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Timeline


            
             Time travel is a fascinating subject for many people. Some would like to travel to the future to see what technology yet to be invented can achieve, others would prefer to gain first hand knowledge of things past. Michael Crichton's TIMELINE takes you to the 14th Century, into the Dark Age.
             The company ITC developed a complicated and dangerous time travel technology based on quantum physics. Using quantum physics, ITC is able to travel to different universes similar to ours in every way, but at a different time period. The theory of multi-universes requires that every universe is splitting continuously. Not just at what we consider significant events, but continuously.
             The main part of the story takes place in a medieval village in the southwest of France, the ruins of which are excavated in the present by a team of archeologists and historians. Among the medieval artifacts three students discover a strange object, a lens of undoubtedly modern origin that nonetheless has been buried in the ground for hundreds of years. One of the scientists goes missing and between old documents a message from him is found that is also hundreds of years old. A rescue party is assembled whose astonished members learn that they will not look for him in another place but in another time. The journey takes them to the year 1357 and they have only 37 hours to complete their mission.
             Using quantum physics, ITC is able to travel to different universes similar to ours in every way, but at a different time period. The theory of multiverses requires that every universe is splitting continuously. Not just at what we consider significant events, but continuously.
             André Marek, a strong, tall twenty-nine year old, is an assistant history professor of history at Yale who chooses to live out the past rather than just study it, and who's proficient with swords and lances as well as ancient languages. He was a historian who set out to re-create parts of the past, to experience it firsthand and understand it better.


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