Tomando a novela oficial para ' Terminator: Ascensão das Máquinas ' como canon, humanidade na verdade fez alguns avanços bastante impressionantes em pesquisa e desenvolvimento. Isso incluiu a construção de sua própria máquina do tempo antes que o Dia do Julgamento ( adiado ) ocorresse em 2003.
But a grad student at Oxford had developed a mathematics model to meld
Einstein's relativity with Heisen-berg's quantum mechanics, creating a
ten-dimensional wormhole at the superstring level. It would be a
passageway that would automatically expand exponentially like a virus
gone wild. But only so long as power was applied to what was thought
of as an artificial singularity. In the mid nineties, under the guise
of the launchings of dozens of military and NSA technical means
satellites, a solar sail made of extremely thin Mylar, two hundred
kilometers on a side, was positioned in an extremely rare
geosynchronous orbit that kept it stationary over the north pole. When
it was spotted it was thought to be nothing more than an aurora
borealis.
The sail focused sunlight, beaming it to the reception antenna and
singularity equipment at the CRS facility. Capable of transmitting
several hundred terawatts of energy over time periods of less than one
nanosecond, the wormhole was opened.
Through that brief passageway, objects could be sent backward in time,
and theoretically, though it had never been tried before, forward in
time. The twin of this machine was buried deep inside Nav-ajo
Mountain. One under human control and the other under Skynet control.