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Will Our Curiosity Lead To Our Destruction?
by Noobi
An obscure researcher named Dwight Hammond has offered
the thesis that most of the "U.F.O." sightings from the past are
actually sightings of phenomena caused by the Imager's
current gathering of past data and visual radiation.
The Imager project management team said firmly that "there is
no perceivable intrusion upon the past in witnessing it."
Hammond rejects that. "How could we know that? It may not
happen all of the time, but under certain conditions." He offers
that reports of U.F.O. sightings that were not in existence
before, now exist after the Imager has gathered data from a
specific area and time.
The problem with proving any of this is the random
predictability of the Imager's performance. Unlike science fiction
this "time-machine" can not be dialed in to a specific moment of
the past. It is dependent on natural space-time imperfections
such as "wormholes" to function. Some of the data is thought
to come from Universes other than our own! There are many
critics of the project and its huge cost. One of them, Quixley
Churchill, claims that the Imager simply uses its vast parallel
processing system to re-animate supposed episodes of the
past. As one who has seen much of the raw data, I find this
thesis hard to sustain.
If the Imager could be dialed in to a specific place and time all
researchers would have to do is examine historical reports
before and after the Imager gathered data. If reports did not
exist before the Imager gathered data, but existed afterwards,
then Hammond's frightening assumptions are correct. The
current problem is much more complex to solve, as one would
have to have direct knowledge of a time-event and this is
subjective knowledge.
Hammond claims to have this knowledge. He grew up in
Gaithersburg Maryland and had no recollection of several
curved and fiery shapes seen from Main Street one particular
evening. --A time and place that Dwight Hammond will always
remember, as it was his Birthday and it was his family's practice
to look up at the stars at the exact moment of one's birth and
make a wish. There was nothing in the sky that evening but a
handful of stars.
Hammond found a Google cache of archival data from
Gaithersburg but even in that cache the "new" reports of the U.
F.O.s were there. "If you don't have a specific, absolute
personal knowledge of these things you will be at the mercy of
past records, which by our recent actions we have changed!"
"How dangerous can this be?" I asked Hammond.
If your father took another moment to read the article and then
discussed it with your mother, a mood might have been
changed and your conception might not have happened. Think
about that." Hammond said.
I shuddered. "Tell me," I asked him. "What did you wish for
upon that star at 8 PM on your birthday long ago?"
He nodded seriously, "To preserve that perfect moment in my
memory for all time... And now changing history wants to ruin
it."
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