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transmission until 1799, and even that was only in Watt code."

"Some people would say aliens."

"Steven if it was aliens who provided the Tyndale brothers with all their inventions and laws of physics, it
would cause a sensation."

"Ah, and that's it. Alien contact is the bait to lure us into questioning the Tynedales."

The trouble with my husband was that his eccentricity merged into his sense of humour. At some point,
the worst of nonsense shared common ground with what he considered to be a real possibility.

"Steven, as a professor of theoretical physics I can give you any number of other explanations. As a
person with a lot more common sense than you I can make quite a few suggestions too."
"Name oneтАФas a person," he said, folding his arms and pouting theatrically.

"The Tynedale brothers did this hoax themselves, as some sort of joke," I suggested.

This was a little too plausible for my husband.

"All right then, name another, but this time as a professor of physics."

"Temporal entanglement."

"What? You mean like the quantum entanglement radios the astronauts are using on Europa to
communicate instantly with Earth."

"Faster than light, not instantly," I said automatically. "It's spatial entanglement, but just suppose there
could be temporal entanglement too. This sword could be entangled with itself, but in an earlier century.
Whatever radio transmissions it picks up in 2004 are also picked up by the sword in 1404."

"Preposterous."

"Oh yes, just like your alien theory."

"My alien hoax conspiracy theory, let us be precise about this."

"Well we have a way of testing it. The brothers would have been paying the sword very close attention if
it had suddenly spoken. I shall prepare a little tutorial in thermodynamics, throw in Galvani's technique for
measuring the speed of light, and then give an explanation of Faraday's Law of Relativity. Actually, I
ought to include some mathematics as well, or they will not be able to make anything of it. I could give
them the technology to make a primitive battery, and even instructions for an electric motor. Perhaps
instructions for building a simple spark gap radio transmitter, too."

"All right, all right, for once you have out-weirded even me. What is the point?"

"All of that will appear in their writings, and in this journal."

"But history will have been changed. What will have been proved?"