AN ALTERNATIVE TO DYING
IF that doen’t catch your attention, then I fear nothing will. But it’s not just a literary hook. I mean to address the issue of how to escape this universe into which we’re so solidly tied. Call it “spiritual gravity” if you like, but the basic premise is that you can’t leave this universe unless you die.
In my recently released SciFu (science-based future) novel, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos Publishing 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, and the sequel, tentatively entitled “Prophecy,” my three protagonists — two males and a female — will at some point need to address a collective dilemma: When they and the denizens of their world discover their pasts, everyone who encounters them will either venerate or vilify them, the latter leaving them with a desire to escape their universe, but without having to die to do so.
Interestingly, there appears to be a possible if not plausible way. The pre-eminent theoretical physicist, Karl Schwarzschild, worked out that massive gravitational objects like black holes create massive gravitational distortion of spacetime, and these distortions, like a deepening vortex, have an “event horizon” that once crossed, would irreversibly draw an object or person into the black hole and inevitable annihilation.
The event horizon for our own galaxy’s center black hole has recently been observed (https://videos.space.com/m/bMS8JtGr/h...)
However, Robert Sanders, in an article entitled, “Some black holes erase your past” in the 20 Feb 2018 Berkeley News, reports that UC Berkeley mathematician Peter Hintz has calculated that for supermassive black holes, should someone venture past the event horizon, they could theoretically survive, though their past would be obliterated and they could have an infinite number of possible futures (https://news.berkeley.edu/2018/02/20/...)
Or, what if three persons in a collective altered state of consciousness skipped along an event horizon, never falling into a supermassive black hole? Think of a stone skipping on a the surface of a lake, each skip creating ripples in space-time, each ripple altering their past(s), present(s) and/or future(s), opening doors to an infinite number of other universes.
It all starts at THE EDGE OF MADNESS
Kindle e-book version only $1.99 to 31 May 2021
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
Soon to be an Audible audiobook read by the incomparable Peter Pollock. Purchased for manga, animation and cinematic treatment by K. Simmons Productions.
In my recently released SciFu (science-based future) novel, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos Publishing 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, and the sequel, tentatively entitled “Prophecy,” my three protagonists — two males and a female — will at some point need to address a collective dilemma: When they and the denizens of their world discover their pasts, everyone who encounters them will either venerate or vilify them, the latter leaving them with a desire to escape their universe, but without having to die to do so.
Interestingly, there appears to be a possible if not plausible way. The pre-eminent theoretical physicist, Karl Schwarzschild, worked out that massive gravitational objects like black holes create massive gravitational distortion of spacetime, and these distortions, like a deepening vortex, have an “event horizon” that once crossed, would irreversibly draw an object or person into the black hole and inevitable annihilation.
The event horizon for our own galaxy’s center black hole has recently been observed (https://videos.space.com/m/bMS8JtGr/h...)
However, Robert Sanders, in an article entitled, “Some black holes erase your past” in the 20 Feb 2018 Berkeley News, reports that UC Berkeley mathematician Peter Hintz has calculated that for supermassive black holes, should someone venture past the event horizon, they could theoretically survive, though their past would be obliterated and they could have an infinite number of possible futures (https://news.berkeley.edu/2018/02/20/...)
Or, what if three persons in a collective altered state of consciousness skipped along an event horizon, never falling into a supermassive black hole? Think of a stone skipping on a the surface of a lake, each skip creating ripples in space-time, each ripple altering their past(s), present(s) and/or future(s), opening doors to an infinite number of other universes.
It all starts at THE EDGE OF MADNESS
Kindle e-book version only $1.99 to 31 May 2021
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
Soon to be an Audible audiobook read by the incomparable Peter Pollock. Purchased for manga, animation and cinematic treatment by K. Simmons Productions.
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