Novikov Windows: A Time Travel Novel by Chris Cosmain

Author:Chris Cosmain [Cosmain, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Reason House Publishing
Published: 2023-08-29T00:00:00+00:00

19

DISCORD

BLACKWELL’S REST, AUSTRALIA, 1997

Aaron reflects that the control room appears to have become a de facto meeting place recently. Everyone is assembled again, except today there is no atomic scan or time jump on the agenda. They are all here to discuss the three mysterious craft that landed in the bushland around Blackwell’s Rest, as well as how to move forward with the work on the time machine given the failed jump early this morning. It’s now late afternoon. Aaron is hopeful that everyone has managed to get some rest, although he notes that several people still look tired.

‘Thank you for coming, everyone,’ he begins, looking around the room. ‘We had an unforeseen setback early this morning, but I’m hoping that we can work through the issues and set up another jump. Also, we serendipitously discovered three small craft with transmission beacons already in Earth’s orbit, which were brought back to Blackwell’s Rest this morning. Alex, would you be happy to share what we found?’

Alex takes the floor. ‘Thanks, Director. We might discuss the craft first, because something we found relates directly to our failed time jump.’

There is nodding around the room, as well as anticipatory looks from Hisako, Hiro and Bella, who Aaron suspects particularly want to know what might have gone wrong this morning.

‘The three craft all had slates inside them containing information specifically for us here at Blackwell’s Rest. All were launched into space sometime in our past and have been quietly orbiting the Earth since then, awaiting our discovery of them. Two of the craft had additional contents, which I will get to. The third vessel contained an entire computer, which is still running, as well as a slate. Now, please bear in mind that some of the information I have, I cannot share. I will not divulge where the computer and the accompanying slate came from, other than what you already know, but these were sent to provide us with a solution to our jump problem.’

‘Which is?’ Hiro interjects, impatient now.

‘We pushed the wormhole mouths back to the right time, but not to the right point in space.’

Aaron is as baffled as most other people in the room, but he sees Hisako nodding. It seems the Japanese man has already received the clue he needed and figured it out. Alex continues. ‘Think about it. Our Earth rotates around our sun, constantly changing its position in space. Our sun and all its planets, in other words our solar system, in turn orbits around the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy, with this movement occurring at an average velocity of almost eight hundred and thirty thousand kilometres an hour. Across the five minutes in time that we wanted our transponder beacon to jump, the motion of our solar system around the galaxy centre alone moved us in space by about sixty-nine thousand kilometres.

‘However, it gets more complicated. Our Milky Way Galaxy and another large galaxy called Andromeda orbit each other. Together with other galaxies, all of this makes up what is called our Local Group.

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