Relativity

Prologue

Time is a relative concept. This means that one person's perception of time can be totally different from someone else's. For example, let's say you're at a meeting that is so incredibly boring. The person giving a presentation keeps talking about "increases," "stocks," "profits," and other things you could care less about. You try to doodle, but someone notices so you have to pick your head up and actually pay attention. The person talking has such a monotone voice. You try to daydream, but people keep looking at you, so you feel like you have to pay attention. It's so boring you want to rip your eyes out. That meeting will seem to you to go on for hours and hours, even though it was actually only thirty minutes. You perceive the time as longer than it actually is.

Now imagine if you were at that same meeting but you kept thinking about the latest episode of Game of Thrones and oh God how could they have killed that character off? Joffrey is such a dick sometimes. Will the winter ever come? And I can't believe- oh shit. You look around and all of a sudden the meeting room is empty. It seems like you had only spaced out for a couple of seconds, yet suddenly the entire meeting has flown by.

Another way to describe it is to imagine time as a sound. A single sound, such as a bird's tweet or a car horn blaring. Now imagine two people standing equidistant from the sound. One of them is nearly deaf, and can barely hear a thing while the other has perfect hearing. If that sound is emitted, the one with perfect hearing will describe the sound as much louder than the one that is nearly deaf. But it is the same sound for both, so both of their observations should be the same. But because their measurements are not the same, the sound is relative to each person. That makes the sound a relative concept.

The same goes with time. But what if you could speed up or slow down your own perception of time? If you could speed up your perception of time, the world would move slower around you. You could be like the Flash, except with out super speed per say. You would move at a natural pace relative to you, but to those around you, you would be moving much faster. You could catch a glass before it falls because by speeding up your perception of time, the world around you would seem much slower. So the glass would pretty much fall in slow motion in your eyes so all you have to do is pick it up and put it back on the counter.

The same goes for the other way around. If you slow your perception of time, the world around you would move faster. You would be the one to move in slow motion as the world speeds by around you. This would help you in the meeting situation because if you slow your perception what seems like five minutes to you will actually be hours to those around you. So in just a few minutes relative to you your thirty minute meeting will be over. You would essentially time travel to the future.

This all sounds great, but it can have disastrous consequences. I learned that the hard way. That's why I'm writing my story down, so that no one else will be stupid enough to try it. I lost everything, my family, my friends, my loved ones, and essentially my life. Whatever you do, don't attempt this. It may seem incredible at first, but it is extremely dangerous. Don't make my mistakes.

Take it from a man that lost everything...it's not worth it. Let this story be a lesson for all mankind, to never meddle with time.

Signed on this date: March 27th, 2149

James Beck