A machine used to send criminals on a one-way trip into the past. One of its inventors, Sam, wrongly accused of murder. Will his creation become his undoing?
“The act of transporting something with Absolom essentially branched our universe – it created an alternate timeline where the payload was deposited. This is consistent with the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, which is the idea that we are constantly creating copies of our universe, even as we speak.”
Sam laughed. “Frankly, I thought we were finished. We’d spent billions to build a machine that was of no use for anything I could imagine – I mean, what good is sending items to the past in an alternate universe?”
Sam paused. “But Dani saw what none of the rest of us could: she saw the potential to use Absolom for prisons, to exile the worst of humanity and make the world a better place. That day, she
