So you think writing sci-fi about time travel isn't easy? OK, you want sci-fi, you got it. The following is all fiction:-

Denzil Haynes was a crackpot inventer who owned over a thousand acres of relative wilderness in Colorado. One of the things he'd invented was a metal detector for locating small Gold deposits which he often used for fun when following a creek on his property.

One Wednesday he was trying his luck on a sandbank when his detector went crazy. He dug down and down but found no gold, he'd thought he'd find some nuggets when he got down to the gravel layer but he found nothing but the detector was still reacting. He dug through the gravel layer and came to what looked like White clay and the detector was still going crackers. He checked some of the White clay substance and the detector reacted to it. After panning through it he still found no Gold so in disgust he thought his detector had gone faulty so he just found some sticks and wood, lit a fire and heated a can of beans and made some coffee.

When he was done, he decided to go back home to fix his detector but first he filled in the big hole he'd dug and put out his fire by shovelling the embers in to the creek.

He saw that some of the White clay stuff was clinging to his shovel and thought with the heat from the embers of his fire the clay would have fallen off so to help it on his way, he banged the shovel on a rock. To his shock and surprise, there was a huge bang and the shovel flew out of his hands and off in to heck knows where. In his surprise he didn't see which way it went and as he couldn't find it, he just went home.

On the Saturday following he was just idly reading news reports on his computer when he saw a headline "Three people killed by a shovel". He read the report about the incident in White River City, many miles away. It seems a shovel had flown through the windscreen of a car, decapitated the driver, the car then crashing in to a truck killing the other two passengers. The photo of the shovel clearly showed his intitial he'd burned in to the handle.

Shocked, he called his brother, Will who worked at Los Alamos on a nuclear programme. After talking about what had happened Will decided to drive over to check out the White clay. On Sunday, the brothers went out to the site again and dug up some more of the White stuff. Denzil did the same as before, shovelled some fire embers and banged the shovel and sure enough that one took off too.

To cut an even longer story short, after Will had taken a sample of the White stuff back to Los Alamos, it was found to be a completely unknown substance which reacted when heated and pressurised. Really small amounts turned out to be capable of powering really large craft and during a big reaction, craft moved so fast they warped Space and Time.

It had been remarked that the new substance behaved like the science fiction reaction of deuterium and dilithium but without the need for the high frequency electro-magnetic field. However, more and more power was released as the temperature and pressure rose. During travel in an induced warp drive occupants of the craft found that they'd entered the World in another future dimension and on their return they were able to predict what was about to happen on earth. Attempts to change things just didn't work and further work on craft and drive engines are ongoing........

There we go, pick holes in that lot?