Chapter 358

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From the action of the Time-Turner, the space around was amusingly distorted, and in the blurred outlines of the world, you could see traces of someone's presence. When the work of the Time-Turner was over, the horizon was red outside the window of the headmaster's office, hinting at a very recent sunset. Without wasting a second, I immediately put a complex of concealing charms on myself and headed out of the office. Oddly enough, I had to tell the gargoyle the password to let me out. So the "Pistachio Cream" came in handy.

"It's an interesting feeling from this Time-Turner," Rowena suddenly spoke up.

Did you notice something interesting?

"It so cunningly twisted the space and moved you in it in the manner of a portkey that I am amazed. A lot of things remain unclear, but you will need to ask the headmaster for a device for research."

Do you plan to constantly travel through time?

"It's not about time. Someone obviously accidentally stumbled, as befits wizards of ancient times, on a working algorithm for moving in space, only with a fixed relative coordinate, but along a time dimension. At least that's how I see it."

I see. By the way, I used to wonder why they don't use such a cool thing.

While I was mentally communicating with Rowena, I calmed down, although I could still control myself. But what if I snap? Moreover, even though the headmaster said that there are no consequences as such, but still.

"And how do we know if they are using it or not? Most of the Time-Turners are under the supervision of the Department of Mysteries, according to the books. Of course, if Dumbledore has it — there will be others, but again — how can we know if anyone has used it? The influence of the Time-Turner could not be calculated by an outside observer unless the user revealed himself. For an outsider, everything is going as it should. For everyone, time goes linearly… And for the user too… In general, if you are interested, I believe that everything in this world is predetermined, and no matter how you flutter, you will do exactly what you should, and the choice is an illusion. After all, knowing absolutely all the properties and laws of the universe, you can calculate absolutely any event at any time interval. Unless, of course, there is a variable that did not originate here."

If we start to philosophize on this topic, then such a conversation is unlikely to ever end. Let's leave metaphysics for later and talk about something more… Faster, or what? By the way, can you go into the shadows and find all the participants of the upcoming events?

Clearly feeling the slight outflow of magic, I noticed the shadows slipping under my feet, disappearing into the walls.

"Good, but we can still talk. I've been thinking about the possibilities of portkeys not so long ago, comparing their mechanism with your knowledge about the Alcubierre drive. Well, as far as you remember it at all. By the way, you will definitely need to remember and process various theories about the world order."

Get to the point.

Unnoticed by any of the students I met, I made my way to the Main Tower and stood on one of the flights of stairs so that I was in the center of the circle and Rowena could have an equally good connection with me from anywhere in Hogwarts.

"I'm just drawing various parallels. The portkey also creates a bubble of space, moving it to another place. The apparation deforms the space, bringing the two points as close as possible through an extremely thin puncture. Technically, this, of course, is not a puncture, but it's easier to imagine this way. Now, here is a Time-Turner that creates a region of space around the user but moves this bubble not in space, remaining stationary relative to the reference system "Earth," but shifting it relative to time. But I couldn't understand the configuration of the spatial distortion. But even here, there is nothing surprising — we, in fact, do not know anything at all about the structure of the world. How many dimensions are there? Changes in which of them and to what extent can cause certain changes already in the world and the properties of everything around? To make the same string theory friends with the theory of relativity, you need to consider twenty-six dimensions."

Very exciting, but what are you getting at?

"Even if we assume that absolutely everything can be calculated, and any event can be considered as having already happened, then why will the prophecy witnessed by the wizard necessarily come true, and the one that is not witnessed can be changed? What is Magic? What is this wonderful energy that brings either stability or chaos to the universe?"

Decided to think about the universe?

"In a way. I found the right Slytherins and Hermione. What's the plan?"