Fernein

Early drafts and stories I sometimes freewrite. I freewrite everything from comedy to horror. Sift through the stories. You might find something you'll like.
And if enough people ask for it, I'll turn it into a standalone novel.

Mindstorm

Yes, it's a construct created by the human mind in order to simply arrange events in a chronological manner, but it is also a force that the universe uses as its main method of movement.


Think about it like this. You and the universe look at time differently. You look at time like, say, a river. It flows one way and is subject to change here and there, but overall is the same.


The universe, on the other hand, sees time as a tornado. The universe sees that time is subject to change in speed, can change at any time, and can go forward, backward, or even sideways.


How can time go sideways? Easy. Stop it.


When I began researching time travel, I did it with the idea that the world worked purely based on the way I saw it.


Now, after my final success, I realize how simplistic my views on time were.


My first attempts at warping the space-time continuum failed precisely because I believed in the space-time continuum.


The universe doesn't care about where, or even what. It cares solely about WHEN.


It doesn't position you based on factors like gravity. It positions you based on time. Things like gravity and speed only bend time to better fit you into that location.


But trying to manipulate that location is the hard part. And that is why I was so cautious.


Imagine if I warped myself into a wall. That was one of my tertiary concerns. I was more concerned about travelling into space.


Your when isn't tied to the gravity that pulls on it, or the speed at which you're going. It's purely tied to you and you alone.


You can interact with things because your time is affected by each thing. The bigger the thing, the more it pulls on your time, and the easier it is to interact with.


But this begs the question. How can something interact with something as elusive as time, especially since the universe only cares about when?


Simple. When encompasses the universe, yes. But the universe's when is influenced by the objects of its creation.


The objects of its creation warp and bend the rules of time. This is why gravity exists.


Wondering how the objects came to be  in the first place?


A stable time loop is a loop where time goes in a circle, not changing in any way, save for a few ways that won't affect the loop's integrity at all.


Why do I specify that you can still change some things?


Once again, time is not fixed. It's a tornado. Decisions you make now can even influence what we see as the past.


As the loop repeats itself, things eventually change.


Hence the arguments over things like the age of the earth, or even the pronunciation of "the Berenstain Bears".


Time cannot be halted in the sense one would consider stopping time. Time never stops moving. Instead, to stop time, you merely reverse the rate at which you travel through time, negating your movement through it.


Same goes for traveling backwards in time while travelling through time.


If time was a compass, to go east or west you'd need to go north and south simultaneously.


The only problem with this method is that it can only be used for a limited 'time'. As you're traveling back in time, the Earth, or other planetary body you're standing on travels forward irrespective of your pace in time.


The only way this would be viable for a longer amount of time would be if you did this to the whole planet, however you might screw up the Earth's orbit around the sun and doom humanity.


A Time's Fool