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Defining Heaven and Hell: Two |
| Written by Chris | |
| Tuesday, 22 January 2008 | |
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Share it:      This ‘new world' was inexplicably different from Earth, when one considered this ‘new world's' inhabitants were the same as Earth. Human. Children dashed about and adults socialized freely, as if nothing was amiss, in this new human abyss. But trouble loomed for those who sought it. Robberies were common, but generally speaking, there were no senseless massacres. Genocides. But God forbid the loss of the art of war. Wars occurred, but only infrequently. For the most part wars represented a shift in majority ideology. Mostly. There were still struggles for power. One might think that when Hitler passed into this new world, he immediately sought followers. Instead, he was thrown remorselessly into prison, as an infant. Evan was born into this new world, pushed through by death. But Evan was too distraught by his findings to be of any use in our quest to define heaven. Due to this next ‘world's' peacefulness, one could consider it ‘advanced.' They had outpaced humans long ago, so that now many secrets forbidden to earthly humans. For one, many new elements had been discovered, the newest, at the time of Evan Pauls' entry was element 169. The creators of this new element were a young group of scientists intent on finding a new source of energy. The group was attempting to find a ‘fountain of energy' where the energy released would be greater than the energy consumed in the creation of the element. Essentially, they sought perpetual energy. But much like Earth, human desire was the ultimate undoing of all great endeavors, no matter what the nature of them was. The young scientists quickly extinguished their supplies and sought replenishment through their new element. So they began selling this new element to wealthy power corporation officials. Many potential investors quickly dismissed the idea: "Too much capital involved" or "Too far ahead of its time." They were being polite. Frankly, the new element was a novelty that no corporation, or cartel for that matter, could afford. The group quickly decided that it was necessary to demonstrate with the raw resource. Any demonstration with this element was an extremely risky proposition. It was the most reactive element yet discovered: the newest element to sodium's family. Their demonstration was unoriginal at best. It involved that old chemistry experiment where one lobs sodium in water and watches it explode, except this time with element 169. This experiment was the several levels up. No one new how the ‘g' sublevel of an element in this circumstance would react; the outcome of the experiment was entirely unknowable. Because of the group's current financial state, the test was scheduled to occur in a secluded salt water lake, dead center. As the group prepared, their activities received very little attention, as with most landmark science events. The group sailed a ghost ship to the center of the lake and scuttled it. There was only a quarter gram of the element, but enough to begin the reaction, a chain reaction. One atom was split, then another, and the procession quickly spiraled out of control faster than the blink of an eye. As the shock wave bolted towards the scientists, all they had time to do was blink their eyes, just a reactionary blink. All they would recall was a great flash, and then their sudden rebirth into the next warring world. Copyright 2008 Chris |
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