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[rickbot]

Rather like the boffins in the 2004 science fiction / drama Primer, I appear to have inadvertently invented a time machine. Placing an orange in the device it disappeared, only to return three days later completely unchanged. Clearly it skipped through time using string theory

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[spimcoot]

No no, time travel makes things cold - ice cold; almost as if they'd come out of some kind of kitchen coldulator. Did the orange appear inside the soup? This could explain the temperature increase.

[rickbot]

You make a very good point. I think perhaps it is not a time machine, but a displacer. The orange was presumably teleported into a close orbit around the Sun - where it heated up over the course of three days - and then was retrieved back to Earth when I next turned on the micowave.

Thank goodness I didn't try to use it to go back in time and kill Hitler. I'd have ended up with egg on my face (and/or a melanoma).

[spimcoot]

Boy, what a lucky escape for Hitler.

[rickbot]

It's nothing he didn't do to himself.