Proceed with Caution

Proceed With Caution

If I only had control of when and where a person could be born, I would be the happiest time-historian alive. I might not be the happiest, but it sure would be a lot of fun.

Think about it. I would not have to worry about where I have to travel to go back in time. Presently, the time-history analog device (THAD) that we use is only time-calibrated. To go back to, let’s say, Abraham Lincoln’s birth, I would have to travel to Kentucky to the area where Lincoln’s log cabin should be and then activate the THAD to take me back to February 12, 1809. Of course, I would have to know the exact time of his birth to see it. 

Being able to control where an event happens, I could make my living room the place of birth, travel back to 1809, and watch the event happening while relaxing in my recliner. Wouldn’t that be fun? What could possibly go wrong?

I know, there are all you nay-sayers out there who are complaining that it would disrupt the history timeline. People from the past should have no knowledge of the future, and if you transport historical people to our present locale, the knowledge gained here, when they get sent back, would change whatever was expected to occur. 

I believe history is a fixed event, so anything you try to change will be repaired and rectified by history itself. Think of what happens when you get heart bypass surgery. They cut and pull veins from your leg to bypass clogged arteries to your heart. Does your leg shrivel up because blood can’t flow through the truncated vein anymore? No. Your body reroutes the blood flow, so you are the same person you were originally. Why can’t history do that?

That’s why, as much as you may want to change history with THAD, for example, make sure an evil dictator never gets born, it won’t work. Though, that is a theory I would like to test someday. 

Having things happen in your living room won’t make a difference. I have pointed this out and written extensively about all these ideas to my colleagues and the Department of Time History at the highest level. 

Unfortunately, I have not received any positive reactions from any of these agencies other than that my Time-History license has been revoked. 

Little do they know that I still have my old machine hidden in my house and can rig it so that it is not traceable. So, I’m laying low for now, but someday, you will all be writing about what I accomplished. All I need is to find the key to my cell.