The Internet Time Travel Database
What I’ve done is to build a time-space traveler, working by atomic energy. Even as
long ago as 1913, you know, Rutherford succeeded in partly breaking down the hydrogen
atom. By 1933, others succeeded in partially breaking down atoms with high voltages of
electricity. But they used up far more energy than they got back, or released. I’ve
simply perfected the method to a point where, with an initial bombardment of fifty volts,
I can break down one atom and get back thousands of times the energy I put in. There’s
nothing strange or wonderful or miraculous about it. I don’t create energy of power
from nothing. I simply liberate energy that already exists. Part of the power I use to
break down another atom, and so on, while the rest is diverted to propel the torpedo by
discharging through tubes—like a rocket. I’ve made one short experimental trip.
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