Old Jerome Boell, inventor of the household atomic power unit, visits his young self to make sure that the household atomic power unit gets invented, so to speak.
But it’s a longish story, and you might as well let me in. You will, you know, so why quibble about it? At least, you always have—or do—or will. I don’t know, verbs get all mixed up. We don’t have the right attitude toward tenses for a situation like this.

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  1. “. . . and It Comes Out Here” by Lester del Rey, in Galaxy, February 1951.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Lester del Rey