Oxygen Level Zero Mission 2 by Sigmund Brouwer

Author:Sigmund Brouwer [Brouwer, Sigmund]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, young adult, Childrens, Adventure
ISBN: 9780842343046
Goodreads: 896749
Publisher: Tyndale Kids
Published: 2000-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

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“You’ve been looking for me?”

“Sure,” she said. She grinned. It changed her. Without that grin, she looked grown-up. With it, she looked like a tomboy. “Everyone else here is ancient. Over thirty. I asked if there was anyone close to my age—I’m thirteen—and people told me about you.”

She stuck her hand out, just like earlier when she’d introduced herself to the robot body. “My name’s Ashley. Ashley Jordan.”

“Tyce,” I said, taking her hand and shaking it. “Tyce Sanders.”

I was glad it was dim up here at the telescope. For some reason, my ears felt like they were burning red.

“Looked like you were sleeping at the telescope,” she said, grinning. As if it wasn’t a big deal that I was in a wheelchair. “Not that I was spying or anything, but when I walked up, you didn’t hear me.”

“I was . . . I was . . .” I only hesitated because, to me, praying was a private thing—and very new. But I decided I wasn’t going to lie about it. There was no shame in trying to understand the mystery of life and seeing God behind it. So I took a deep breath and explained. “I was praying. When I look through the telescope, it blows me away. I can’t help but think and wonder about God.”

“Cool,” she said. She flipped back her hair, revealing her silver cross earrings. “I respect someone who’s not afraid to ask questions about God and Jesus. There’s so much to figure out,” she said. “What I’ve found is that when you think about this universe as being created instead of just happening by accident, you start to see God everywhere, in all these amazing things. Wait until you get into Einstein’s theory of relativity. Energy turning into matter.

Matter turning into energy. Wow! What really messes with my mind is the relationship between time and the speed of light. Think about it. At the speed of light, time slows down to a stop. If you could ride a light beam across the universe, a billion, billion, billion, billion miles later, not one second of time would have passed for you, even though hundreds of years would have passed

by on Earth. It makes me think that if God doesn’t exist in the same sense we do in our bodies, it’s only natural that he would be outside of space and time as we know it.”

She laughed at my expression. “You can shut your jaw now.

Your mouth is open so wide you could catch flies, if Mars had flies. What, you don’t think a girl should know about stuff like that?”

I lifted my hand and pushed my jaw shut.

It made her laugh again.

“It’s not that you’re a girl,” I said. “I mean, my mom’s a scientist. It’s just that I never expected the one person my age in this dome to turn out to be someone who loves science too.”

“How could I not?” she answered. “Considering the family I was born into.”

“What kind of family?”

She answered my question with a question.

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