Earth to Centauri: Black Hole Oblivion: One Ship. One Crew. No Escape. by Kumar L

Author:Kumar L [L, Kumar]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Red Knight Books
Published: 2019-08-20T06:00:00+00:00

14

Through The Looking Glass

"Will one of you please fill me in too?” moaned Madhavan, who was nursing a huge tension headache. “Just what do you want from me?”

Ryan looked over at Anara. “All yours.”

“Always,” she responded with equal sarcasm.

“Okay, Mr. Madhavan. We need to reconfigure our gravity generators to invert our gravity field. It’ll require several steps, am I right?”

“Invert? Why?”

“Well,” Ryan said. “The Captain here believes that we can travel through the black hole, find a wormhole and travel to another universe.”

“Sure. Sure, I can invert the field. And you can tell me why we are really doing this while we work? How much time do we have?” In his current state, he did not even try to make sense of what was being said.

Ryan wished he knew the answer. “No idea. Sensors are no longer working. I could look out of the window and tell you, if that’ll help. Anyway, I need your undivided attention for just a few minutes while our control systems are still functioning. We owe it to the crew to give this our best shot, right?”

“Okay. I’ll… I’ll re-align the graviton particle emitters, you go ahead and set up the calibration. What power levels do you need?” Some of the requirements filtered through into his clouded mind. This was just the kind of problem that got Madhavan right back on track and raring to go.

“Let’s see.” Ryan tried pulling up a screen which flickered weakly. He grabbed a tablet and pen, to ensure he did not make a mistake in their calculations. Writing also helped him focus his thoughts. “At faster-than-light speeds, we generate a substantial gravity field bending the space around us. Maximum level of gravitons we can emit will be approximately 125%. We might be able to push that by a few more points so say 130%.”

“Sure that’ll be enough?” asked Anara.

“The gravity field outside we last measured was 85% of our maximum level. At the rate of increase we’d observed earlier, in the last thirty minutes it should have reached 110% or more by now. So, yeah, 130% should be enough. That’s still thousands of times Earth’s gravity. Hopefully, we will be at the singularity by that time. Best estimates only, of course.”

“Go ahead. I’m off to see the preparations of the ship and crew. Do I have ten minutes from you?”

“This procedure will eat up our fuel pretty fast. I don’t think I can hold this for more than that. Better hurry.”

“If this doesn’t work then we won’t need the fuel for we will die here in this space. If it does work and we do get to our normal space we may still have enough fuel to limp home at the very least. It’s a calculated risk. Now, you can turn off power to all the sections and I will get everyone into the dome.”

Ryan looked at her, wondering if that was the last time they would see each other, but he could not allow emotions to sway him from his task.

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