The spell cast by dark magus Aleister Crowley (who believed that the position of the Ripper's victims made up an 'averse pentagram') could finally be activated: it was possible to step into the past, to achieve invisibility Photographs fade.
Then we were moved on again, to a blistering landscape outside the city, an expatriate settlement where you were unwatched, and so it was possible to step out without getting on your Islamic glad rags, your concealing drapes; except, of course, there was nowhere to step out to.
Just two days after the new terror alerts, questions -- and even resentment -- arose from inside the cross hairs, and police officials coordinating stepped-up security measures were looking ahead to when it would be possible to step back down.
If, 40 years ago, someone had created such a pair of entangled wormholes and sent them off on this journey, it would be possible to step into one of them today, in 2017, and wind up back in time at the mouth of the other one... back in 1978.
By the empirical testing of specific alternatives, side by side, at the pharmacological, physiological, individual bee and colony level, it will be possible to step forward, one step at a time, toward progressively less toxic methods of controlling insect pests.
So, yes, it is possible to "skip steps" in the process if there is documentation to support that.
Alternatively, it is possible to skip these first steps by selecting an existing example.
It is possible to half-step the motors, which doubles the precision, but for the size of the globe we used, and the time and financial budgets we were on, it really isn't worth it.
By looking at a fluorescently labeled structure one molecule at a time, it is possible to side-step the optical diffraction limit and obtain "super-resolution" images of small nanostructures.
