The story tells of their experiences in a distant world that they have studied, but discover they do not really know. Timeline, like many of your novels, deals with cutting edge technology. Tell us a little about the technologies in Timeline and their present day applications.
Timeline deals with quantum technology, a field only a few years old.
First proposed by the physicist Richard Feynman in 1981, quantum technology has been actively researched only since the early 1990s. It is an attempt to make practical use of the so-called quantum characteristics of matter. Which takes some explaining. We all have an intuitive sense of how our world works. So it is a little startling to learn that at smaller dimensions, at the level of a single atom or the components of the atom, things don't work the same way at all.