About The Kellstrumm Paradox
The Kellstrumm Paradox Synopsis
Confronted by the prospect of the Chinese government creating a potential doomsday device in the year 2066, brilliant, veteran U.S. Department of Energy physicist Charlie Nash is called upon to lead his special high energy applications team at Lawrence Livermore Lab to create a counter weapon. Using the theorems of a renowned, deceased theoretical physicist and his force-producing dark matter Kellstrumm particle, the team sets out to construct a supercollider with personnel chamber. Capable for the first time of producing collisions at sufficient speeds, it should enable people to transit to past and future parallel universes through the transversable worm holes created in the collision events.
The Special High Energy Machine, dubbed Project AION, is brought on line seven years later and the five team members, now designated as Beta Emissaries, are the first to be subjected to the speed-of-light Kellstrumm phenomenon. At precisely that speed, it was theorized that the worm holes would be oriented to past-time and the Emissaries would, by force of mental concentration, rendezvous at a set spacetime coordinate common to the members. But in the inaugural run, they’re instead transited to dark alternate dimensions where their deepest, hidden fears are played out in terrifying scenarios. As the run ends, they sense that some part of them was taken and left behind in the chamber as an ominous warning to others. Declaring the machine unsafe, the heretofore intrepid Nash calls for the abandonment of the project.
A three-member team, designated as Alpha Emissaries, is nonetheless ordered into the machine by the madly-driven, power hungry vice president to carry out the original project objective of assassinating key Chinese officials. The loyal Alpha agents eagerly man the dimension-transfer chamber to transit to their designated future-time ambush coordinates but vanish. Undeterred, a second team is dispatched to the chamber. But suddenly, the machine’s power mysteriously begins ramping up, flooding the chamber with even more terrifying warnings. Struggling to remain mission-focused, the replacements also vanish, but unlike with the first team, evidence surfaces that they may have succeeded. As the machine’s power continues unchecked, its immense special energy seizes all others who have dared to occupy the chamber, as well as the unsuspecting would-be president.
Nash’s long-held fear about his creation’s dangerous capriciousness and power to destabilize the primary universe’s matter/anti-matter balance appears fully justified when never-before-seen cosmic events begin unfolding. Evidence quickly mounts that Project AION has indeed altered the fabric of spacetime. Alarmed, scientists are faced with the increasingly likely conclusion that because the nature of dark energy has now been so altered, the expansion of the universe has begun slowing. Inevitably, they fear, the expansion will end and the universe in turn will face annihilation in the Big Crunch.
Days after the final Kellstrumm particle run, Dr. Nash finds he is not immune
to the reach of his own machine either. Its lingering power seizes him and transits him into unknown alternate dimensions ─ one after another ─ until finally, the pioneering scientist experiences a revelatory dimension which holds answers to existential questions he and others had long sought. Now yearning for further discovery and realizing his own power to choose his next destination by force of will, he once again transits but leaves behind a tantalizingly telling letter to those he loves with the simple, affirming closing of Fear Not!
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Author Bio:
Jim originates from St. Louis County, Missouri and obtained his degree in Sociology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis after briefly studying at Central Missouri State College. His interest in creative writing was nurtured during high school but took off in his college years; some of his poetry, along with a one act play, appeared in a CSMC literary publication.
He retired from the world of work in 2006 after a thirty-three and a half year career. With the free time it afforded, Jim completed his first novel, Southern Passage, a coming of age/historical fiction set in the 1960s Jim Crow South. His second, titled The Kellstrumm Paradox, a work of hard science fiction/speculative fiction centering on the multiverse theme, was released on September 21, 2023.