Timelike Infinity is a
science fiction novel by
Stephen Baxter. Humans have become nearly immortal through the use of
nanotechnology, space is opening up too, through the use of
wormhole technology. There is a project to open up time also; by towing a wormhole through a 1500
relativistic round trip. Instead of people 1500 years advanced, a small rabble of humans appears from the wormhole;
Wigner's Friends, closely followed by the future conquerors of humanity.