door behind him. Wasting no time, the countdown began from one minute. The world continued to watch live through the CNN broadcast, focused on the image of Sean Harrison sitting patiently inside the metallic sphere.
Stacey held her breath as the final seconds approached.
Five, four, three, two, one…
The LED on the top of the sphere changed quickly to red and then to yellow. The slight humming noise that the time machine made seemed to reverberate louder in the cylindrical room of the silo – significantly louder than the transport’s rectangular lab back in San Diego. Nevertheless, all eyes were focused on the monitor, not on the sound originating from Betty. The image of Sean Harrison was now stationary and semi-transparent. It was confirmation that he was traveling into the future.
Billions of people from around the world, all with differing views on time transportation, watched their TVs, computers and mobile phones for any sign of success or failure. They would need to wait patiently for another hour to witness the results of the historic experiment.
Sean Harrison was unaware that billions of eyes were fixed on him, or the lack of his self. He was merely a faint image coming in and out of view from a camera capturing the inside of the time transport. Among those that watched Sean’s journey first-hand in the silo were government politicians and military commanders – the same government that had once prevented him from traveling in time. Also watching very closely as they kept their hands on the controls were the brilliant scientists of Tace Technologies – the amazing company that Sean founded with a devotion to the science of space and time. But no one kept a closer eye on Sean’s progress than his wife Stacey and his family – the loving and devoted family that had been patient with Sean and his time travel goals for as long as they had known him.
Unexpectedly, Stacey smiled. When she thought about the remarkable moment that had just occurred, she felt an overwhelming sensation of joy. Her husband was heading to the future. The scientist that had spent his life dedicated to time travel had accomplished his goal and he proved it to the world. Sean was right, she silently acknowledged. Time travel is possible!
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”
- Albert Einstein
Table of Contents
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56