Monday, November 1, 2010

Time travel?

In weeks past we might have overlooked this incident, where cross-country runner Sarah Glidden was struck by a deer just 100m from the finish line, but we can no longer afford to be so complacent. We have long been skeptics of time travel, but the recent finding of a new Shakespeare play among other incidents have convinced us that there is a possibility that, just maybe, someone is travelling through time and trying to shape our present in order to change the far-distant future. Now that George Clarke has discovered photographic evidence of time travelers, we may have to reexamine a number of our case files. For instance, the aforementioned deer collision is, in light of this knowledge, more likely a successful attempt by somebody in the future to keep Sarah from qualifying for the WIAA state meet, and our simulators have been working out the likely consequences of this event for many days now. Even though we have access to excellent computing resources it will take many weeks to figure out what all of the differences will be in the near future (30 years). Our theorists have told us it wouldn't do any good to run longer since the accuracy drops off exponentially after about 30 years, so we'll report on what we do find. Oh, and for the curious, both simulators have successfully predicted everything of interest that has occurred since the collision. We'll let you know when significant differences are observed.




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