Digital Time Travel

If you are expecting us to spin tales about women with cell phones in 1928, modern hipsters at bridge openings in the 40's, horse and buggy receipts found in the pocket of a man who was hit by a car in 1950 even though he disappeared in 1876, or even the presence of a boy from the 70's in a photo of the Gettysburg Address, then prepare to be disappointed, because we won't be talking about any of that, we’ll be talking about how the first form of time-travel actually manifested in the human world.

It began with the entangling of two quantum computers. Which you already know. These computers still exist, and we’re currently using them to send the information on this website back to you. These two computers were made accessible for read/write privileges to select clients in 2026 when BEC, a bio-tech corporation responsible for the creation of the worlds first artificially intelligent, bio-mechanical robot, released something called the QRS-37. The QRS-37 is a piece of hardware much like your wireless router, except it is only linked to the two specific Quantum computers mentioned previously. We’ve been experimenting with this technology ever since. There rapidly arose many regulations to this, and part of the reason we can’t just tell you everything about the future is because there is a rigorous approval process for the time re-placement of information. You may think we’re bad people for not using this technology to do something more helpful for humanity than make weird website, for example, but, you are grossly underestimating the consequences of timeline manipulation, let alone how much resistance there is to such use. There are people in your time doing absolutely everything in their power to stop it… or possess it... They will fail, let that be abundantly clear. But even without them resisting this technology being public knowledge, there are nevertheless myriad factors that you simply aren’t aware of at your point in time which make 3rd dimensional timeline alterations 99.9% impossible, and I am not going to go into them here. 5th dimensional timelines can be manipulated to all heck, but like I said, that’s a conversation for another day.

Digital Time Travel as we know it came to be when someone decided to input as much information we have about significant moments of human history into the Quantum Computers in question. Then, because these computers are roughly a trillion times faster at processing information than any other type of computer, Virtual Realities of these historical events were created using extremely complex procedural generation algorithms. A theoretical environment for every moment and perspective at a given event suddenly existed digitally, with graphics 1000x better than you’ve ever seen. If you wanted to be present for the Assassination of JFK, for example, as viewed from any seat in the grass, you virtually could. Obviously, it was not expected to be literally accurate to what happened, but it was pretty damn close enough for the sake of experiencing first hand what it might have been like to be there. Once we got a taste of this, we did it with everything we could think of. We mapped out nearly all of human history, including alternate outcomes to the events, alternate pasts, potential futures, you name it. The research opportunities were amazing, the discoveries were profound, and the knowledge priceless. Next, we learned how to make a convincing Virtual Reality out of any fictional universe, and do the same with it. Or any universe in general. We called these QVRs, Quantum Virtual Realities. After that, we learned how to make the human brain operate a QVR without having to wear a headset, or use a controller of any kind. You could put some contacts in, sit down, and bam! be free to move and act within the QVR independent of your physical body. After THAT we learned how to place a person in a special chamber with isolated time—dilation, such that no matter how much time you perceived to have spent in the QVR, (the record is 300 years), when you come out of the QVR, only a few minutes, or even seconds, have pasted since you entered. We’ve made this technology available to people in 2027. (After rigorous screening) and now there’s a bunch of people using it. In fact, it’s entirely possible that by virtue of reading this article you are currently in a QVR generated by us. And in truth you’re actually here at the Red Rainbow. In a room. About to wake up in a few minutes and realize your entire life was a video game.