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Karthik Narayan

TICK TOCK FOUR: Have a TIME of it

(Karthik Narayan)

“If we could understand how time has evolved and how it is being measured, we can understand this 4th dimension and master it. That has been my major point of strength in making this machine by itself.

“So according to you, this machine shall travel faster than time itself and with every passing moment, the machine speeds increase proportionately to that of light speeds?”

“Yes, if that is how you want me to put it.”

“You think the scientific community will want to believe this?”

“I don’t care what they think, this gizmo works. And it is a time traveler.”

“All right, I agree it works. But where is the displacement of the machine when it is in transit? Is it still under gravitational forces and yet because it travels faster, it cannot be seen?”

“That is my very argument!”

“So how does it travel so fast? Jet propellers?”

“If you want to sneer, fine go on” clearly the professor was getting exasperated with FreeCell.

“No, professor, I don’t want to insult your intelligence. I am merely getting to know on what principles this gadget is working.”

“So in time, this machine goes faster, but where is it displaced? How is it possible for it to remain in the same shape? And the durability? Isn’t it so dangerous for humans?”

“It is mighty dangerous, and durability is not guaranteed at any point of time. That is why this is so very special to my heart. This machine needs work on the durability and testing has to be done regularly to make it work to what you expect it to.”

“How many years can we go down or up? I notice that the year you give is in 4 digits…?”

“Yes, I appreciate your intellect, FreeCell. I have not timed it, and simply because the logic of life is that we cannot predict or wait for the year 9999.” The professor smiled after a long time.

“Yeah, we cannot wait until 9999, true. Hahaha! Good one. All right, please tell me about the evolution of time and how your machine is principled on it.”

“Time comes as a fourth dimension like I told you, but there is a larger to life tale of the evolution of time itself. Time is measured in various units by itself, around 6 degrees make a second of time. And after that we do know how the rest works – sixty seconds make a minute and sixty minutes makes an hour.

Time is a continuum and it is about everything that has happened, is happening and shall happen. Only the last part is unpredictable and we have no clue about it.

Time is a concept we use to quantify the rate at which events occur; it is a function of change and motion, and presupposes a succession of cause and effect. Every entity is extended in space and changes ‘in time’. From this perspective, nothing can exist absolutely ‘beyond’ space and time, though the subjective experience of space and time can vary immensely, according to mood, state of consciousness, and stage of evolution.

Progress chart can also be construed as a time chart – with time, things progress. See man for instance, he was apes, and over the millions of years, he has developed into a civilized being. Being able to talk, walk, dress and have civilization. Maybe, who knows, after hundreds of years, we would progress to become a new species by ourselves. The trace of human kind might be there, but the overall characteristics shall not be the same. The mannerisms and the culture shall all change.

Since we do not have any set and structured theories till date on the evolution of time, we shall have to frame our own principles on this concept.

I have framed my principles upon the laws of thermodynamics, the relationship between heat and other energy sources.”

“The best theory of time that we have in this world is still Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity where he talks about space and time.”

“Einstein had a theory??”, asked FreeCell. He had no clue of what the Professor was talking about.

“Einstein talked about Black holes and how they can be used out to make time portals, port holes et al. With that he said that we could travel through the time zones. The relationships between a rotating and non-rotating black hole and the possibilities of ending up in various time scales were the whole idea of that greatest scientist of yesteryear.”

“I have charged this machine with the electrons that in turn generate particles known as the cyclotrons. In physics, cyclotrons are the accelerators used in magnetic fields.”

“My machine churns out using the thermodynamics, a different sort of a black hole in our very own earth, and proceeds to make it as a time zone, where things are frozen and only this machine travels faster than anything else – here I shall quote Einstein who says in his special theory of relativity, that time runs slow for a moving object.“

“So you have encompassed Einstein’s principles in this machine?”

“Well, in a way, yes. But Einstein did not invent the machine. He merely said a time wormhole was possible; I have gone one step further.

“So let me guess, if time moved slower for moving objects, that means…??? So we stay in darkness, because light hasn’t yet traveled..”

“Hmm, you have a point there. If we travel faster than light, it will be dark, but then like I told you, that creates a sort of invisibility by itself. Right?”

