When time travel was accidentally invented it broke everything we thought we knew about the space-time continuum. Though we could only do the smallest alterations they still meant that we had gone further than we ever thought we could and nothing would be the same again.
The most common uses were surprisingly for stain removal, to move the material back in time to when it hadn't yet been stained and then remove it from the room when it was stained to ensure it would never happen. Of course it was used to save lives, everyone in the emergency services carried their own time device long before they were released to the public at large. They saved so many lives by freezing blood flow, reversing fires - even bring the dead back to life (though this was considered too controversial to do without immense paperwork first).
The possibility of all the little time loops, shifts and utter wipeouts having any negative impact on our world wasn't on anyone's minds in the face of pure progress and seemingly salvation with no downside. We, the few who have survived know better now.
There's nothing we can do to change all of this, funnily enough. We've tried so many times that we've reduced our living space to three rooms. We'll run out of food eventually, there's only so many times you can undo eating your food before your body just collapses and is gradually shredded by the dimensional rift that's been brewing in your stomach all this time.
That's just what happens, apparently. Each use weakens the barriers between dimensions (now that we know that there are countless dimensions and every earth is inhabited by something) until the space is torn apart,allowing anything to just walk through.
Not every rift is bad though, some have been used as escape routes to a realm where humans (or things very similar to humans) have these rifts perfectly contained and selectively allow beings through. It's a shame that between us and these rifts are countless billions ranging in every conceivable size and constantly watched by lurking things who are so very hungry and so very patient.
The most common uses were surprisingly for stain removal, to move the material back in time to when it hadn't yet been stained and then remove it from the room when it was stained to ensure it would never happen. Of course it was used to save lives, everyone in the emergency services carried their own time device long before they were released to the public at large. They saved so many lives by freezing blood flow, reversing fires - even bring the dead back to life (though this was considered too controversial to do without immense paperwork first).
The possibility of all the little time loops, shifts and utter wipeouts having any negative impact on our world wasn't on anyone's minds in the face of pure progress and seemingly salvation with no downside. We, the few who have survived know better now.
There's nothing we can do to change all of this, funnily enough. We've tried so many times that we've reduced our living space to three rooms. We'll run out of food eventually, there's only so many times you can undo eating your food before your body just collapses and is gradually shredded by the dimensional rift that's been brewing in your stomach all this time.
That's just what happens, apparently. Each use weakens the barriers between dimensions (now that we know that there are countless dimensions and every earth is inhabited by something) until the space is torn apart,allowing anything to just walk through.
Not every rift is bad though, some have been used as escape routes to a realm where humans (or things very similar to humans) have these rifts perfectly contained and selectively allow beings through. It's a shame that between us and these rifts are countless billions ranging in every conceivable size and constantly watched by lurking things who are so very hungry and so very patient.
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