Time Stream Paradox

Alys, an A clone, Kyrt

 Having just explored a list of 20 time travel stories that were published by Isaac Asimov, temporal paradoxes are on my mind. Back in 2021, I had begun to explore the Sedron Time Stream as a source of information about the future that exists in the Final Reality after physical time travel is no longer possible. Eddy is one of the people who has the type of telepathic ability that can be used to "transmit" information from the future to the past by way of the Sedron Time Stream. Eddy began having "visions" of future events and he was compelled to write the first part of The Cythyrya Investigation, what I called a prelude.

In that prelude to the The Cythyrya Investigation, Rylla visited Alys Wroke on the planet Aloysyus and met her son, who had inside his body some of the nanites that had formerly been inside Howard Alan Treesong. Rylla is using the Reality Simulation System to search for programmable nanites that might be able to reactivate the teleportation equipment at Observer Base.

Three A clones.

 Let's Split Up. Eddy suspects that both Rey and Alys are a femtobot replicoids and a copies of R. Lynscot, a probot agent for Nyrtia who originated as a positronic robot in the First Reality. The idea that Alys is an artificial life-form is surprising to Rylla, because Aloysyus had previously been investigated by Rey, who had located the house of Alys and Kyrt Gersen. However, without mentioning that Alys looks like Rey (except for the red hair) Rey had asked Rylla to visit Alys while Rey went in search of Kyrt, who was visiting the planet Sogdian.

Alys' son, Jym, is also an artificial life, form, a niaf, who carries inside his body some of the Treesong infites. More recently, Eddy has become aware of femtozoans, so he would say that both Alys and Jym were formed as artificial life-forms under the guidance and control of a femtozoan.

 Telepathy. One of the ideas that I explored in The Cythyrya Investigation was telepathy could be used for communication between people in the Final Reality and simulated people inside the Reality Simulation System. Rey had been brought into the Final Reality from the Ekcolir Reality Simulation, where Rey had functioned as an agent for Nyrtia.

Marda the A clone.

In the second part of The Cythyrya Investigation, I reversed the usual process of extracting simulated intelligences like Rey from the Reality Simulation System. When a clone (Jutta) of Jyryl Tynzy shows up on Eddy's doorstep in the Final Reality, an effort is made to find a place for her and her cloned sisters inside the Reality Simulation System. 

 The Cythyrya Investigation was also the story where I introduced Tyhry's pet, Qyla the cat. Working with Jutta inside the Asimov Reality Simulation, Rylla discovered that Jyryl Tynzy's body had contained a femtozoan that created a telepathic linkage to Viole Falushe, leading to his obsession with her. The search for nanites that had been used to control the behavior of Viole Falushe and Howard Treesong eventually led Rylla to Aloysyus, as described in Part 1 of The Cythyrya Investigation. Rey ended up with the Tynzy femtozoan.

Tya in G-World

Eventually, as described in Part 3 of The Cythyrya Investigation, with the help of chemical substances that stimulated the growth of tryp'At neural circuits in Eddy's brain, his ability to use the Sedron Time Stream for learning about the future was increased. Eddy began receiving information from a woman of the far future named Rytya. In addition to Nyrtia's agents Rey and Alys, Eddy realizes that the mother of the Atlantis Clones, Marta, was another one of Nyrtia's deployed Lynscot-model probots. Rytya (another A clone in the far future of the Final Reality) was able to transmit information from the future by way of the Sedron Time Stream to Mata's daughter, Angela Fersoni. Some of that information ended up getting passed to Eddy by means of infites, and those old infite-mediated memories get re-activated inside Eddy, allowing him to tell the story of G-World.

 Immortality. I'm agnostic with respect to the question of whether the niaf Jym from Part 1 of The Cythyrya Investigation is the robot Jymyny who appears as a character in Part 3. However, readers should be comfortable with the idea of articial life-forms who are essentially immortal. Also, when the clones of Jyryl Tynzy are assembled in one place, they have boosted telepathic ability and Rylla notices that their telepathic mind pattern is that of her daughter, Marda.

Tya

I did not write Part 4 of The Cythyrya Investigation until here in 2025. Jack Vance wrote stories that included both "Zodiac" and the secretive Institute. A character in Part 4 is Lyza, an agent of the bumpha working for the Zodyac scientific investigative team and trying to liberate Humanity from the technological stasis that has been imposed by Nyrtia in the space age of the Asimov Reality. The bumpha tool for breaking the Bimanoid Interface became known as the femtozoan, a form of artificial life that could re-program a person's Phari endosymbiont.

