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Happy the Dragon and the Shape of Time: Back to the Past

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Part 1.The Discovery |  Part 2.Into the Future  | Part 3. Back to the Past  Happy settled into life in the future. At first, everything fascinated him. Dragons lived among the moons. Machines could think. Rockets crossed distances that had once seemed impossible. But something was missing. His friends. His family. Dr Ash. They had all lived centuries ago. For the first time since beginning his adventure, Happy did not want to discover what came next. He wanted to go back. Happy began asking scientists across Drakonis whether anyone had found a way to travel into the past. Most gave him the same answer. “Impossible.” Then, one day, Happy heard about a small team of scientists researching time travel. Their work had begun with some very familiar names. Dr Ash and Happy the Dragon. Happy could hardly believe it. The notes and discoveries he and Dr Ash had left behind centuries earlier had survived. Generations of scientists had continued their work. Happy immediately went t...
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Happy the Dragon and the Shape of Time: Into the Future

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Part 1.The Discovery |  Part 2.Into the Future  | Part 3. Back to the Past   In the first part of his journey, Happy discovered the power of gravity to slow time, saw how the universe ages, and watched stars dance around a black hole. But seeing the future was not the same as returning to one’s own past. That lingering question of how to go back set Happy’s heart racing once again. A proud Happy excitedly shared his findings with Dr Ash. “Near Earth, the effect is tiny. Near a black hole, it is immense.” Dr Ash listened carefully, then smiled in a way Happy had never seen before. “You have made remarkable progress,” he said. “Far beyond what most young dragons your age ever reach.” Impressed by how deeply Happy now understood time and gravity, Dr Ash decided it was time to introduce him to someone special. A friend of his. A pioneer who built rockets and dreamed of the stars. A wise dragon with a silver beard. His name was Dragon Musk. The pioneer in rocket techno...
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Happy the Dragon and the Shape of Time : The Discovery

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Part 1.The Discovery |  Part 2.Into the Future  | Part 3. Back to the Past    This is a story about a dragon named Happy.   Happy is a goofy little dragon who loves to play with his friends, but his mind is a curious one. He was never satisfied with “now”. He always wondered why, every second, the world slid forward. Trees grew. Mountains wore down. Dragons grew old. Happy could feel it in his wings and bones. He knew, long before anyone explained it to him, that he was travelling through time at exactly one second per second, just like everything else in the universe. That bothered him. He wanted the past. He wanted to see his extinct cousins, the dinosaurs, not as fossils but as living giants shaking the ground. He wanted the future too. Would dragons disappear, or would there be space dragons drifting between stars, or robot dragons forged from metal and light? The elders told him time was a river. You could float with it, never against it. Happ...
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