A Glint in Time: a Novel of History and Time... and the Ability to Do Something About It! by Frank J. Derfler

Author:Frank J. Derfler [J. Derfler, Frank]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781623096106
Publisher: BookBaby

At 0830 Colonel Landry and Bill Wirtz joined Ted and Sally in their workspace. "Let's keep everything about 9/11 behind that locked door," Landry said.

Ted and Sally had pulled together some PowerPoint slides loaded with talking points. They also downloaded some slides from the files of the cross-agency investigative group to save time. The presentation was up on the large videoconferencing screen. "Some of the material we're going to talk about is from open sources like the newspaper. Some of it is from the cross-agency investigation. So we have to pickup the classification of the investigation. This discussion is Top Secret code word PENTTBOM. Here's what we know. "

"On Friday, the FBI released the names of the twenty-two men they think did the hijacking. This attack was a large and well coordinated effort. They successfully commandeered five planes and it looks like there were teams in place for several others. There might have been more planned or attempted, but those five planes each hit their target. By the way, the weird part is that we, I mean us here at the Project, might have already taken action that prevented the hijacking of some of those other planes. We just don't know." Ted laid out a lot more that they did know including the results of searches of cars found in airport parking lots and the places where the hijackers lived.

At one point Bill Wirtz observed, "One interesting aspect is that the attacks were coordinated to gain the most psychological advantage. They combined mass murder at the twin towers with decapitation of government at the Capitol building and Pentagon and the economic impact of poisoning perhaps thousands of square miles by the release of plutonium from the Indian Point nuclear power plant. This was more than a show. They wanted to hit us hard and strategically."

Sally took over. "The more we know the more it becomes apparent that we here at the Project don't need to know much more. While we might be curious, we know enough to come up with some basic ideas for actions the Project could take. Colonel, one question we have is how much time should we spend gathering information and studying options? Specifically, how much accuracy and payload weight do we lose everyday we debate? "

Landry was quick on his reply. "I can tell you exactly. We've done a lot of experimenting to find out. We've got a heck of a complex formula, but it's all setup and ready for inputs in the physics management program."

He counted on his fingers like a checklist. "The seven variables in the formula include distance back in time, physical distance, relative motion, accuracy in time, accuracy in space, expended power, and object mass. Change one factor in the formula and all the others have to change. It gets a lot more complex because we are dealing with three dimensional positioning in space. And, the media we send back in time can limit the expended power because of its melting point.

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