some hope of perpetuating the
love he felt.
However, the young man was amused with the use of this transmutation
technology and pondered: ‘Would it be also possible for me to use these
glasses and turn me into whomever I want to be? It’s unbelievable!’
Sivoc ordered Drako to take the ship into the Atlantic Ocean, the
Gulf of Mexico, at a latitude and longitude next the city of Tampico. While the
ship was moving there, he showed to the boy how gravity worked:
“With the knowledge initiated by the Theory of Relativity, by a
scientist of the twentieth century, Albert Einstein, it was possible to
understand the balance of space-time-gravity. Scientists managed to study the
changes that large celestial bodies, with mass and weight sufficiently able to deform
the space-time, can cause in the universe, creating gravitational fields.
The propulsion engines of folds we use are able to create a bubble
around the ship, contracting the space in front of it and expanding the space
left behind. This allows achieving large intergalactic distances respecting the
law of general relativity that doesn’t allow that objects with large mass travel
almost at the speed of light. We managed to create an artificial gravity using
discoid ships which have rotational centrifuge speed, which creates a
gravitational force similar to the Earth and to the Planet Vida, and benefits the
structure and the blood circulation of the human body.”
We traveled through wormholes formed from the space-time curvatures
between opposing gravitational fields forming passage bridges between distant
galaxies.”
Nicolas was a Physics student and loved those issues about time
traveling, life in other planets, and the law of relativity, energy sources and
artificial gravity. To listen and to know that those explanations were actually
used was just wonderful.
Zara enthusiastically showed the galaxy where they lived in the
virtual screen. She pointed her planet, which was located at a similar distance
to our Earth to the sun. That was Vida, the planet where they all lived.
She accessed a few images, and Nicolas could observe that the planet
had some resemblance with Earth, because there was a lot of water and of green
areas with different types of forests.
“Andromeda is a spiral galaxy and is located about 2.9 million light
years away from the solar system, to which the Earth belongs.” Explained the
geneticist. “It’s the closest galaxy from the Milky Way and it was named is due
to the Constellation of Andromeda, which the galaxy belongs.”
This constellation has its name originated from the mythological princess
Andromeda. This galaxy is also known as Messier 31 and its number of stars is
twice bigger than in our galaxy.”
She finished by saying that with the environmental degradation of
the Earth, the man was forced to look for other places in the space to live,
and conditions of other planets in the Milky Way weren’t adequate to the terrestrial
life. First the human being created a colony on the moon, then in Mars and,
with the knowledge he was acquiring, he could go farther and farther.
“This place was the best we found.” She explained. “Since we could
produce water from large glaciers and we managed to heat the planet with sources
of energy from nuclear fusion. This caused a cycle of evaporation of water, which
added to forest plantations, genetically designed, and established a continuing
photosynthesis, also due to a privileged position of the planet Vida, in relation
to the sun of our system. We also managed to save some species of animals and
plants that we take with us on our trips throughout the space. There are still
several domestic animals on our planet, which in the future are also different
from how you know today. They all have suffered changes with the evolution
process. With a quite diverse database of DNA, it became possible to clone several
extinct species and recover much of the lost biodiversity.” Said the