Chapter 17 Chapter Seventeen

Time travel is getting worse and worse.History is being polluted. The Encyclopedia of the Galaxy has a lot to say about the theory and practice of time travel.These contents are quite profound, and it is impossible to understand them without studying the advanced super mathematics of eight lifetimes.Before the invention of time travel, people couldn't do this, so people wondered: How did the idea of ​​time travel come up?There is a rationale that time travel discovered itself at the same time, at all periods of history.This explanation is obviously nonsense. The trouble is, a lot of history is now clearly bullshit, too.

for example.This example may not matter to some people, but it is very important to others.This event was so significant, and because of it, led to the first initiation (or the last? Depending on which way you look at history, again an increasingly tangled question) of the real-time movement. There is, or was, a poet, and his name is Larafa.He wrote what is regarded as the best work in the history of the Milky Way - "Changlu Song". Those poems are (were) too good to describe.That is to say, you can only put it into words if you have experienced the following situation: After experiencing the emotional and practical hardships, feeling the wholeness and unity of things, you need to go to the street immediately, maybe on the way home, and then go to the bar Sipping a glass of straight soda in your mouth, those poems are so good.

Larafa lives in the forest of Changlu on the planet Alpha.He lived there and wrote poetry there.He wrote poems on dried habra leaves without any traces of deletion or correction fluid.He wrote about Light in the Forest and how he felt about it.He wrote about the darkness in the forest, and how he felt about it.He wrote about the girl who left him, and how he felt about it. Years after his death, those poems were discovered and circulated widely.They shine everywhere like dawn.For centuries, his poems have illuminated and watered the hearts of countless people—otherwise, their hearts would have been darker and drier.

Later, not long after time travel was invented, some manufacturer of brand-name correction fluid wondered: Would his poems be better if he had high-quality correction fluid?Would he like to say something about the function of correction fluid? They went back in time, found him, explained the situation—with difficulty—and convinced him.In fact, they persuaded him to move out of the forest and into a mansion in a small town.He also often connects to the future world and does some talk shows.In the show, he made witty remarks and talked and laughed happily. He never wrote poetry again.Of course, this became a problem, but it was easy to solve.The correction fluid makers just had to send him somewhere once a week, give him a copy of the latest edition of his own work, and a stack of dried habra blades.He just transcribed the work, and deliberately made some weird little mistakes in the transcription.

At this time, many people believed that those poems were no longer valuable.Others insist that they are exactly the same as before, so what's the difference?The people over there said again, this is not the point.They also don't know what the point is, but they're sure it's not that.They started the "Real Time Movement" to stop this from happening again.A week later, another event galvanized the movement—Charson Cathedral was to be demolished to make way for an ion refinery.Due to the long construction period of the refinery, the construction time needs to be pushed back a long time to allow ion production to start on time.In the end, Charleston Cathedral never existed at all.As a result, postcards with photos of cathedrals suddenly rose in value.

In this way, a lot of history is lost forever.Members of the real time movement claim that it is simple, that just as travel dissolves the boundaries between different countries and different planets, time travel dissolves the boundaries between different eras. "The old world," they said, "is like a foreign country now. It is no different there than here."