Solomon's Private File #270
These stories about Stephen and Solomon take place starting in
1950's. Stephen wrote about his life in letters to a penpal, and then
in a secure blog, in case he lost his memory again, in the master
computer in his school for gifted students, which he started attending
in 2016 in a new incarnation, until his death. Now his son Solomon is
attending the same school, and is writing in his own secure blog for
his future incarnations.
All characters are fictitious, even if some of them might have names
that belong to some actual people, or act like people we know.
Solomon is 28 in this story, in the Spring of 2054.
Solomon's Private File #270 "CNN With Much Gravity"
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The antigravity rumor went wild. Then people were practically
demanding I do a show about it on CNN. I told the U.S. President about
the upcoming show, and said, "What I told you is going to be in it. You
know it's going to have to be." He said, "I understand. I couldn't move
anybody, but DOT. I think you expected that." I said, "Did, but hoped
otherwise. I'm very sorry, but I think I have to do this." He said,
"Personally, I think you should." I said, "I won't expose you. Unless
you want to do some streaking." He said, "Not at my age." We hugged.
On the show, John said, "There's a rumor going around that
antigravity for space ships is possible with our current technology.
Did you start that?" I said, "I haven't said that it's possible." He
said, "Is it true?" I said, "How can I know what's going to be
invented? Breakthroughs happen all the time. Or not. But I do have to
say it would be more likely if people were actually working seriously
on the idea." He said, "Are they?" I said, "That kind of fundamental
research is VERY expensive, and difficult to get funding for.
Corporations won't pay for research that has no profitable immediate
goal they can see and understand." He said, "But isn't antigravity such
a goal?" I said, "It isn't, because gravity is basic part of nature. To
er, mess with it, needs basic research, most of which won't result in
that goal, but probably result in many other very useful things.
Research is like that, which is why they do it in universities and with
government funded contracts. Consider the supper particle collider in
Europe. Cost billions to build, and millions to operate, and hasn't
made practically any money. Pure basic research doesn't always. But it
assists other research that can. Some of the most interesting and
useful discoveries have come from research that didn't have those
things as their goals. Discovery is like that. You discover! It's new!
Often, it's nothing ever thought of before."
I said, "In fact, thousands of great discoveries were either never
noticed, or discarded, by narrow minded researchers and administrators,
because they weren't the official goals. I can SEE that in history. And
worse, some great discoveries were ignored by other people, because
they weren't believed. A big example of that, is psionic science." He
said, "Oh! That makes it more understandable. So those things really
happened." I said, "Many discoveries and inventions have happened again
and again, such as electroplating. Some ancient societies did that, and
then the knowledge was lost and not believed. Some foolish idiots
ascribed the devices that were unearthed, to aliens from outer space."
He said with a grin, "Your father had less polite things to say about
them." I returned that grin, with, "I know." We went to break.
I said, "You know I've got much more for this." He grinned and said,
"We're prepared to go over time." I said, "Sure. Why change?" Chuckles.
I said, "Ask me what gravity is." He said, "You bet I will!" Grins.
Back on air, he did just that. I said, "You want to know what gravity
is, fall down some stairs. Yes, gravity is ouch!" Chuckles. I said,
"Gravity is a function of mass. Objects attract objects, the strength
of which is governed by the amount of mass, which is often indicated by
the size and weight of the object, and the distance from the center of
the object. Gravity is also a property of space, because everything is
moving, and that's because of gravity, which is everywhere. Is my hand
moving? Not in relation to this table, or to Earth, but Earth is moving
around the sun, and the sun is moving around the galaxy, and the
galaxy, well, you get the idea. Because of this movement, if I canceled
the gravity of Earth, we would float up in the air, and off at an
angle. Well, the Earth is rotating, too, and we wouldn't be. If I use
force to stay in position relative this chair, when I cancel the
gravity that affects my body, I can stay right where I am, or rise a
little if I want. Er, like this." I rose in the air.
I said, "I said, cancel, but that's only what it looks like. I used
my internal dark energy to change the property of the mass of my body,
so it is independent of gravity. But only a few Adepts can do it this
way. However, it could be possible that the process could be duplicated
using other ways, with a greater understanding of physics, caused by
more basic research. Well, a lot of other planets have done that, and
they sure aren't smarter than the people of THIS planet. Been trying
longer, though. And they had useful governments that cared."