“Actually I don’t understand that at all…”

“When we apply the formula: E = mc2, I talk about the c, which by itself is the speed of time. When I get my machine to travel beyond c, then I get to surpass time zones.

But then again, my machine is not guaranteed to land up and wind up at the right place. That is why it’s so unpredictable and unsafe as of now.”

“You mean like it may even blow up?”

“Possible, yes.” Said the professor in a gloomy tone.

“Also if you notice here, there are two separate iron bars with a small space in between. That is how the time portal is being opened. The vacuum it creates is similar to a black hole and that opens a time portal in space just a couple of feet outside the area of this machine.”

“So is it possible that the time warp could be opened at any place, and also it could work the other way around, while we open a time zone, a similar time warp is being opened in the place where we are supposed to be going?”

“No, this beats that aspect that you talk about. My machine opens a single portal and at only one place. The other is opened when we ask for it and no other manner shall such an event happen. At least to my knowledge it should not.”

“Professor, shall we test it? Shall we become the guinea pigs ourselves? I mean, what have we to lose?”

TICK TOCK THREE: the TIME shift

(karthik Narayan)

“Those were the exact ideologies that I have put into this Time Machine. But there were some things I had to give a real hard thought about – in order to make it a real TIME Machine; it had to be something out of this world.”

“The contents of a time machine are well, an ability to pass through time zones and also transcend places. There was a twin purpose of the machine, both to be together considered and only then shall it transform into a miracle machine. That required me to invent something that cut across time sphere and troposphere.”

“My problem was that I had to combine two factors – Time Zones, Latitudes and Longitudes. A time machine has to be truly testing the time itself, to go back and ahead in time, as well as go to different destinations.

Such a feat is indeed very tough and that is precisely why I put this machine away. Now that you have stirred my interest again, I shall have to work on the locale aspect of it. This machine as it is, has no control over that.”

“And now, if you are ready, I shall prove that this is indeed a time machine!”

“Oh yes, the defining moment in history is here!”

“All right bring any object worthy of being tested, why don’t you bring that stool over there?”

FreeCell brought the stool and placed it inside the machine.

“Now, watch carefully.” The professor switched on the machine, and set the time as 00:12:30:45:2005:12:05 and pressed the red button.

“There, I have set it 30 minutes ahead, naturally you don’t expect me to set the time back, because it is not practically possible to test it that way.”

The machine made loud noises and started to slowly emit some sparks. It also was getting a little smudgy with every passing second. FreeCell watched the event with his heart in his mouth beating as loud and fast as it could. All this was getting to be looking like a dream to him.

As he watched, in around a minute, the whole machine was fading away into nothing. It was like a vacuum of space, a sort of invisibility in itself. And after two whole minutes which seemed like eternity, the machine was gone – no trace of it at all! Vanished into thin air, literally!

“Oh my god, OMG, OMG!”

“Yes, now you have to wait thirty ‘long’ minutes to see it again!”

Thirty minutes later, the machine returned in the same fuzzy manner, with its own noises and the smudgy appearance at first turning itself back to the machine visible to the naked eye.

“Well, there she is, back again in our world!” the professor grinned. FreeCell was looking astonished at the little show that he had put up for him.

“Incredible, astonishing, astounding, brilliant, professor” sprouted FreeCell. “This is indeed something I have never seen in my life.”

“This indeed awesome! But tell me, where was that machine and the object for the last 30 minutes?”

“I am not sure, but it has traveled 30 minutes ahead of us in time and was there all along. Only we were slow to get there! And then again, if u noticed, it did not return to the same place from which we sent it.” He pointed out the place where it had started its time travel. It had come back around a meter away.

FreeCell nodded.

“But how is it possible to breach the time barrier and go ahead?” he asked almost immediately.

”Displacement of a body is the key to rare event. The machine and its contents are converted into atoms and made lighter than air and the speed of the machine has been faster than light. Those are possibly the only reasons why it is able to break the time barrier.”