 Part 4 of The Cythyrya Investigation introduced Irosh, a bumpha from the Asimov Reality. While trying to attract the attention of Nyrtia, Irosh allows Rey to telepathically link to both Rytya in the far future and an alien species called the Felydyans. Irosh works with Manny to transfer the femtozoan that Rey had obtained from a clone of Jyryl Tynzy and inserted it into Qyla the cat. Later, that femtozoan would provide Tyhry with the knowledge of how to contact the Felydyans. Only them would the teleportation equipment at Observer Base finally be repaired. 

Two X clones.

 Part 5 of The Cythyrya Investigation finally closes the time loop (preventing any potential Sedron Time Stream-generated paradox), explaining how Rytya was able to send back into the past the information that Tyhry needed to repair the teleportation equipment at Observer Base. That Rytya knew exactly what information was needed in the past was due to the fact that Tyhry, living as an artificial life-form, was able to live 20,000 years into the future and find Rytya.

After completing The Cythyrya Investigation, in July, I posted a new story about telekinesis called "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons". I had begun that story several years previously (in 2023), but had set it aside until finally publishing it here in 2025. Then I got distracted by Claude and wrote a story called ExMo, and I never finished Part 2 of my telekinesis story. Now, here in November, I finally return to Part 2 of "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons".

Since posting Part 1 of "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons" in July, I've had one chance to think about telekinesis: in the context of flying dragons that were "explained" as self-levitation by telekinesis (see my September blog post called "Serpentoids in Science Fiction").

An X clone.

When I began writing "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons", one of the topics that I was concerned with in addition to the Sedron Time Stream was the fact that copies of Tyhry and Marda had long been present in other Realities of Time, before the Final Reality. I began describing copies of Tyhry as being "X clones" while copies of Marda were "A clones". I adopted this strategy because unlike the situation for analogues, there could be multiple X clones and A clones deployed in a single Reality as interventionist agents.

 Below on this page is Part 2 of a science fiction story called "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons" (see Part 1). In the past, starting about ten years ago, I have frequently imagined that information nanites (infites) as a way to transfer ideas and memories into the minds of people. Now, in analogy to infites, I introduce "kinites", a special type of femtobot that can make possible technology-assisted telekinesis.

In his time travel novel, The End of Eternity, Isaac Asimov introduced the idea of Eternals who found it necessary to change the course of time so as to deprive humans of some technological advances. Similarly, for "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons", I imagine that the bumpha are reluctant to allow humans to attain telekinetic abilities. However, when humans first begin experimenting with hierions and femtobots, it is quite easy for those bumbling humans to attain technology-assisted telekinetic abilities.

Delpha and Grean

Repeatedly, the bumpha need to step in and prevent the spread of telekinetic ability among humans. Towards that end, Manny the bumpha often takes the form of Delpha the Kac'hin when she must extract a human from Earth after they have discovered how easy it is to exercise telekinetic powers. Thus, when "Delpha" appears in Part 2 of "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons" (below), it is actually Manny the bumpha disguised as Delpha.

Among the easiest hierions for humans to obtain and recognize are a type of negative mass hierion. By placing kinites inside an object, it is possible to rapidly shift negative mass hierions between the Hierion Domain and the Hadron Domain, almost instantly altering the weight of the object, allowing for levitation and even the type of flight that is used by the synpaz who reside at Observer Base. Unfortunately for the synpaz, they do not understand the physical basis for their ability to fly, until Artep is guided to the truth (see Part 1 of "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons"). The events in Part 2 (below) continue from the end of Part 1.

Part 2 of "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons" (read Part 1)

Robyn asked, "Why did Crimson get removed from Earth?"

 Grean shrugged. "I don't know. Crimson was another extraction performed by Delpha."

For a moment, Grean imagined that Delpha was the tool of the bumpha, always being used to remove from Earth anyone who accidentally stumbled upon the truth about femtobot-mediated telekinesis. However, there were memory-editing infites inside Grean's brain that quickly made her forget about that idea. Suddenly Grean was feeling very horny and she began stroking Asimov's erect penis that was still making a big lump in his clothing."

Robyn said, "You two should get a room."

Grean took her hands off of Asimov's pants. "Sorry, but Isaac is distracting me. You see, Robyn, this is the danger of going around using telekinesis. It leads to trouble."

Robyn said, "Isaac was sticking his nose in my business, so I gave him a little demonstration of my telekinetic ability. My only mistake was in not finishing the job and giving him an orgasm."

