The Little Craft… with three passengers aboard circles the glass sphere three times and then swings around to one of the sphere’s poles, which is comprised by one end of a gigantic cylindrical tube, resembling the axis which the sphere rotates around. As we get this close, I can clearly discern individual persons standing or walking on the inside of the glass-like surface. It is not an uninterrupted glass surface, but it is sectioned between meridian spokes of tubular support trusses, also stretching from pole to pole. Different from the central cylinder, however, these trusses seem to be fabricated from an elastic material, bent to form the actual sphere. The central cylinder on the other hand is metallic and magnetic, so Serendipity explains. I get somewhat concerned as we prepare to enter this tube, because Sera had also explained that it resembles part of the propulsion system. “Don’t worry,” she says, reading my face, “When the ship is not moving, the shaft doubles as loading bay, with the airlocks placed in it. “This proves quite practical,” she continues, “because any pay load we might take on will be strapped to the magnetic core. And, as fragile as the starship may appear, with a diameter of two thousand meters, it can handle substantial amounts of cargo.” I am fascinated yet again as I imagine the tubular axel loaded up nearly to touch the glass surface, on whose inside the occupants reside. The technological marvel that this contraption entails raises question above question concerning how things are achieved; one of the most stinging enigmas is the mode of propulsion. Although the magnetic tube’s primary purpose, so the old man’s daughter had explained, is to act as the acceleration shaft for the form of ion drive the ship uses, this form of propulsion would not permit interstellar travel within reasonable amounts of time. Thereupon her father, the third passenger aboard the shuttle and my life-long benefactor, who I conveniently and customarily refer to as ‘the old man,’ attempts to explain the functionality of the alternate “Star Drive,” by iterating that, “this mode of transportation is not to be understood as a technological implement of sorts, nor does it resemble ‘travel’ in the conventional sense, or ‘movement’ as Earth-dwellers understand it; the process involves the Universe itself, and the forces governing space, matter and time; yet I assure you that there is absolutely nothing mystical or magical about traveling to the furthest corners of the Cosmos. The human mind’s inability to grasp such concepts however is the reason for human language’s incapacity to explain them. But it is somewhat like this: Imagine taking a group of children to the carnival; afterwards you ask them to write a report of the excursion. What they will produce will resemble a chronological sequence in which they have encountered the various attractions. An illusion is thereby created of the ferries wheel occurring before the ghost ride, and perhaps after the bumper cars; such ‘timeline creation’ occurs specifically on the scale of living creatures and does not apply to the Universe as a whole. This construct is similar to the fact that e.g. straight lines and flat surfaces are utterly specific to human’s scale and do not occur on either, the respective micro- or the macro level of Natural Reality. Now, back to the carnival scenario: If one obtains the ability to objectively observe the entire carnival simultaneously, the person would realize that all rides operate at all times, concurrently. This concurrence of events constitutes a crucial cosmic fact, as it offsets the affects of time-perception. Once this time-boundedness is obliterated, there is no longer a reason why one cannot be here, there, or here and there at the same time, and it is up to the practitioner where and when he/she chooses to manifest.” Indeed I had previously experienced some practical effects of this principle while traveling as “freeroamenr;” nevertheless, I am not in possession of intellectual reference as to how such time/space travel is achievable as individual, not to mention how to take a town-sized space vehicle along! Upon my pointing out these concerns, the old man continues to explain that, “in our discussions of such matters, it is important that one understands the difference between intellectual comprehension, which entails theoretical learning, and practical observation and experience, which brings about genuine knowledge. Everything that has to do with language and symbolism is only theory; this does not mean that it is of no value, yet it is important that one concedes to explore the content’s validity and obtain direct knowledge to the preposition.” He evidently refers to a former discussion of ours to the topic of ‘believing versus knowing.’ And he is right: At my current state of awareness, and upon my understanding of physical science, I am able of intellectual comprehension of what he explains; the fact, however, that I am unable to derive how I would go about initiating such time/space travel, documents my lack of practical knowledge of the subject matter. The craft maneuvers into the hollow core of the starship’s tubular center magnet, upon which I am once more awed by a stunning visual presentation: A metallic-blue glimmering tunnel with a circle of star-studded open space at the far end lay before us. Like the underground facility on Earth that we had departed from mere minutes before, this tunnel resembles a very simple picture, again, yet stunning due to its profound proportions and immaculate integrity. Nimbly the vessel maneuvers into a niche in the tunnel wall, which swiftly closes again behind us. A hissing sound indicates that the quite spacious chamber we had entered is being pressurized.
Posted on: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:28:13 +0000
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