THE ULTIMATE EXPERIMENT: A SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY, PART X

Restarting The Ultimate Experiment

                                     An unpublished short story

                              THE UNLIMATE EXPERIMENT

Stewart looked at Ball and said, “I must admit your theory interests me.  I now see why you require a man who, some would say, led an honorable life and why you require the help of someone about to die.  But what is your need for a scientist?”

“History is overflowing,” Ball said, “with people who have vowed to communicate with the living after their death.  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the popular Sherlock Holmes stories, considered those works a minor representation of his entire output.  He was primarily concerned with the afterlife and communication from the beyond.  What happened after he passed?   Nothing.

“Harry Houdini spent a good part of his life trying to contact his departed mother, and in the process debunked quite a few mediums.  He vowed that he would communicate to his wife from the next world – nothing.

“But these people weren’t scientists.  Even if they had been, the level of technology did not exist to allow them to communicate from that singular dimension.  I’m asking you, Professor Stewart, after you pass, to send me a sign.  Something that we will now plan.  Something that will prove my theory.”

Stewart’s eyes twinkled as he said, “I think I know just the event.”