Now Grean was curious about the case of Crimson Cloukey. She activated the Viewer function of the Reality Simulation System that was there in Grean's workshop. "Let's see Crimson's last minute on Earth."

Pytra Jynkwylt
human-Felydyan hybrid

The Viewer activated and Delpha could be seen there on Earth with Crimson and Delpha was saying, "You can't go around using telekinesis for selfish personal reasons. What were you thinking?"

Crimson said, "I just wanted to get a story published. That's also part of my mission, beyond applied telekinesis for fusion."

"Well, now that you've completed your main objective, I'll have to take you off of Earth. You've demonstrated that you are now a liability. And your knowledge of hierions is now needed in High Seelie."

Crimson asked, "High Seelie?"

"You'll see. It is inside Observer Base and the site of a technology development project that needs to be finished before the Final Reality Change." Delpha activated the teleportation recall function and both she and Crimson seemingly disappeared.

Grean turned off the Viewer and mused, "I wonder how Crimson used telekinesis for 'selfish personal reasons'..." Using the control interface of the Reality Simulation System, Grean initiated a search, going further back in time.

 Asimov asked, "What is that technology development project in High Seelie?"

Grean told Isaac, "You are flirting with temporal paradox. You can't know you own future at the time of the Final Reality Change."

Asimov asked skeptically, "But you can?"

Grean explained, "That's right. I won't be here when the Final Reality comes into existence, so I'm not under the same sort of Time Paradox constraint. Any how, look here." Now on the Viewer were images of an earlier time when Crimson was inside a noisy printing shop, filling out a job application. Then a file folder emerged from her handbag, floated through the air, and went out of the viewable image. Grean again inactivated the Viewer. "Strange." Grean turned to Robyn, "How would you like to visit Crimson? I'd like to know what she thought she was doing by so brazenly using telekinesis on Earth."

Robyn asked, "What do you mean, 'visit Crimson'? You want me to go to High Seelie? You are going to trap me there along with Crimson?"

Grean giggled, but it was Asimov who explained, "This device can place us inside a simulation of Earth. We can visit with Crimson inside the Simulation."

Grean shook her head, "Don't complicate things, Isaac. If you went into the Simulation to meet Crimson, you might run into your analogue. He's in New York with Crimson."

Asimov insisted, "It is just a simulation. What would it matter if I met myself? But what I'd like to see is the society of telepaths that formed the galaxy-spanning group mind of Galaxia. Is it true that the telepaths of Galaxia had telekinetic abilities?" 

Grean shrugged and replied, "I've never concerned myself with the far futures of all of the past Realities of Deep time. I was trained for a specific mission; helping create a good Final Reality for Humanity. We are now close to the Reality Change that will bring into existence the Final Reality. That's is what I must remain focused on."

Robyn asked Grean, "What would you have me do? Just pretend that I have not obtained telekinetic powers?"

Grean giggled. "You are an interesting case, Robyn. I expect that my friend Delpha will show up soon and handle your case."

"That's all I am, another 'case'?"

Just then, Delpha arrived in the Workshop, passing through the portal from the upwhen. Delpha gave Grean hug and the two Kac'hin shared a heated open mouth kiss. Then Delpha told Robyn, "I've examined the shape of your future. If you want answers, I can give you access to the Reality Simulation System." Delpha patted Grean's cute bottom, "And you can get back to your work."

Without speaking a word, Grean teleported herself out of the Workshop, telepathically telling Delpha: Thank you for dealing with this distraction.

Looking at the bulge in Asimov's clothing where his erect penis was pushing out against the fabric of his clothing, Delpha asked Asimov, "Would you like me to deal with your little problem or are you two ready to explore the past?"

Asimov replied, "Just tell Robyn to finish the job and stop teasing me."

Robyn reported, "I'm sorry Isaac, but you are not like my husband. I can give him orgasms, but you seem resistant to my charms."

Delpha explained, "Robyn, for your mission on Earth, you were given special access to your husband's mind by means of the Bimanoid Interface. In fact, you two are mind clones and you share half of your telepathic mind pattern. Sadly, you can only use your limited telekinetic powers to tease other men such as Asimov with gentle nudges of their bodies."

Asimov told Robyn, "So enough already. You have made your point. Stop stimulating my genitals."

Robyn said, "I did stop, before we even entered the Workshop."

"That's not true. I still feel you sucking on the tip of my penis."

"I am not."

