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May 11th, 2076. Time travel has been a recurring theme of science and science fiction for the last 200 years. But it isn't possible to travel back in time, only forward. Or is it? We already know that if we approach a singularity (once called a black hole), the extreme gravity would move us rapidly forward in time. But as far as we know, there is no way backwards.

Until now perhaps.

DM1771 is a Dark Matter particle which was previously ignored because it appeared to be so unstable that it would literally disappear. The deacons of science concentrated on stable items or items which appeared to change energy states, particles which could be used consistently without the fear of them going AWOL. DM73 is one such particle. DM73, commonly called the Velvet Blanket is used to stablize Fusion reactions by acting against spikes and troughs in the a reactor's dipulsion field. Stability can be gained in other ways, but with its huge subatomic mass, DM73 is a hundred times more efficient than any other method considered.

DM1771 appears to be affected by another particle, DM565, a flapper particle which toggles it's position depending on the polarity of neighbouring particles. (Subatomic particles don't have a polarity in the same way that atomic particles do, but the model does have limited benefits.) DM565 and DM1771 acting in concert are what is known as "door and candle" particles. When one is opened, the other goes out.

Except in the case of DM1771, nobody quite knew where DM1771 went to when it left. Similarly, scientific deacons have discovered that DM1771 particles are also likely to suddenly show up for no apparent reason. DM1771 and its partner are one of many Dark Matter particles which appear to follow a direct line either from or too singularities. This was not immediately apparent because not all singularities are plotted. Then a scientist at CERNiCA decided to follow a stream of such particles and found they pointed to a previously unknown sungularity. The same scientist decided to follow other streams, all of which led to other singularities. The link was eventually proven and the knowledge was inserted into the Great Book.

Most Dark Matter particles have more than their share of gravitons. Their pull has long been documented. They are the velcro of the subatomic world. One weight loss clinic claims to use subatomic particles in the H343 to G82 band as leaching agents for the treatment of obesity, suggesting that these particles have a particular fondness for fatty molecules and will carry them away in their stream, depositing them on some unsuspecting future. Mathematicians suggest that that future would have to be many millennia distant, but reports have started showing up regarding fatty deposits falling in the skys over Florida, having already delayed 2 marsbase launches.

Col. Wal Martens of the Concillier d'Applique von Textillier is a scientist who has been working with Dark Matter particles for most of his professional life. As a franchisee of Neocotton, his work has quite literally taken him to places he never imagined. Working with various soft plastics he found that he could divert enough DM1771/DM565 pairs during the processing of certain hydrocarbons to make a polymer which is all but invisible. He called the new material Wallacite.

Light passing through Wallacite poliarizes so that it can only pass through at right-angles to the surface, with none being reflected back. Unfortunately, any items made of Wallacite were often found to simply disappear. At first people thought they were still there but that you just couldn't see them. Then they realized that they couldn't see them because they were no longer there.

Martens was shocked to discover that people would come to him from all over with pieces of Wallacite which they claimed they had had at home for years, but they couldn't remember where they had got them from. There was one peculiar difference. Though these pieces of Wallacite did not reflect light, they had a redish hue about them. This led Martens to theorize that the DM1771 particles were not simply disappearing, but were in fact travelling back in time, taking pieces of Wallacite with them. Perhaps the particles were actually travelling backwards and forwards repeatedly, leading people to think they were simply appearing and disappearing.

Martens undertook to plot a field of Dark Matter, specifically in the band around both DM1771 and DM565. It was no easy task, because these particles generally move above or below light speed. But with the aid of his positronic orogenibigigraphic scanners he was able to track the paths of a hundred or so particles. What he found was particles which appeared to suddenly begin from a random place had actually begun from the spot where future particles appeared to disappear, leading him to speculate that they were one-in-the-same particle. Other particles appeared to disappear from a certain spot, only to reappear later, to continue the same trajectory. The trick then was to find which particles were going forward in time and which particles were going backwards.

Col. Martens found the answer in a his secret recipe of 11 different particles and isotopes, which produced movement both backwards and forwards in time. Until Martens loosens his grip on his trade secret, we may never know how he has done this. But all thanks to DM1771, Martens says he has been able to send inanimate objects both forward and backwards in time, including a birthday presenty he had forgotten to give his mother two years previous. He is now starting a new business, Fixing Forgotten occasions For Forgetful Folk. He tried to think of another 'F' but says it all got a bit rude.