Dec 19, 2003
Gentle reader...
What follows is a reworked version of "The Destruction of Earth", since the earlier one had a rather lame ending. I had to work real hard to make it absolutely crippled...
THE DESTRUCTION OF EARTH, once again - Alok Naik
Research on the time machine started in the year 2021. The Grand Unified Theory of Time and Rotatory Piston Engines was completed in 2078, by a person known to history only as "The Idiot". But it took the year A.D. 2289 for researchers to finally build a time machine that worked. For the first few weeks nobody knew what was going on. People were stepping in and out of time as if there were no tomorrow. There were stories of people visiting far off times, as far off as the year 2005 and as far on as 2305. Many were annihilated when they met two or three versions of themselves at the same time and place. The Laws of Physics began to get so complex that it was inevitable that someone would do something about it.
The reaction came from the very place where it was expected - The National University of Universal Physics. The students rebelled at having to learn Laws of Physics that changed from place to place and time to time and person to person. There were different Laws for two different persons in the same time and two same persons in different times and two same persons in same times and different places... you get the idea. The thing got even more weird when there were two different persons in the same time and the same place. And the Mathematics involved was simply stupendous.
The rebelling students turned violent when the Grand Vizier of the Everlasting Sultanate of the Imperial Planet of Mars was seen giving the same lecture on democracy in fifteen different halls in the University at the same time. Paramilitary forces had to be brought out when the students let loose a black hole right in the middle of New York City and using the Theory of Duplicity of Mass made it appear at the same time in the Grand Vizier's kitchen.
Now, you can't let loose black holes inside a Vizier's kitchen without the Galactic Council coming to know of it. In an emergency session, the Council decided to send a fact finding team to Earth and it's colonized planets to find out the facts. It did not take long for the fact finding team to determine the fact that the whole problem was caused because humans had discovered how to rebel in the year 65,000,000,000 B.C. or thereabouts.
The only solution that the Council could think of was to destroy all humans and human populated planets. In any case the Council had not destroyed any race in the Galaxy for more than five hundred years and the Councillors wanted to have their share of fame too. By all accounts, the human race was not indispensable in the Galactic Scheme of Things.
Thus it came to pass that the planet Earth and all other meteoroids and planetoids and planets inhabited by the human species were destroyed on December the 15th, in the year A.D. 2047. This was accomplished by "transporting a large google into the Earth's central plasmoid which created a whirling pool of jelly and destroyed all life forms on the planet" - at least that's what the Council announced and nobody knew enough about googles or plasmoids to question that story. Of course, the humans living after 2047 came to know about this and they were not very pleased with the idea of having no history. Some philosophers argued about how it was a good thing and how the human race could now benefit from a fresh start, but as usual nobody paid any attention to them. Some physicists wondered how the destruction of one's past did not affect the present, but they were laughed upon since it was obvious to everyone that since they existed it could only mean that the past could not affect the present in any way.
Of course, the astute reader would already have realized what had happened. Someone from A.D. 2047+ had travelled back in time and prevented the destruction of the human race. Needless to say, the Council realized this too; and since there's no such thing as too late when you have a time machine, the human race is now constantly disappearing from history only to be reinstated when someone else goes back to rescue it... such is life.
The reaction came from the very place where it was expected - The National University of Universal Physics. The students rebelled at having to learn Laws of Physics that changed from place to place and time to time and person to person. There were different Laws for two different persons in the same time and two same persons in different times and two same persons in same times and different places... you get the idea. The thing got even more weird when there were two different persons in the same time and the same place. And the Mathematics involved was simply stupendous.
The rebelling students turned violent when the Grand Vizier of the Everlasting Sultanate of the Imperial Planet of Mars was seen giving the same lecture on democracy in fifteen different halls in the University at the same time. Paramilitary forces had to be brought out when the students let loose a black hole right in the middle of New York City and using the Theory of Duplicity of Mass made it appear at the same time in the Grand Vizier's kitchen.
Now, you can't let loose black holes inside a Vizier's kitchen without the Galactic Council coming to know of it. In an emergency session, the Council decided to send a fact finding team to Earth and it's colonized planets to find out the facts. It did not take long for the fact finding team to determine the fact that the whole problem was caused because humans had discovered how to rebel in the year 65,000,000,000 B.C. or thereabouts.
The only solution that the Council could think of was to destroy all humans and human populated planets. In any case the Council had not destroyed any race in the Galaxy for more than five hundred years and the Councillors wanted to have their share of fame too. By all accounts, the human race was not indispensable in the Galactic Scheme of Things.
Thus it came to pass that the planet Earth and all other meteoroids and planetoids and planets inhabited by the human species were destroyed on December the 15th, in the year A.D. 2047. This was accomplished by "transporting a large google into the Earth's central plasmoid which created a whirling pool of jelly and destroyed all life forms on the planet" - at least that's what the Council announced and nobody knew enough about googles or plasmoids to question that story. Of course, the humans living after 2047 came to know about this and they were not very pleased with the idea of having no history. Some philosophers argued about how it was a good thing and how the human race could now benefit from a fresh start, but as usual nobody paid any attention to them. Some physicists wondered how the destruction of one's past did not affect the present, but they were laughed upon since it was obvious to everyone that since they existed it could only mean that the past could not affect the present in any way.
Of course, the astute reader would already have realized what had happened. Someone from A.D. 2047+ had travelled back in time and prevented the destruction of the human race. Needless to say, the Council realized this too; and since there's no such thing as too late when you have a time machine, the human race is now constantly disappearing from history only to be reinstated when someone else goes back to rescue it... such is life.
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