Broken Symmetries: Age of Illuminati (14 page)

Chapter 23

Going back to the time when
Young Nimrod
was a teenager in the high school, he was an overachiever. In fact he was able to pass the exams from classes higher than his age, so the school decided that he can skip tenth grade and go directly to the eleventh grade where his age was only sixteen among a class of seventeen year olds. His eagerness and passion to read books that were out of his league was remarkable. His parents were very happy to see their son getting over the trauma of losing his little sister several years ago. He returned back to his usual life, stronger, smarter, and even more eager to invent something beneficial for humanity. “Our son will make us proud,” the mother said.

“This is all the result of my wise upbringing,” the father said.

“What! You barely talk to him!” she said. “It’s all me who advises him and talks to him.”

After a lengthy debate about who was to be credited the most for the child’s upbringing, the father took out a book from a package he had recently bought for
Young Nimrod
at his request; the mother looked at the title of the bulky book.

“Is this a physics book?!” she asked with an eager voice.

“Yes it is,” the father replied. “I find it a bit strange that he now asks me to buy books with advanced topics in physics. I don’t know why he is no longer interested in reading medical books as before,” he wondered.

“Maybe his real interest is physics. We shouldn’t oblige him to become a doctor,” she said.

“I see. His previous interest in medicine might have been due to his effort to find a cure for his little sister,” he said. “I agree with you. We should now let our son to choose what he would like to be.”

Later on that day
Young Nimrod
returned home from school, he found on his desk the book that he asked his father to buy for him. He immediately opened the hard covered book which was titled,
Time According to Relativity Theory and Quantum Mechanics
and he eagerly then navigated to chapter twelve which was titled ‘Time Travel According to Relativity’. He began to read that chapter eagerly. This was not the first time he read such a topic, in fact, his online searches, and bookmarks were mostly articles about time travel. After he finished reading the chapter, he opened the drawer of his desk and took out the picture of his young little sister which was half-burned! Nevertheless, he was still able to see his little sister’s smiling face in the picture. ‘You are always in my heart; I will do anything to bring you back.’

He remembered the day when he forced himself to forget about his little sister and tried to get rid of her picture through burning it. He looked straight into her bright eyes which had survived the burn, and saw innocence, purity, love, and everything could have been seen through her eyes. The flashback of his sister’s seizures, pain, and suffering all came back to his memory. ‘I failed to save you despite considering myself a god, in fact I was responsible for your condition. My anger made you stress out and become vulnerable to the condition that took your life! I have been an arrogant person outside but nothing inside. I couldn’t keep any of my promises. I had promised my mother to protect you but I failed. Above all that, I tried to burn your picture and dismiss you from my memories!’ he thought to himself while tears and rage from his past behavior took over him. ‘I swear that is not me. I’m not the kind of person who doesn’t keep his promises. I’m not the kind of person who gives up easily, so just wait and see. I will bring you back even if I need to change the rules of physics!’

***

According to the theory of relativity, time is relative and it can be made to pass slower or faster depending on the speed of a reference frame, however, the change in time is barely detectable unless on frame velocities approaching the speed of light, and according to the theory, time would stop when the speed of a frame reaches the speed of light! Although Einstein’s theory set the ultimate possible velocity to be the speed of light in a vacuum, some physicists suggested that in a hypothetical case if a frame passed the speed of light then time could be reversed.

The technicality of the procedure to make things move faster than light was impossible to be achieved anytime soon.
Young Nimrod
knew this, and he also was aware that the entire thing was out of his league. No matter how much he studied, or how smart he became, he would never ever be able to invent a time machine by himself. Luckily, that time in 2040, there was a respected science project called TNARK which had started ten years ago and all the scientific media were talking about it due to its ambitious futuristic goals.

The project’s aim was to imitate Noah’s ark, but not by taking a pair of every animal species into a ship and saving them, but by taking the best genetic characteristics from all the animal species and combining them into one body which would result in a super smart and a super powerful organism which could survive any environment.

Young Nimrod
thought if TNARK project was successful in transcending humans into super-humans, their immortal bodies could survive the crushing forces of the black holes. Hence, a super-human could safely pass through the wormhole, a bridge for space-time travel at the center of black-hole, without disintegrating inside it due to the immense gravitational force. ‘If I have the immortal super-body, I could travel back in time using a wormhole bridge at the center of one of the black holes to save my sister in the past,’ he thought to himself.

Young Nimrod’s
attention diverted toward the TNARK project. All his plans since then were how to get closer to that project and participate within it. He felt lucky that he lived in a time where such a trans-humanic project did exist. However, one thing puzzled him: if time travel was possible, then why he hadn’t he seen any super-humans coming back yet? Was it because time travel was impossible or that the future super-humans deliberately chose not come back? He kept thinking about this puzzle until one day he saw a TV interview with the renowned astrophysicist, Neil Baron. The interviewer asked him some questions about the time travel.

“Do you think time travel is possible?” the interviewer asked Neil.

“There is no question about that. Einstein’s theory of relativity clearly says that ‘time’ is a relative concept. It can be slowed down, sped up, or even reversed depending on the relative movement of one frame to another frame,” he answered.

“Then why hasn’t anyone come back from the future at least to say ‘Hi’ to us?” the interviewer asked.

“To be able to say ‘Hi’ to your past or to the people in your past, you would need to go back in time as an independent observer,” Neil answered. “I don’t really know how someone could do that, but my guess would be that even if you could do that, you couldn’t change your past because your present depends on it.”

