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 ...”