Cervantes Magazine number 16: Desynchronized News
Nostalgia seems to be the spark that has set in motion one of the most incredible phenomena of which there is evidence. The teletransportation or teleportation of a person from one point on Earth to another in just a moment.
Science has not yet been able to explain what happened last month between Montreal and Barcelona. A love story in which what science believed possible until now has been turned upside down.
A couple in love lived separated by distance. She, a thirty-two-year-old woman, lived in Montreal, in the Plateau Mont Royal, a neighborhood that she moved to from Barcelona to fulfill her dream of being a videogame designer. He, a man of thirty years, could not leave the country to accompany his girlfriend in his new adventure, due to serious family problems that kept him in the city.
The relationship began four years ago, and they have been separated for more than two. At first they spoke almost every day and traveled to Canada or Spain whenever they could. They tried to do it twice a year, but airline tickets were expensive and soon the travels were less frequent. In spite of the difficulties, the love and the desire that both felt for the other did not diminish and the relationship, although from a distance, continued burning full of hopes and dreams.
However, during the last months, and without her knowing it, he had begun to feel a deep nostalgia that was causing more and more abundantly an inner pain that was growing without ceasing. His social relationships began to falter, each day he left home less often and in recent weeks he barely related to anyone. Although he did not say anything to her, video calls began to take place less and less frequently.
The nostalgia had invaded him completely. He had even stopped going to work, and his family situation did nothing to lift his spirits. So he spent hours locked up at home wishing to meet the woman of his life. He did nothing but desire her company, her presence, her touch, her breath, her hugs. He imagined her smell and evoked the taste of her tongue, her skin, her sex.
Those desires and thoughts the only thing that caused was to increase a nostalgia that had reached limits known by very few people. He felt devastated, broken into a thousand pieces, incomplete as a person. He desperately needed an encounter with her. Even if it was only for a minute, that was enough for him because her absence had become unbearable.
It was then that what we call “the mysteries of the universe” manifested. Somehow she was pushed into a journey through time and space. Suddenly she appeared standing in front of him in the living room of his home in Barcelona. Just a moment before, she was taking a bottle of milk from the refrigerator in her Montreal apartment. However, there she was, in Barcelona, naked, confused, in front of her beloved who was staring at her incredulously while sitting on the sofa.
According to them, the house suffered a sudden rise in temperature that lasted no more than a few seconds. Far from what we can imagine, there was no portal of energy or anything similar. Quite simply, she stopped being in one place and one time to be in another. Nor was it a projection of her or a hallucination of it, since days later she was forced to catch a plane back to Montreal.
The house was filled with scientists who occupied it for three days in a desperate attempt to understand what had happened. The same circumstance occurred in the Montreal apartment. However, researchers have been unable to give an explanation to this strange phenomenon of which there is no doubt. Now the experts wonder if it will not be a more common activity than we think and from which, until now, there have not been any registered cases.
The most solid line of research is based on the deep nostalgia of which the lover was a victim. Theoretical physicists work hand in hand with psychologists and sociologists in their eagerness to discover the causes of this journey that seems like a science fiction novel.
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