Space Lift by Afsheen Kay

Author:Afsheen Kay [Kay, Afsheen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-77180-151-5
Publisher: Iguana Books
Published: 2015-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Out of the blue one afternoon, without taking his eyes off the monitor he was working at, Jeeb asked, “Have you ever heard of Bee Ees?”

Rachelle looked up. “Yes, I have. What do you know about it?”

“Almost nothing. The first time I heard of it was in college on Mars. There were rumors about some kind of a strange energy wave that had been secretly developed by the government.”

“What else?”

Jeeb shook his head. “Ever since, I have repeatedly searched in the biggest databases at my disposal, but I could never find anything—absolutely nothing.”

Rachelle stood, smiling ambiguously, and said, “Maybe because you spelled it wrong. In fact it’s not two words but two letters, B and E, an acronym for ‘brain emissions,’” she said.

“Oh,” Jeeb said, feeling foolish. “So it’s that simple.”

“Not entirely; it describes the kind of energy wave that travels much faster than the speed of light and has some strange properties that penetrate anything we can imagine.”

Jeeb frowned. “Are you sure about the speed?”

“Positive,” Rachelle said smugly.

“So, there was something after all,” Jeeb said. “How is that you know so much about it?”

“Because five years ago Constellation and I were involved in measuring its speed with maximum precision,” Rachelle said.

“And the result?”

“You can’t imagine how difficult it was to measure the speed of something that fast!” she said. “After remeasuring multiple times, we could only say that the speed of a BE is in the order of one million times the speed of light.”

Jeeb rose and came over to Rachelle’s station. “Are you sure about the numbers? Are you actually putting six zeros at the end of the speed of light?”

“Yes,” she said. “It’s not exact, but the average of the many measurements we did was quite near that number.”

“How did you measure it?

“Two space lifts were involved. Our distance was around 100 AU or roughly 15 billion kilometers. The other ship sent a BE pulse precisely on the hour, every hour, and we registered the exact time that we received the pulse. It was never more than .05 seconds later.”

“Wow,” Jeeb said. “So what might something like that be used for?”

“I’ve had five years to think about that,” Rachelle said. “For one thing, it will let us talk to any place in the Solar System instantly and send videos of ongoing events in real time. That’s the scientific extrapolation. But in the human scale, it’s already been happening for thousands of years.”

Jeeb thought about that, drew a blank. “What do you mean?”

“You’ve heard stories about people with seemingly superhuman abilities, who could make others do things with just the power of thought, or could communicate telepathically, or move small objects simply by staring at them, and twins that felt each other’s happiness or pain while they were thousands of kilometers apart—things of that nature. They began scientific study of these phenomena at the end of the twentieth century, but their instruments were not good enough to register these kinds of waves.”

“We’ve been able to register electrical pulses in the brain for a long time,” Jeeb said.

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