Congratulations !
You have been awarded points.
Thank you for !
- Story Listed as: Fiction For Adults
- Theme: Science Fiction
- Subject: Science / Science Fiction
- Published: 05/07/2019
Who knew one lousy degree would change everything? Nobody. Not me for sure. My name is Sherek Kev - and I am the one responsible. Some people say that I saved “Earth”- those are the ones that stayed after they slipped.
AUTHOR’S NOTE: “Slipped, is the term most of us use now for changing the Atomic Structure of our bodies by a simple twist of Carbon by one degree- freeing the electrons to interact by becoming strongly correlated. In Humans, that 1.1 degree shift forming Moire patterns- made us slip out of four dimensions. Hence: Slipped
Others say that I ended the Human Race as we know it. That is definitely not true! You can’t form babies while “slipped” and babies can’t “slip” either. No one knows why, but you can’t “Slip” until you are a fully formed adult. Some folks can never slip, because their brains never catch up developmentally to their bodies. No one who “slips” can be Mentally Ill. Or at least for the first few decades.
Now, of course, because of Dr. Sheila Barks work (while “Slipped” I might add); we can cure all Mental Illness - if the person’s body has passed puberty AND their brain has finished pruning itself. “Slip" in sad, depressed, or suicidal, “Slip” out a fully integrated single personality - bereft of melancholy... or worse.
But like a lot of work on how to use the gift of “Slipping”- that took a while to figure out. Dr. Bark’s work ended the era of Abnormal Psychology. However, it did usher in the era of “Perfection Psychology.” People no longer suffered from delusions, or disorders, or syndromes - once you “Slipped” and then “Slipped back” you were devoid of any pretenses, rationalizations, or misunderstandings.
After all, as we all know, once you “Slip” you are freed from the constraints of matter and its requisite desires: sex, food, water, companionship- and the need for Validation by any person, being, or deity. You were just quanta…hanging out as a single unit of collected time- called: Your life.
Who knew?
Not me. That is for sure.
*****
Sure I was the first to “Slip.” Everyone knows that. What they don’t know is that unlike everyone else that has ever “Slipped”- I had no idea what I was doing, or what it would do. It was an accident. Like a lot of accidents in Science and Discovery, it happened because I did a whole heck of a lot of work before I accidentally found a way to Slip.
It started with a bunch of degrees, and ended up with…well, 1.1. Anything more than that angle and the electrons don’t want to strongly correlate, anything less, and well, they stay in sheets. I had been working on ways to bond two graphene sheets together - twist them - and form superconductors. That turned us on to the “Magic Angle” : 1.1 degrees. If you are off by even the smallest fraction of a degree…well, nothing “Magical Happens”. You just have two sheets of graphene where the electrons aren’t strongly correlating - so no tunneling can happen.
A lot of laymen, even a few Physicists, didn’t know that you could “lift” a single layer of carbon atoms in a graphene sheet with scotch tape. I did. I did it all the time. I used to pull a single layer off with a long string of scotch tape attached to the surface of the Graphene structure. Then I would just tape them to my arm, until I had twelve or more strings of tape hanging from my arm.
That was the lucky accident. It took years to discover because most folks only put five or six strips of tape on their arms while working with graphene. That is not enough to cause one to “Slip.” Plus most of them had hairy arms. I am one of those lucky individuals who have hair only on my head.
Yep. Not a single hair anywhere. Smooth skin. Another lucky coincidence - if you still believe in coincidence after you have “Slipped” at least once. Almost everyone (but me) had to “layer up” after they shaved their bodies (like swimmers do before a meet) in order to “Slip.”
Doctor Montgomery over in England came up with the Graphene Skin that folks can slide into in order to “Slip” without shaving. But that was one of those technological tweaks that came along later- as more and more folks wanted to “Slip”. I don’t use one. I still just put a bunch of tape on my Arms, turn on the magnets…and I am gone. Slipped.
I think it is funny that those of us with fewer body hairs than most, and who use the much simpler (and cheaper) scotch tape method to “Slip”, are called: Scotties. Whereas those folks who use Dr. Montgomery’s method are called simply: “Suits.” There is no subjective, or objective difference in the feeling of “Slipping” using either method.
When you “Slip” everything material becomes immaterial. And if that isn’t the perfect example of IRONY in all Caps; well I don’t know what would be.
The only drawback from “Slipping” is this. If you do it too often- right now it seems that number is about six times a month- then you start to suffer from FADE. FADE is not a good thing. You can see quite a few FADES nowadays. Most from the earlier days of “Slipping”, before we knew much about it. They look like grayed out Human Beings. Depending on how many more “Slips” they made in a month - and six seems to be the barrier- at the seventh slip you start to FADE. Each “Slip” after six, you fade a bit more. Ten or more “Slips” in a month…and well, you are so faded you look like someone bleached all the color out of a Human Being, and then set it in the shade.
