The Dimensional Riff

Three years earlier the National Weather Service contacted NORAD regarding unusual sun spots that produced numerous abnormalities in magnetic resonance tracking and solar luminosity modulations not usually found in the normal manifestation of sunspots as they emanated from the sun. Fearing human intervention, particularly from the Russians or North Korea, the weather service made a formal request of NORAD to monitor solar flares. NASA was read in, and all monitoring satellites were upgraded to account for all solar activity as it related to the planet. Higher than normal magnetic activity was found in the area surrounding Area 51 in the Sonora desert, a large expanse in Siberia, the Congo, the Amazon, and a smaller more elusive region around the Akura Sea.

And for a brief period, lasting approximately 90 revolutions around the sun, at intermittent intervals, higher than normal radio-active magnetic bursts created simultaneous X-points in these four regions. Solar flares were noted occurring within this time frame, however, there was no corresponding magnetic or electrical disturbance on earth. Yet, the dispersement of whistler waves did not cause oscillatory relaxation. Instead, each of these areas showed what appeared to be a vortex. The funnel absorbed the oncoming solar wind without as much as a ripple in Earth's atmosphere. Depending on the direction of the flare at the time of disbursement the vortex widened well above the Exosphere, funneling the energy into the Earth's core. With one exception. That was just south of Area 51 in the Sonora Desert.

With the second to last occurrence of solar activity the National Weather Service noted a higher than usual electro-particle variation with a corresponding phase space trajectory intersecting in Sonora. Magnetic disturbances were noted by both NORAD and Area 51 personnel, however extensive searches on the desert region indicated no abnormalities.

And yet the scientists disagreed. There were abnormalities. Miniscule at best, but recordable. The saw-toothed oscillations created collision less reconnections in space plasma. The thin sheet of the Earth's magnetotail has developed a small micro-fracture. Unobservable from Earth's surface, but mathematically quantified. SOHO and WMAP recorded the aberrancy almost simultaneously. And then it disappeared. Considered a fluke by most, only a few radical astrophysicists choose to follow the intermittent stream of disputed data theorizing and speculating as conspiracy theories spewed forth

The Fein Farm Cooperative

In a little farm, just west of the highway 17, Roy Fein, a disgruntled and semi-retired quantum physicist, along with his commune of aging hippies, captured a glimmer of what would later prove to be a segment of an interdimensional quantum string. Roy left the work-a-day world nearly a decade earlier when his theory on space time continuums and intergalactic travel were regarded as pure hokum. Not to be considered the laughing stock, he offered his theories and journals as science fiction and made quite a name for himself. The royalties from his books allowed for a quite moderate existence in the desert. Roy married the love of his life, had a daughter, and decided to raise goats, for their wool and cheese, and marijuana, for personal use of course, and withdrew from society. He hosted a small migratory band of hippies, some rainbow children, and the disenfranchised.

Everyone, on reservation and in the neighboring town, was especially proud of Roy Fein. He went off to University to become a physicist; and when his books turned to science fiction, well his choice to return to the farm and write was met with equal acclaim. Roy was 1/4 First nation on his mother's side, Navajo going back to the 1850's and part Seminole/ Creek when the tribe was forced to move from Florida some 20 years earlier. Roy's four-time grandmother was part Creek and part Seminole. A small child at the time of relocation, this ancestor walked the Trail of Tears, surviving the many incursions against Native people by the soldiers of Andrew Jackson's armies. His three times grandfather Fein came from Canada to...