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face.
    “I’m so not going back to the hospital tonight. Weird stuff going on there. I think there might be some dangerous gases in those tunnels.”
    “Let’s say the train could move a third of the speed of light. An observer standing at the side of the road would still observe the light traveling 186,000 m.p.s. How is this paradox explained in view of the v=d/t?”
    “Come on Kizzy,” Franky urged. “We have to go back there and destroy the BQs. Billy and Quinn are just too obnoxious for words.”
    “The solution is that time…and even possibly distance…is relative for each observer,” Mr. Hutson said. “It is from this theory that the concept of time travel becomes possible.”
    A hand went up from the kid in the seat in front of me. Mike something. A know-it-all.
    “But what if someone went back in time and killed his own great grandfather?” Mike asked. “Wouldn’t that mean that he never existed? So if he never existed how could he travel back in time and kill his great grandfather?”
    “Actually, that idea is called the grandfather paradox.” Mr. Hutson smiled.
    “The mc² will need you since Chase and I are going on a date and won’t be there. You gotta go.” Petra spoke over my shoulder from her seat behind me.
    I held up my textbook again. “At least you guys should go somewhere else other than the hospital to battle the BQs. I’m telling you there’s something funky in those tunnels that plays with your mind.”
    “You mean like you get high?” Chase asked from his seat next to Petra. “That’s so cool!”
    “I guess it would be okay to do the race someplace else,” Senji said. “The railroad roundhouse is awesome. We can go there instead. I’ll tell Billy.”
    Mr. Hutson continued to drone. “The grandfather paradox and the theory of relativity have both been used to prove that travel back in time is not possible. In other words, time travel is possible, but only one-way. To the future.”
    "So if we make it another place, you’ll be there. Right?” Franky asked.
    “No. I can’t make it tonight,” I reluctantly revealed.
    “Other scientists theorize time travel to the past is possible ,” Mr. Hutson added. “And that if I traveled to the past before my birth and I killed my grandfather, I would not necessarily disappear. Instead I would continue to exist and two separate timelines would be created, one for each of two separate dimensions.
    “Why can’t you make it, Kizzy?” Franky demanded.
    “I’m going on a date with Rom.”
    “What?” Petra exclaimed with pleasure.
    “What?” Franky asked with an agonized tone.
    “What?” Senji asked in disbelief.
    “I’m not going spelunking,” I said. “I’m going on a date.”
    “Anyway. Back to relativity.” Mr. Hutson returned to the chalkboard and drew a large circle designating the earth. “Theoretically if a spaceship took you to a distant planet and back to earth at the speed of light, for you only two years may have passed. But on earth, twenty.”
    “What about wormholes?” Mike something asked.
    “Wormholes weren’t theorized by Einstein. That's a subject for another day.”
    “Break that date, Kizzy,” Senji said. “We need you.”
    Chase chimed in, “I guess I could give up my date to support the crew.”
    “What?” Petra squawked. Man, did she sound incensed.
    “We can go on our date another day, sweetie," Chase stated. "Mc² needs us. But I want to go back to the hospital, Senji.”
    “You don’t care about missing our date?” Petra asked.
    “I care about beating the BQs too,” Chase replied.
    “Yeah, like you cared a lot last night. You didn’t even race,” I observed. “You just stood around snogging with Petra.”
      “Chase is giving up his date for the crew,” Franky pointed out. “That’s major. You should give up your date too, Kizzy.”
    “Chase just wants to get high.” My voice rose. “I’m not missing my date with Rom. Is that clear enough?”
    “Very clear,