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Time Piece

By Sarah Stodola

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The world works, somehow, because everyone moves across the same line of time. If two people are walking toward the same point at the same speed from the same distance, they can sense this and they will know to stop before they quite reach the point in order to not run into each other. If a car is moving down the street, and a person wants to walk across that same street, he will know to wait until the car has passed.

But according to scientists, there can be waves in time.

So those two people walking toward the same point might not know it, if one is doing it two seconds in the past, or two seconds in the future. And if that time ripple happens just as they both approach that point, and they are both thrown into the present, they would collide, would they not? Same with the man and the car, only with more catastrophic results.

We trust time and its relation to space - because according to our reality we have no reason not to. But how can you not think that someday that might change? With one tiny "wrinkle in time," the world would be thrown into chaos. Cars would collide, conversations would have no course. You wouldn't be able to trust yourself to take a step, or to stand still even, because who knows what will be standing in the exact spot you stand presently two seconds from now? Whatever you say right now might be thrown into the future and come out sounding senseless, or it might be sent into the past and become redundant.

The world would end, very likely. And you might or might not know it was coming, depending on your place in time. The end of the world might catch up with you, or you might catch up with it, but either way there wouldn't be anything you could do about it.

Time is on our side, as the world stands now. But if it ever turns against us, we will have no means of defense.

Its something to be taken into consideration while sitting at work with half an hour to endure before going home, wishing that you could fast forward a half an hour, or while remembering something fondly, and wishing you could turn back time. You can't. It could never work. It would without any doubt whatsoever ruin everything. Past, present, and future. Time is an intangible, but it’s stability means everything. But if the scientists are right, then perhaps we are just spending our time waiting for time to have its chance with us.

It’s something to think about. You know…when you have the time.

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Sarah Stodola is the Managing Editor of Me Three.  She can be contacted at [email protected].

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