The Time Eliminator by K. A. W

Author:K. A. W. [K.A.W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: eStar Books
Published: 2014-06-24T07:00:00+00:00

A moment more and they were in the laboratory, Jerry and her father looking with frank curiosity at the mysterious cabinet.

"General, and you too, Jerry," began Errell very soberly. "What I am about to show you is something so fantastic, so weird, so utterly removed from all human experience, that before proceeding further I feel I should prepare your minds for what you are to behold. Please be seated and follow closely." He paused, then went on: "When the dynamo at a power-house breaks down, every trolley car on that system stops and the electricity in the overhead wire and in the dynamo itself disappears, — swallowed up in the earth's general store of electric force. Unless this electricity can be made to reappear, by starting up the dynamo again, street-car service on that system is a thing of the past. This is obvious. Now for the next step:

"You know how moving pictures are made, with a blasé photographer turning a crank while the villain chokes the heroine. Once the lights are switched off, however, the scene has passed into oblivion, — unless or until it is resurrected by projecting the film on to a screen. What few people realize, is that every event on this earth leaves a record in light rays, whether or not a human photographer is present to snap the picture.

"In other words, light rays persist, or endure, since nothing is lost in Nature. To illustrate: Through the medium of a powerful telescope we are now able to get a view of celestial bodies which, without the aid of this instrument, would necessitate a journey of years in their direction in order to obtain a corresponding view. If a cataclysm should destroy the Martian canals today and we should travel towards that planet in a projectile at the rate of a mile a minute, it would take years ere we reached a point, in space where the event would become visible to our eyes; or, if we elected to remain here, it would take just that much longer before the event would appear to the inhabitants of this sphere.

"Again, consider the curious paradox presented last New Year's eve, when couples in London danced by radio during the last moments of 1925 to music played in Berlin in 1926, and then, a few moments later, danced in 1926 to music being played in New York in 1925. An evening paper in San Francisco might truthfully have stated on December 31st: 'The West End club of London danced the old year out at 4 o'clock this afternoon,' while a London paper on the morning of January 1st might with equal truth have announced: 'The Waikiki club of Honolulu will dance the New Year in at 10:30 o'clock this forenoon.”

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