Best. Scientist. EVER.

by Omar Velasco

• Release: 8 December 2020
• Format: Flash Fiction
• Genre: Science Fiction
• Audience: Adults
• Content: Definite Time Travel
• Original Language: English

You come to the conclusion that you can correct everything if you stop yourself before you steal the time machine.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

• Stone Age (3.4 Ma to 3000 BC: Paleo/Epipaleo/Meso/Neo/Chalcolithic)
• Ancient History (3000 BC to AD 476: Bronze/Iron Ages): 230 BC: Archimedes.
• Circa AD 1600 to 1699: 1666: Newton.
• Circa AD 1800 to 1899: 1850: Jules Verne.
• Circa AD 1900 to 1929: 1927: Einstein and Schrödinger.
• Circa AD 1970 to 1999: 1985.
• Circa AD 2000 to 2099: Two stops in the 21st century.
• Circa AD 2200 to 2299: AD 2274, home time.

Time Travel Methods

• Wellsian Time Machines: Generic.

Themes

• Chases through Time: An unknown pursuer, who may be the original traveler.
• Resetting Time As If the Story Never Took Place: Uncertain whether the attempt to do so works, but probably not if the traveler is indeed the pursuer..

Real-World Tags

• Albert Einstein
• Archimedes
• Erwin Schrödinger
• Isaac Newton
• Jules Verne
• Large Hadron Collider

Fictional Tags

• Schrödinger’s Cat

Groupings

• Daily Science Fiction (periodical)

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

1. From AD 2274 ⋙ to AD 2042.
2. From AD 2042 ⋙ to The Large Hadron Collider, 2010.
3. From The Large Hadron Collider, 2010 ⋙ to The Congress of Time Travelers, 1985.
4. From The Congress of Time Travelers, 1985 ⋙ to Brussels, 1927.
5. From Brussels, 1927 ⋙ to France (probably), 1850.
6. From France (probably), 1850 ⋙ to England (probably), 1666.
7. From England (probably), 1666 ⋙ to Ancient Greece (probably), 230 BC.
8. From Ancient Greece (probably), 230 BC ⋙ to 790,000 BC.
9. From 790,000 BC ⋙ to AD 2042. Note: implied at the end.