When, at sixteen years of age, I began recalling incidents throughout my life that appeared to involve aliens, it often left me with the feeling that they were either malicious towards us or dangerously indifferent. One exception involved a grouping of memories I had involving an alien that seemed to me, for some unknown reason, to be female. While on most occasions she was out of sight in my memories, in the one in which I recall having seen her clearly she revealed herself to look akin to the typical Gray being, though perhaps taller, more slender and with translucent white skin and wide eyes, which I sometimes imagine to be of a blue color. She also wore a cloak or robe, so perhaps in most cases when she was around she had hidden her face from me by use of the hood it had.
When I queried her as to her name, she would only refer to herself as The Teacher. Over time, after having remembered all this in high school, I began calling her Nimi, as for some reason I felt the name suited her. Most of the interactions I recalled having with her involved us engaging in telepathic dialogue. Often she would put images in my mind and her telepathic words came to me in the form of a voice-over, and our conversations usually involved concepts of a spiritual or scientific nature.
While she spoke to me of a wide variety of things and I remember bits and pieces of our talks at varying lengths, there is a brief yet intense recollection I had regarding her speaking to me about what she called “folds.” In my mind, she drew a simple straight line, which then withdrew from both ends, leaving a loop below at the center of the line. This, she told me, was a fold. Her explanation of the concept was that you target some distance ahead of you and instead of traveling the line, you “pull” the target told you, effectively folding the line. Then you just jump across the fold. My first impression was that this somehow described the alien’s mode of travel, but I was not immediately sure how that would make sense, so I attempted to apply it elsewhere. The first time I told it to anyone it was on my way to Biology class, and I was explaining it excitedly to my friend, Fred, attempting to clarify my initial, simple explanation. He then stopped me short and breathed the single word: “Wormhole.”
“What?”
“Wormhole,” he said. “What you’re describing is a wormhole.”
At first all his response served to do was to take the air out of my sails, steal my thunder. It seemed quite evident that Fred was familiar with what I assumed had been an entirely new concept, and the way Fred said what he said, he made it sound as if it were common knowledge. I had gone from feeling I was expressing an idea of total ingenuity one moment to feeling like an uneducated fool the next. I felt much better after he began to tell me more about the concept.
The wormhole serves as just one of two counter-arguments against the common allegation that even if extraterrestrials did exist, they couldn’t get here from there at a speed that would make the trip feasible. This argument is itself based on the twin assumptions that the shortest distance between any two points is a straight line and that the fastest way to get from one point to another is to travel at the speed of light.
And indeed, light travels at some 186,000 miles per second, which translates into around 671 million miles per hour, and this is mighty fast, but not fast enough to get us much of anywhere in the cosmos in a reasonable amount of time. This is not the only problem, either. One of the consequences a spacecraft would face as it approaches the speed of light is, of course, that time would begin to slow down. Fairly common knowledge. Navigational issues also erupt, however, not least of which the fact that hitting the tiniest speck of anything at that speed it bound to cause some serious damage. Perhaps more importantly, as speed increases, so does mass and inertia. This not only means that it becomes more difficult to travel faster as you approach the speed of light, but that you at once become increasingly massive and get crushed by your own gravity.
Thankfully, a line is only the shortest distance between two points when traveling linearly. As Fred explained to me, wormholes were theoretical pathways that served as “short-cuts” through space-time. A traversable wormhole is essentially a vortex that connects two distant regions in space time, avoiding collapse by means of some of that gravitationally-repulsive negative energy. While scientists aren’t sure wormholes are possible, or if so, that they were feasible, he told me, they are frequently used in the context of science fiction as a handy means of explaining interstellar travel.
Since that time, I’ve researched wormholes to find that, while similar, that was not exactly what Nimi apparently conveyed when she spoke to me about the fold. I remembered no mention of tunnels and vortices, and the image in my head didn’t seem to give any suggestion that they were required. Instead, the concept as explained by Nimi appeared to be the act of warping or distorting the gravitational field of space to its utmost extreme: to the point where it folded. You don’t travel to the destination, in other words, you drag the destination towards you. Nimi has some earthly support, too. Some, such as Professor Hermann Oberth, have felt that the warping of space by means of generating or manipulating gravity is the only way to adequately explain the behavior exhibited by UFOs.
“UFOs are propelled by distorting the gravitational field, converting gravity into useable energy,” Oberth has been quoted as saying. “With the ability to create their own gravitational fields, UFOs would be able to do all the things witnesses had attributed to them: hover motionlessly, accelerate at tremendous speed, make violent turns that would cause ordinary craft to disintegrate.”
Others who share this view, such as Bob Lazar, are a bit more controversial in character, of course. Nonetheless, in the case of Lazar I cannot help but admit a profound fascination. He professes to have been a physicist who worked at S-4 near Area 51 in Nevada, where he worked on aspects of a reverse-engineering program involving an alien spacecraft. While in some senses conservative (believe it or not), the story Bob Lazar has told strikes some as so unbearably whacky, even within its narrow parameters, that they dismiss it out of hand with a dramatic sigh and roll of the eyes. For all I know, his story may indeed be little more than a packet full of lies, and I currently stand undecided with respect to its authenticity. Despite my skepticism here, I cannot help but be enthralled with what he had to say about how the craft operates.
