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Timeline - We Discovered a Worm Hole
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How come that we have
a 600-year-old document
with the professor's
handwriting on it?
Pleading for help.
I'll explain everything as soon
as we get through security.
ITC is constantly advancing itself
in science.
machine that could
instantly send documents
anywhere in the world with the
push of a button.
Mr Doniger's vision was to do the same
with 3-dimensional objects.
- Like a fax or something?
- Exactly.
He's trying to send actual objects
from one place to another?
He would need a quantum computer
with millions of processors.
And we used them to build
a machine
that could actually fax three-dimensional
objects.
I'll explain these mirrors later.
I know it sounds crazy.
But it would put FedEx and UPS
out of business.
- Well, you actually made it work?
- Yes.
Across a room.
But we wanted to send things
across continents
so we built a bigger machine.
This is the prototype.
The prototype? So, you mean
that thing that we just passed...
We gave it a thousand times
more power.
We tried to send something
from our lab here in New Mexico
to a twin machine at a lab
in New York City.
Now, here's the interesting part.
The package never arrived
at its destination.
A few hours later, it just suddenly
showed up back here.
Wait a minute. So if it went missing
between New Mexico and New York,
where did it go
in the meantime?
We asked the same question.
We didn't know.
So we sent out a camera
over and over again,
and we got back photos of the
same location, a hillside with trees.
And that's when Mr. Doniger
made the brilliant decision
to point the camera straight up.
So once we cross-referenced
star charts to the horizon,
we realized that the camera
was not only in the wrong place,
- but it was in the wrong time.
- So, what does that mean?
The camera was taking photographs
of a wilderness
near Castlegard, France
in the year 1357.
So, what you're saying is that you accidentally
discovered time travel?
We accidentally discovered
a wormhole.
A wormhole that seems to be locked
to a single time and place in the past:
1357, Castlegard.
So, what does that mean?
you faxed my father's glasses and
documents back to the 14th century?
wrong
would
hours
castlegard
interesting
faxed
hillside
actually
tried
glasses
charts
computer
everything
documents
could
france
exactly
decision
point
asked
continents
instantly
again
locked
vision
suddenly
another
anywhere
place
built
business
passed
build
across
handwriting
thing
button
camera
wanted
explain
between
meantime
discovered
horizon
where
bigger
advancing
quantum
destination
dimensional
objects
century
machine
doniger
constantly
itself
later
cross
seems
question
millions
minute
document
sounds
through
mirrors
missing
actual
never
package
crazy
accidentally
photographs
world
pleading
brilliant
power
times
processors
travel
wormhole
prototype
realized
referenced
science
fedex
arrived
mexico
saying
security
showed
single
wilderness
location
three
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straight
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