Delpha held up her hands. "I see what has happened. Robyn does not really know how she is able to wield her telekinetic powers. Allow me to explain. Robyn was able to send a swarm of kinites into your body Isaac, and they are still there. This is one of the very good reasons why humans cannot be allowed to use telekinesis." Delpha waved a hand and Asimov's clothing was removed by her clothing nanites. She took hold of Asimov's stiff erection and told him, "In essence, Robyn requested that a swarm of kinites give you what felt like a blow job and they will continue to follow that program. This is actually a program that was developed for use by some human variants such as the tryp'At who need to maintain continual penile erections as part of having full use of their telepathic abilities." Delpha kissed the tip of Asimov's penis and licked off some of the dribbling emission fluid.

Asimov was by this time quite desperate to achieve sexual climax. He took hold of the shaft of his penis and began stroking it. "Fascinating. What is the term you used? Kinites?"

"Yes, kinites, analogous to infites." Delpha was actually Manny the bumpha in disguise. Manny sent her own zeptites into Asimov's penis and they inactivated the kinites that Robyn had sent into his penis."

Asimov said, "Ah, the kinite-mediated genital stimulation just stopped." 

Delpha returned Asimov's clothing nanites to his control and he covered up his erection. She said, "Now that I have dealt with that little distraction, where should we go first? To witness Galaxian telekinesis or should we visit Crimson on Earth and see what use she made of her telekinetic ability? After she pulled that little stunt, I had to remove her from Earth."

Robyn said, "I am curious to see how Chrimson got herself into trouble."

Asimov said, "And I want to see Galaxia."

Jeesonpazy kinite experiment.

Delpha shrugged and split herself in two. One copy of Delpha took Robyn by the hand and they passed through the Reality Simulation portal and went to Earth. The other copy of Delpha gently stroked Asimov's still semi-erect penis and asked, "Would you like to share a little orgasm with me first?"

Asimov insisted, "I've spent much effort trying to imagine Galaxia. I'm ready to visit the far future of the Foundation Reality."

Delpha complained, "The Kac'hin have an old bit of folk wisdom: never waste an erection." She altered the targeting of the Reality Simulation System and took Asimov into the Foundation Reality Simulation.

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Delpha and Robyn arrived on Earth. They were in a dimly lit parking lot in front of a one story industrial building. Emerging from the building was the low rumble of paper cutting and printing machines at work. Delpha led Robyn to the front door. "Crimson is inside." When Delpha opened the door, Robyn saw that electrical tape was covering the lock mechanism. They found Crimson standing on a chair beneath a ventilation conduit that she had opened. Delpha called to Crimson, "Hello, Crimson."

Crimson looked down at Delpha and Robyn and she seemed startled by Grean's alien appearance. She asked, "Who are you?"

Delpha replied, "I'm Delpha, and yes, I'm not quite human. I'm a Kac'hin. This is my friend Robyn. We are here to observe how you are using telekinesis to get your story published."

The leather case that Crimson was holding drifted upwards, riding out of her hands and it disappeared into the ventilation shaft. Crimson closed up the conduit and jumped off the chair. While sliding the chair back to its original location, she said, "I'm just adding the proofs of my story to this printing run."

Robyn said, "Clever! So your story was rejected, but you are getting it published anyhow."

Sopha

Crimson nodded and led the way out of the building. "It should be interesting to see Sopha's reaction when she sees my story in the net issue of Rational Wonder Stories." The three women walked down a dark alley and arrived at Crimson's car. She told Delpha, "I wish you would tell me where you came from and what you are doing. Apparently, you are not going to stop me from altering the contents of the magazine."

Delpha smiled enigmatically, "Apparently not." Manny did not bother to explain that she had already intercepted the proofs of Crimson's story. That story certainly could not be allowed to be read by people on Earth.

Robyn asked Crimson, "How long have you had your telekinetic abilities. Were you born with them?"

They got into the car and when they were moving down the highway, Crimson explained, "I believe that my use of hierion-composites must be to blame. I wonder if I've contaminated my brain with hierion matter, triggering some latent telekinetic ability. Anyhow, that speculative theory is the basis of my science fiction story which you will be able to read in the next issue of the magazine." She glanced again at Delph'a alien features. "I suppose my next story will have to be about you."

Delpha chuckled. "I enjoy it when people write stories about me. Usually I don't get proper recognition for my work."

Arriving at her combined home and physics research laboratory, Crimson discovered that Sopha and a team of New England Security Police were inside her laboratory. Crimson muttered, "I believe that's Sopha's car. Stepping out of her car, Crimson was immediately confronted by a NESP agent who took her arm and spoke into a radio transmitter, "Dr. Fynthryp is here."

