Timecast
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Haunted by guilt and loneliness after a car accident that left the love of his life indefinitely comatose, an aging high school physical science teacher schemes to restore his wife to health and vitality by using the advanced space-time theories of quantum physics to change history.
Based in part on the speculations and published conjectures of theoretical physicists past and present, Timecast explores the nature of humanity, companionship, and the individual’s relationship to the universe through one man’s desperate need to set his life on a different path.
An ornery lawn-mowing neighbor and a confused, but concerned, English teacher become the old man’s first experiment and sounding board as he struggles to regain that which he believes his own youthful foolishness robbed him of twenty years before.
Can he set things right? Time will tell.
James Hanback Jr, Jr
James Hanback, Jr. is an IT professional, a technical writer, and the author of several works of short fiction. He lives in Middle Tennessee with his wife, her daughter, and a rescue dog. He loves the beach.
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Timecast - James Hanback Jr, Jr
TABLE OF CONTENTS
COPYRIGHT
PREFACE
TIMECAST
TIMECAST
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2007, 2012 by James R. Hanback, Jr.
Design and art direction copyright 2012 by Paula Rozelle Hanback
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TIMECAST
a novelette by
James Hanback, Jr.
PREFACE
I do not know, nor have I ever met, the great theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. However, I have thoroughly enjoyed his best-selling books, A Brief History of Time and The Universe in a Nutshell. I found both works to be enlightening, entertaining, and required reading for anyone who has ever been curious about the nature of the universe and gravity beyond its effects on our crude corporeal bodies.
The following story was inspired by the theories and conjectures of Stephen Hawking as well as my personal love for science fiction involving the prospect of time travel. It is not intended to be a factual treatise on time travel, the nature of the universe, the nature of gravity, or the nature of subatomic matter.
As the old man in the following tale exclaims, Professor Hawking is a damn genius.
Therefore, as the author, I feel it is important to point out that any misinterpretations of the nature of the universe or Hawking’s theories and conjectures that readers might find herein are wholly my fault.
Finally, I would like to offer my thanks and love to my wife, Paula Rozelle Hanback, who constructed the design of this eBook edition of Timecast and who encourages me to keep writing.
TIMECAST
Hawking’s wrong, you know,
he said. Then he sighed, as if resigned to it.
My first thought was that I had drifted into my own world and missed some part of my conversation with the old man, my next-door neighbor and long-time friend. We sat on his porch steps, watching a Saturday afternoon pass over our heads and drinking him out of his modest stock of Corona Lights.
Such days, I think, are intended for the mind to drift; for men to fish in their streams of consciousness, content to leave behind everyday cares and enjoy a little alcohol-enhanced whimsy. On days like these, it’s easy ― nothing, really ―