PART-2/CHAPTER-2

PART-2: THE TIMOCALYPSE
CHAPTER-2: THE WARP DRIVE

Amit was standing before Dev in Dev’s lab. Wise was levitating in the air. Amit asked Dev, “So you’ve discovered that there are extra dimensions of space. And they're something too small to be sensed by us. Like an ant on a pole perceives the 3D nature of the pole while we humans standing away perceive a 2D pole. But why’re you saying that you’ve figured out time travel too?”. Dev replied, “Something that no one except ISRO knows about me is, Amit, that I’ve been working on Alcubierre warp drives, and even built a spacecraft but couldn’t power it.”

      Amit replied, “Are you speaking about achieving light speed? But that would break the laws of physics, wouldn’t it?”. Dev explained, “You see Amit. Warp drives achieve light speed without breaking the laws of physics. It works by contracting space ahead of the spacecraft and expanding it behind the spacecraft. This makes us move at light speed, but at the reference frames of space not surrounding us. But we wouldn’t be moving at light speed corresponding to the space which is  bent by us. This is how it works. But I wasn’t able to power up because the warp ring which does the work needs negative matter for the purpose and there’s no trace of it.”

      “So, you say that negative matter exists in those extra dimensions”, replied Wise. Dev said, “Exactly. I’ve observed negative energy fluctuations in my lab and that’s the evidence for negative matter which exerts negative gravity and that’s the reason for you to float in air ,Wise.” He turned to Amit, “D’you know about aura Amit? Our auras are hidden in the extra dimensions around us. But wise’s is the connection between our three plus one dimensional world and the extra dimensions. And you know why there’s nothing over the vast fields in my backyard? That’s my lab under it. And that’s where this spacecraft currently is.”

            “Wait a minute. Then, are you saying that you’d extract negative matter with the help of Wise?”, asked Amit. “Exactly. And that’s through the energy chamber into which Wise’s energy will be channeled and that chamber would open extra dimensions in itself. Then I would install the chamber on the spacecraft”, replied Dev.

      Amit asked, “But, wouldn’t that pose any threat to humanity? Wise wouldn’t allow you to do it. Am I right Wise?”, he turned to Wise. Wise replied, “ I would accept, Amit. This is on a purpose. This has to happen definitely as my senses suggest. I would help him.”

      Amit was shocked at this reply. Wise was placed in a glass chamber which is connected to a another walled chamber. Wise released his energy which was then channeled into the walled chamber. Dev achieved it.  He observed a very high rate of negative fluctuations.

      He could now access the negative matter present in the extra dimensions. He then installed the chamber on the spacecraft in the backyard basement. The spacecraft was more of a jet plane with a huge ring like structure around it. On the spacecraft was written, “MISSION WARP”. Amit said, “Let’s contact ISRO then. My dad works there.”

      Dev replied, “I know Amit. Not everyone of ISRO knows about this. There’s a special secret division for ET and Time Travel. Surprisingly, your dad’s a part of  the division and ultimately, he’s the head. So, of course he knows me. But he would never reveal it to you too and you too can never reveal your secret identity as a hero to your dad. Okay, lets meet tomorrow.”

     Amit asked enthusiastically, “Are we going to travel in time tomorrow?”. Dev replied, “Not us Amit, the spacecraft will. It can just reach speed of light but cannot cross it because the energy is insufficient. We don’t even need speed of light to travel to future, just very high speeds are enough, but that would take years for us.”

      Amit had a doubt, “Wait a second. If we travel at light speed and go to  a star 100 light years away. It would take us 100 years to reach it even at light speed, isn’t it? So how are we going to travel? I mean, the spacecraft.”

            Dev gave a slight smile and explained, “You’re partially right Amit. I hope you know what time dilation is. As you get faster time goes slower for you. And as you reach speed of light, time stops, that is it doesn’t exist for you. When you cross it, time moves backwards and you go to the past. So when you sit in the spacecraft and set the distance to a 100 light years and you click on the start button, you will already be there in the star system of the star 100 light years away as soon as you press it. That is, you wouldn’t experience the travel, but you will just be there. While the observers observing your spacecraft observe it moving at light speed and according to them it took you 100 years, but according to you, it took no time. You’ll still be at your age while time passes almost 100 years here on earth. Did you get it?”

      Amit replied, “Yeah, it makes sense now. That’s according to relativity right. That means I would experience no time no travel. But, will I be in the future?” Dev replied, “Yes Amit. Please come here tomorrow. We’ll send this to the future. But we will not go, because if we went to the future, we’ll have to travel faster than light to travel back to past which will be our present and we cannot do it because of our insufficient energy.”

     It was the evening, next day, Amit along with Wise went to Dev’s home which is also his lab. Dev took them to his hidden launch site in the fields. The spacecraft was already out. There was a ramp, similar to those in airports, on which the spacecraft was stationed. There were some machines to control and observe the craft while it’s flight. It was time, they were standing near the control machines away from the spacecraft. Dev launched it. It ran along the ramp and then flew into the air. It reached the outerspace within half of an hour. It was time to accelerate the spacecraft to light speed. As soon as Dev pulled the lever to accelerate it, they saw an alien craft approaching it in the radar. It fixed itself to Dev’s spacecraft before it accelerated and then it flew along the spacecraft all the way to the future. And that was the unpenetratable spaceship of the aliens whose force field was too strong. It now just used Dev’s spacfecraft as the engine for its spaceship to travel to future.

      Amit and Dev were struck. Their minds were blown. They didn’t knew why the aliens wanted to travel to future and how did they know about Mission Warp.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter. Why did the aliens try to go to the future? And how  did they know about it? What will our heroes do?
Wait for the next chapter  to find it out

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