A voice was heard coming from the communicator, "Bring her inside."

Robyn and Delpha followed along behind Crimson and the NESP agent. Delpha used her clothing nanites to form a hijab to cover her pointed ears. When Crimson saw Sopha she asked, "How did you find my lab?"

The lead NESP investigator was a very tall woman with narrow hips and long flowing hair that tumbled down the back of her black uniform. She replied, "Your mistake was mentioning fusion power in your cover letter to Sopha when you submitted your story to Rational Wonder Stories. You used a false name, but there are not many scientists who have published on fusion power generation. It was not hard to link you to the P.O. box that you used as your return address."

Sopha gestured towards the bulky equipment that stood in one corner of the laboratory and asked Crimson, "Is this really-"

The NESP investigator held a hand out towards Sopha, silencing her. With her other hand, she held out her identification badge towards Crimson. "I'm inspector Lysuelle of the NESP. Who are these two?" Lysuelle gestured towards Delpha and Robyn.

Robyn said, "I'm here to find out how Crimson was using kinites on Earth." She gestured towards Delpha and said, "I'm Robyn and this is Delpha."

Lysuelle and Crimson both asked, "Kinites?"

Delpha said, "Crimson, Nyrtia provided you with kinites, they are the what allows your home-made device to harness fusion power." She waved a hand towards the fusion power generator that was in the corner of the laboratory.

Crimson asked, "What did you say? Nyrtia?"

Lysuelle asked, "Who is Nyrtia?"

Paz hybridization experiment.

Just then, Isaac Asimov came into the laboratory from Crimson's office which was where Crimson did her science fiction writing. He was holding and sorting through a set of papers and said called out to Sopha, "I found what looks like a story describing how she built this device." He looked up and finally saw Delpha and Robyn. "It is a fusion power generator."

Sopha asked Asimov, "How can a fusion power generator be so small?" She turned to Crimson and asked, "Does it use laser-based implosion?"

Lysuelle complained, "None of you have signed the anti-nuclear weapons pledge, you should not be exchanging information about nucleonics."

Asimov laughed at Lysuelle and said, "I'm not a physicist, but even I know about the World Nuclear Power Consortium. I've long wondered why we don't have nuclear power plants. Does the NESP shut down all research on fusion power?"

Lysuelle shook her head, "Of course not. The tokamak plasma experiments are public."

Asimov gestured towards the device in the corner of the room and asked Crimson, "Clearly this is too small to be a plasma confinement device. We detected no powerful magnetic fields. How does it work? I saw in your notes... mention of 'hierions'. What are they?"

 Crimson hesitated to reply and Lysuelle said, "You better tell us what's going on here."

Crimson said, "This is exactly the kind of bullying that I hoped to avoid by introducing the world -science fiction fans, in particular- to technology-assisted levitation."

Lysuelle waved her hand dismissively at Crimson and said, "Don't muddy the waters with that Sci Fi nonsense about levitation. Tell me how this fusion power generator works. It is feeding electrical power into the grid even now, is it not?"

Illustration for Rational
Wonder Stories magazine.

Crimson took two steps forward and grabbed hold of Lysuelle's arm. Then the two woman floated off the ground and hovered in midair, jut below the ceiling lights. Crimson asked Lysuelle, "This is what you call nonsense?"

Lysuelle's beautiful hair was swirling around her head and neck. She sputtered, "Is this a trick?"

Crimson laughed and used her telekinetic ability to massage Lysuelle's genitals. Crimson asked, "What kind of tricks would you like me to provide?"

Lysuelle demanded, "Stop that! Put me down!"

Crimson asked, "Why should I? You broke into my private residence. I demand a formal apology." Crimson returned herself to the floor, but allowed Lysuelle to remain suspended in the air. Asimov pulled over a chair, reached up, got hold of one of Lysuelle's feet and pulled her down. "Amazing! You seem to have no significant weight and very little inertia."

Delpha could not suppress a chuckle. Asimov looked at Delpha and now he could see her face in better light. "What the hell?" He let go of Lysuelle and approached Delpha. He pushed back Delpha's head scarf, revealing her alien features. "What are you?"

Delpha explained, "I am Kac'hin, a human variant. I brought Robyn here to satisfy her curiosity and show her the kind of trouble that can arise from allowing humans to have access to advanced technology for telekinesis."

Robyn told Delpha, "Okay, I get it." And Delpha took herself and Robyn out of the Simulation and back to Grean's workshop.

___________END PART 2_______

Next: Part 3 of "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons".

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