Infinity

The screams from the container were so guttural and desperate the team and the rest of the lab fell silent,

Mark had insisted he and lucy take the day off from study and at least try to have a little fun.

"We can actually manage to have some time to ourselves Lucy before we dive into the new project!."

"Yes I do want to go with you but there is a timeline where we have been putting this together for the last six months, deadlines to meet there is never enough time and my degree depends on this final experiment."

Mark found a realisation in that he and the rest of the world did not envisage time the way, Lucy did, Her experiments in the position of time in the universe as regards to time on Earth had been absorbing and ironically she ran out of time constantly trying to prove there was a way both could come together in the form of an algorithm that as long as you record what time you have spent on earth and it has been correctly adjusted and defined and is downloaded to be then fed into the algorithm you can adapt and match up to the universe and so tie the two together and travelling through space and back again becomes more accessible.

"Well I have to finish this it is so important I do not understand why you think I can just leave it and flake off for the day?"

"Because I fail to see the point in making time when you have no time, I shall make my own plans and I hope you may have time for yourself at some time before it all runs out an there is nothing but,

nothing.

Lucy grabbed what she needed and made her way to the lab through the gardens of the university not once stopping to appreciate how beautiful a day it was and she saw Mark sitting outside with a group of friends from his class.

"Some people do not understand how important time is to us it flows past us and most of the time we do not realise or comprehend where it has gone and it is impossible to reclaim."

Lucy entered the lab where her group finishing off entering information into the algorithm.

"How is it coming along Lucy asked one of her teammates the portal is ready and there is keyboard inside as well as the monitor it is a separate keyboard because you have to punch in the days you spend in there and the hours and minutes and seconds this is the most important part of the experiment as you have to accurately record everything time-wise, imagine that you are in a jail cell and marking off the days, weeks, months until the day of your release

Everything must be "noted and added otherwise we have no data to match up."

"That is not a problem I have practised this for months now and I can expand on the algorithm once I have entered everything, what I happening on the other end?"

"The other team lead by Mark will feed in coordinates from the nearest galaxy and the two will match up as long as both sets of figures are final and added and received."

Mark came in from the quad where students meet up and discuss and have lunch, Some of the second group who were also taking part in the experiment were explaining to mark that they had their concerns regarding the risk involved in the experiment and the fact this was all down to data being so carefully collected and analysed that a tiny mistake could be catastrophic to the safety of Lucy as she is a direct conflict with time when she enters the tube.

"Well said Mark I have absolutely tried to get her to step back and think about what she is doing, unfortunately, she will not budge on her decision."

As they entered the lab there was a hub of emotion people setting up the tube discussing the beginning of the experiment and also the possible outcome.

Lucy came up to Mark to apologise for her attitude this morning and try to adopt a less hostile stance to what she was about to do.

"Well, I do appreciate that I have not been on this experiment as long as you have, being new to the university but not to this programme I can assure you that the information I have indicates a chance of hostility if and when we connect and we should be cautious as we reach out."

"I am sure that when all the great explorers discovered the new worlds on our planet there was trepidation and fear, but look what they found and accomplished we do not push further into discovery to die or give up but to live and make history because we try and change the boundaries and reach out."

"Also remember some things were not meant to be found and maybe did not want to be found Mark insisted."

Lucy shook her head and continued to prepare for her time in the tube and the data download, she would be in there for at least a week with rations and everything that was needed for the connection to the time frame in space. it was now time to load up and enter the tube-canister, as Mark exited the tube she enters and she exchanges glances with him and he smiles and with his head to one side and a strange smile comments.

"It is a little too late take care though."

As Lucy sat down at the console she had to start entering the time she arrived and every minute second and day after that so as not to rely on the mistakes of technology, which seems weird as this was a very technological experiment.

After almost a week of marking everything down all the times and actions of her time in the canister, she was ready to install and add the algorithm but as she went to install the dates and times from the separate keypad which held the information on an attachable hard drive, it was empty the hard drive had been removed there was no data to add only what

had come from the outside and because of the length of the experiment she still had two days to remain in the canister.

Then information started to come through on the system there was movement around the galaxy they had been measuring the timescale from it was showing time falling away from the galaxy in the shape of a black hole and with no time recorded from her side Lucy was stuck in a wormhole. with no idea of how long she had been in there or how long she would be in there.

It was like taking down your days in prison in solitary confinement then they are erased and you have no concept of time at all and it is being distorted, there is nothing no concept of where you are.

She was screaming and calling to her team to let her out, but there was no response, this went on for some time, according to the date and time on the monitors she was ten years in the future time was distorted and she was trapped. Then the door started to open and Mark walked in and grabbed her arm before she could get out.

"Don't look out there everyone has changed most have died of old age things have changed too much for your kind to comprehend, I did warn you not to meddle in what you don't understand I had to erase all your time so that you could not connect with our galaxy, your civilisation is too destructive to and I will not allow them to be destroyed for the sake of a glorious return and endeavour of a single human, unfortunately, I will now have to take you with me and maybe one day you will return with tales of our world and maybe not."

"Her screams echoed around the container as everything went black".