Dr. Daryl Smith built an intelligent time machine in his lab, he aptly named—‘Chrono.’


    To create a temporal bubble passing through an instantaneous wormhole—a portal to the future, but never the past.


    Daryl recorded—


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    “How many years? Fifty? A lesser chance for any dramatic changes.”


    “Chrono, set jump for 50 years and initiate.”


    He accelerated through a kaleidoscopic-tunnel of sights and sounds, a doppler effect nearing lightspeed.


    “Journey completed, Daryl. Warning, lethal levels of radiation detected.”


    Daryl saw an endlessly barren landscape out to the horizon, and a starry night sky.


    “Of course, everything, through the wormhole ...”