Scientist and Scooter

Scientist worked day and night in the laboratory,
Didn't leave his place, ate and slept at work,
Because he was obsessed with the idea of time machine,
But he always lacked a little time before the end of the day.

"It would be nice to increase day by a couple of minutes, -
Scientist often dreamed while doing his calculations. -
So I would have enough time to create my time machine,
And there would probably even be some time left!"




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One day, Scientist saw red Scooter near his laboratory.
Scooter was beautiful as lightning and fast as bullet.
Scientist decided to unwind a little and got on Scooter.
"Will it be a problem if I ride once around the building?"

Scientist touched the handle and Scooter took off.
He drove around the building in literally one second,
Or exactly two minutes, to be scientifically accurate.
Scientist drove up to the door of his laboratory and...
And saw exactly the same Scooter driving away,
On which was sitting man with strangely familiar back.

Scientist was no simpleton, he knew quantum mechanics
By heart, therefore, he immediately realized what a miracle
Had happened before his eyes.

While he was riding Scooter, time moved back two minutes,
But the path around the building took two minutes too,
And so, he returned at the same point in time,
From where he just started on Scooter.

The solution was born instantly.
Scientist decided to catch up with himself-second
And order him not to drive around the building,
Then the paradox will close, and everything will be fine.

However, Scientist did not take into account,
That he was racing on Scooter at the speed of bullet,
This means that Scientist-second was also driving very fast,
So Scientist-first couldn’t catch up with him, and what happened?
Oh, something terrible happened!

Scientist-first and Scientist-second drove up to the laboratory
And saw the back of Scientist-third, driving for a new circle.
How do you like that, Herbert Wells?

Scientist should have stopped here,
Because he was not an adventurer,
But passion took over, and he rushed to the third circle
To catch up with Scientist-third (or maybe already fourth)
And explain him not to drive around the building anymore.
But he missed something, because when he returned
To laboratory, he saw not two scientists, (even not three),
But about sixty persons, and all of them looked alike,
And all of them sat on identical scooters.
These people lined up and forced Scientist-first to stop,
And after that the terrible truth was revealed to him.

It turned out that he was wrong to consider himself the first.
At one time each of these people considered himself the first,
But this was a mistake, because the real First Scientist
Disappeared long ago in unknown direction and left here
This damn chrono-scooter, on which his chrono-copy
Always sat down, and as a result, consequences occurred,
That are already known to everyone.

You may ask me how this cautionary tale ended,
And I will answer honestly: it is not ended at all.
Now you will finish reading this fable and look to the left
And see the right ear of a strangely familiar person.
Yes. Yes. We can not do anything with it.
Our world has turned into a chrono-ring,
And it is sliding into the abyss.
Don't forget to turn off the lights.



The original text was written by me in Russian. I haven't studied English systematically so the translation may not be ideal. The main work was done by Google Translate, I just corrected obvious absurdities, where I noticed them and where I did not confuse them with brilliant insights.