Newton’s Apple Cut Scene
Time travel has been a trifling obsession of mine since the age of 8. In fairly short succession at that impressionable age, I was introduced to Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder, the film version of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, Time Bandits, and reruns of The Time Tunnel TV series from the 1960’s. A cursory academic investigation soon followed with discovery of Einstein’s theories regarding relativity and potential forward time travel as well as Schrödinger’s Cat theory and other fanciful concepts dealing with worm holes, the multi-verse, and alternate realities. My developing brain spent a lot of energy meditating over the dreams of time travel.
In this short story, I wanted to indulge my inner 8 year old, without over-indulging. I did manage to touch on something I feel is often overlooked when considering time travel: the relation between space, as a location, and time travel. But other bits of the character’s time travel discussion were cut out of various drafts of the script.
The last draft of the script did have a few elements of tangent dialogue I didn’t cut until I began to illustrate the story, realizing they dragged down the pacing too much.
To indulge my inner child/ nerd, I present the cut script here. This would have gone on page 4:
