The Gravity of Anti-Gravity

The Gravity of Anti-Gravity #1

by Tim Blagge

Let’s imagine you are a brilliant young scientist, just ready to graduate from Cal-Tech and you invent and build a machine that will fundamentally change the course of human history. You know your anti-gravity device will revolutionize industry; and the ripple effect will touch every person on the planet. So how do you get your device to market without inciting economic chaos? This is exactly the dilemma faced by Bill Burton, our brilliant, yet down-to-earth young scientist. How does he navigate the web of good and evil entities who will stop at nothing to own his device and the science behind it? With the help of an enigmatic beautiful scientist, Dr. Stella Morton and her Private Investigator brother, Rolf, new author Tim Blagge, weaves a spellbinding story rife with betrayals and mysteries that involve both criminal organizations and the highest levels of the world’s governments. Strong characters, humor, pulse pounding excitement and an ending like no other will satisfy even the most discerning fan of contemporary conspiracy novels. Exceprt from The next morning while I was still sleeping, the phone rang. It was Jerry and he sounded frantic. “Bill, have you seen the news? You won’t believe it. I think you might have, have been responsible.” He stuttered. “Jerry what are you talking about?” “Just turn on the news, buddy boy.” Jerry said excitedly. “I’ll call you back.” I said I turned on the news. The story was on every station. “This is KFAJ reporting,” the TV barked. “Scientists are stunned and puzzled at a phenomenon that they have never before observed. About 7:57 P.M. Pacific Time last night, the earth lost seven tenths of a second of time. Now before you go and celebrate that you are younger now than you would have been, it has caused some huge problems. All the satellite navigation systems in the world must be recalibrated. This has affected all forms of transportation. Planes have been grounded, and ships, trains, subways – all other forms of transportation have been stopped awaiting the fix to our global positioning satellites.” “The militaries of the world have been put on high alert. No one seems to know if this is a natural or accidental occurrence or if some terrorist or rogue nation is sending some kind of message. Until the satellites are recalibrated, most of our offensive and defensive rocket capabilities are also off-line.” “Scientists and technicians say they will have the GPS satellite systems adjusted in the next hour. Then we should see the world return to normal in a day or two. And it’s a miracle, but so far, there are no reports of death or injury.” “Let’s go to Norma Woodard who is with Dr. Franz Belter of MIT.” “Dr. Belter, can you explain what just happened and how the world suddenly lost time?” “Ms. Woodard, my colleagues and I have met all night and so far, even though we have some hypotheses on this strange phenomenon, we don’t have any definitive answers yet. First we thought that it may have been a giant solar flare, but nothing unusual emanated from there. Then we checked to see if the earth was hit with a large burst of particle radiation from outer space. We have detected nothing like that.” “Does that mean you don’t know what happened at all?” Woodard questioned. “Ms. Woodard, we have come only to two conclusions. The first is that something has briefly interrupted space-time. The second is that we think it originated here on earth!”

292 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 11, 2012