Parallel Worlds,

by J. W. Cassandra

My short story "Parallel Worlds" belongs to my anthology entitled "Valiant Dreams". The idea came to my mind during a conversation around which I wove the story. The genre of the story is sci-fi or science fiction.

Its theme is the unusual way of dimension-travel and its possible results from an unusual aspect. The main character is a scientist and his dog. The tone of the work is ironic. I recommend it to those who like slightly abstract stories.

I wrote the original short story yet in 2004, and translated it in 2020. That was the first time I shared it on the www.updivine.com site.

You can find descriptions and links to the pages where my works can be read in the menu About Me.

I wish you a pleasant reading of the recently published short story!

Once, when I was a child, I would have liked eagerly, to be a leading actor of unusual and happening to nobody else, events. Later, like everybody else,  I forgot it and have lived my life. But for today, I have got such finds that may bring to fruition this very old desire.

Public Summons

Everybody has read or heard of travels through hyperspace, space jump and voyages to other solar systems. All these are but ordinary reality of our modern world.

But now I discovered such things by the aid of that we can execute the hyperspace jump without a spaceship or any other outer appliance.

One thing is certain: if we execute the jump without appliances, then our physical bodies remain here in this world without us, and they need some kind of preserving for, in returning, we could move into them again, and that they would not suffer any harm during this time.

One method of this may be the hibernation that is rated entirely ordinary in our society.

Then, what is the essence of the discovery?

The core is based on what the physicists discovered: if we observe the atom, it cannot be said about any of them ever that they reside in a certain place in space, since the space is relative, as well. The atom, practically, can reside in two places at the same time, even, that cannot be said in case of an object, plant, animal or human. But, if the atom can reside even in two places at the same time, then it is being proved that this world is only an illusion, since it is maintained only by the flow of energy.

If our world looks like a string and beside it infinite number of – or even determined by number – "strings" exist that is, worlds exist like ours or different from it then, theoretically, our atoms "can go through even there" at some kind of contact points, what is more, they are there and here at the same time – that is, we exist in the other worlds, as well, only this has been remained unnoticed for us so far.

May not be deceived anybody by the hyperspace jump: it is sure that we all met in the other, outer world somebody, who is familiar to us, from this world there. It is a known and common thing that our "copies" exist in the other worlds, as well. Well, why would we not visit our other "self" in an arbitrary parallel world? The possibility is given, it should only have been tried!

Its way is the following: our bodies should be hibernated for this "travel" without appliances, and while the process is taking place, we have to find the "transitory slits" inside, during concentration. This takes place so that we have to pay our attention to the flow of energy that composes us and the permanent undulation of it. Points of interference and points of wipe-out of the opposing waves are those points through which we can "step through" into some our selves existing in one of the parallel worlds and being connected to our selves from here, while our bodies are going through hibernation. Hibernation must be adjusted for a specified period, and after it expires, our bodies wake up here, and we, for this time, return from some parallel world, and we can tell about our experiences in another world.

How can we adjust to return at the pretty right time? There is an internal clock that can be tuned for this time, and since our selves are one and the same, therefore, this certain self can bring us back in time to this place, so we only change our bodies for a while with our other self, existing in another world.

If you would like to participate in the experiment, please, apply for the address of the foundation "Hiperspace Travel without an Appliance"!

-.-

"Dear applicants, all of you are qualified for the experiment. Well, with the aid of technicians, we will start your hibernation after two days, exactly at 8:00 a. m. Please, verify our clocks! I will travel with you, as well, and we will arrive together in the world signed XLCHR471/d, and we will leave it off exactly after a week, at 8:00 a. m., for returning again here and for giving an account of our experiences. I am proud of having the opportunity to lead such an enthusiastic, great group through this path-finder experiment! In the world signed XLCHR471/d, we will meet each other at the proper place for specifying our yonder standpoints of observation. The way of travelling through and returning, everybody knows…

-.-

Automatic voice:

"Countdown:…four, three, two, one, zero…

Hibernation sets in… — hibernation is started… — hibernation is in progress… — hibernation duration: ten hours, you have time for executing the hyper jamp… — last phase of hibernation — do the jump now… — last phase of hibernation is finished…"

-.-

"Heavens! Where am I? What is happening to me? Let me think! This is not my house! Or is it, however? Oh, I have just jumped, of course, I led the experiment of inner hyper space jump, I have a week for gaining experiences... I have to go to the experiment centre right now, to see how many people have arrived from the experimentees… Oh, my God! Why do I fall down every time as I am springing up? Why cannot I go away? Since this is my yard! I speak to my wife… Goodness, what kind of sound is this again?!"

-.-

"Johnny, please, go and look at what is the matter with the dog!"

"Just a minute."

From outside:

"Come here, my darling! Watch this dog! I wonder,  what is he barking so desperately? And why is he tugging his chain like berserk? All right, my little puppy, do not bark! Relax, my little dog, all right. I will bring at once you some bones, you like them, though. Then I will go to the experiment centre, and I will start the experimental jump with the candidates. Now then, where have I taken my keys? Of course, you do not understand this, I just tell it though, well, I am a man of moods. All right, behold, here is the key! Then I am even going… Why are you springing, why are you yowling so desperately? Oh, yes, your bone. Here it is, eat it, my little puppy!... Do you not eat? Are you ill, anyway? What is the matter? You poor my little puppy, you cutie, relax, relax…"

-.-

"Oh, my God! This is me! That is, it is the not-me! It is me who should go to the centre, not you! What are these yowl, rattle, bark? Where do they come from? Goodness! Not really!… I am my own dog! It is impossible! Now, what is the next? How will I get to my original body? And what will the rest of us do? Do not go, do not go, I have to prevent you from going there!

Roar… The chain! Now I know! By no means, bone! I am a human! Roar…"

-.-

"Well, why are you pulling my trousers? My little puppy, do not play! Let me go! Good, boy, all right. At last! Darling, I will come late today, do not wait for me! Do not yowl, Boomer! Chill out, crazy dog, what is amiss with you?! Now I go to work, I will be back later!"

-.-

"You will come, even! «Crazy dog?!» I am a human! I am you! You cannot leave! Turn me back! Bring me back to my original body! You cannot leave me here just so!"

Roar… He left. I wonder what happened to the others? Where have they arrived at and how will they return home? Let us consider how I should return?... Goodness Habakkuk! I forgot… it must come to my mind, since I have known it so far!

Roar… How should I return? Roar… How should I return? Roar… How should I return?
Roar… What is that 'return'? Roar… Where to? And why? Roar…"

Next day:

"My owner came! There is no greater happiness than to lick his hand, just sould he remember, that I like not the leftover and green meat, and bone, but delicious meals, cocoa, milk, bouilli, roast meat, just as he himself… Of course, how could he guess it? This dog-self overshadows everything in me, I withstand in vain…"

"Well, I see, you took it easy, my little puppy! Good boy, all right! And now I say goodbye to you for a longer term, then, after a week, I will return!..."

Written: 02/12. 2004, by J. W. Cassandra
Translated: 11/03. 2020, by J. W. Cassandra

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