Free Experiment by Adam Moon Page B

sent the telescope out further still, he’d be able to see even further back in time, and see every detail imaginable.
    As of late though, this harmless tinkering had grown in magnitude as his theories and experiments became more daring and dangerous. He had become a corporate criminal.
    Every day for the first year of testing, he’d come to work in the morning and spend an hour looking into the earth’s past.
    Although his educational training within the children’s camps scarcely touched upon history (it was not deemed beneficial to his future as a n experimental scientist) he had enjoyed it immensely. He had learned about the decadent twentieth and twenty first centuries. The over population and resultant famine of the twenty second century and then the social changes of the twenty third century which had ultimately launched the ideologies which shaped his world today.
    Through his telescope, however, he’d skipped far past these recent histories and went back further than he could have imagi ned. He’d seen things that he'd never learnt about in the camps.
    He had seen a variety of early hominids, pre-historic mammals, and then dinosaurs as he traveled further and further back through time. Further back still, he witnessed the planet entirely covered in ice like a giant snowball; and before this he saw Rodinia emerge as the first single proto continent with its partner ocean, Iapetus. He went back further and was amazed and even shocked by the appearance of the early earth, all molten and cloudy and poisonous.  During his most recent viewing he had seen an incredible collision; one that he had never imagined possible for a planet that now harbored life. He saw the newly formed earth struck by another planet that was roughly the size of Mars. The debris that emitted from the catastrophe would coalesce into what would become the moon.
    The drastic transformations the earth had undergone over billions of years seemed, to him, to contrast with the static society he lived in today. How could the dominant species on a volatile and ever changing planet be so fixed and immovable and plain? 
    It all fascinated him, but he knew it would not be financially beneficial to the corporation to use the device in such a way. These excursions were unplanned and unapproved by the board. The power required for such relatively short distances would not be too great and he could have asked permission, but his curiosity would not allow the possibility of rejection to stand in his way. None of what he had done that first year was technically illegal anyway.
    Lately , however, he had secretly taken to adding bolder modifications. Because he had no permission for these extremely dangerous modifications, he was officially breaking the law. He would most certainly be sentenced to death for such infractions if he were to be caught in the act.
    He saw potential in his technology that the board members could never understand. He couldn’t involve his staff of technicians in his experiments because they would certainly report him. His technicians would never comprehend the new applications anyway. They were still trying to fathom the abilities of the transported telescope. James knew they would only slow him down, and so he worked on these modifications alone four days out of the week.

He had finally finished his latest modification after months of work. He quickly readied the telescope for transport. He had twenty minutes until his staff arrived.
    He calibrated it using his hidden command station located under the main instrument panel. In ten minutes it would return to him from where he was going to send it. He was giddy with anticipation, but he hid his elation out of habit.
    He didn’t worry about a power drain any longer. He’d invented something altogether radical in order to alleviate that concern.
    The transporter was now technically unnecessary. He had designed a built in power supply into the telescope itself. He pressed the send