Time Glasses

“Doctor! Dr. Odenburg I think we found it.”

“Found what Jennings?”

“It’s just what we were looking for. Time travel, of a sort.”

“Of a sort? What do you mean of a sort? There is nothing in science of a sort. Science is exact. Science is perfect. If human understanding were perfect then we would know everything. Science strives to understand these things. These things help man become more perfect. Now that the whole complex has heard me, what do you mean time travel?”

Jennings rounds a corner and guides Dr. Odenburg into a dark lab. He takes out a pair of horn-rimmed glasses and hands them to Dr. Odenburg. “Here they are,” Jennings says.

“What do you mean here they are?”

“It’s not traditional time travel, but close to it. Once you put the glasses on you can see up to two hours into the future or two hours into the past. But, you only see what the glasses would see. If they were lying face down on the ground that’s all you would see.”

“Really? That is excellent, Jennings. How do they work?”

“Just put them on.”

Dr. Odenburg turns the glasses over in his hands as he lifts the glasses to his eyes he asks, “How do you control if you see into the future or the past?”

“Its rather arbitrary. It is like they have a mind of their own. What do you see?”

“Not much looks like carpet. Wait! Someone picked them up. That’s my wife. She isn’t wearing any clothes! What the hell?”

Jennings punches Dr. Odenburg in the face, and takes the glasses. He sprints off down the hall, but not before saying, “I guess its showing the past, sucker!”


-P