Sadly, Shades are the end result of too many “Slips.” You can, with rest, recover from being a FADE- all you have to do is not “Slip” for a year. If you are a Shade…well, you can’t ever “Slip” back into Human Time or Place. Shades leave shadows of reality in our world- where they would have been, or might have been, had they stopped at the level of a FADE.
I almost became one. Thank God for power failures. Another happy accident (if you still believe in accidents) that warned me about the thresholds. That is what I study now. It looks like six “Slips” in a month might be the limiting factor. Just like it looks like Ten “Slips” and you get stuck as a SHADE. It is difficult to communicate with a FADE- but it can be done. SHADES though…sad really. It is like wiping your hand through smoke, no resistance, no contact, no reality.
No wonder the signs say : “FADE TO SHADE- GO TO HADES.”
It is the worst hell you can imagine. All your humanness trapped in an inhuman environment- feelings with no intellect, and no concentrated center of awareness to name as “self.” I almost became one before that power outage brought me back.
So I wrote the rules: Six Slips and you are Done. Some folks don’t like rules. We call them FADES. Some folks are stupid. We call them SHADES.
*****
So there you have it. When we discovered that you could put one sheet of graphene onto another, twist it just 1.1 degree, add some energy…BOOM! A superconductive portal into the quantum world, where Atoms hole their desire to interact.
Put a layer of graphene on your skin, say on some scotch tape, allow contact between the graphene and the carbon molecules in your body, add some energy…and there you go “Slipping.”
Some folks call it Soul Surfing. Because removing all the artificial forms of biological life, also frees you from the conflicting biological opinions that you carried with you. Sex, food, water, companionship…all become mute points, not drives. For the first time in your life- you are completely and utterly just you.
You have “Slipped."
One lousy degree.(Kevin Hughes)
Who knew one lousy degree would change everything? Nobody. Not me for sure. My name is Sherek Kev - and I am the one responsible. Some people say that I saved “Earth”- those are the ones that stayed after they slipped.
AUTHOR’S NOTE: “Slipped, is the term most of us use now for changing the Atomic Structure of our bodies by a simple twist of Carbon by one degree- freeing the electrons to interact by becoming strongly correlated. In Humans, that 1.1 degree shift forming Moire patterns- made us slip out of four dimensions. Hence: Slipped
Others say that I ended the Human Race as we know it. That is definitely not true! You can’t form babies while “slipped” and babies can’t “slip” either. No one knows why, but you can’t “Slip” until you are a fully formed adult. Some folks can never slip, because their brains never catch up developmentally to their bodies. No one who “slips” can be Mentally Ill. Or at least for the first few decades.
Now, of course, because of Dr. Sheila Barks work (while “Slipped” I might add); we can cure all Mental Illness - if the person’s body has passed puberty AND their brain has finished pruning itself. “Slip" in sad, depressed, or suicidal, “Slip” out a fully integrated single personality - bereft of melancholy... or worse.
But like a lot of work on how to use the gift of “Slipping”- that took a while to figure out. Dr. Bark’s work ended the era of Abnormal Psychology. However, it did usher in the era of “Perfection Psychology.” People no longer suffered from delusions, or disorders, or syndromes - once you “Slipped” and then “Slipped back” you were devoid of any pretenses, rationalizations, or misunderstandings.
After all, as we all know, once you “Slip” you are freed from the constraints of matter and its requisite desires: sex, food, water, companionship- and the need for Validation by any person, being, or deity. You were just quanta…hanging out as a single unit of collected time- called: Your life.
Who knew?
Not me. That is for sure.
*****
Sure I was the first to “Slip.” Everyone knows that. What they don’t know is that unlike everyone else that has ever “Slipped”- I had no idea what I was doing, or what it would do. It was an accident. Like a lot of accidents in Science and Discovery, it happened because I did a whole heck of a lot of work before I accidentally found a way to Slip.
It started with a bunch of degrees, and ended up with…well, 1.1. Anything more than that angle and the electrons don’t want to strongly correlate, anything less, and well, they stay in sheets. I had been working on ways to bond two graphene sheets together - twist them - and form superconductors. That turned us on to the “Magic Angle” : 1.1 degrees. If you are off by even the smallest fraction of a degree…well, nothing “Magical Happens”. You just have two sheets of graphene where the electrons aren’t strongly correlating - so no tunneling can happen.
A lot of laymen, even a few Physicists, didn’t know that you could “lift” a single layer of carbon atoms in a graphene sheet with scotch tape. I did. I did it all the time. I used to pull a single layer off with a long string of scotch tape attached to the surface of the Graphene structure. Then I would just tape them to my arm, until I had twelve or more strings of tape hanging from my arm.
