A Short SF Vignette
Far Boundaries of Gravity
(Silas
Caine)
The planets, move around the
sun, and the sun with all its planets and moons, thereof, revolve forevermore,
or so it appears on their straight and narrow orbits, as the universe pours out
with care its widespread gravity, like manna. Gravity, the thing that keeps our
solar system activated, our galaxy in motion.
In essence, the universe’s black energy, black matter. Should a star
collapse, we know it’s an act of gravity, to a certain extent, as then a black
hole is ready to be created if not already created, to swallow that dead star,
whole. Yes, the hand of providence has provided a waste basket, for its
surplus. Put another way, gravity shapes space and time, has energy, creates a
reaction, produces a black hole, if not a wormhole that may develop into a
black hole, or a black hole acting like a wormhole.
This
must be explained before we go on with the story lest we get fragmented along
the way, and we lose sight of Silas Caine whom is the antagonist of the story.
We
have talked of gravity, now wormholes, and travel, then the full story, since
the title is “Far Boundaries…” it should fit. What is faster than the speed of
light? Nothing, scientists say. But if
you step into Quantum theories, physics, there is something perhaps! Traveling
through a wormhole which I shall define shortly. To make a long theory short, a
traversable wormhole, let’s say with a notion of an intra-universe connection,
the wormhole being similar to a black hole, more on the order of a shortcut
connecting two separate points in space and time, you know, like a tunnel, with
an electromagnetic field of energy. In essence, as Einstein has inferred: a
wormhole bridges, in this story, two different universes; —we’re getting into
general relativity, —the wormhole might allow superluminal light speed, faster
than light travel; the speed of light is 176,000-miles per second, this again is more
into Quantum theories; meaning, hypothetical, unseen, unproven, not
experienced, but probable.
Now a
third thought into this story before we get into the story: since we have taken
care of Gravity, and now Wormholes, which we may come back to—that are much
like a hole in a cylinder, and if we can stretch our imagination we can envision
it being used for communication between parallel universes. A side thought, wormholes
cut 50% to 99.9% percent of travel time, or put another way, a billion miles
can now be measured in feet, we are on the right path to knowing how Silas
Caine got to Earth in the first place, from that far-off universe.
So the
next step into the story that I haven’t yet told, is time travel, like a time
machine. In wormholes, time is not the same as outside it. We are now going
into Quantum effects if not general relativity: Black Holes are of course
Stephen Hawking’s expertise, and we have and shall mention them time and again
throughout this account. But it makes no difference, what is, and what is
theory, is perhaps possible, there are many realities we know nothing
about. In this case, and a possible case
indeed, and for the story, a particle case, the wormhole is a time machine,
call it time dilation, or contraction. We are traveling from one universe to
another, faster than the speed of light—even though the light in the wormhole
will beat us to our destination, and let’s say we are carrying energy from one
time to another, from one place to another, the wormhole has to adjust, or once
on the other side, something has to. Now we are ten-years in the past, or
perhaps 1000-years in the past, or we are from the future visiting Earth in its
present, we now are looking at time warps, or twists, or time like curves. All
this and a little more, concerns Silas Caine’s altercative activity!
Silas Caine
And so what we know
of and what we don’t know of, moves unless balance is held back by another
force, but when someone can trigger a force against another, than what? When
perturbation accrues, when a traveler or
something physical, a system can be disturbed, even planets taken off their
orbits, is when there is an interference; Silas Caine knew this, and used his Severity Machine,
as it was referred to, he brought
from another universe to do just that: why? To see if it would work, and then
return to his own universe, via wormhole, and let his countrymen on his planet
know of his experiment; what for? He
wanted the Nobel Prize of that Planet, which was called, the ‘Quantum Award.’
Two forces fighting one another, and thus comes
balance or chaos. What we don’t know God holds back from mankind as a father
would hold back a grenade from a child’s hands, we’re not ready for it, and man
is quite predictable, for obvious reasons, but when an outsider sneaks into
your solar system, and onto your planet, predictability changes, and thus
indifference takes precedence for the invader. So the question may arise: what
does he know that we know, but live in pretense of not acknowledging to know? A
riddle? Perhaps not. Extra-terrestrials
are out there? For good or bad, who’s to say, and what is on their agenda?
The
breakdown of gravity is power. And so it was in the year 2036, there appeared
such a man by the name of Silas Caine, who had built a machine—to repeat myself,
an awful machine that revised the pull from the iron core of the Earth,
allowing Earth’s atmosphere to be heated, polluted, scorched, and thinned, and
there it faded into the empty space between earth and its moon, like clouds.
Where
did he come from, how did he build that machine? Some say he just appeared out
of nowhere, others say, he came through a wormhole from another universe, that
he came from the future and brought with him, his own energy from that far-off
place. And now man devoid of weight, started to become like fiends, ghosts.
Slowly
he evaporated 50% of earth’s atmosphere, its global oxygen, carbon all the
emanating elements that form the timid and mysterious invisible atmosphere,
that took billions of years to form around earth; consequently Earth now was in
a state of loss, as was earth’s electromagnetic energy field.
In a
short period of time the oceans were lowered to the point ships could no longer
navigate them, and the world powers became uneasy with one another thinking one
another had some kind of conspiracy going on; and so Silas Caine, to Earth’s
once thick and luscious layers of atmosphere, nearly all was cast out into the
black matter of interstellar space? And no one could find, or stop Silas Caine!
Thus
came, underground sanctuaries.
He
could have controlled the world, if that was his mission, he had the power, but
that was not his mission, as we all know.
And
before he departed earth, he did leave something in tack, earth’s culture. But
let me back track to those latter days…
The
underground vaults of earth vomited up all it had. Billions of voices screamed,
and ascended into a cosmic death. Satan’s demons had a great feast, and long
laugh over all this, they didn’t even know who Silas Caine was, or where he
came from, but was as if he was there Antichrist!
Did
Silas Caine want to get even with God, so the preachers and clergy summed up,
when all other reasonable thought fell into a black hole? Logic would say he
had no God.
“Alas!” What now?” were the words being uttered daily in the newspapers
commentaries, on the talk shows of television, on the radio programs. Was Silas
Caine as they said, ‘A lunatic?’ How could they stop that machine, when they
couldn’t even find it? Then puff, he was gone, liken to the way he
came, with that darn machine.
#4916/11-20-2015 (Reedited and revised
slightly, 12-26-2015)
