Sci-fi Story - The Time Engineer - Part 1

I'll be dead before sunset tomorrow night. Time cops will come to my house and catch me, change my brain chemistry, and purify me with the hood they're going to put on my head. The Time Crimes Tribunal does not call it death, but there will be so many profound changes in my mind that my identity, personality, and abilities will be completely different. I'm going to turn into a dull copy of my current self, a harmless human being.

How do I know that time cops will come to my house and purify my mind? Because we've been living in multiple times for a long time. The arrow of time covers tomorrow and the nine days that follow. Since the next ten days have happened, the time wall that sets the limit for journeys does not prevent them from coming to my house.

In multiple times there are difficulties in telling a subject. Well, an unrelated person living in the twentieth century can read what I wrote. Some people have not listened to any time radio broadcast from the future to the past, let alone experiencing time travel. You must have a radio receiver that can read signals sent from the future to receive this broadcast.

You may have inferred from what I've said that these days people travel non-stop in time. The point that time travel reaches today can be likened to twentieth-century space studies: an extremely costly endeavor with huge risks. The conflict between the Time Sciences Supervisory Board and me rise on this basis. I want time travels to get cheaper, unsupervised, and widespread. They take advantage of the public's ignorance of this issue and hold the matter in their monopoly. They try to make people believe that the struggle between us is just about me wanting to bring my mother back to life.

I do not deny that it is vital for me to bring my mother back to life. And I don't have to explain how I feel about him. Those who have lost their mother, father, wife, or child will understand me perfectly. My mother has lost her life due to a type of cancer that has a cure today, and we have serums that slow down aging. So my mother can live a happy and healthy life for many years. This can be applied to people who have died as a result of accidents, wars, and other diseases that can be improved with today's technologies.

The board members insist on keeping the humanitarian dimension of the issue out of sight. After my death, they will try to convince you that my opposition is due to personal reasons. And they will ask you to accept a world without the freedom to travel in time as normal. They will address the parts of time travel that they want and try to hide the essence of the work.

When I was invited to the Academy of Time Sciences, I was a junior robotics engineer. I completed my undergraduate education in the blink of an eye, did my master's and Ph.D. on multi-time economics. Although I had worked as an academic in Geneva until recently, I was involved as a consultant on important projects on time travel. I was one of the members of the team that led the project in the construction of the first time tunnel. In this way, we were able to carry a large number of specialists from today to London in 1899 at meager costs. The project aimed to implement regulations that would prevent World Wars, but due to political disagreements, this goal has still not been achieved.

When it comes to the popularization of time travel, conservatives immediately cling to the time paradox argument. The famous story of the grandson who visited and killed his grandfather. Today we know that quantum physics probability distributions can be applied to multiple time problems. The mice that were sent to the past and killed their grandparents disappeared, and there was no apocalypse.

Another argument about time travel supervision is that it is too costly. I don't deny the fact that time travel today is even more expensive than space travel. If you pay for it, you can visit any celestial object in the solar system, but going back in time is only the privilege of a handful of people.

Why am I sitting and writing these when the time cops are going to come to my house tomorrow and kill me, according to the Time Crimes Tribunal's decision? Because I'm not dead yet and I'm going to keep fighting until the last minute.

When I was working in the field of time technologies, I benefited from what I learned about robotics. The Robot is an entity that learns from the data it encounters, just like us. By comparing the data with each other, it finds patterns and converts them into information. When taken mathematically, it does not matter what type of data it is. Time is a dimension like other data. Time was said to be a unique dimension, different from the others. Time is considered as the sacred column that sustains universal order, for when not intervened, it proceeds in one direction and determines cause-and-effect relations. We were able to disrupt the one-way flow of time even before the time machine was found. In movies, novels, computer games, and our memory, events can happen without being tied to the chronological order. How sad is it that in real life, when we can go back to the past in the virtual environment or our memory, we stick to the steel shackles of time?

For some reason, I got the feeling that I was making a mess of it. If I were you, I would ask the following questions: What is your reason for being sentenced to death? Did you go back in time and find a cure for your mother's illness?

The answers to the questions are connected. I was sentenced to death because I had carried out a second unauthorized trip to the past, even though the board had warned me. On my first trip without any assignment, I took the medicine that was the cure for mother's illness to her doctor. My mother took the medication, and she was fully recovered within two weeks. I also gave the doctor who administered the treatment the prescription for how to produce the drug and encouraged him to disseminate the treatment. I was hoping to see my mum when I got home, but things didn't happen the way I expected. When I investigated the matter, I found out that my mother had died in an accident the previous year when two driverless cars collided. In the meantime, unfortunately, the time cops caught me and put me in jail.

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