307 — Terraforming Mars, Part 6

Tempconciliation is defined as the process by which two different time periods are focused onto one another and a third temporal reality is produced.

You could just imagine the buzz. Talk of bringing a radius of 300 meters with perhaps a dinosaur or two into the San Diego Zoo, however, was shouted down along with the other creative proposals. The pessimists argued that because tempconciliation causes  chronotons and antichronotons to co-exist in a near vacuum, that this was a bad thing.

They said—theoretically—it risked mutual annihilation of the present. They said the vacuum, by the past and the future falling into it, created the present. As it turned out, there was a 4% overage of chronotons in the chronoton/antichronoton ratio, so it wasn’t actually a perfect vacuum. So then there were some who said this was a good thing.

Turns out that this is what gives the present its time-arrow direction into the future and allows everything and everyone to move forward, which agreeably is the more pleasing direction to go on a timeline if you ask me. Assuming, like me, most folks have plans. But then, as it also turned out, the 4% advantage of “what is” over “what isn’t” is unstable, which is the nature of near-vacuums. So now folks were saying this was a bad thing.

For instance, if mucking about with time created a zone of existence that began a reverse timeline, this would be troubling; but worse would be the risk of never having existed at all. Thankfully, the ṺberCollider maintained the status quo of the vacuum that made the present, and it did it ingeniously by borrowing time as the present progressed into the future. So now some said this was a good thing.

The fusion reactor needed less and less material to power itself. Building up a debt from the future, in the present, seemed too good to be true, a breeder reactor of sorts—free, unlimited power for all.

A friend of mine, Dr. Kubacki, who goes back and forth between the two ṺberColliders on Earth and Mars all the time—he told me that this might end up being a very, very bad thing.