I hit a pretty odd speed bump in my attempt to figure out time travel. A scientist, Alexi Kaszmyric, wrote a paper on theoretical cold fusion. As far as I can tell it hasn’t panned out still, but there were some interesting implications that came about in the subsequent experiments. One of them is that when they work on the process, they seem to supercharge certain particles, and many of them may become tachyons.
I need to talk to Kaszmyric, talk through the implications and work on a couple of the practicality issues involved. But he’s a Soviet scientist, and all trace of him disappears in seven months. His research will be a massive step forward to my own process, but if I don’t figure out how to talk to him in the next seven months, it will be too late.
I brought it up to Elliot, and he said he was familiar with Kaszmyric’s research as well. In a rare moment of openness about the information he’s sitting on about the future, he told me that he actually knows where Kaszmyric’s last public appearance is outside of USSR territory.
On August 4th, Kaszmyric will speak on the third day of the Lucerne Applied Physics conference. Elliot is going to fly into Paris, and I’ll fly to Rome, and work our way up to Lucerne the week before. Our hope is that we can figure out a way to at least meet Kaszmyric, but if he’s going to be disappeared in the weeks after, we want to do more. The trouble is figuring out exactly what we can do.
Elliot is brainstorming how to get him out of Lucerne and then Switzerland altogether before his handlers even realize he’s gone.
If we get caught, we’re in deep shit. But we need him, and we can’t just let them discard of him after we get what we need.
Michael Christopher Cole 
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