Pangborn's paradox

At Miskatonic University, the faculty’s after-hours debates range from Latin insults to the practical consequences of murdering one’s own grandfather. When pompous physicist Pangborn insists that temporal paradoxes are merely misunderstood possibilities, his colleagues challenge him to prove it. Soon, an argument over whiskey and logic leads to an extraordinary offer: Pangborn will use the university’s experimental time machine to visit the past and test the famous paradox himself.

Observed by a skeptical group of professors—including a hidden poet, a bearded historian, and a narrator more interested in betting than theory—Pangborn enters the Physics department’s mysterious temporal transducer. His destination is personal, his confidence absolute, and the potential consequences impossible to predict. With dry humor, academic eccentricity, and a steadily tightening sense of danger, this witty science-fiction tale explores what happens when an abstract thought experiment becomes an experiment no one can safely take back.