Lament of the Danelope (short story page 5 of 6)

Now what even the brightest high school student probably won't know unless they went into physics or philosophy in collage is that everything that we see in our world is defined by the vibrations of these subatomic strings. They define the color, shape and density of the building blocks that make up the matter that we are and live in. The only difference between the matter that makes up a building and the matter that makes up a super model whose face is plastered on the building is the vibration of these strings.

The Danelope, like the mathematical physicist Edward Witten whose one of the principal authors of the sting theory here in our universe, understood that some strings could leave the membrane of one universe and theoretically travel to a parallel universe on a parallel membrane. The open ended strings were trapped by the 4 dimensions that trapped Dan and Edward to their membranes. They were bound by time and the 3 directions; up-down, forward-backward, and side to side. Massless particles like gravitons could leave the 4 dimensions and Dan found a way to attach a message. The message was his very own spirit.

Dan knew that space was far more dynamic and changeable than even Albert Einstein thought. Dan found out that humans in our dimension were far more dynamic and changeable than even he thought thanks to advanced medicine. Unfortunately once Brono left the Navy and found a doctor that cared enough about him to listen, the number of medications he was on dropped considerably. He went from 38 of the best commercial pharmaceuticals that designer labs could offer to just two. The only two he really needed.

While this was great for Brono and his ability to function in the general populace without drawing too much unwanted attention upon himself it broke the conduit between the parallel universes. Dan was trapped in Brono's limb. Forever.

(continued . . .)

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