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The Time Traveler
Why traveling back in time would change nothing at all
Gentlemen, it is my great honor to open the fifteenth meeting of the Royal Society of Natural Philosophy on this day of January the seventeenth, in the year of our Lord seventeen ninety four. I am delighted to see so many esteemed members have come today to attend what I believe will be a very informative event. I now yield the Chair to Professor Lord Burnleigh.
Thank you, Sir Neville. Gentlemen, and Ladies in attendance, I have something quite remarkable to place before you today, or rather, I have a quite remarkable person to place before you. Or, to be more precise, the person I shall place before you is in fact no way remarkable; however his claims most certainly are.
Please welcome Mister Nigel Smallworthy.
Mister Smallworthy has vouchsafed to me a most extraordinary assertion, namely that he is a visitor from the future. His claim is that he was born in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty nine, and that he has traveled to our present time by means of a marvelous machine, the workings of which unfortunately he is unable to describe. According to his narrative, he entered the portal of this machine on the tenth day of April in the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty six. His claim, therefore, is that his origin is some two…
