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"The Bohr/Miller effect is one of the things you will discover when you stop taking everything for granted," Martin said to me after we had turned back. "It's not the physical domain that limits you," he said emphatically. "Only the limits that you place on yourself can limit you. We found this out to a small degree, but it has changed our life. Sometimes I wish it hadn't, because it also isolated us. So, I am glad that I am able to take you a few steps out of your universe and invite you into mine. Unfortunately, I can only do this on a one on one basis. That is why I had to keep your friend Natalia occupied. That may soon change, though."
I felt that I knew what he had meant. Two isolated subsets of reality can't exist without either containing any reference to the other. There were always minutely recognizable effects that hinted to the as yet unseen. In a way, reality itself had appeared more and more like the black star that I had 'seen,' though it couldn't be seen in the standard sense of seeing. If he was right, than I too, was one of those black stars that had become isolated from the real universe by the gravity that I placed on myself, in my case in terms of imagined limits. Now he suggested that I could step away from that. There was no need for a black hole effect in my consciousness and in my life. Wow! What a thought! What a revelation!
"And that is how you discovered the Bohr/Miller effect?" I asked him after I explained what I had just realized.
He didn't answer this question. "Do you want to zip back to the ship, or cruise back?" he changed the subject.
"Let's cruise back, very slowly, but fast enough to be on time for dinner."
"Oh you! You have a lot to learn," he said and grinned. "You should have realized by now that time and speed must likewise be invalid terms in this subset of reality that we have chosen to apply, where physical distance and material laws have absolutely no validity."
I nodded. Of course I should have known, but the bewilderment caused me more and more to suspend 'logical' thinking and think in 'illogical' terms if the logical rationality was overlaid with limits that I had falsely placed on myself. He could have said that two and two equal three, and I would have believed him, because he would have been able to prove that too. In a way, I could understand this already without his help. Natalia and I were two individuals, but combined we had become a force that the captain's war couldn't touch. In fact, I realized that we were many times greater than even three, working and thinking together. We had become a 'multitude.' I could suddenly see why all the empires in human history had been so adamant about dividing and isolating humanity. The forceful isolation, often enforced with the death penalty, gave the rulers the only chance they had to survive as an imperial force. Undivided, humanity would have eradicated all the empires long ago, together with the very idea of imperialism that can exist only on the platform of artificially imposed limits.
"We can return to the ship in time for last Monday's breakfast," Martin said to me, interrupting my thoughts.
I was amazed realizing the tremendous implication his theories had.
"And I could get you there with all the knowledge that you have gained today," Martin added.
"Could you really do that?" I asked.
"Well, why not?" he said and grinned again as if this was a stupid question.
"Well, I'd prefer to arrive at supper today, that's enough to come to terms with," I said.
"So be it," he grinned.
We had a most wonderful cruise back, full of magnificent vistas and marvelous thoughts with implications that I could not understand. The universe lay at my fingertips. It was marvelous! Its power seemed to lay in my grasp, if indeed, power wasn't another invalid concept. Had he not promised that I could be master of my dance, and be calling the tune? Wow! This must mean that I can have power over the power of the universe!
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