Post by agemagic on Jan 17, 2019 13:51:36 GMT -6
Hey folks. I created this world topic on my old site and it has been hijacked here a bit away from what I intended. So I am starting a new interactive thread here based on my actual story. Feel free to participate as I will be adding sections to it. Thanks.
The Great Age-Shift By Merlin
It happened on a Saturday morning at 10:46 AM on July 13th. It was triggered by the largest and most secret particle accelerator in the world located almost a mile underground and stretching in a giant loop chamber that encompassed more than 10 miles. It was a facility as secret as they come run by the Department of Defense looking to experiment with a new theory related to time travel. While time travel had been the realm of science fiction, it had always been theoretically possible. A recent breakthrough in theoretical and particle physics made it a distinct possibility with the additional discovery of a new element found inside a small meteor that had crashed to earth in New Mexico. This new radioactive element combined with the new math and physics made it seem like time travel was a real possibility and the military saw the earth-shattering possibilities. Now 10 years and 500 billion dollars later, the facility was ready to try a practical test.
Using the new element as both fuel and target, the particle accelerator would bombard the element with certain protons that would cause a chain reaction in the time-space continuum that would allow an object to travel briefly to the future.
As the massive machine came to life and the energy output was slowly increased, the scientists were on the edge of their collective seats as it reached 100% and the computer then triggered “the event.”
What happened next was completely unexpected. Like a bad science fiction story where things go “horribly awry,” the experiment took an unexpected turn. Instead of opening a small window in which the metal cube with sensors would be hurled forward in time, a massive time dilatation occurred as time itself was punctured for the first time in history.
An unstable time wave exploded out of the new element that quickly enveloped the facility, but like a tsunami wave, kept growing and spreading until it covered the entire planet in less than 60 seconds. The results were catastrophic. It seemed to only effect biological organisms, primarily human beings. The scientists within the facility who were closest to the source of the explosion were suddenly aged to dust in Nano-seconds, but the wave was also unstable in nature. As it spread across the planet every single human being was effected in some way.
Some aged decades in moments, while others only a few years. Some people were massively regressed, while others only had a few years shaved off their lives. There was no rhyme or reason for how people were effected, no way to predict. Even the process of infection was uncertain and unpredictable. In some cases the aging or regressing was instantaneous, in others in happened gradually over a few minutes or an hour, and in some it happened in spurts with varied delays between transformation, but none lasting more than an hour between spurts. The end result was utter planetary chaos. Tens of thousands perished due to becoming too old or too young while driving causing massive car pile-ups. Aircraft plummeted out of the sky due to pilots becoming too senile or too infantile to control the plane, or aircraft control towers falling into disarray and confusion. Others perished after the fact due to the lack of EMS personnel being able to respond quickly due to their own infection. From train derailments to simple home-bound accidents that ended badly. Even the basics of everyday life from having electricity to running water was effected.
The psychological effects could not be underestimated either. To put it bluntly, this was going to screw with people’s minds for decades and change the course of human history.
As the facility and experiment was kept so secret, no one knew how or why this had happened. The issue now was recovery and that was going to take time.
These are just a few of the millions of stories of those effected. Some good, often sad, some unbelievable.
The Great Age-Shift By Merlin
It happened on a Saturday morning at 10:46 AM on July 13th. It was triggered by the largest and most secret particle accelerator in the world located almost a mile underground and stretching in a giant loop chamber that encompassed more than 10 miles. It was a facility as secret as they come run by the Department of Defense looking to experiment with a new theory related to time travel. While time travel had been the realm of science fiction, it had always been theoretically possible. A recent breakthrough in theoretical and particle physics made it a distinct possibility with the additional discovery of a new element found inside a small meteor that had crashed to earth in New Mexico. This new radioactive element combined with the new math and physics made it seem like time travel was a real possibility and the military saw the earth-shattering possibilities. Now 10 years and 500 billion dollars later, the facility was ready to try a practical test.
Using the new element as both fuel and target, the particle accelerator would bombard the element with certain protons that would cause a chain reaction in the time-space continuum that would allow an object to travel briefly to the future.
As the massive machine came to life and the energy output was slowly increased, the scientists were on the edge of their collective seats as it reached 100% and the computer then triggered “the event.”
What happened next was completely unexpected. Like a bad science fiction story where things go “horribly awry,” the experiment took an unexpected turn. Instead of opening a small window in which the metal cube with sensors would be hurled forward in time, a massive time dilatation occurred as time itself was punctured for the first time in history.
An unstable time wave exploded out of the new element that quickly enveloped the facility, but like a tsunami wave, kept growing and spreading until it covered the entire planet in less than 60 seconds. The results were catastrophic. It seemed to only effect biological organisms, primarily human beings. The scientists within the facility who were closest to the source of the explosion were suddenly aged to dust in Nano-seconds, but the wave was also unstable in nature. As it spread across the planet every single human being was effected in some way.
Some aged decades in moments, while others only a few years. Some people were massively regressed, while others only had a few years shaved off their lives. There was no rhyme or reason for how people were effected, no way to predict. Even the process of infection was uncertain and unpredictable. In some cases the aging or regressing was instantaneous, in others in happened gradually over a few minutes or an hour, and in some it happened in spurts with varied delays between transformation, but none lasting more than an hour between spurts. The end result was utter planetary chaos. Tens of thousands perished due to becoming too old or too young while driving causing massive car pile-ups. Aircraft plummeted out of the sky due to pilots becoming too senile or too infantile to control the plane, or aircraft control towers falling into disarray and confusion. Others perished after the fact due to the lack of EMS personnel being able to respond quickly due to their own infection. From train derailments to simple home-bound accidents that ended badly. Even the basics of everyday life from having electricity to running water was effected.
The psychological effects could not be underestimated either. To put it bluntly, this was going to screw with people’s minds for decades and change the course of human history.
As the facility and experiment was kept so secret, no one knew how or why this had happened. The issue now was recovery and that was going to take time.
These are just a few of the millions of stories of those effected. Some good, often sad, some unbelievable.