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Aristus

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9. I suppose one could argue that, rather than fast-forwarding through time,

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #8)

Mon Jan 19, 2026, 02:03 PM

8 hrs ago

The time machine keeps the operator in a kind of conscious, real-time stasis, while time goes by outside at its normal diurnal pace. To the time traveler, it feels like only minutes or hours have passed, instead of centuries and millennia.

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