Lost in a Time Slip
First of all, just what is a “Time Slip”? Jessica Schrader, writing in Psychology Today wrote an article on Time Slips:
In her article she makes it quite clear that the nature of time is one of the biggest mysteries in science. Scientists simply do not understand just what time really is.
Time anomalies or slips in time to another era have been reported by many over the years, the Internet is filled with these stories whether one believes them or not. While time travel is not really possible some interstellar space jockeys have reported strange “time slips” or time anomalies. They have been characterized as paranormal episodes by some psychologists. Over a 100 years ago Albert Einstein’s theory was that time and space are linked together and that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. However, there are countless stories about people experiencing strange encounters with strange shifts in time.
A person or group of folks have reported traveling through time without knowing why it was occurring. There was supposedly an account that occurred in the 1970’s in Oklahoma when three cattlemen were herding some cattle on a ranch when they noticed a strange white house on a hill. Since they had never seen it there before they came back the next day to investigate and while the hill was still there, the house was now gone. All three ranch hands said they saw it. Did it really exist in a different moment in time just to be briefly seen by the ranchers? Was this a time slip?
Captain Caspian Vale had heard many stories about “Time Slips” before and even though traveling close to the speed of light was now a reality the actual speed of light was not thought to be attainable by many scientists even though the Hyper Drive’s maximum speed was not far from the speed of light (186,000 miles per second). He thought these stories of people slipping into another realm of time to be possible fantasies, or nightmares people had experienced. He always tried to keep an open mind, but he also understood that there are unknown anomalies in the understanding of time. Even in Captain Vales’ era the concept of time and space and how they were linked together was still not fully understood by science.
So, when he engaged his Hyper Drive, it gave him a start as the ship jumped into interstellar flight. Flying close to the speed of light was indeed frightening and few were allowed to even use this drive due to strict Space Federation rules and guidelines because it was strictly regulated and highly classified. The amount of energy theorized to reach the speed of light was also unattainable. So, flying close to the speed of light was indeed frightening and many space pilots never really got used to engaging the Hyper Drive, even if allowed by the Orwellian controlled Space Federation. Coming out of Hyper Drive was just as scary, one always had the fear of being somewhere unintended and now stranded forever. What if Captain Vale was accidentally caught in a Time Slip and didn’t realize it? According to the Captain, this is apparently what happened to him on a recent flight from Earth to the distant planet of Pluto. As he was engaging his ship’s Hyper Drive there was a flash of light and he suddenly found himself still in stationary orbit around the Earth instead. However, something was amiss, there were no satellites, no space station at all in orbit and the Earth looked almost too pristine. He tried to access the known Space Federation communications networks but there was nothing but silence. In fact, there were no communication networks of any kind detected. Was this the Earth he had just left? Was this another Earth in a parallel dimension?
He decided to take his small exploration saucer shaped ship used to access in-orbit supplies from the International Space station to investigate. The little ship was easy to fly, and this seemed like a very much needed low level surveillance flight. What he was able to see was simply astonishing. He was flying over what appeared to be a medieval village in what should have been the large bustling city of Kersey, England located in Suffolk County. There were no people, no TV aerials, no telephone, or light wires. The houses looked extremely ancient. At the stream were ducks but they looked lifeless almost like decoys. He was able to beam onto his ship the remnants of an old Morning London newspaper, the Standard, lying in the street, it had the date of 1857 on it. There seemed to be no sign of any habitation. It seemed like a ghost city.
After returning to the main ship there was another flash of light and Captain Vale was back in his stationary Earth orbit above modern-day England. He had just engaged his Hyper Drive to leave on his trip to the outer edge of the solar system only what seemed like minutes before. He reported the strange malfunction of his Hyper Drive to the Operations Center. They reported he had disappeared from radar and then suddenly reappeared having been gone for less than five minutes. He said his ship’s chronometer indicated he was gone for over two hours!
His operations commander was simply astonished at the digital recording that was on his small operational craft of what appeared to be an old medieval village. No one could explain what had happened and besides the short visual recording. Captain Vale’s physical proof, the remnant of the ancient 1857 Standard London newspaper just suddenly disappeared as he returned to his normal time frame. He suddenly became a believer in “Time Slips”. In his mind that was the only logical conclusion he could reach about this unexplained event in time.
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