Split Second (Split Second, #1)

by Douglas E. Richards

When you’re moving at the speed of light through space, you stop moving through time. It stops completely. It turns out that your speed through space, combined with your speed through time, always adds up to the speed of light.”

“The same should be true of time. Why is this instant, this now, privileged? Why is it any more real than the instant you experienced years ago, or will experience years in the future? It’s all there, all of time, already laid out in its entirety, our consciousness just isn’t designed to see it. Einstein wrote that for physicists like himself, the distinction between past, present, and future was only a stubborn illusion. And we’re talking about the entire life of the universe. From the big bang to the universe’s death, it’s all laid out.

Presidents could be fickle and arbitrary. Each new one with wildly different visions and priorities. And when all was said and done, they were nothing more than civilians who managed to get donors excited enough to give them money, and then win a popularity contest. They weren’t the smartest or best trained that humanity had to offer, and they didn’t have the best judgment. The truly brilliant, truly gifted, wanted little to do with politics.