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The Unknown Exoplanet
(Worlds Beyond)(In Poetic Prose))
(Professor G.B. McGee & Superintend Hightower)
A man
of old age—like me, fades like an old paint job on an old automobile if
you rub it too hard; his bones are like old rusty bolts they break easily like
iron hit with a hammer in the Arctic, and the engine of the heart putts and
knocks like the engine of a 1927, Model T Fort, therefore before my memory
gnaws and clogs, let me write this account out, it is actually recent, so I
should get most of the facts right.
This
is a first time account of the first true origin of finding a new planet in a
new constellation, #89, still unnamed, as is the exoplanet, unnamed, and
referred to as such—according to Dr. Butch McGee, because “…the outer most
region of the new planet’s atmosphere comprised of artificially radioactive
elements unknown to chemists and physics, the nucleus within the protons of the
atoms do not constitute anything we fundamentally know to be part of the
universe beyond this region of unknown space.” But let me backtrack a bit, I’m getting ahead of
myself.
This
account I am telling you has been put into a secret chamber so no one will
learn the verity of this matter for at least a generation, as the superintend has
said, “It is better unread, until we know more…” so this is what
I’m doing. And if you are reading it
before, 2049 A.D., than someone stole the cylinder I placed it in.
Some
who will read this brief, will surely remember Professor G. B. McGee, who
continues to work—perhaps dead now—continued to work at the Louisiana Space
Station, in 2015 and 2016.
According to my recollection, what he said was, “At first what I
saw was a mere flickering shadow, then suddenly a bodily lightness, a shining blur…”
Then
he explained there were brief intervals he saw the sphere, as if hanging in
midair, stone still, no moon in an incomprehensible blackness.
He
told us all during our meeting, several of us, where Professor Hightower was at
the head of the table, he was puzzled by the supposed phenomena, for he seen
into a cauldron and conflicting area of space: actually I’d say into space and
time, and a quantum constellation of stars, mysterious and as dark as the unknown
sphere—except with lit with a flicker of the sun’s rays: he calls an exoplanet,
where far-off in the distance is a lone star.
After
a brief break, Dr. McGee, went on to tell the committee, “At first I saw
only a lighten-flash, and thereafter came lesser flashes, throughout what might
have been the outer gloom of the sphere.”
The
question that came up at the assemblage table that day, a few months now past,
was by Professor Hightower, “What did you actually find worth journaling?”
“You
don’t need to know the constellation, there is more out there I presume that
will appear and disappear in time yet to come, and it is unknown to all of us
anyhow at the present, and you don’t need to even know the planet although it
is there, what I need to know is the first sun or star beyond the last one, so
I can tell you what you want to know;” said McGee.
Well,
for me that was all dandy, but I needed more info, to pull it all together, and
Butch seeing this in my facial expressions, went on to explain: “The Kepler Space
Telescope, as we all know, is hunting for other worlds, hoping the planets have
the four basic elements, water, air, fire and earth (soil or dirt) and from
there we head on to the other one-hundred and fourteen elements man can and for
the most part has name, but I’ve discovered 27-new elements within this region
of space…” he hesitated to see if everyone was paying attention. Professor
Hightower was actually vainly trying to recover his equilibrium and settle
himself down some in his chair, once settled he said, “What was the
force of gravity?”
Well,
we all knew the surface gravity depends on the size of the star or sun, and its
radius, — this would also determine any other planets circulating around the
sun, but there was of course none, Exoplanet was a sole, solar system planet,
at a standstill, just floating as if it was a spacecraft and not a planet at
all, somewhat like a hummingbird.
Said
Professor Butch McGee, “We are going to step into quantum theories now since this planet we’ve
discovered is as I’ve already mentioned a lone planet, in a lone region of
space perhaps twenty-billion miles in diameter, which has no comets or
asteroids, it would seem it is of an antimatter borough of space for better
put, region of melee space, except for the sun, which is some 4.5 billion miles
away from the planet, that we know nothing about. Space here is cold and the
gravity of the star does not pull the planet as expected, but pulls within
itself and thus the surface of the planet is unaffected by this celestial
body.”
“Give
me your best guess, why?” exclaimed Hightower.
McGee
hesitated: “I believe the telescope has picked up visual sensations in an abnormal
time and space region of the universe, when it was at a standstill, perhaps some
13.8 billion years ago, when lightness and materiality: that is to say, the
physical substance, matter of the universe was being created, matter and
antimatter, and when matter was in the process of superseding antimatter, and
this is a pocket it did not dominate. Perhaps if I had lived then, I would have
floated like feather in midair, much like the dark planet, which is a tinge
frigid—who’s to say.”
“Like
a feather,” commented Hightower, “we can’t write that in a science journal! File 13 it; in old Army talk
that is trash it, or put it away for the next generation to figure out. I mean
what you are telling me is antimatter has more intensity and gravity and
dominates in this unknown region in an unknown time period, and has no effect
on an unknown planet we have no name for! And besides all this unknown stuff:
we are looking at an unknown form of gravity that has no pull on a planet, or
intensity to wrench it, not one iota! Except perhaps for the frigidness you
mention.”
I knew it was hard
to swallow, and I really couldn’t digest it, but I said nothing and went and
talk to Father Marcello my old amigo, and an Exorcist, the following day on this supposedly
paranormal spiritual situation, for a salutation, and he wasn’t present, but
Father P. Hebert, who had just had his
25th Anniversary as a priest, and who’s expertise was in Science
& Environment, said plainly: “Job didn’t know
nor do I know, nor do you evidently know nor does the scientists of today know
what is in God’s storm room, which to God is simply a museum, and to us, these new
discovers will just have to wait until He decides to open up the second door,
to the store room for mankind to fully understand, the unexplainable!”
#4979/1-4 & 5-2016
