The president had a last task to do before he underwent impeachment. Of course he would be impeached. People could not blame themselves for their own decision, they would search for a scapegoat, and he happened to be perfect piece for legal slaughter. But he knew that what he had done was at best humanely possible. And now he would have to take a step which would be testimony of his leadership.
“Have you called Hall?” He asked his minion who was lounging on the soft cushion of his seat reading from a reader. He jolted suddenly to attention hearing the sharp voice of his boss.
“Yes, your Excellency, he is waiting in your office.”
He directly strode towards his office. It was one of the best offices on this satellite, but if seen by earthman standards it was not a room deemed for presidents to sit and take important decisions. It was nothing when compared to his office on Mars. It was cluttered with the usual electronic pile. A computerized voice started abruptly on his entering his office, listing out the impending tasks. He ignored it, deciding to leave them on the shoulders of the next man in. It was actually a woman who was going to take his place and he had cad convinced her regarding the step he was going to take and she had agreed not to counter this step, as the life of humanity in future generations depended on it. Daniel Hall was gazing out of the large paneled windows of the room. It was actually a bleak scene, nothing more than rudimentary things junked up on this Neptune’s satellite to boost human living.
“Good morning, Hall.”
“Done the packing, Kirtan?”
“Actually there was not much to pack; nothing belongs to me, not even these stuffy clothes.” The President had no qualms when his master physicist called him by his first name.
“So?”
“You and some 1000 more are to go near the black hole residing near the event horizon for as long as you can and carry on the Project Negative, and send as the information as soon as the light makes it possible.”
“Don’t worry we will make use of quantum entanglement and the information will reach as soon as it forms on our computers.”
“But it depends on the truth of your theory.”
“Of course, but it also depends on the budget.”
“Don’t worry about the expense, it is already thought of. But tell me won’t this war happen in my life time.”
“No, not even in your grand-grand son’s. It may be some 65000 years, when their first craft would arrive. The envoy we received so old that they had to check in their database to see whether such a craft was ever send to our planet. Of course he was timely updated about the exchanges, and the whole mission through the Hawking radiation emanating from the black hole. It was actually a craft send to detect life in any universe possible. But they discovered earth long after their planet had established contact with us.”
“So time does indeed stop in a black hole.”
“It does.”
“The equipments we have captured are of no use then, their being super rustic.”
“Not entirely. They have enlightened our scientists in a very different direction, and a whole new field would be evolved.”
“But, these aliens in that craft were born similarly some 65000 years ago. Now their technology would be far more developed.”
“You doubt your own statement. What about that program war? If we were far behind we would not have been able to cauterize their financial systems. We have the benefit of being alien, they don’t have that benefit.”
“What do you mean?”
“We have their technology.”
“But…”
“I know it is dramatically old. But remember one thing if there was no Newton, there would not have been an Einstein or Feynman.”
“But….”
“Yes, I know science would have evolved in a different manner. But now so much Newton and Einstein is ingrained in our mind, so much bounded we are by a few conventions that we do not understand that those conventions are wrong, and that is our weak point. Quantum mechanics opened new doors, but nor it is able to answer all the questions.”
“What is your point?”
“We researched those objects, and it is also described to us from those radiations how superior their technology is today. We have detected a fallacy.”
“You have?”
“And this project Negative is going to generate more such data. Till now we receive only the most powerful signals that they have send us. But with this project, we will be able not only the data which they have send, but with proper manipulation we will get even the data which is not send.”
“I could not understand the jargon in that report.”
“The process is simple in principle. We will capture all the radiations, that much is known. Now the basic question is about reflection. You know that leaf is green coloured, because it reflects the green colour out of the entire spectrum, which then enters our eyes. Now if that colour was to enter a black hole which happens to be a warp hole, and if we were to capture it on a large silver bromide screen, we would develop a negative of that image. Of course it would take mighty mathematical calculations and consume our super computers but I think that it can be done. It would be a huge photographic negative.”
“And so we would be able to continuously snoop on their technology.”
“Sure, they live in a binary system. We would of course have to neglect their sun’s radiation, but during one month of their alignment we would be able to spy them. It would be like peeping into the windows of the neighbour.”
“And find out more of their fallacies.”
“Yah, and then use it against them.”
“So inspite of the technological gap, we might be able to win this war.” The President’s eyes glittered with hope. Though he may not be there to see that day, but he felt that his small step would be a giant leap for the mankind.
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