I said, "Here's another thing about gravity. This is a gyroscope. I
pull the string, and it spins like a top. Yes, it does use the same
principle to stay upright, called gyroscopic stability. That's what
keeps a bicycle from falling over. The faster it goes, the more stable
it is. But look. This thing is tilted, but it's not falling over. John,
Angular momentum is a little difficult to explain completely with
words. I put energy into the gyroscope using the string and my pull,
and it uses that stored energy as momentum, one of Newton's laws, to
resist change of position. If I let it do its thing, it will spin down
at a set time, relative to the energy I gave it in the beginning. If I
try to force it to change position, it will use some of that energy to
resist it, and it will stop spinning sooner. In a way, this is actually
one way of resisting gravity. It's not usable for space ships like
this, but combined with other methods, well, who knows? One important
thing is that it needs energy to do the resisting. For an unattached
object, like a space ship, that energy needs to be large, constant, and
portable. My personal way uses almost no energy to become independent
of gravity, and uses energy only to move. But there is another thing to
that. If I became independent of ALL gravity, I would go off in a
strange direction so fast, things would explode all over the place when
I hit them. Think. How fast are we really moving around the sun, and
the sun around the galaxy, and the galaxy moving away from the other in
this expanding universe? So, I don't do that. I just limit it to
Earth's gravity, as the strongest on me, being the closest. But if a
Well, John?" He said, "I see that! A real space drive!" I said, "Yes.
That wouldn't work between the stars, because it wouldn't be fast
enough, but it sure would make interplanetary travel easier, faster,
and safer."
He said, "So we should explore how some things affect matter, that
might change it in relation to gravity." I said, "Well, that sure works
for me! We'll have to see if it can be duplicated in other ways, and
possibly other methods as well." He said, "Do you know how they do it
on other planets?" I said, "I know ALL the science that's used,
anywhere." He stared at me. We went to break. Off air, I just grinned.
He said, "Wow!" I said, "Same going on in my head. Consider. I use many
bodies at once, even across dimensions, including in different time
rates. I can see all of reality in the area of where I am, including
how it's all put together and works. I've told you. I can see and
understand all of what God sees and understands, but on a much smaller
scale, such as just one solar system at a time. You knew that. So did
my people, but didn't think it through. So, don't feel bad. You're not
alone in that at all." He nodded, and said, "Thanks. I needed that."
Back on air, he said, "You know all that, but you aren't telling us?"
I said, "Not even my own group can understand most of it. Some of God's
servants, such as those who seeded other planets with life from Earth,
have science and technology that's more advanced than any other people,
anywhere, but even they don't know how we can teleport. WE do. When
those people have problems, I help them, but I don't give them better
technology, even though they work directly for my Boss. Giving them
what they can't understand, will, well, kill them. Simple as that. Like
giving a hand grenade to somebody who doesn't know what an explosive
is. Tell them all you want, but it won't be real to them until it
explodes in their faces. Then, it's too late. I won't give anybody what
they haven't learned to understand, what their society and industry
can't make themselves. It just won't work, and it will destroy them.
And that applies to Earth, like it does every place else. Governments
still have space craft they can't understand, and I didn't cause that."
He said, "True."
I said, "In fact, governments are to blame for NOT knowing." He said,
"Please explain that!" I said, "They have the power to fund the
research that WILL eventually enable the Earth to have a gravity drive.
Governments are the only organizations that can cause such a large
undertaking to happen. Such basic research, public corporations won't
fund, without sure reachable goals. Basic research doesn't work that
way. The American government could do it, but it just doesn't feel like
it." Then I said most of what I had said to the President, and all
without a commercial break. At the end, I signaled for it. There were
an awful lot of wows all over CNN, and more poring in over the
internet.
Back on air, John said, "I remember the show on initiative. You said
something like this then, but not as er, strongly." I said, "Then,
didn't work. I've been saying things like this, privately, to different
governments. See any effect?" He said, "Not much, I have to agree." I
said, "Stagnation isn't even good for stags, much less nations." He
smiled, and said, "As if we didn't know it's really you." I said,
"That's a requirement? My words by themselves aren't enough?" He said,
"It seems like it at times." I said, "A person who thinks he's the
best, becomes less, because he doesn't seek to maintain it, and improve
on it. As he declines in blind denial of reality, others advance in
greatness, until they know they are, and then decline because of it. So
is the cycle perpetuated. As this is applied to individuals, so it
applies to nations. At one time, Spain was the greatest nation on
Earth. Are they now? Then it was England, which became Great Britton.