According to Lazar, gravity is an actual wave and it comes in two different forms. Gravity-B works on a macro scale and is the force that holds us to the earth, the earth to the sun, and so on. Gravity-A, currently labeled the strong nuclear force in physics, works on a micro scale, holding together the mass that makes up subatomic particles. Though Gravity-A exists in the nucleus of all atoms, accessing it is problematic — yet not impossible, so says Lazar.
Evidently the craft is fueled for decades using only a 223-gram triangle-shaped chunk of Element 115, known as Ununpentium or its periodic abbreviation, Uup. This is a super-heavy and stable element in which the Gravity-A wave radiates past the perimeter of the atom. It is plugged into the structure of a small, on-board antimatter reactor. As Lazar explains, at the base of the reactor is a mini-particle accelerator which accelerates protons, deflects them up a small tube and then fires them into the nucleus of the atoms of Element 115. This causes a transmutation of 115 into the unstable Element 116, which decays within a fraction of a second.
Two things then occur. First, the decaying 116 radiates miniscule amounts of antimatter down a tuned tube towards a gaseous matter target. Once the antimatter and matter collide, they annihilate, converting to 100% energy. The heat from the reaction is converted into electrical energy in a near-100% efficient thermoelectric generator, and this energy is utilized to power the craft. Second, it accesses and releases the Gravity-A wave at the top of the reactor and guides it through tuned tubes, much as microwaves are guided, towards the three independently-positioned amplifiers or waveguides at the base of the craft, each of which pulse in a rotational pattern and allow you to focus the gravity-distortion.
In the craft Lazar claimed to work on personally, which he called the “sports model,” there were three such waveguides. There were also two main configurations or modes of travel these amplifiers enabled the craft to operate in: omicron and delta.
The omicron configuration is used when the craft is within the gravitational field of a planet or moon, as these gravitational fields serve as interference that can be used to their benefit. As an example, one gravity amplifier is aimed downward towards the earth, generating a gravity wave similar to what the earth produces, but phase shifts the wave. A phase shift from 0-90 degrees denotes the degree of repulsion, and 90-180 degrees denotes the amount of attraction. In this way, the craft lifts, descends or hovers like a raft atop a river.
Since only one gravity amplifier is required for hovering, the other two can be either turned off or utilized for other purposes. They could be used to make crop formations, as a beam weapon, or to lift up cattle or other things. These other two waveguides can also be used to move the craft laterally. Opposed to the style of our aircraft, which shoots something out the back in order to propel it forward, the craft can swing the two waveguides in front of itself, aim at a point a short distance away and create a distortion in space. The craft descends into this slight depression in gravity and, in tandem with the amplifier aimed downward and producing the lift, the craft consequently “falls forward” infinitely, chasing the horizon of its own distortion. Hence, as Paul Hill wrote in his book, Unconventional Flying Objects: A Scientific Analysis: “they sit level to hover, tilt forward to move forward, tilt backward to stop, bank to turn, and descend by ‘falling-leaf’ or ‘silver-dollar-wobble’ motions.” While it would appear to the eyes of an external observer that the craft was stopping on a dime, accelerating at fantastic speeds and making right-angle turns without decelerating, this is all an illusion based on the invalid premise that the craft is actually moving. The craft is actually stationary; it appears to be moving because it is moving the fabric of space around itself through the distortion it creates in gravity.
The more intense the gravitational field around the craft, the more intense the distortion of space around the craft, and, since light bends under the influence of gravity, the more intense its distortion as well. At the point of maximum distortion in either Omicron or Delta configurations, the field entirely envelopes the craft, causing light to bend around it like water flows across the surface of a stone, with the light waves rejoining smoothly behind the object. In short, the craft would be effectively invisible.
During maximum distortion in the omicron configuration, all three of the amplifiers must be on and firing perpendicular to the center line of the craft. Maximum distortion is a necessary condition in the delta configuration, however, where the craft tilts up on its side and triangulates all three of its waveguides on a target point some distance from the craft. The space between the craft and the point of intersection is then distorted at maximum intensity, effectively compressing or “folding” the space between the craft and the target and pulling the target area towards the craft. (Any creatures embedded in the space being folded are unaffected, much as two dimensional creatures embedded with the universe that would constitute a piece of paper note no affects when the paper itself is folded, or even crumpled.) The craft then moves across the fold, turns off the gravity amplifiers and is now at the target point. With this mode of travel, navigation becomes an issue, and this cannot be circumvented with elaborate star charts. Since gravity effects light, and there are gravity effects from planets, stars and other objects in space, light does not travel in a straight line. To jump great distances in a single fold would therefore throw the craft far off course. To circumvent this, the craft travel in zigzag-patterned jump points in order to maintain their sense of position.
Nothing within the distortion that encapsulates the craft would be affected by the external environment. There would be no friction, no heat. As there is no consistent collision against a steady and thickening wall of air, there would be no sonic booms, either. The occupants would feel no inertia. No sense of the craft’s ascent, descent, and lateral movements. During the “apparent” high speeds and sharp-angle turns made without apparent deceleration, the craft and its occupants would not be crushed to death and the craft would not be demolished.
It remains a notion I can’t shake.
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