Temporal Reconstruction had been around
for about a decade. It wasn't strictly time travel, it was more like
time duplication. Through super-string resonance, a boat load of
calculations and enough raw material, they could make a quantum
accurate mirror of any point in time.
Normally the lab worked from a test
area about 15m to a side. It was sufficient to cover an average
person's working area, at least as long as the quantum duplicate
would last. Without an active connection to the original – during
which time they did exactly as the target did, they would typically
degrade after as little as half an hour. Even at their best, the
facsimiles would be like talking to someone extremely distracted.
Something about life made it more than the sum of it's parts.
Scans showed that what they recreated
didn't have the ability to learn or adapt. It seemed that they were
more like robots than people. While they could respond to questions
it was found that it had much greater success if they person involved
had be asked something similar before in their native time.
Except for one subject...
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