We All Still Love You Harry
"No Harry, we were just freshmen slogging through first year Calculus." Bill remembered
how tough it was that first year. "There are electrons. Millikan measured their charge to mass
ratio. We can just about see them today with the right electron microscopes. Weigh them. We
have split the nucleus of the atom and released nuclear energy the same way the sun has
been warming the earth for so many billions of years." He breathed deeply. "Matter is not light
brown ooze." He smiled. "But your dreams were real too, and I'll bet you've figured it out."
He felt the room vibrate. Evelyn was in the next room. They were in the Hyatt Regency in
Cambridge. There was about to be a large hole in the side of the building facing the Charles
River.. Six floors up. An empty space, extracted somehow, pulled out of where it was and with
no explanation as to how it happened or where it went. Ed Sharp and a crew of six
technicians took pictures and checked for temperatures and radiation and found nothing even
closely resembling a clue. "Not even a note, Jerry - no receipt - no hello - no goodbye. What
is going on?
Ed Sharp's mouth was wide open and he didn't even know it.
The vibrations continued and there was a "whirring" sound as if they were moving through
a tunnel of some kind. It was dark out. Evelyn had come through the adjoining door and was
trying to look out the windows. "There's nothing there bill. Just dark. It feels like we're
moving. What's happening? "I don't know." He was afraid but he he didn't want to show it.
Suddenly they decelerated - like when a passenger jet lands. They had to hold onto the
furniture - the beds. They nearly fell. Then it was light and you could see outside. Palm trees?
"We're in Costa Rica!" "Well sort of Bill", came the familiar voice of Harry Adelman - maybe
Costa Rica of a different galaxy though"
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