The Other Time Portals

[malcolm]

We know of at least two other time portals. The one in the backyard giving access to the Battle of Hastings and the one to 2168.

Wouldn't Gary have been curious enough to try them? No doubt he would have bounced off the walls which then raises the question why he can go through one and not the other, and why Ron, Phoebe, and Jack the Ripper get through on the odd occasion.

There is however another point. The Duckett's Passage Time Portal leads only to one point in time which moves in sync with Gary's life time in the 1990's.

There has to be another element at work, and I put it down to a mental connection to the moving events of the War Years. Previous to his finding the portal he had to have been reading up and thinking a lot about that time.

The other thing is that the Battle of Hastings portal not only connects to 1066, but moves Hastings up from the coast and into the East End of London. I suppose its all to do with those pesky frequencies:-)

[rhort]

Wasn't the 1066 one malfunctioning? Isn't That why the bloke came to 'fix' it? Perhaps the mobile nature of the event horizon was the issue.

[malcolm]

Good thought, and that is a help. All records would have to be stored somewhere. We use a hard drive and back up. Whereas I once considered dark matter and dark energy to be the ultimate consciousness, I think for the purposes of the story we have to think of the Earth's core as being our 'hard drive'. The event horizon then needs to be multiple layers, one for each second of what we think of as time. We know from The Crystal Skull that crystal has memory properties, so let's suppose that the Earth Core is an enormous crystal sending rays a fraction of the bandwidth of a laser beam to monitors in each event horizon. Should one of these rays be deflected it would move the usb port from Hastings to Gary's back yard.

Each era and time event may lay dormant in the Core until activated. Will have to give this more thought.

[jobsta]

Or it could just be a sit-com

[rhort]

I don't think it's too much of a stretch to suppose that the inherent nature of the event horizons creates some kind of electromagnetic field, so perhaps they are then attracted to one another, thus in the event of one becoming mobile for whatever reason, it would naturally gravitate towards another one, presumably of a similar frequency. This might explain why it ended up near the Duckett's Passage portal.