Burt steps in, "Wait, I think I understand where you are going. If these unified gravitational tunnels didn't interconnect and fold with time, then traveling into the past forty years at this location in the universe would transport us forty years in the past at this exact location in the universe. The Earth was not in this exact location forty years ago, so we'd just appear in outer space and die."
Walter nods and smiles, "Exactly! If an object does not possess the propulsion to cross folded space in the fifth dimension, it will be contained in the unified electromagnetic-gravitational tunnel in which the Earth is traveling, so as we cross folded time, we are moving within Earth's gravitational tesseract tunnel, ergo always ending up within Earth's path and on Earth no matter in which time we reappear."
Understanding the conversation, Mr. Nix speaks out, "That actually makes sense."
Walter replies without missing a beat, "Of course it does. It explains why the four Grey ships went back in time. They were traveling the same direction, the electromagnetic fields moving with them, their rifts in motion. When the ships disappeared, their rifts were moving the opposite direction of the Earth's current trajectory, heading toward Earth's past.
"And the destroyer from the Philadelphia Experiment saw into the future but returned to the present because the destroyer was not moving, and thus its rift was still. The destroyer went into the rift and glimpsed the future because the destroyer brushed against a future fold in time, but because the rift was moving the same speed and direction as the Earth, when it reappeared, it only moved forward in time the length of time the destroyer was in the rift."
"So, the rift has to be moving when something enters the rift to cross folded time."
"Relative to the Earth, yes. Or, if what enters the rift has the ability to move within the fifth dimension, the moving object will traverse folded time. The force unification created by the malfunctioning cloaking device connects with the Earth's gravity, the gravity that connects present Earth to Earth as it exists in all times. Leading away from the center of the universe where all matter once connected. Therefore, if we calculate the movement distance of the Earth within the universe over time, how many kilometers per second, calculated the number of approximate seconds between the time each of the Grey ships disappeared yesterday and reappeared in the past, like Tomas' Roswell ship, and used the video recording of them to calculate the speed at which the rifts were moving, we'll have four different samples to create an equation that will solve how long each of them was inside a dimensional rift. If I can determine that number, I should be able to calculate how long to be inside a rift to get to a certain point in time."
Burt adds, "Controlled time travel."
"We could use the Philadelphia Experiment footage to determine how long that ship was inside a rift as a control for the experiment, because we can see the moment the ship disappears and the moment it reappears. Unfortunately, we only had an approximation of how far into the future it got a glimpse, thirty to forty years, but it at least gives us a reference point. It will take time, but I should be able to construct an algorithmic equation to calculate how long a stationary rift needs to be open to send a moving particle to an exact point in time."
Dr. Black is aghast, "That is amazing, Walter. How did you come up with that? My mind is still racing from barely escaping alive."
"A little death motivation and a hearty dose of adrenaline helps stimulate the creative scientific juices in the mind," chuckles Walter. "However, even if I am right about why an object maintains geographic location when going back in time, and how long an object remains in a rift to reach a specific point in time, I'm still left with the issue of matter and redefining what is one dimensional."
"What are you talking about now? You created your theory," asks Mr. Nix.
"I think he struggles with the time-matter paradox, and the laws of matter creation and distribution," says Burt.
Walter agrees, "Right. Because everything exists in a contained universe. Even what we consider empty space has structure, most of it unseen particles like fermions or bosons. Einstein speculated space is a fabric, some scientists theorize strings, others propose modulating particles. If what is here and now has to come from the here and now, then Tomas' body recovered in the past must consist of matter from the past, not the present. That is the only logical explanation for Tomas Seventeen's second body back in the bunker."
"Ok, Walter, I don't see how what you just said explains Seventeen's body in the bunker. I don't see how that explains anything," argues Mr. Nix.
"The Grey ships on the recording, including Tomas, traveled back in time yesterday, or so we perceive. My thought is nothing could traverse dimensions without changing state, or reverting to a state that exists in all dimensions. Three-dimensional matter entering a fifth dimension where matter exists in a four-dimensional state is problematic. Also, Agent Seventeen training with you while his body was in the bunker creates a matter paradox. How did his body exist in Colorado working as an agent, and exist preserved in the California bunker, and both entities consist of the same matter? The same matter can't exist in two separate forms at the same time. Where did the energy and matter which composed the Seventeen in the bunker come from?
Mr. Nix jumps in, "Because matter can neither be created nor destroyed, right?"
Walter corrects him, "Wrong. That is a common misconception. Matter is created and destroyed. The laws of thermodynamics say the total amount of energy in a closed system cannot be created nor destroyed, mass being a form of energy. The key being a closed system. But if ships were being sent back in time, including Seventeen, that was mass and energy from outside the closed system, being injected into the closed system. In other words, mass was added to a closed system, which is not possible. However, quantum mechanics conjectures that on a small scale and for short periods of time, energy and mass can be spontaneously created and destroyed, as long as in the long term the total amount of energy in the system stays the same. Therefore, Tomas and the ship had their matter dispersed when entering the rift, and were spontaneously created into matter when they exited the rift. The data and information that defines Tomas' existence as mind and matter was the blueprint for the new matter that created him in the past. This tells me that the only thing I am certain exited the rift back in time was Seventeen's data, the information that was him in thought and form. Unlike matter, information is duplicatable."
