Excerpt: "CATACLYSMAL" (A.Glass 2017)

 

"Stephenson's expression is blank.  “...its intention is to protect the physics of our reality.” 

Tori nods.  “Yes, decay of the Universe at the speed of light will be absolute.  It will destroy the whole concept of reality.  There will be nothing left.  Even physics and its matter, as I said, that resides all around us will be decimated...It is the ultimate death of everything.” 
“What will happen to our memories?...”  Stephenson turns and looks at the two servicemen once again.  “...Wait.”  He says to the Professor as he walks back to the jeep, Tori watches the young physicist as he talks to the two soldiers, they then get back into their jeep.  The engine starts. Stephenson walks back towards Professor Tori who is still standing at his doorway.  The Jeep drives off.  “I told them that I would call for them to return later.”  
“I am going back inside...You should have gone with them,”  Professor Tori replies. Stephenson's expression remains blank.  
“I have nobody...” 

“Your family, can you call them?”  Tori asks in the final moments of a known reality, a teacher of Physics and his  former student stand facing each other in the countryside of Georgia.  Although Professor Tori was aware of Stephenson's driven ambitions, it was his exceptional memory that caught the attention of the eminent Professor.  But reciting equations from mental representation and emulating theory, doesn't make one a knowledgeable physicist.  Only from learning theory and the understanding of physics can one begin to build upon testable explanations with the adding of new equations.  Stephenson never attempted this with his papers, although he did not plagiarize, there was something else about Professor Tori's former student.  Intuitive achievements intended for his own survival.  A rare type of person, who, earlier in his life may have had very little, but was able to become something, despite the odds against him."

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"CATACLYSMAL"  (A.Glass 2017)