“Ok, I assume this machine breaks the speed of light and move a little faster than what light travels. But as we move farther away from the present, the preset time speed shall have to be much faster than light. It is all right that half an hour is by itself fast, but to travel much ahead or back in time shall be the true test of this machine, wont it, professor? And you haven’t timed the duration of this machine? Suppose you and me travel through time, how do we return back?”

“Questions, questions…I wish I knew the answers to those! I have to work on a lot of things, like I told you, I haven’t tested it with living beings.”

Chapter two.. cont'd

(Karthik Narayan)


“Let me explain. You see, the world has always been measured in terms of dimensions – various dimensions denote the domination of mankind over those areas. For starters mankind thought that there was only a single dimension concept. He called it as space.

But as time went on, man begin to think about how space was built, he told himself, there is something about space that makes it so unique. And he framed the thought process of a dimension of space – he called it gravity. Gravity is the single most significant finding made by mankind. The theory that all things are suspended and staying at their respective places because of a global phenomenon. Once that was understood the scientists took over.

Newton’s apple was the beginning of an era in science, whereby thoughts went beyond the theories in hand. A fresh infusion of thoughts and blood to the brain cells kicked off quite a bit of storm and dust. Space was the new buzzword in the realm of the scientists. Pendulum swings stormed the world with experiments all over the globe.

Various new theories came into being after that – space was bisected into two, the length and the breadth theories. The top-down, left-right approach to space was first thought of, and the directions of space were also brought to life. So mankind knew that gravity had to be broken at various junctures.

Gravity laws were framed – it simply stated that what goes up must come down. But slowly man found that like birds, he could also fly.”

“The airplane!”

“Precisely! Man could now begin his conquest over space, to go and look beyond the few miles that his eyes could see, to venture into the world with all new perspective, pushing the barriers of space to the maximum. Road and sea travel were pushed to the background, and man started air travel. It further ventured into the shape of a new subject in science – rocket science! Thus man completed his conquest of space, or so he thought!

The length and breadth theories were a thing of the past. Scientists brought to the fore the concept of the third dimension – volume.

As you know, any object has three dimensions, haven’t we all seen and heard 3-D?? We sure have. That is what this is all about. Science states that an object resides and stays there because it has its own length, breadth and the volume. In living beings, it is referred to as living space or mass or per capita space.

Thus the three-dimension concept was adopted to place any object in any graph. Graphs were plotted – we call it computer graphics these days. The whole concept of computer graphics lies upon these discoveries of the scientists. We have to understand and accept that man has indeed been amongst and has ventured into the third dimension.”

“And Time is the fourth dimension?”

“Yes, any living object has a duration of life, we call it the lifespan. And that is precisely the essence of a time concept. If there were no time, there would be unlimited life? No living being would age nor die. Mankind would be happy all the “time”?

Unless and until Pandora opened the box, all was well, wasn’t it? Now the Pandora’s box has opened a new study into the world of TIME, something that man has always assumed to be far beyond his reach. I mean can you imagine a person walking back to his past and changing his future presence? And re-think his decisions? And reframe his life patterns??

“It was not to be, because man refused to think that he could conquer time, not that it wasn’t possible, but because he feared the consequences of the conquest. Altering the shape and face of history is something that is beyond us, in our thoughts.”

... wait for chapter three...

TICK TOCK TWO: TIMEpiece

(karthik Narayan)


“Yes, I have built what I presume can be named as a time traveling machine.”

“Please professor, tell me, where is it?” asked FreeCell. Now curiosity did kill him badly.

“I remember this was quite long ago, I had read my own versions of the time machines over the years in the literatures, and I did my part as a scientist and inventor! Well, you asked me for a Time Machine, and there you are – I think I can tag it time machine now, still some minor modifications and add-ons are left in it” said the professor, head high and naturally proud. “And here you go – there is that very machine that I have managed to conjure up for you” and he pointed to a big machine lying in the corner.

FreeCell was staring incredibly as though he was standing before an alien ship. It was a big machine – looking huge and taller than he was. It had a couple of big levers and it had a black button. It was in dull gray metal, but looked solid enough to withstand pressure. When the professor opened it, he watched with bated breath, the inside of this wonder machine!

