from the stranger - part 2
Looks like i am in a good flow and the gift of the gab.. is awesome.
‘I am not supposed to talk about this to anyone but if I don’t tell this to someone, I might burst or something.’
I assured him that he need not tell me anything if he did not want to. These words often loosened people’s mouths and it worked like magic with Mr. Robert Fitzgerald.
‘It is all right. I have to tell it to someone. All this is very strange, I am afraid. I doubt if you will even take me seriously. But I could not care less about what you or anyone would think about me. Not after what has just happened.’
‘I went to see my friend Jack today. He is a scientist, you know. Really crazy and all that, but a very nice chap. He invited me to see his new creation. Mind you, he did not tell me what it was at that time, but just invited me to his home to see his new invention. Well, I went there expectin’ a new radiator or something, but what I found there was unbelievable. You don’t go to someone’s house expecting a bloody time machine, do you?’
‘And if you don’t mind, could you just get me another drink. It has been a terrible shock, you know.’
I ordered a stiff scotch for him; his story was getting more and more interesting.
‘As I was telling you, it was a bloody time machine. I hope you know that this thing is theoretically possible, don’t you?’
‘Yes’, I said. ‘I know it is theoretically possible. But you need to move at light speed or greater if you want to do it.’
‘This is what I told Jack. I told him that it is impossible to go at light speed, at least with the current technology. But he told me that “for a mind that thinks, nothing is impossible”. Yeah, Jack was like that: always telling some strange quotes; most probably made it up himself. He told me that when we think of moving at light speed, we always consider our own frame of reference and that is why we never thought it was possible. By the way, you know what is frame of reference, don’t you?’
‘Yes,’ I said. ‘I have read Einstein’s theory, thank you.’