Chronus Adventurers

The breakthrough came, as breakthroughs like this frequently do, accidentally, at the end of a nineteen-hour day in an exhausting string of twenty or twenty-one nineteen-hour days in a row.

Supposedly penicillin was discovered after a researcher inadvertently left his lunch, containing cheese, too close to a Petri dish, killing the bacteria being studied with spores from the cheese mold. Cooking with microwaves was discovered during experiments with focused radio energy, which resulted in a melted candy bar in a lunch bag in the lab.

So it happens.

Rick wasn't even researching time travel. He was working on gamma energy and the effects on human tissue when, probably due to his exhaustion and sluggishness, he accidentaly spilled his water based energy drink into the catalyst chamber of the experiment and the tissue analog disappeared.

The gamma ray generator was turned off at the time and it took him some time to deduce that some residual, previously unknown property of the gamma radiation, combining with something in the drink (it turned out to be the proper sodium/potassium mixture) created a Meissner Effect and changed the state of the matter. The calculations took over a year, but in the end he discovered that the residual gamma effect, which he called GSW (gamma string warp), combined properly with a mixture of sodium and potassium in water, in a magnetic field, created a stable Meissner effect and caused time and space in the chamber to warp and coil like a rope or string, so that any moment in time was potentially adjacent to every other moment in time. This allowed matter to move across time and space literally by turning in a properly calculated direction on the X, Y, and Z-axis and moving into the pre-selected adjacent space or moment.

Seven years and thousands of animal and human trials later, the efficacy of time and space travel was not only clear, but the process had been demonstrated to be as safe or safer than automobile travel.

By Presidential directive and under "Top Secret-Presidential Eyes Only" security, a team of highly intelligent, creative thinkers, meeting a very narrow physical and psychological profile was selected for expanded trials and exploration. They are the first. They are:

The Chronus Adventurers!