Great now? No. France tried it. Then America became great. Now, no
country can claim to be the greatest. Who will be next? Wonder if the
ancient Greeks and Romans ever thought THEY would fall from
greatness?""
I said. "For America, this decline started with President Reagan,
with his mantra of American Greatness. He, in that, made it false. He
betrayed America! He refused to believe that America needed to maintain
that greatness with real work, and actually stopped some of it, as not
needed. And so that has been perpetuated. Any person who tried to speak
the truth about it, was shouted down and vilified. America is great!
Everybody wanted to believe that. Pride. Big ego boost. Had to believe
that, no matter the evidence to the contrary. Still does. So they had
to ignore the troubles, for to fix them, would show we weren't great.
Such strange insanity! And it still exists. We are NOT great now. But
we could be. Do we deserve to be? Not in the eyes of the world. In my
eyes? No person, no nation, deserves to be great. Achievement comes
through commitment and work. Constant work. And willing leadership. The
field is open. Who will sep up and take the nation, ANY nation, to the
stars?" I signaled the end.
John said, "Thank you Solomon, for helping us to understand about the
gravity of this situation." I said, "Did you have that prepared?" He
said, "Yes I did!" I said, "Good for you!" Then we were off air. He
said, "You reamed the president a new one." I said, "Not him, directly.
He tried. His party ignored him. I had said this to him a while ago. He
gave them crystals of the meeting. So, they knew in advance what I
would probably say here tonight. Shows you how much they cared. Not for
release." He said, "I understand, but I can hint?" I said, "No." But I
was nodding violently. Producer, who had come in, grinned with him. We
hugged.
PM of Israel called me, and said, "You know I had to watch." I said,
"After I told you to, yes." He chuckled. He said, "Is America going to
change because of what you said?" I said, "Well, the party in power
knew what I was going to say, so I have to doubt it. BIG fat non
nutritious egos." Chuckles. I said, "Remember my initiative show?" He
said, "I do. Great one!" I said, "My guest there is now current
Secretary of Transportation in the administration, and my only
supporter there. Er, ardent supporter. And I've been helping him a
little, just as I offered to the President and his party. DOT is
running very well. The rest of the government is in the same mess, and
ignoring my offer." He said, "That's sad. Why do the people stand for
that?" I said, "So much propaganda, they tune it all out but the things
they want to believe, that makes them feel falsely powerful and
intelligent. Egos again. Politicians play to that, and with their own.
They have to. There is so much money in the political system, all their
efforts have to go into being elected and reelected, and not actually
doing their jobs. America CAN'T be great now. It won't let itself be.
But being a big drunken bully, well, that's easy." He said, "I
understand. But you will keep trying." I said, "Of course. Still a
chance. Don't YOU stop." He said, "We won't. Thank you."
Mom said, "A lot of people are saying a lot of different things about
what you said." Galya said, "And a lot of that is pure confusion. The
strongest points being that you dissed America, and you won't give the
world antigravity." I said, "Well, they're correct. It's not new. Dad
said and did the same things. The Prophet position has restrictions.
Can't lie, and can't cause harm. Truth bothers you, FIX IT. Complaints
are just stupid noise." Mom said, "I just sent that to CNN." I said,
"Good. Hmm, they really liked that." Chuckles. I said, "I can't give
them an antigravity space ship. What would they do with it? Remember
the natives in the Amazon action? Give them a car, and what do they do
with it? Could you teach them how to drive? They wouldn't even
understand the gauges. Even the idea of proper air pressure in the
tires, they couldn't understand. And if one of them is punctured, how
could they fix it? Or fuel it. And repairs? Impossible. They could do
NOTHING with it, but admire the pretty color, which wouldn't last long.
That would be mostly the same in the modern world, with antigravity.
There are no university courses in it. No service stations to take care
of them. No way to manufacture them, because engineers haven't had
those courses yet, and those plants haven't yet been built. If I gave
them one, and taught them how to understand and make them, that alone
would take maybe fifty years to complete, and that would so severely
unbalance the economy, there wouldn't be much of a world left to build
them. I WANT TO HELP! But I can't do it that way. It's just not
possible. Advancement in science MUST come from within the society, or
it will ruin it, plain and simple. No amount of greedy laziness will
change that." Mom said, "Sent." I said, "My publicist." She said, "Yes,
and you'd better like it!" I said, "I do. And more if you send what you
said." Pokes, with chuckles.
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