Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Tuesday Poem: The Trouble with Time Machines by A.J. Ponder



The Trouble with Time Machines
(first published in Eye to the Telesope, edited by Tim Jones)



Turns out
Time Machines are easy -
all you need is
number eight wire,
several diodes,
and a particle accelerator.

Problem is;
every sad physicist
who goes to the
trouble of inventing one,
unlocks their past
improving upon the original
until there is no need for a time machine
in the first place.

Turns out time machines are not so easy-
all those redundant devices
are proving an enormous hazard
as we unlock the
metaphysical chains that bind
the many parallel universes -
with mathematical theorems that will turn your head inside out
(in several dimensions)
because universes are rather fragile
and blowing just one would
un
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2 comments:

  1. Great stuff Alicia. Like the idea of improving on one's past and then not needing a time machine...but being human one would probably get sick of the perfection and want to carry on. Give my love to Doctor Who. :-)

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  2. Thanks! & Cheers, will do. Although I believe the good doctor is undergoing yet another personality change...

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