Reddit reviews Split Second (Split Second Book 1)

Split Second

Technically it's time travel but it's used more as duplication - it's all explained in the book - great read.

You should really read "Split Second" by Doug Richards. It deals with this very subject, in a very very interesting way.

That was the plot of a book I read. Someone discovered how to time travel. Problem is the time being traveled is very short, 45 microseconds, iirc. What's the usefulness of that? The object being sent back in time 45 microseconds, merely appears in our universe. Since the earth is constantly moving, it appears 58 feet from the original location. The original object being sent back in time remains, so it was actually used as a matter duplication device.

EDIT: The book is Split Second by Douglas E Richards.

There’s a great book called Split Second that deals with this and how sending something back in time for even a fraction of a second results in teleportation

Reminds me of this book I read about time travel. Not like any other movie or show where time travel has already been perfected. It takes place where time travel was just discovered, where they could only go back just a fraction of a second, like 0.0001 milliseconds back. You'd think it was pretty useless.

The thing is it uses the universe as point of origin. So they put you in this time travel chamber, and in relation to the earth's rotation/revolution, going back in time meant you'd be standing like 60 feet away, or where you were standing relative to the universe 0.0001 milliseconds ago. So you slowly begin to understand it's not really a time travel discovery, but more of a duplication technique.

So the military gets a hold of it, they could duplicate multi-billion dollar weapons. Kidnap, clone, have an evac truck like 60 feet away where the VIP used to be in relation to the universe, then interrogate, and kill world leaders (their clone) for secret information. Pretty wild book.

But yeah, this guy's an idiot.