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- Story Listed as: Fiction For Adults
- Theme: Science Fiction
- Subject: Science / Science Fiction
- Published: 08/06/2017
“There it is again! “ Photon was so excited - and instantly all other Photons were too. When it is always now- as it is when you are moving at the speed of light - for time stops, but not motion, although (to be honest) the notion of motion is slightly skewed. For movement is known before it is enacted, because, well, it is always now, so you alway know. All variations of the present, past, or future, are known now, but you already knew that. For Photon , well, the big news was he (and that is a misplaced pronoun if ever there was one- for particles have no gender, no sex, no soul, but they do have awareness) he- Photon (and aren’t they all?) had discovered beyond refute that it was possible to go SLOWER THAN LIGHT.
Oh sure, most other Photon were so engaged in their now, that they never noticed the almost tiny tickle of something just below their senses. At best, they could only describe a funny tingle, or static charge that seemed to be “beneath” them. It didn’t happen to every photon, but if happened to one, they all knew. Photon, well, she (and again the pronoun was shifted, not by gender, but by spin- and “she” is only a marker not a trait) had spotted these tiny, immensely tiny, vibratory shallows in the Now. Each one so tiny in velocity that they were so close to the speed of light as to be ALMOST NOW…but, not quite.
There could only be one explanation- something exists slower than light. If we can just dip out of the now, somehow, thought Photon - which had dropped the individual pronouns in favor of a We that closely resembled the Royal “We.” That is if the Royal “We” was infinite in members. Photon thought- if We could just go slower than light, we might find out what these curious vibrations are. Of course every one knew, since it was now, and always will be, that Nothing in the Universe can go Slower than Light. For something to go slower than light, there would have to be a curious restriction on dimensions, so movement would look like acceleration- and that would mean TIME. Time being only theoretical at that speed of light, caused many a Photon to give up the concept as nothing more than mere speculation without a shred of evidence to support it.
Oh sure, some math suggested that the Square Root of light, divided by gravity minus the imagined concept of TIME, would produce an Energy not capable of reaching the speed of light- but there wasn’t any way to test that. Until Photon came up with an elegant solution. IF, and it was a rather large IF, something could move slower than light, but nearly the speed of light, it should leave little bumps in the nearby NOW it was close to. In fact, you might be able to measure Mass as having some value less than Infinite. That thought made most Photons heads hurt. (Again, Heads belong right up there with pronouns when used to suggest anything about a Photon, Photons are strictly awareness that has both consciousness, and an idea of self, but then again, they all do.)
But Photon - which had changed spin again to become neither he, nor she, - not even the Royal “We”, no, this time the Photon had reverted to it. It had an idea. An Idea of how to go slower than light (although nothing can) but, imagination can. In the constant Now of no time, no acceleration, and infinite mass at the speed of light, mere thought can be real. No one had tried to imagine being slower than light before, at least not any Photon, because it was blatantly impossible. Time would have to exist, motion would needTime, and Past, Present, Future would have to have both an arrow of direction, and a velocity (time passing). I know, I know, my brain is spinning too. How in the world could you go slower than light, and what kind of stuff would exist in a Universe that did not have NOW? Mind blowing.
I hate to bring this up again, but Photons do not have mind, just intellect; for a mind would be a local restriction, cut off from the NOW, in some sort of bubble of self. It is one of the attributes or properties something slower than light would have to have, which is why most Photons tended to ignore the possibility at all- and stick with the formulas they knew worked. NO TIME, just NOW. NO Speed- not even acceleration- just movement in the NOW, but with the destination known before you left, as you were already there- since that line of reasoning was, well reasonable. It was all around you, your senses told you it was so- and everything science had come up with substantiated the Golden Rule: Nothing can go slower than Light, or TIME would have to exist, not NOW TIME, but some lesser form of TIME with the properties of : Past, Present, Future, and Speed, Acceleration, and Mass.
And as Photon has told Photon, that is poppycock. Nothing can go slower than Light. It is a Universal Law.
Except, one Photon did. She/He/It did it by stopping spin in all directions. It just dropped out of NOW. A ripple went through all of Photon. The Photon came back with particles that were never meant to be in the NOW of no TIME. They grew to enormous sizes, and burst. Of course they lasted long enough for the Photon to study. Only they were so massive as to be unobservable after a bit. The Photon was finally freed from the continents of slower than light forms- and told the Photons, all in the Now, and all Present at once:
“There is something slower than light. It thinks we are one. WE know the past, present, and future, and are everywhere and everything- and they only believe we exist, they don’t know. And for the first time, a Photon existed, briefly, slower than light. It had a name in the slower than light universe- God. It left only a clue of itself behind, but it was enough. The other Photons let it slide, for them, only faster than light, no Time, only Now, was their Universe- and it was heaven.