Dr. Black speaks up in disbelief, "Walter, you are waxing philosophical, not scientific. You can destroy information and data. Governments do it all the time, destroying research to prevent anyone from ever knowing."
"They don't destroy the data, the information. They destroy those who discovered the data, or the material containing the data, like computers or paper, but the data itself still exits. If a falling apple killed Newton, could we still discover gravity? Of course, because the information exists to be discovered. Why oxygen and hydrogen make water, why every atom doesn't stick to every other atom, is they follow very specific rules, or data, to form molecules. Why gravity behaves the way it does is information and data. Science breaks everything in the universe into mathematical equations. That isn't by accident. Humanity didn't accidently create math that somehow defined laws and occurrences in our universe. No, math is uncovering the data and information of numbers that exists.
"There is no way to explain the laws of nature as random. They are very specific laws that operate within parameters, that had to exist before the forces of nature could exist themselves. The information that defines how gravity behaves and affects matter had to exist before gravity, otherwise the universe would be in constant imbalance instead of balance. If science has done anything, it has proven everything is definable by data and information, and that science's mission is to uncover data to understand how things are controlled by data, behave and exist because of data...wait...that's it! Data and information are objects in one dimension, and every dimension other than time is constructed from one-dimen
sional data."
Walter stop dead, causing everyone else to stop. His voice is filled with discovery, "I was wrong about what a first dimensional entity is. I always followed geometry that one dimension is a point, but that is not right, because a point isn't anything. It is how we define something singular that has no width, depth or height. But a point is data, information. Data has no width, no depth. A point is insignificant and non-existent unless it defined by a location, data. A line is a string of points, a string of data, a string of continuous coordinates that lead from A to B, defining location and length. Understand where I'm going?"
Walter continues without waiting for a response, "The first dimension is time. The second dimension is one-dimensional data in time. The third dimension is two-dimensional clusters of data and time. Our fourth dimension is three-dimensional matter clusters of data plus time, and so forth. See? The only other thing that traverses all dimensions other than time is data and information! Unlike time, which is a single dimension that exists and extends through all dimensions, information can be an object or a force. An object that can duplicate and exist in multiple forms and variations. That is why Tomas' body could be in our lab and training with you, why a Grey craft can fly through the air the same time it is disassembled in our bunker, and how three-dimensional objects can pass through the fifth dimension and return still intact."
Burt stares spellbound at Walter, "Are you saying the essence of matter is not physical but immaterial?"
Walter nods, "The matter that made up Seventeen disbanded and was left in our dimension the moment he entered the dimension rift. The Seventeen we found and had back in the bunker was a spontaneous quantum creation of energy and mass. Seventeen's thoughts and life was data, which passed through the dimensions, and when the ship and Seventeen exited the rift in Roswell, both re-materialized as a quantum creation of mass, assembled from stray fermion particles that exist everywhere unseen. Those fermion particles became the molecules and mass that composed Seventeen based on his data. The Seventeen back in the lab was created in 1947 from the data and information making up future Seventeen, and not Seventeen's body being sent back in time."
Mr. Nix counters, "What you are saying is interesting, but I don't see how it impacts our current situation."
Walter points out, "What I'm deducing is a way to use the interdimensional nature of information to our advantage, Nix. The universe might be a closed system of energy and matter; however, data and information do not fall under such confines. This means that information sent back in time that is not matter should continue to exist through time."
Dr. Black cuts in, "So the essence of existence is information."
Walter responds, "Correct. I can't take full credit. A mathematician by the name of Claude Shannon came up with the Information Theory. He theorized the universe is not just made up of matter and energy, but at its core, information. I propose that information creates matter and energy. Every particle or wave in the universe has a structure or parameter or trait that make it what is it, and is how we identify it. When scientists are looking for the cosmic microwave background radiation from the start of the universe, they are looking for the information on the universe's creation, and that information, though as old as the universe, is still there and will be there as long as the universe exists. Information is not a closed system like matter or energy. An unlimited amount of information can exist in the universe, created and accumulated over time, indestructible. It can be sent back in time."
"That seems more philosophical than actual," mumbles Mr. Nix.
"It isn't. It means there might be a way our future selves can send information back to our present selves, and it doesn't have to arrive on time, which gives us a large margin of error. Hypothetically, if information was sent as a radiation signal, our future selves could send a message to us in the past, send it thousands of years in the past, and that information could exist until we retrieved it today. The fact that I'm hypothesizing this as the moment, the future 'me' may have already sent information back to my present self, and is waiting for me to discover it. If what I'm hypothesizing is executable, we can reevaluate our tactics with the Greys."
