The Cantor Dimension (16 page)

Brody stopped reading, his face a mask of worry. "Geez Cindy, this pretty much proves that Max robbed that bank! He specifically mentions the bank in his notes. I'm not seeing time travel here, Cindy, I'm seeing proof of Max's involvement with the bank robbery."

Cindy replied, "I'll grant you that possibility, Brody. It does look suspicious that he mentions the bank by name. But you haven't finished reading yet. You haven't got to the part on how he can time travel! Forget the bank for a minute, Brody, and open your mind to what Max discovered. Keep reading!"

Brody sighed, turning his attention back to the Cantor papers. The more he read, the more concerned he became as to his own involvement just by having the Cantor papers.

Another interesting coincidence is that Edmond Halley had two granddaughters named Catherine Parry and Sarah Parry who would have been born in the mid-1700s. No direct information is given on their father, or which of Edmond's daughters was their mother.
However, we find that Edmond's son, a surgeon also named Edmond, married Sybilla, who was the widow of Rowland Freeman. Their daughter Mary Freeman married John Parry. Details of which John Parry she married are sparse and one account which quickly dries up refers to a potter.
However, we know that Mary got married at Morden College Chapel in London, and the Halley's lived in Kent County not far from London. Colonel John Perry of Blackheath in Kent County had a first wife named Mary, could it have been Sybilla's daughter/astronomer Edmond Halley's granddaughter?
In the records of Olde England it was common for a person's name to be spelled differently from one entry to another. The name 'Parry' was sometimes spelled Parry, Perry, Pary, or Pery.
It is documented that Colonel John Perry personally knew Edmond Halley. He is the most likely candidate to be the John Parry who married Edmond Halley's step-daughter Mary Freeman, and produce the Parry grandchildren of Edmond Halley.
As we know, Sir Edmond Halley himself invented a type of compass, and he was the famed explorer and astronomer who Halley's Comet was named after. He captained a ship called the Paramour
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in his explorations to discover 'what lands lie to the south of the western ocean' and in an attempt to refine the workings of his compass. Halley was also involved in the study of archeology and geophysics, and he was good friends with Isaac Newton.
We find the name Parry again in the form of Captain William Edward Parry who was born in 1790. While we do not know if Captain Parry is related in any way to the Parry who fathered Halley's great-granddaughters, the many threads that connect Halley and Parry are of great interest. Both captained ships as explorers, both had a hand in the science of the compass, both were born in England, and both were astronomers. Had they not been born more than a hundred years apart surely they would have known one another.
Like Halley, Parry was both an explorer and an astronomer. He attempted one of the earliest expeditions to the North Pole discovering that when he passed to the north of a particular place near Hudson's Strait, the compass needle suddenly went halfway around the compass such that it was pointing south. It was thought that Captain Parry had discovered the true magnetic North Pole.
Parry also discovered the Parry Arc during one of his Arctic expeditions. The Parry Arc is a rare optical phenomenon created by double-oriented hexagonal columnar crystals. It seems that crystals play an important role in the sciences of the unusual and that scientists have recently discovered the existence of crystals in the human brain that we were previously unaware of.
In looking at the possible ties between Halley and William Parry, we know that Captain William Parry was the son of Dr. Caleb Hillier Parry, son of Reverend Joshua Parry, who had a daughter Susannah Parry and a granddaughter Elizabeth Parry - the same names mentioned in the will of Catherine Halley-Price who was surgeon Edmond's daughter. We also know that Joshua Parry had 20 aunts and uncles, his father coming from a brood of 21 children.
Could there be a familial link between John Perry and William Parry? Colonel John Perry's daughter Anne married Isaac Pyke, the Governor of St. Helena. Biographies of Edmond Halley the astronomer show him living on the island of St. Helena from 1676-1678, and sailing between Java and St. Helena from 1731-1732. Pyke was Governor of St. Helena in 1731-1732. So Edmond Halley's family, and John Perry's family, both had ties to St. Helena.
Captain William Parry's family also had ties to St. Helena. His sister married Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, whose son Sydney sailed on the HMS Zealous to St. Helena. So while astronomer Edmond Halley would not have personally known astronomer William Parry, there is every likelihood that their families met somewhere along the way or were connected through John Perry.
Such a connection would link Parry of Parry's Arc, the compass, crystals, and the magnetic North Pole to Edmond Halley of the compass and comet, knowledge of archeology and geophysics, and his friendship with Isaac Newton who believed in the powerful Philosopher's Stone.
We know that Halley made a prototype-compass composed, in part, of Xenotime crystals and Chrysanthemum Stones. Xenotime crystals are found in the rare 'Chrysanthemum Stones' of Japan, dating back millions of years to the Lower Permian age when all of the Earth's land masses were thought to have been one giant super-continent known as Pangaea
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. The crystals grew around the fossil debris of brachiopods and gastropods in a flower pattern. These Chrysanthemum Stones, known as 'kiku-ishi' in Japanese, are made of radiating zircon and Xenotime crystals in a base of basalt rock, and are found at Mount Funabuse in Japan.
The term 'Xenotime' comes from the Greek 'xenos' meaning 'foreign' or 'foreigner' and 'time' which refers to the hope of finding a new item. 'Basalt' in Greek means 'touchstone.'
So here we have a rare type of crystal whose name translates as 'foreign time' or 'the hope of finding a new foreign item' and which is found embedded in a type of rock known in ancient times as a 'touchstone.' One could almost imagine our ancestors believing in a touchstone that could transport you into a foreign time. Did the Bats people who believed in the Keepers of Time and the Eternal Timeline, and who Peter Simon Pallas of the famed Pallasite meteorites wrote about, have such a touchstone to travel through time made from a Pallasite meteorite? Is that why they worshipped the time gods and the Lord of the Rocks?

