A baby girl is mysterious dropped off at an orphanage in Cleveland in 1945. “Jane” grows up lonely and dejected, not knowing who parents are, until one day in 1963 she is strangely attracted to a drifter. She falls in love with him. But just when things are finally looking up for Jane, a series of disasters strike. First, she becomes pregnant by the drifter, who then disappears. Second, during the complicated delivery doctors find that Jane has both sets of sex organs, and to save her life, they are forced to surgically convert “her” to a “him.” Finally, a mysterious stranger kidnaps her baby from the delivery room. Reeling from these disasters, rejected by society, scorned by fate, “he” becomes a drunkard and drifter. Not only has Jane lost her parents and her lover, but he has lost his only child as well. Years later, in 1970, he stumbles into a lonely bar, called Pop’s Place, and spills out his pathetic story to an elderly bartender. The sympathetic bartender offers the drifter the chance to avenge the stranger who left he pregnant and abandoned, on the condition that he join the “time travelers corps.” Both of them enter a time machine, and the bartender drops off the drifter in 1963. The drifter is strangely attracted to a young orphan woman, who subsequently becomes pregnant. The bartender then goes forward 9 months, kidnaps the baby girl from the hospital, and drops off the baby in an orphanage back in 1945. Then the bartender drops off the thoroughly confused drifter in 1985, to enlist in the time travelers corps. The drifter eventually gets his life together, becomes a respected and elderly member of the time travelers corps, and then disguises himself as a bartender and has his most difficult mission: a date with destiny, meeting a certain drifter at Pop’s Place in 1970 (Kaku 236-7).
Time travel is a component of general relativity that has not been fully harnessed by man, but comparable to others, it is not alone. Right now, time travel is only measured in minuet fractions of a second, but many several centuries in the future, it will be measured in years and centuries.
Einstein shook the modern scientific world by the publication of relativity. Scientists became revolutionized by these unusual but mathematically complex equations and theories. A few of the major fields transformed by relativity were quantum theory and mechanics, concepts of black holes, and time travel. As the decades past, physicists expanded on that knowledge held within the theories of relativity. Eventually the ideas and concepts were taught in universities, and now even high school. Now at the closing of the twentieth century, the general public has the basic understanding of relativity. Einstein’s has spread from the highest areas of knowledgeable theoretical physics down to the majority of educated typical people. Einstein’s popularity has steadily increased from an average-minded patent clerk to the finest human mind of scientific and mathematical ability. Einstein’s discovery of relativity is man’s greatest accomplishment of the twentieth century, and is equivalent or greater than Newton’s laws of gravity and motion as the greatest human conception of the natural world for man’s history on earth.
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