Business and Politics

Business and Politics

Hadron Colliders. What an interesting concept in theoretical physics. Even I couldn’t grasp the ultimate meaning of these findings, but I tried hard to find out.

Supposedly, the Hadron Collider was a very expensive device whose only purpose was to enable subatomic particles to smash into each other at incomprehensible speeds. It seemed to me that something that simply explained couldn’t possibly be capable of tasks so intricately complex.

But what did I know? I was a journalism major. Comically enough, I had written science-based news stories before, which basically taught me how to explain complex scientific principles and workings to others without knowing a damned thing about them myself.

I decided to share the information I had so far with an old acquaintance of mine. Although he didn’t work at the same job I did, Brad worked less than a block away, as a tour guide. At 5’9”, with brown hair, and a neatly-groomed beard, his appearance lent itself to a pensive personality.

I told him to drop by the building I was working in around ten o’clock during one of my sit-down desk security shifts, so I could bounce my findings off of him.

He showed up late, having run into a few of my coworkers whom he knew pretty well. I didn’t mind much, because every boring minute sitting at a desk and doing nothing seemed pretty much identical to the next.

He listened closely, periodically nodding at certain details. Once I finished, he agreed that the situation was strange, and that he would find out what he could. He was the type that listened in on the findings and news of the world scientific community, and if this was relevant, it certainly would be one of the most popular topics on the airwaves.

Not that it would have been hard to find out whatever I wanted to know about Timken Aerospace Inc., but I would have had trouble on my own ruling out or making sense of other related anomalies in the science media.

It was about 11 thirty, almost time for me to knock off and go to bed. I attended the evening’s house meeting as per usual, listening to the other five counselors in my building talk about the perks and problems of the day. Afterwards, Sherman had something to tell me.

“Devon, you might find this interesting,” he said.

“Oh?” I asked quizzically, which was my typical response to that kind of declaration.

“Timken Aerospace is working with the international scientific community to build the world’s largest Hadron Collider in Geneva,” he relayed.

“It’s going to go operational on July 14^th,” Sherman finished.

I paused for a moment, realizing something--that was less than two weeks away.

I thanked him for telling me, and departed for my room to maybe try and get some sleep. One thing kept me awake that night, however. If this major breakthrough in science as we know it were to be happening soon, almost at the exact moment that strange and inexplicable occurrences were happening to me, it had to mean one thing for sure;

This was a very significant point in time.

For some reason, maybe a future version of myself was trying to warn me about something in the present. Maybe someone wanted me to know something about this collider, some pivotal piece of information which held a significant role in the future. That someone might want this collider interfered with, protected, or even stopped in some way for an end that I couldn’t imagine.

I wanted so badly to find out.

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