"I'm still not seeing it, Cindy. While all the talk of meteorites and crystals is interesting, I'm not seeing the proof. Hints and suggestions aren't the same as proof."

"Have you gotten to the part about the human brain yet?"

"Only that our brain has crystals in it."

"Well then keep reading, Brody. It gets better. All the pieces get tied together in strange and wonderful ways. Sometimes the truth really is stranger than fiction!"

A research study published in 1992 proved that scientists had discovered a form of magnetite that exists in the human brain which bears a strong resemblance to magnetotactic bacteria, a type of bacteria known to orient itself along the magnetic field lines of Earth's magnetic fields. Albertus Magnus of the famed Philosopher's Stone studied the human brain as one of his peculiar interests.
Magnetotactic bacteria possesses magnetosomes which are made up of magnetite crystals that act like a compass needle, which 'moves' the bacteria when exposed to geomagnetic fields so that it aligns the magnetic field.
The microscopic measurements taken of the human brain suggest that at least five million of these magnetic crystals exist for every gram of brain tissue, and more than one hundred million crystals exist for every gram in the membranes surrounding the brain. Magnetite in the human brain may account for a variety of biological effects in humans from magnetic fields.
If a person were exposed to a strong enough magnetic field, amplified by an external crystal, would their cells realign toward the location of the magnetic field? If the crystal, perchance, was the rare Xenotime crystal that our ancestors associated with a 'foreign time,' would it be possible to realign one's entire self to that foreign time?
The Cantor Space is zero-dimensional whereas space-time, which might be used for time travel, is four-dimensional. Intersect the zero-dimensional Cantor Space with the four-dimensional space-time continuum and you end up with the Cantor Dimension which is a wormhole through space and time. At the one end you would need a way to open the wormhole, and a way to orient the 'compass point' of the wormhole to a specific point in space-time.
We know that an exciton particle is the bound state of an electron and a hole. While the exciton has less energy than an unbound electron and hole, the wave function of the bound state is what is known as an 'exotic atom state.' In theory, this means that exciton particles are needed to open the wormhole.
Jacob believed that his Betyl stone, which was a meteorite, opened a 'gate to heaven.' As Pallasite meteorites are made up of exotic cumulates, the combination of a magnetic Pallasite meteorite and a Xenotime crystal could in theory, interact with the millions of crystals in the human brain in such a way as to realign a person to a different time, just as Jacob's stone opened his 'gate to heaven.'
The concept of the 'hole' was first discovered by Russian physicist Yakov Frenkel, who wrote the 'Kinetic Theory of Liquids.' He demonstrated that neutral excitation of a crystal by light is possible, with an electron remaining bound to a hole created by an exciton particle. William Parry's discovery of the Parry Arc is the perfect example of light interacting with crystal. Parry Arcs are created when light passes through two sides of a double-oriented hexagonal column crystal creating a rare type of halo.
An electron hole is described as being similar to a bubble in a bottle of water. One could, in theory, travel safely through the water enveloped in that bubble.
Edmond Halley designed a compass using a rare Chrysanthemum Stone for the compass rose which came from the Mount Funabuse mine in Japan. This Chrysanthemum Stone had Xenotime crystals naturally set in a flower-like pattern embedded in a basalt base. As we know, basalt was called a 'touchstone' in ancient times. The compass also had a Xenotime crystal face and used a peridot bearing made from a Pallasite meteorite.
Halley designed this compass as a special gift and he only created three: one for his father, presumed stolen when his father was murdered; one for his friend Isaac Newton which may have been destroyed in the fire which was started by Newton's dog Diamond, and which destroyed 20 years of Newton's work; and one for his wife Mary, which would be the compass handed down through the Parry descendants and thus now be in my custody along with the other bizarre Parry memento: my great-great-grandfather's tail pickled in a jar.