Inside there was a clock, with a stopwatch, the time ticking in seconds. Also there were a few buttons in red, and a prominently bigger button than the one outside, presumably the “start” button. There were a few metal panels and plates, if one would use those words. The whole thing looked big enough to house a couple of people at the most.

“Let me charge its batteries now that we have unearthed it. It needs minor changes and repairs, so don’t get any ideas!” saying this, the professor connected a huge cable to the back of the machine and proceeded to charge the battery of this huge machine with electricity.

“Is it really a time machine? How does it work?”

“Patience, my boy, actually, I have to rework on this but I can assure you that this is indeed a time machine.”

“I mean, how are you so sure it will work as a time machine?”

“I am as serious as you want me to be; this thing works. Only I do not have quite figured out how to control it yet to pass through to the time that we want it to. And it has been tested as well.”

“Professor, I was just kidding about time machines. I mean, it isn’t possible ever to make out a machine that will transport you through time tunnels. Nobody is a master of time, and time cannot be ruled by man.”

“Yes, that is what everybody thinks. On the contrary, mankind has been dilly-dallying with the strange thought of bringing the concept of the fourth dimension into play.”

“Huh? Dimensions? What are those??”


.... to be concluded

chapter One

TICK-TOCK ONE: All the TIME

“Gosh, professor, is it really the invention of the century?” screamed a pretty excited looking FreeCell. “Are you going to be on the telly to receive the Nobel Prize?”

“Don’t know about the Nobel Prize, nor the tag of invention of the century, but this is going to be my masterpiece one way or the other” said a happy looking Professor GreyCell.

FreeCell and GreyCell were at the professor’s underground lab at his home in the city of Outlandish. The professor was constantly working in his lab, with his brain ticking overtime.

“You always spend day and night conducting these lime wire experiments and working with new fangled gadgets for various multi pronged amazing uses! What is it this time, professor?” enquired FreeCell.

He loved being with the professor; the gadgets gave him a lot of fun. There was always something new for him to see and something to be awed about. For him the professor was always a special person and his lab a special place to visit.

“It is a thought reader, I call it Mind Reader and Bender – with it one can really read and understand what the person is thinking and we can also change his mind with this machine” replied the Prof.

“Oh, is it like a Brain Washer? Isn’t it illegal and against Human Rights to use this machine?” asked FreeCell.

“Yes, it should never reach the wrong hands. Else it will cause grave danger to mankind! I have to be careful about this one” quipped the Prof. “Actually, I haven’t really tested this on anyone; but heck I cannot also play around with this!” said the Prof suddenly looking sullen. “Yes, who would want to be mind controlled by anyone else?”

“Is this your masterpiece prof?” quickly changing the topic was FreeCell.

“There isn’t such a thing as a masterpiece for me. I like them all, and I keep working for fresh ideas and inventions; you see, human wants and desires are unlimited and necessity is indeed the mother of invention. Having said that, an inventor is a person who breeds the necessity by inventing something first! Hahaha, it is a vicious circle. We scientists create and then try to market it to make it look as if it is useful to mankind”.

“Gee, prof, you are brilliant and you talk great too! Professor, I have read a lot and fantasized a lot about a TIME machine, have you given that ever a thought?” exclaimed FreeCell.

“A TIME machine? Hmmmmm………. That is going to be a tough one!”

“How wonderful it would be, just imagine dear prof! We could be surfing through TIME tunnels like they show in the movies on telly, zipping through back to various TIME zones. Imagine us in the stone ages, the ice ages, during world wars, talking to Hitler, Gandhi, and meeting the great Caesar in his own palace!”

“We shall have tea with Napoleon while he hatches his plots for conquering the world; or even share dinner with Chengis Khan while he raids and loots the continents day after day”.

“It would be the wonder of the century, he could unravel the mysteries of the world with it, how the Sphinx lost its nose, how Cleopatra really stung herself with the Asp! The thought itself was mind boggling, and with such an invention, the professor could become a past master of TIME, conquering the clock. What do you think professor?”

“Actually, come to think of it, I have constructed such a gadget! But I don’t remember where I stashed it away!”

“Oh my god, professor, what are you saying?” shrieked FreeCell incredulously.


TO BE CONTINUED....