That was the lucky accident. It took years to discover because most folks only put five or six strips of tape on their arms while working with graphene. That is not enough to cause one to “Slip.” Plus most of them had hairy arms. I am one of those lucky individuals who have hair only on my head.
Yep. Not a single hair anywhere. Smooth skin. Another lucky coincidence - if you still believe in coincidence after you have “Slipped” at least once. Almost everyone (but me) had to “layer up” after they shaved their bodies (like swimmers do before a meet) in order to “Slip.”
Doctor Montgomery over in England came up with the Graphene Skin that folks can slide into in order to “Slip” without shaving. But that was one of those technological tweaks that came along later- as more and more folks wanted to “Slip”. I don’t use one. I still just put a bunch of tape on my Arms, turn on the magnets…and I am gone. Slipped.
I think it is funny that those of us with fewer body hairs than most, and who use the much simpler (and cheaper) scotch tape method to “Slip”, are called: Scotties. Whereas those folks who use Dr. Montgomery’s method are called simply: “Suits.” There is no subjective, or objective difference in the feeling of “Slipping” using either method.
When you “Slip” everything material becomes immaterial. And if that isn’t the perfect example of IRONY in all Caps; well I don’t know what would be.
The only drawback from “Slipping” is this. If you do it too often- right now it seems that number is about six times a month- then you start to suffer from FADE. FADE is not a good thing. You can see quite a few FADES nowadays. Most from the earlier days of “Slipping”, before we knew much about it. They look like grayed out Human Beings. Depending on how many more “Slips” they made in a month - and six seems to be the barrier- at the seventh slip you start to FADE. Each “Slip” after six, you fade a bit more. Ten or more “Slips” in a month…and well, you are so faded you look like someone bleached all the color out of a Human Being, and then set it in the shade.
Sadly, Shades are the end result of too many “Slips.” You can, with rest, recover from being a FADE- all you have to do is not “Slip” for a year. If you are a Shade…well, you can’t ever “Slip” back into Human Time or Place. Shades leave shadows of reality in our world- where they would have been, or might have been, had they stopped at the level of a FADE.
I almost became one. Thank God for power failures. Another happy accident (if you still believe in accidents) that warned me about the thresholds. That is what I study now. It looks like six “Slips” in a month might be the limiting factor. Just like it looks like Ten “Slips” and you get stuck as a SHADE. It is difficult to communicate with a FADE- but it can be done. SHADES though…sad really. It is like wiping your hand through smoke, no resistance, no contact, no reality.
No wonder the signs say : “FADE TO SHADE- GO TO HADES.”
It is the worst hell you can imagine. All your humanness trapped in an inhuman environment- feelings with no intellect, and no concentrated center of awareness to name as “self.” I almost became one before that power outage brought me back.
So I wrote the rules: Six Slips and you are Done. Some folks don’t like rules. We call them FADES. Some folks are stupid. We call them SHADES.
*****
So there you have it. When we discovered that you could put one sheet of graphene onto another, twist it just 1.1 degree, add some energy…BOOM! A superconductive portal into the quantum world, where Atoms hole their desire to interact.
Put a layer of graphene on your skin, say on some scotch tape, allow contact between the graphene and the carbon molecules in your body, add some energy…and there you go “Slipping.”
Some folks call it Soul Surfing. Because removing all the artificial forms of biological life, also frees you from the conflicting biological opinions that you carried with you. Sex, food, water, companionship…all become mute points, not drives. For the first time in your life- you are completely and utterly just you.
You have “Slipped."
Aziz
05/08/2019You always follow the same trend. Freeing the world and humanity from all authorities and leave us survive and breath the pure existence under the reign of science and mind. Well done Sir.
ReplyHelp Us Understand What's Happening
Kevin Hughes
05/08/2019Aziz,
I really never thought about it like that. What an astute observation. I do admire expertise, or experience, but I do have a problem with unearned authority. LOL I understand the need for rules and law- at least some of them, but Authoritarians bother me. LOL
Thanks for your kind insightful comments.
Smiles, Kevin
Help Us Understand What's Happening
JD
05/08/2019There you go again, Kevin... letting that brilliant mind of yours out to play! Thanks for taking us along for the ride! :-)
ReplyHelp Us Understand What's Happening
Kevin Hughes
05/08/2019Hey Jd,
Ha, ha, ha! Clever Cleats as my wife would say
Smiles, Kevin out slipping. LOL
Help Us Understand What's Happening
Help Us Understand What's Happening
Kevin Hughes
05/08/2019Hey Jd!
Thanks for the kind comments...not sure I am brilliant, but I am sure you are the most supportive Editor on the Face of this Planet! When people tell me I am out of my mind, I will quote you: " my mind is fine, it is just out playing!" Smiles, Kevin
COMMENTS (2)