Talk:A Short Circuit In Time

Here's a start for some collaborative writing, if anybody's interested.

The basic storyline is that Donnie lands and boards the boat, and with the help of Justin (a physics grad student studying time/space differentials) discovers that he is not only in a different time, but a whole different continuum. Justin and Donnie determine that the two worlds have identical histories, up to the moment that Justin was born. Then the two world histories drifted apart.

My concept is that Donnie's conception was a "glitch," the one thing that triggered the branching of time. Eventually, the universe "healed" the glitch and time continued in our "correct" world. Justin determines that his alternate world almost certainly ceased to exist, and actually never existed, retroactively, the moment that Donnie came into our world.

At the end of the story, the PU6A--the one existing artifact left of the world created by the time/space rift--is described as being in the Smithsonian Air and Space museum, where it enjoys a popularity we might expect a flying saucer to have, should aliens land on earth.