Everyone sat down and looked around the room full of books, they were curious about Professor Aizel’s life. Collecting old books is an old hobby of Professor Aizel. In this 26th century, nobody read paper books anymore. Everything is done virtually. There is a whole new different world inside the virtual network. Most of the people spend their time in the virtual world, in the virtual world, you can work, play games, hang out and do everything within the realm of possibilities, all you need is your imagination.

It’s a fast and sufficient world where information travels at the speed of light___It’s a very convenient place to have fun and exchange information.

You can install or attach a delicate bio-mechanical device in your head for direct connection or you can wear it as a gadget in a form of accessories like in your wrist and connect indirectly.

"So... Why have Lord Adril come to my house... Taking out your valuable time, you could have just summoned me and I would have been there, skipping all of the troubles." Professor Aizel asks, looking curiously at everyone.

"We were free and needed some fresh air, and thought we might as well pay you a visit. As you know, with the current ongoing wars, our situation is not so good.” Adril explains.

“You are a genius so... We thought you could help us, and give us some new ideas. It’s sad to say this but we have run out of ideas, and don’t know what to do." Adril looks sincerely at Aizel.

"You praise me too much.” Professor Aizel shook his head and explains, “I’m just a scientist who doesn’t know anything about warfare.”

“We are not hoping for you to participate in the war,” Adril said. “We just want to know if there is anything that can help us escape this predicament or tip the tide of this war.”

Professor Aizel can guess what Adril was asking.

“We currently don’t have any major breakthrough in science. All of the new weapons in trial won’t make much of a difference in the battlefield.” Professor Aizel replied sadly.

Everyone’s moods went down...

"What was the thing you were working on so seriously that you didn't even notice people intruding your room,” Adril asked shifting the topic.

"Oh! Sorry about that... I was working on time travel. As everyone knows, time travel is impossible. Transferring physical or material objects to a different timeline is basically impossible because that will displace the time and space and revert back to its original setting. So I came up with this new theory.”

He looked at everyone excitedly.

“Can you guess?”

All of them shook their heads. Obviously, they don’t have much knowledge about scientific.

"Alright… Here is how time travel works. You guys already know about Time Novis(Time reverse) the machine which can show something that happened in the past 24 hours, right?” ask Aizel.

“Yes!”

“We used that machine in a major crime scene.”

Colton replied. The conversation was seeming getting interested.

“Yes, that’s particle transmitters. Everything around us is particles, particles contain information and also carries information. As soon as particles interact with other particles, they transfer information.

That’s how we made a machine which can show the past. We just collect the information or data from the surrounding particles and showed it through the hologram.”

Professor Aizel thought for a moment and continued.

“Now, here is the tricky part. We can create the past scene through particles, but all of them are just information and holograms.

Just take the virtual world as an example. There is no materialistic object inside the virtual world, everything is just information and imagination. We scientists have been researching on time travel for centuries. But no one can come up with a solution, because of the law of physics.”

“Now, here is the interesting part.”

Professor Aizel rubs his hand with excitement. “What if we create a time portal and send information instead of a material object?” Aizel looks at everyone and waits for them to take in all the information.

“Why not just send someone into the portal?” Brayden asked stupidly.

“Idio… .. I mean, NO! You cannot send any materialistic objects into the portal.” Professor Aizel almost called Brayden an idiot. He realized that these were not his students. “I’ll make it simple. Timeline is a layer similar to a book, and time is like a depository which stores all of the information, just like a library.

When you want to travel to the past, first you have to find which timeline you want to travel, which is like flipping the pages of a book.”

Professor Aizel took a book and demonstrate in front of them as an example.

“After you have found which timeline you want to travel or let’s take this book as an example. We are on page 783, and we want to travel on page 142.

We somehow create a portal between them.”

“Now what?”

“Rip a small piece of paper from page 783 and stick it on page 142?

That’s just impossible, you need an outside influence like humans to interfere in this process, like sticking it with glue using hands. That’s almost like God taking us into the past and pasting us with glue and tape.

Even then we will never be a part of page 142. We are just sticking to the page, We don’t belong to page 142, we are just stuck between the timeline, forever.

Every page or time is a set stone, we cannot physically interfere, unless you took the whole book, recycle and rewrite the whole content.

That’s only possible if you are a god.”

Everyone shivers, listening to Professor Aizel, they took science for granted. Just imagine being stuck between the timeline forever, and never to set foot in any timeline. It gives a chill to their spine.