“Even saying ‘Hi’ to your past can change it?” the interviewer asked eagerly.

“Even saying ‘Hi’,” Neil confirmed. “It’s like the butterfly effect. Think of it as a movie with a coherent story. Each event in the movie leads to the upcoming event, you can’t simply edit any specific event in such movie without changing the outcome.” He continued, “Let me put it simply, if someone went back in time and killed your great-grandfather, then you would not exist, and if you don’t exist many other things that depend on your existence would not exist too, so the chain would go on forever.”

“So you are saying the super-humans of the future will never choose to travel back in time?” interviewer said.

“And why should they? They are now in their perfect form, immortal, and living happily. Why would they choose to disturb their existence?” he said.

Young Nimrod
bit his tongue from rage while watching the interview. ‘How can the future super-humans be so cruel? Seeing a past of pain and suffering but yet deliberately choosing not to come back?’ he asked himself. The content of the TV interview was very disturbing for him because it meant he couldn’t go back to save his sister without making a series of changes to many other interconnected events which could ultimately affect the entire reality. ‘If TNARK is able to produce the super-body in my lifetime, then I will definitely choose to travel back in time to save those who were suffering in the past,’ he thought. ‘I will never accept to live in any attractive future without saving my sister and all the other people who have been sacrificed in the past. The fact that no one has come back from the future to save my sister means that TNARK was not able to produce the super-body in my lifetime and its future outcome is a heartless super-human who doesn’t think like me!’

Young Nimrod
began to realize the horror of the reality he lived in with the terrible, unfair Mother Nature which everyone loved! Evolution itself was entirely based on sacrificing poor creatures who couldn’t survive through Nature’s harsh environments. The survival of the fittest was necessary to filter out faulty genes, and given enough time, evolution would be able to produce a perfect creature which could perfectly pass Nature’s ultimate challenge. A super-human who would become the crowning achievement of evolution, a perfect form that could accommodate and survive any environment. If it came back to its past, it could see the past imperfections, and it would see the sacrifices made for it, but it couldn’t intervene or save those who were suffering in the past because saving them would mean the extinction of the super-human itself. The entire thing was like a one direction path where there is only one winner at the end, and everybody else is just a mere sacrifice for the winner!’ The realization of this unfair reality rendered
Young Nimrod
completely powerless.

He looked at the burnt picture of his sister. ‘Every time I think there is hope, the impossible strikes again and all the doors are closed on me!’ he said to himself in a frustrated voice while shedding tears of sorrow. ‘But does a future super-human have a heart? Emotion? Mercy or any good quality? How could it simply live on the pile of sacrifices and sufferings made for it and yet be happy?’ For
Young Nimrod
, this was morally unacceptable. This was the first time he wished that ∞Illuhim∞ of the Abrahamic faith was real. ‘At least there is some hope in that reality,’ he thought to himself.

      Then he remembered the figure of light he saw during his prayers for his little sister. ‘Was that ∞Illuhim∞ himself?’ he wondered. ‘Could ∞Illuhim∞ himself be a super-human from the future? Could he be the future product of TNARK or something similar?’ he kept thinking then he looked up and shouted in an angry voice, the voice of someone who felt betrayed, “∞Illuhim∞ I know you are up there in your perfect form, living in the Garden of Eden with many angels and looking down upon us! How could you see my little sister suffering but not save her? I just can’t understand that. Is it because you can’t sacrifice your current perfect state for the past?” He followed “A real god would give up his kingdom and choose to sacrifice himself for everyone”

***

That night
Young Nimrod
fall into sleep on his desk, but his sleep was full of nightmares. A hopeless dark reality was immersed in broken symmetries as the gods of the future fed upon the sacrifices of their pasts! How unlucky to be born into such a reality! What was our purpose in this universe? Are we here to find the cure for Nature’s imperfections? Are we here to prepare a fertile ground for evolution and merciless Nature so that a god will emerge from our sacrifices? Are we here to serve his existence? Will he appreciate the sacrifices made for him? Will he ever decide to come back in time to end our endless suffering?’
Young Nimrod
was immersed deeply in a sleep where these thoughts came back to him repeatedly until the next morning when a ray of light came through the window next to his bench and hit his face. He opened his eyes and lifted his head trying to expose his face fully to the light to escape from the dark nightmares which were still haunting him even with eyes half-opened!

Suddenly, he saw another door of hope opening to him ‘If super-humans own our future, we own their past,’ he thought. ‘I can change their future by changing their past. I can change the mind of a future super-human by trying to understand how a mind works and how to control it, then I can intervene in TNARK project with a plan to control their future outcome and make it behave like I want.’ He had the crude thought, although he didn’t know the details of his plan, but the idea was an enough fuel to get him going.

He decided to study more about the human mind to understand it better. By the age of 28 he had already made a fortune, so he began to close himself from many of the world’s big laboratories by either funding their projects or contributing to them directly especially TNARK project since it was the leading trans-humanic project at that time.

Many years later, TNARK held its annual private meeting among its high profile scientists and funders, and in the meeting the latest findings and technologies that science had reached which could help to make the super-human possible were presented.

A group of scientists presented their latest achievement in genetic engineering. They showed a model of a body that looked like a human but the underlying structure was a hybrid from many species. They also exhibited organic skin that looked like human skin but was tough, resistant to burns, cuts, and stretching. The internal body was a highly configured system of energy production. It didn’t have stomach, kidney and intestine, because after all the super-body didn’t need food to get energy since it derived its energy directly from nuclear fusion inside him.