![]() ![]() The time continuum protects the past from being changed, especially significant events. Symptoms of time lag include fatigue, disorientation, becoming overly sentimental, and speaking poetically. A traveler can also experience “time lag,” sort of like jet lag, if he or she drops too frequently. The amount of slippage depends on whether the time continuum has been disrupted by too many drops in a short amount of time, or if someone changed something that wasn’t supposed to be changed. The technician keeps track of each traveler, who sometimes experiences “slippage,” being dropped in the wrong place or time. The traveler leaves from the lab and appears at one of the rendezvous points in the past. A technician in a laboratory at Oxford controls the drops, and many rendezvous points can be set up at specific places throughout history. The “net” is the actual method of time travel, kind of a time portal. A “rendezvous” is a return trip from the past to the present. A “drop” is when someone travels to the past. First, a primer on the Connie Willis method of time travel. ![]()
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