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"Tell me, what happens if a jet fighter flies at top speed into the sea?" the man asked.
"It disintegrates."
"OK. The same thing happens to atoms that are driven at light speed against the sea of latent energy that fills all space. They would fall into disarray and explode in a fiery chasm! Yet your ship travels near the speed of light and merely glows. The Bohr/Miller effect makes this possible. Your engineers have built the nose cone based on the Bohr/Miller principle. It creates something like a black hole in reverse, around the ship."
"Of course," I said jokingly. "Of course!"
"No seriously!" he said. "It's special effect allows your ship to travel untouched right through the center of a planet and come out on the other side with not so much as a scratch on it, and without anyone ever realizing that it happened. At 250,000 Km per second, you wouldn't notice it anyway. What's a five-thousand-kilometer transition that lasts a fiftieth of a second? It is nothing. It is a blink of an eye. Without this effect, you would have long been dead. There is no collision avoidance possible once you travel at near light speed..."
"All right then!" I interrupted him. "If this is so, who told our engineers about the Bohr/Miller effect?"
He shrugged his shoulders. "Maybe someone discovered it in Bohr's old writings and put two and two together and added to it the theory of black holes. In any case they've done it, and found a rather ingenious application for it."
"But didn't you say the Bohr/Miller effect is a mental technology?" I asked as we encircled the nose cone.
Martin grinned. "Sure it is! But it's not some kind of mind over matter force. It isn't magic. It's real!"
I looked at him in disbelieve.
"Doesn't a wheel roll every time its principle is properly applied?" he asked. "You don't have to re-invent the wheel when you need one. Once the utility of mechanical principles has been discovered, they can always be utilized. The same holds true for every different sphere of reality. The Bohr/Miller effect merely utilizes a different subset of natural phenomena. To you the material universe is all there is, while it is merely a subset of a much broader reality. Your perception is limited by what you allow yourself to see."
He began to grin again. "There is, however, a sharp delineation between the various subsets of reality," he said, "which makes it hard to perceive anything outside of one's sphere. You can only notice the occasional strange affect that cannot be rationally explained except as a phenomenon of a different subset of reality."
I suppose I would have questioned this logic, had I not been experiencing its very essence by existing in space without air and without a pressure suit.
"Oh, I almost forgot," he interrupted my thoughts. "I promised to show you my super-star of all the black holes. It's not the biggest by any means, but one of the most exciting of all the black holes I've come across," he said.
"Shouldn't we rather use the telescope?" I asked.
"Telescope!" he said. "I'll take you there!"
"Now?" I asked, utterly surprised.
"Sure, why not? I'll have you back before supper."
"Oh, it's that close!"
"As a matter of fact, it's on the other side of the Milky Way."
"Now that's almost home base," I joked.
To my surprise he didn't grin. "Haven't you learned anything from what I have said," he nearly scolded me. "The term 'close' has no validity in this particular sphere of reality that you have now entered!"
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