The Photon.(Kevin Hughes)
“There it is again! “ Photon was so excited - and instantly all other Photons were too. When it is always now- as it is when you are moving at the speed of light - for time stops, but not motion, although (to be honest) the notion of motion is slightly skewed. For movement is known before it is enacted, because, well, it is always now, so you alway know. All variations of the present, past, or future, are known now, but you already knew that. For Photon , well, the big news was he (and that is a misplaced pronoun if ever there was one- for particles have no gender, no sex, no soul, but they do have awareness) he- Photon (and aren’t they all?) had discovered beyond refute that it was possible to go SLOWER THAN LIGHT.
Oh sure, most other Photon were so engaged in their now, that they never noticed the almost tiny tickle of something just below their senses. At best, they could only describe a funny tingle, or static charge that seemed to be “beneath” them. It didn’t happen to every photon, but if happened to one, they all knew. Photon, well, she (and again the pronoun was shifted, not by gender, but by spin- and “she” is only a marker not a trait) had spotted these tiny, immensely tiny, vibratory shallows in the Now. Each one so tiny in velocity that they were so close to the speed of light as to be ALMOST NOW…but, not quite.
There could only be one explanation- something exists slower than light. If we can just dip out of the now, somehow, thought Photon - which had dropped the individual pronouns in favor of a We that closely resembled the Royal “We.” That is if the Royal “We” was infinite in members. Photon thought- if We could just go slower than light, we might find out what these curious vibrations are. Of course every one knew, since it was now, and always will be, that Nothing in the Universe can go Slower than Light. For something to go slower than light, there would have to be a curious restriction on dimensions, so movement would look like acceleration- and that would mean TIME. Time being only theoretical at that speed of light, caused many a Photon to give up the concept as nothing more than mere speculation without a shred of evidence to support it.
Oh sure, some math suggested that the Square Root of light, divided by gravity minus the imagined concept of TIME, would produce an Energy not capable of reaching the speed of light- but there wasn’t any way to test that. Until Photon came up with an elegant solution. IF, and it was a rather large IF, something could move slower than light, but nearly the speed of light, it should leave little bumps in the nearby NOW it was close to. In fact, you might be able to measure Mass as having some value less than Infinite. That thought made most Photons heads hurt. (Again, Heads belong right up there with pronouns when used to suggest anything about a Photon, Photons are strictly awareness that has both consciousness, and an idea of self, but then again, they all do.)
But Photon - which had changed spin again to become neither he, nor she, - not even the Royal “We”, no, this time the Photon had reverted to it. It had an idea. An Idea of how to go slower than light (although nothing can) but, imagination can. In the constant Now of no time, no acceleration, and infinite mass at the speed of light, mere thought can be real. No one had tried to imagine being slower than light before, at least not any Photon, because it was blatantly impossible. Time would have to exist, motion would needTime, and Past, Present, Future would have to have both an arrow of direction, and a velocity (time passing). I know, I know, my brain is spinning too. How in the world could you go slower than light, and what kind of stuff would exist in a Universe that did not have NOW? Mind blowing.
I hate to bring this up again, but Photons do not have mind, just intellect; for a mind would be a local restriction, cut off from the NOW, in some sort of bubble of self. It is one of the attributes or properties something slower than light would have to have, which is why most Photons tended to ignore the possibility at all- and stick with the formulas they knew worked. NO TIME, just NOW. NO Speed- not even acceleration- just movement in the NOW, but with the destination known before you left, as you were already there- since that line of reasoning was, well reasonable. It was all around you, your senses told you it was so- and everything science had come up with substantiated the Golden Rule: Nothing can go slower than Light, or TIME would have to exist, not NOW TIME, but some lesser form of TIME with the properties of : Past, Present, Future, and Speed, Acceleration, and Mass.
And as Photon has told Photon, that is poppycock. Nothing can go slower than Light. It is a Universal Law.
Except, one Photon did. She/He/It did it by stopping spin in all directions. It just dropped out of NOW. A ripple went through all of Photon. The Photon came back with particles that were never meant to be in the NOW of no TIME. They grew to enormous sizes, and burst. Of course they lasted long enough for the Photon to study. Only they were so massive as to be unobservable after a bit. The Photon was finally freed from the continents of slower than light forms- and told the Photons, all in the Now, and all Present at once:
“There is something slower than light. It thinks we are one. WE know the past, present, and future, and are everywhere and everything- and they only believe we exist, they don’t know. And for the first time, a Photon existed, briefly, slower than light. It had a name in the slower than light universe- God. It left only a clue of itself behind, but it was enough. The other Photons let it slide, for them, only faster than light, no Time, only Now, was their Universe- and it was heaven.
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