The Spiral Slayer -- Excerpts up for feedback and review

[rrw4rusty]

Hi,

 

The following are exerts from my sci-fi book 'The Spiral Slayer -- Book One: Encounters' -- it is a trilogy. I've put most of the futuristic science in chapter intros so people can skip them if they like, however, the following, while introduced in a chapter intro, are two items that are related to the plot. This has actually turned out to be kind of a long post but, as my wife will kill me if I do not start on her 'honey-do' list, I'm committed... so, sorry for the bandwidth.

 

In the following a human species (just like us) on a planet near the edge of the Great (Galactic) Wall are contacted by an alien race (The Loud) 10,000 years ahead of the humans in science and technology. Their representative (Bugs) appears as the opening speaker to a scientific conference. Bugs will summarize some of the things the human’s have wrong.

 

Chapter Eighteen – Initiating the War Machine

 

“Coming into this great hall I saw many scientific displays. Ah… is that nervous laughter I hear… no, not every display will need to be redone. <more laughter> One display illustrated the effects of a mysterious and unknown substance called dark matter and, its counterpart, dark energy. Well now… <a burst of laughter> yes, that’s right, we know what’s going on. <increased laughter with applause> But… you’re probably not interested… <laughter with cat calls and whistles> oh… you are? <applause> Ok… I know you are aware of zero-mass closed-end strings – i.e. gravitons -- and, that all other ‘open ended’ strings, the basic building blocks of all matter, attach themselves to membranes or branes. We can only see matter that is attached to one brane, strings attached to other branes make up higher dimensions that we cannot see, detect or interact with.. with one exception, gravitons. Not having any open ends, gravitons cannot bind to branes and therefore drift in and out of the branes. You’ve also figured out that this is why gravity is so much weaker than the other forces. This is the culprit for your dark matter. You see, what’s going on…”

 

The Loud Named Bugs

Opening Speech to the 23rd Annual Symposium on Quantum Physics

Source: The Archive

 

 

Chapter Nineteen – Council of War

 

“You see, what’s going on is that Gravitons are associated with the matter of all branes so they appear around matter just where you thought you had your black matter. The influence of a graviton extends across branes, all of the time but, a higher percentage of influence goes to the brane it is passing through and those it is closer to. In addition, when it passes through a brane its higher influence is left behind propagating outward. So these are the reasons that gravity can be detected where no matter can be found. The gravity you detect is gravity leaking in from other higher dimensions. Now, regarding dark energy…”

 

The Loud Named Bugs

Opening Speech to the 23rd Annual Symposium on Quantum Physics

Source: The Archive

 

 

 

Chapter Twenty One – Secret Disclosures

 

“Now, regarding dark energy… for over 150 years you’ve had a set of principles describing the physical reality at the atomic and subatomic levels called quantum mechanics. One interpretation of quantum mechanics says that every time an action is taken, all possible alternate actions are also taken and exist in parallel universes. This means that a very large number – perhaps an infinite number – of parallel universes exist, and everything that could possibly have happened in our past (but didn't) did in fact occur in some parallel universe. In one parallel universe we never came to your world, in another we don’t even exist and in another, you don’t exist. This all has to do with the fact that when we shoot a sub-atomic particle at a barrier that contains two holes in it and we watch the wall behind the barrier, instead of the particle going through one hole or the other, the particle seems to spread out into a wave of probability which does all possible things. It gets blocked by the barrier, it goes through one hole, it goes through the other hole and sometimes it misses the barrier completely. If we instead watch the barrier to see where the particle goes, the particle will only do one thing! We have brought what happens at the barrier into our universe. What happened to all the different things we saw before? They are still happening but they are happening in other parallel universes! So, why have I brought up this incredible and impossible sounding interpretation of quantum mechanics…”

 

The Loud Named Bugs

Opening Speech to the 23rd Annual Symposium on Quantum Physics

Source: The Archive

 

 

Chapter Twenty Two -- Aftermath

 

“So, why have I brought up this incredible and impossible sounding interpretation of quantum mechanics… because these parallel universes really exist! They exist right here, right now and if we could see everything going on around us it would look like a raging storm of chaotic static filled foam bubbling and rippling all around you and within you! The sub-atomic world is almost completely empty space; that is how all these parallel universes can exist. Luckily, we can only see, detect, and interact with the atoms in our parallel universe. Nevertheless, about three billion years ago the incredible expansion rate of parallel universes ran out of sub-atomic room to grow into and began pushing things apart and the universe began the runaway expansion we see today. This is your black energy.”

 

 

The Loud Named Bugs

Opening Speech to the 23rd Annual Symposium on Quantum Physics

Source: The Archive

Edited November 5, 2009 by rrw4rusty

[A Tripolation]

Seeing as how I know nothing of physics, the only advice I can give is that the word "exerts" in your thread title should probably by "excerpts".

 

Score one for pedantics.

[rrw4rusty]

Seeing as how I know nothing of physics, the only advice I can give is that the word "exerts" in your thread title should probably by "excerpts".

 

Score one for pedantics.

 

Oh oh. And I can't find a way to edit the darn thing. Thanks for letting me know. Such is life.

 

r