SkyDiving 2024

The year was 2024. Planes would now allow you to skydive from a much higher point in the atmosphere but you would be wearing a mask that would filter oxygen to you for the first 2 minutes of the fall. Max was excited and could not wait to try it. His parents had planned this with him for weeks and tomorrow was finally the day. He tried to sleep but tossed and turned all night, much too eager to go.

The plane ride up to the air platform (it was a huge plane with buildings on top hovering in air that would come down once a week to refuel) was awesome. The

Earth grew smaller until he could almost see his whole country. On the way up there is always a few minutes of 0 gravity which Max loved. His body was weightless as he flipped around among the interior of the silver plane. The black seats served as ledges for him to push off from to get to his bag. He pulled out a bottle of water and opened the cap letting a little bit of water escape. “Mom, Dad!” he yelled. “Watch this!” and with that he pushed the water and chased it down the aisle of the small plane.

The few seats of the plane gave everyone restricted maneuverability and space which nearly caused some collisions. Right as Max  positioned himself under the water, the gravity came back and the water dropped right into his mouth. He laughed with his parents but it was cut short by a fasten seatbelt sign. They were about to land on the skydiving platform. Everyone wore oxygen masks until they were inside the building where the air was not thin like the outside. They had air filters and greenhouses that produced air for indoor breathing. They checked in and headed to a different plane. They would soon be skydiving away from the silver planes and platform.

The plane took off without a hitch and in ten minutes, they had already arrived. Max eagerly strapped on his parachute and stood at near the open door, with the wind blowing his hair around. Once everyone was ready, they jumped into the sky. The g-force immediately hit as everyone’s cheeks jiggled. It was almost like 0 gravity again except they were falling. The family formed a ring and tried to stay together while adjusting their speed by bringing their arms up. They would have to separate eventually so their parachutes did not hit each other when deployed so max tucked in his arms and legs like a cannonball and gained speed. He fell faster than his parents and once he gained enough distance, he suddenly sprang his legs and arms open and spread them wide apart. The air lifted and carried him so his speed decreased several fold. So much so that max felt like he was flying. The oxygen mask rang which meant that it was time to parachute. He pulled the lever on his back and was yanked upward as the parachute deployed and caught air. As he floated down for the last minute, all Max could think about was how he wanted to do it again. He had fun.

The Four Dimensions

A Brief Summary of the First Four Dimensions

Have you ever gone out and watched a “3d” movie?  What makes something “3d” in the first place? Most would say “something that is flat like paper” and while that is technically correct, it is far from the whole truth. Now first of all, there are not JUST three dimensions as a majority of people think. String theory states that there is a MINIMUM of nine dimensions and that the tenth dimension is, well….., everything. In a single point. But let's not get into that. For now, let us discuss the first and second dimensions for they are the simplest.

The first dimension is a single point. The universe would be a line in this situation. Anything in the first dimension would be on the line only capable of moving along the line, forwards or backwards. Next is the second dimension. The second dimension is one that we are all familiar with. To go from the first dimension to the second dimension, you simply add a line. An object in the second dimension would be like a dot on a coordinate plane. The two dimensions of the second dimension are length and width.

This brings us to the third dimension, which is obviously the most easy one to comprehend because the third dimension is the the one we are living in right now. The third dimension is depth. This adds another line to the two dimensional coordinate plane. Your location would be determined by latitude, longitude, and altitude, while in the second dimension there IS no altitude. Another word for the third dimension is depth. Back to our original question, what makes something “3d” in the first place, the answer would be depth. Now you could definitely state your location with just those 3 numbers, but there ARE more dimensions.

Now let us enter the fourth, and for the sake of this paper, and final dimension that we will be discussing. The fourth dimension, is time. Now you cannot really draw another line in your three line coordinate plane for the fourth dimension because the fourth dimensional line would be a timeline. A being in the fourth dimension would, theoretically, be able to move through time naturally, as easy as we are able move forwards and backwards, or side to side. The fourth dimensional being would be easier to be described as a snake. Your baby self would be at one end and your deceased self would be at the other end. Now here is something to think about. If light is shone upon a 3 dimensional object and it results in a 2 dimensional shadow, then what would happen if light was cast on a 4 dimensional object?

A Short Sci-Fi

Another one had been found. This time it was a remnant of the twenty second century. Relics like this military robot were extremely rare. Centuries old, it was indeed a mechanic fossil.

“A long time ago, nearly 600 years, world war three had been tearing the Earth apart until my great ancestor had launched a special robot into the sky which acted as an EMP of unprecedented measure. With most of the population wiped out by robots, it had become a race between nations on who could mass produce bombs and robots to annihilate the other. When Draktheen, my great ancestor had seen what was happening to Earth, she had created the Volleybot EMP Series 42, which was designed to wipe out all machines on the surface, along with the any humans that had neural implants, including her own which had kept her alive for 3 years. History had happened accordingly to what Albert Einstein had predicted with one of his famous quotes, “I know not with what weapons world war three will be fought, but world war four will be fought with sticks and stones.” It had taken the Earth hundreds of years to heal and even then, there were still permanent scars left in the planet. A mere 3 million humans had survived the war and even though they attempted to mass produce, after 600 years, there were still only 30 million humans globally. After the war, all traces of twenty-second century medical related advances had been wiped out. Only the knowledge retained by the collective, remaining human race was what had been left of the once great medical era of the twenty-second century. Despite their attempts to repopulate the Earth, disease and sickness would come and would not be cured. Babies would die early because of the limited medical support and the average human life expectancy had been brought down to 45 years; nearly half of what it had been before.  Humans had passed down oral recipes for how to make machines which ranged from ‘computers’ to ‘steam engines’.They could not make these of course, and neither can we as the materials necessary are too difficult to obtain. These instructions were finally written down in year 2400 to keep them as close to the original thing as was possible in hopes that one day, we may be able to build these machines again to make the new humans’ lives easier. I, Drakul, had become a seeker, looking for anything that remained from the past in hopes to kickstart humanity and find an essential upgrade that would help boost the collective human population out of what we named the Caveman Era. We were still dwelling in caves, unable to go outside anytime before what we presumed to be around four o’ clock due to the immense heat. The EMP had detrimental effects on the planet which had resulted in speeding up global warming. Luckily for us the Earth had begun to cool 200 years ago and remember that we are lucky that we can even go out after four. I have told you about me and some history about the planet. That, my students is what you call killing two birds with one stone. I must go search for some more relics because, as you may know, I found a military robot in the 3rd quadrant of the northeast caves so I must go and look for more.” I ended with a clap.  “What does that mean?” one of my female students asked. “That means” I sighed. “That you may leave early today. Class dismissed.” And that had concluded  the end of the first day of my part-time job as a history-exclusive teacher.