Brody laughed until the tears came. "Seriously? Max came from the men with tails? You almost had me with all this, Cindy, but that's just beyond belief..."

Cindy laughed along with him. "But you believe that Max is descended from both Cantor and Halley and that the compass is real? You said yourself that Max had quite a collection of compasses. Why couldn't one of them be Halley's?"

Brody let out a whistle in agreement that it was possible, especially considering the Pallasite ring he knew Max possessed.

Halley's compass is surrounded by six small dials that one can manually set to represent the latitude and longitude of a given location. The dials originally had no purpose except for decoration and were set with the coordinates of the recipient's home upon giving the gift. The compass itself works perfectly and is designed to be a pocket compass.
What Halley could not have predicted was that his compass with its rare Chrysanthemum Stone, Xenotime crystal face, peridot bearing, and global coordinate dials, when brought into contact with a Pallasite meteorite, could interact in conjunction with the crystals in the human brain to open a wormhole that would transport the holder through space and time. The coordinate settings on the compass would determine the location for the other end of the wormhole.
If one were wearing a ring made from a Pallasite meteorite with at least one carat of peridot and enough exotic cumulates, and this ring came into close proximity to Edmond Halley's compass as it would if you were holding the compass in the hand that was wearing the ring, under the right conditions a wormhole could theoretically open.
Sunlight would need to hit the crystal face of the compass in such a way as to excite the crystal as Frankel described so as to bind the electrons to a hole, and thus a time bubble would form.
The exotic particle magnetic field from the Pallasite meteorite would activate the liquid crystal cells within the brain, reorienting every cell of the body to align itself to the same pattern as the space-time bubble. Just as Jacob's Betyl Stone opened the 'gate to heaven' in the Book of Genesis, you would thus be able to travel safely through the wormhole protected by the Cantor Dimension inside the bubble, 'rematerializing' at the other end.
The length of time that the compass is in contact with the ring determines how far in time one travels, and the direction the traveler is facing when he opens the wormhole determines whether he travels forward or backward in time. Facing west, one travels backwards in time, and facing east, one travels forward, in perfect conjunction with the time zones. The act of holding the compass in the same hand that is wearing the ring is enough to activate the wormhole, providing the sun were reflecting off the compass face, and for every one second of time they are held together, one day will pass.

Brody put the papers down, his head spinning with the implications of what he'd read, and Cindy described Max's discovery of his ability to time travel. "Max wrote that he'd gone back in time, physically, to the time that the courthouse in St. Charles burnt down. He was there, in the courthouse, while it was burning. He was running through the halls trying to find a way out and the exits were all blocked by the fire. He thought he was going to die, unable to activate the wormhole without sunlight. Smoke was all around him and he was gasping for air.