"And with this beam, I shall convert the target entirely into tachyons, particles consisting of PURE TIME!"
The journalists and audience oohed and aaahed in appreciation. Because none of them knew enough science to be properly scared shitless. The professor's beam didn't change the nature of particles, it just changed the variables in the equations describing them, and rotated them around a couple of axes the human mind literally can't perceive. Which left few uses for the beam, since it was one way.
Okay, so the military liked it.
At least until it broke and gave the whole world superpowers.
The journalists and audience oohed and aaahed in appreciation. Because none of them knew enough science to be properly scared shitless. The professor's beam didn't change the nature of particles, it just changed the variables in the equations describing them, and rotated them around a couple of axes the human mind literally can't perceive. Which left few uses for the beam, since it was one way.
Okay, so the military liked it.
At least until it broke and gave the whole world superpowers.