The Sock Problem

by Alastair Mayer

Release: October 2011
Format: Short Story
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

The narrator’s explanation to his preteen son pretty much sums it up.

Okay, a spacetime warp. It’s formed by the interaction of the complicated magnetic field from the motor, and the rotation of the drum. The metal drum picks up an induced field and right in the center, a spacetime vortex forms. Any sock falling through disappears.

DEBUT

“The Sock Problem,” in Analog, October 2011.

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1 English variant

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ITTDB Work #2807: by Alastair Mayer
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