“It’s all about interaction and acceptance. Two physical worlds can never interact with each other. But…”

He paused and looked at everyone.

“What if we could somehow make a portal and send information?”

The professor couldn’t help but laugh gleefully.

“You don’t have to stick a piece of paper into the past or page 142, you can just write something directly into the page.” Professor calmly looks at all of their expressions. He wants to see their stupefied expressions and they didn’t disappoint him.

Everyone was stupefied, even Lord Adril was somewhat astonished. If this theory could be applied in real life, then they could change the past.

“Time is nothing but a concept, We are creating a timeline as we go. Are we really creating a new timeline or... are we already in this past from our future self...”

Professor Aizel sigh...

“What are you talking about..?” Brayden ask, he was truly impressed with Professor Aizel brain.

“Here is a little riddle for you…

2002 is the past me, 2020 is the present me, 2080 is the future me.

The present me in 2020 knows everything about the past me in 2002.

But the past me in 2002 doesn't know anything about the present me in 2020.

The future me in 2080 knows everything about the present me in 2020 and the past me in 2002.

But the present me in 2020 or the past me in 2002 doesn't know anything about the future me in 2080.

The past lives as a memory for the present.

The present lives as a memory for the future.”

“Arrgh...”

“How did you come up with this weird sh*t.” Brayden looks totally defeated.

Jayden and Colton chuckled, hey now understand the concept of time.

“How do we send information to the past?” Adril asks the important question.

“One thing I realize is that Earth has the same waves and frequency, and it hasn't changed since the memorial of times. So, I was thinking, why not transmit particles with information through waves and frequency? We can open up a portal, calibrate our desired timeline and send out our own frequency and mask it to the past frequencies, there is no difference between the two of them at all.”

Professor Aizel was feeling excited.

"So, our control over particles and electrons are so advanced that after a few decades, teleporting a human being to different places is within the realm of possibilities. So, it’s an easy task to create identical waves or frequencies, and we just invented some of the latest wave technologies last year, which can manipulate physical properties through waves, well a soft material to be precise. We are still improving this technology…”

Professor Aizel clarified. He looks at everyone whose mouths were wide open.

Everyone was in awe with his intelligence. ‘This was why he got the title of one of the smartest human beings alive.’ That was on everyone’s mind.

“Awesome...”

“If we can use teleports than we can just teleport bombs into the enemy base.” Brayden was getting excited, but Aizel pours cold water on his head.

“Don’t get too excited for teleportation,” Aizel said as he looked at Brayden like an idiot. “First, you have to build two platforms for teleportation, one for sending and the other one for receiving. You cannot just send a beam of particles to a place and expect for you to materialize without any support. You will always need a third-party device to materialize for teleportation.”

“What about the portal! Will it really work?” Nolan ask.

“Me and my colleagues have been working on the portal a long time ago… In theoretical, Yes! It’s truly possible. We have done a lot of research, and practicals on a small model. But... all of them come as a failure.

The problem was the cost and energy consumption. So... we stop and discontinued the project.” Aizel replied in grief.

“If you have problems with the funding, why didn’t you report it to the council,” Nolan asked in surprise.

“No, no, no…”

“There wasn’t any problem with the funding. It’s just that, it was not sustainable.” Aizel replied cautiously.

“What do you mean by sustainable! You know how much we give importance to science and technology?” Nolan looks at Aizel doubtfully.

“Well…”

“It’s not like that.” Aizel was a little flustered looking at the doubtful appearance of Nolan.

“Cough..”

He cleared his throat and starts explaining.

“When we were calculation the cost, and the amount of energy needed to open a small portal___We were stump at the amount we discovered.”

“What’s the amount? I could afford it. I will donate all of my savings for the good of humanity...” Brayden said proudly.

Jayden facepalm himself. ‘How shameless can he get’ he thought.

"The cost of the material is negligence compared to the amount of energy needed to open the portal for a short period of time, that is 1.2 x 10^44 J.

That’s equivalent to the lifetime energy output from the sun. And to fully open a portal for a reasonable amount of time, it will take no less than 7 suns.” Professor Aizel said looking dejected.

“That kind of cost would cripple and dampen the growth of our civilization.” Aizel sigh, and laid back to his chair.

Everyone took a gulp. ‘This is too hardcore.’ they thought.

They might go insane if they stayed too long with Professor Aizel.

"Professor!”

“I hope you can lead a team of scientists on this project and provide us with practical plans." Adril looked intently at prof Aizel.