THE ULTIMATE EXPERIMENT: A SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY, PARTXIII

                               Restarting The Ultimate Experiment

                                     An unpublished short story

                              THE UNLIMATE EXPERIMENT

Ball looked up from his work as his normally reserved graduate student came running into his office.  This usually calm student was in an extreme state of agitation.

“Professor, you’ve got to come quick!  We’ve just recorded a unique event.  Nothing like this … you’ve got to come!”

“Calm down John.  Now tell me what has happened.”

“We’ve detected a new form of neutrino!  It is not any of the three known types – electron, muon or tau!”

Now Ball was getting excited.  “Tell me about its chirality – its orientation.”

“That’s the strangest part, Dr. Ball.  It has none.  It is not left-handed as all neutrinos are.  I’ve got to get back.  Are you coming?  There might be more events.”

“I’ll be right there, son.”

After the graduate student left Donald Ball sat for a moment alone.  He was simultaneously excited and numb.  He cried, and then he laughed.  He also felt a calmness he had never experienced before.  He knew this was a unique event. Because it seemed inexplicable, the event would probably be deemed the result of faulty sensors.   But Ball knew better.  The new neutrino was the type of particle Stewart had agreed to generate from beyond the grave.

                                              THE END