Mr. Nix shakes his head, "Honestly, I don't understand half of what you are saying, Walter. What I am realizing while you are theorizing, is that if the Greys located your bunker, the Greys can locate the other three Grey artifact bunkers. When we get back to the Colorado Mountain Facility, I'll send a warning to the remaining bunkers holding recovered crafts, tell them to evacuate and relocate or raze artifacts. Walter, if they have time to relocate one of the other Zeus Boxes to Colorado, maybe you can finally get extract information from it that has eluded us. Those boxes interest me more than hypothetical data floating around in space."
Walter is grounded by Nix, "Oh my, you are right. I was so caught up in my thoughts, I wasn't even considering that. It would be terrible if we lost all our Grey artifacts."
"We didn't lose everything from your bunker. I grabbed a piece before leaving. I thought if I didn't, I'd regret it," says Dr. Black, who stops and pulls out the vial from her pocket with the Grey flesh core sample she was observing under the microscope back at the bunker lab.
"What is that?" asks Mr. Nix.
Burt responds, "It's the core sample from the hand that melded with a metal plate from the ship. It is coexisting organic and inorganic matter."
"I felt I shouldn't leave without it," adds Dr. Black, returning the vial to her pocket.
"I should never underestimate you, Dr. Black," says Walter. "That sample might help explain what I am theorizing."
Mr. Nix takes over the conversation. "In every way I find you brilliant and fascinating, Walter, I also find you mentally draining. Now I understand why the Committee kept you locked in a bunker. Listen, we are about to exit here and go out into the open, where we can be seen. We may not be safe yet, so everyone needs to be alert and in the present until I get an extraction unit to retrieve us. Understand?"
Walter, Burt, and Dr. Black nod as they continue walking. They reach the end of the drain pipe tunnel. It opens under a tiny desolate California road bridge. The sun lowering in the afternoon sky shines at an angle under the bridge, brightly illuminating the pipe entrance, causing everyone to squint and cover their faces as their eyes adjust.
Dr. Black helps Walter out of the drain pipe onto the slanted dirt hillside. "I must say, Walter, you may be weird with women but I find you scientifically charismatic."
"The value of a scientist isn't in their genius but in the application of their knowledge. Theoretical physics is my forte, but it isn't as applicable as your field of biophysics. I believe your biological research is more important than what I do."
"Why is that?" asks Dr. Black inquisitively. "The theories of Einstein, Feynman and Hawking changed the way we see the universe."
"True, but biology made the brains of those men who came up with the ideas. The technology we discover is only an extension of us as creatures. Biology will always trump technology. It's not flattery, Dr. Black, when I say I believe you are the most important scientist the Committee has. Ask Burt if you don't believe me."
"It's true," says Burt. "He has said that many times when he selected you, and every time he evaluates your personnel file. I think that makes you more alluring to him."
Walter smiles, "I admire smart woman. Your beauty just gives me something to look at while I listen to you."
"Walter, I'm not pretty. You are just randy."
"Eye of the beholder, Dr. Black, eye of the beholder," smiles Walter.
"Focus, people," orders Mr. Nix. "You are all talkers, but I need you to embrace silence."
Everyone out of the pipe, they move under the bridge on a large dried-up stream bed. They use their hands to balance as their feet slide over the dusty bed of loose rocks. As they come around to the side of the bridge, they climb up a sloped hillside of dried brush and grass to the road above that goes over the bridge. After reaching the road shoul
der, they stand and catch their breath, sweating in the dry heat.
To the west, they see a black plume of smoke rising from the ground into the atmosphere miles away, where the barn and bunker once were. Then looking east, they see they are on the outskirts of a remote California municipality, and a sign with an arrow pointing toward an abandon side road and how many miles to the Calico ghost town.
"We seem to be in the clear. The Greys would be on us by now if they were tracking us," states Mr. Nix.
Mr. Nix activates a beacon on his wrist communicator. "I am signaling for pickup. They should be here within minutes. Let's head toward that open spot."
Nix point at a spot where a patch of flatland sits right off the road. The group walks that way.
"Walter, a quick debrief before pickup. We agree they tracked us by the chips, and not because they had knowledge of the bunker."
"Agreed," says Walter.
"We activated safety destruction measures. The storage archives were razed in acid. Computers and electronics were shorted-out. Bio specimens dissolved, except the sample Dr. Black holds. Is there any data or items the Greys could acquire?"
"Well, we know they could recover the micro transmitters from the case I dropped. They were in the conference room with us, not in storage. But they didn't get any digital data."
Burt adds, "The Grey wrist that melded with metal was in a thermal case on a bio lab table. That didn't get destroyed, so they recovered that."
"Any other artifacts not destroyed?" asks Mr. Nix.
Walter says, "No. The only things they could have recovered were the micro transmitters, and the frozen hand sample."
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