The Kessler Crossing

Myron S. Lubell

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DR. NATHAN KESSLER, RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS, expands upon Einstein’s Theory of Relativity in an attempt to unite time and space in the Fourth Dimension. He experiments with tele-transportation of matter and energy across a man-made wormhole in the space-time continuum - which he refers to as THE KESSLER CROSSING-and successfully transports a famous person from antiquity to the present. How the world reacts and how his associates publicize and commercialize this astonishing achievement exposes the dark side of society.

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• Fiction
• Thrillers

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• Publié par: AuthorHouse
• Date de parution: 21 octobre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781665572927
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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THE KESSLER CROSSING
“A Portal in Time”
MYRON S. LUBELL
AUTHOR OF “THE SIXTH BOROUGH”


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CONTENTS
Preface
Voices from the Past
Prologue: Tintinnabulation of the Bells
 
Chapter 1 The Committee of Curmudgeons
Chapter 2 Return to Maryland
Chapter 3 Starting Over
Chapter 4 Lincoln Sat Here
Chapter 5 The Steve Steinberg Show
Chapter 6 E=MC 2
Chapter 7 In Search of Mt. Eremos
Chapter 8 Veni Vidi Vicci Domitti
Chapter 9 My Fellow Americans
Chapter 10 A Magical Hill
Chapter 11 Where Am I?
Chapter 12 Red Leaves on Green Trees
Chapter 13 Sh’ma Yisrae’el
Chapter 14 Is God Necessary?
Chapter 15 Timothy Akachi Akintimehin
Chapter 16 Fly Me to the Moon
Chapter 17 Cardinals P and M
Chapter 18 Bagels at the Vatican
Chapter 19 More Kisses and Hugs
Chapter 20 Avoid the Virtual Ride
Chapter 21 Sometimes It’s All About Faith
Chapter 22 Nebulous Illusions
Chapter 23 Luis Alexander Vicente Cardenas
Chapter 24 Making the Dream Come True
Chapter 25 The Library of Alexandria
Chapter 26 Mayor Mickey Leibowitz
Chapter 27 Socrates Never Wrote Anything
Chapter 28 Keep on Juggling
Chapter 29 Jumping Rope on Broadway
Chapter 30 Milo Milo Milo
Chapter 31 A Short Walk on the East River
Chapter 32 X,Y,Z
Chapter 33 Preparing for the Farewell Interview
Chapter 34 The Broadway Prophet
Chapter 35 Start the Bidding
Chapter 36 The Truth Will Set You Free
Chapter 37 Suicide at Monserrati
Chapter 38 This Isn’t What I Intended
Chapter 39 It’s All Greek to Me
Chapter 40 You Want to Cut Off What?
Chapter 41 Worship the Message
Chapter 42 A Global Epiphany
 
Epilogue: Operation Hypatia

T O MY WIFE YOLANDA, my children, Steven, Stacy, and Luisa and my grandchildren, Ethan, Benjamin, Jessica, Joshua, Hannah and Stephanie. In memory of my parents, Sol and Rose, my sister, Roberta, and my nephew Barry … always in my heart. Thank you to the early readers of the manuscript (listed at the end of the book) - and a special thanks to Lenny Bernstein and Barbara vanVoorst, who corrected dozens of punctuation errors. Also, a very belated thank you to three high school teachers who stimulated my interest in reading many years ago: Herston Cooper, Irene Roberts, and Lemuel Bryan Bird. Finally, it was Professor James W. Hall, Florida International University, who helped me convert my love of reading into the joy of writing.
This book is a work of fiction . Apart from well-known people, places, and events that figure in the story, all names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to current events or living persons are entirely coincidental.
RIP Stephen Hawking and Leonard Nimoy
In search of Eileen Duren ….. somewhere in time.
Myron S. Lubell
REVIEW
Doctor Lubell has blended an exciting sci-fi thriller with a thought provoking commentary on modern society. The Kessler Crossing is a fascinating story about the clash between science, politics, and religion - complicated by the ubiquitous cloud of corporate greed.
Seth H. Bramson
Adjunct Professor of History: Barry University - America’s Senior Florida historian - prominent lecturer and author of 33 Florida History books.
ABOUT THE AUTH OR: Myron S. Lubell, PhD, CPA - was born in Chicago and grew up in Miami Beach, Florida. He received a BBA and MBA from the University of Miami and a PhD from the University of Maryland. He was an Accounting Professor at Florida International University, a Tax columnist for the Miami Herald, and the author of “The Sixth Borough” (a coming of age story that focuses on racial segregation in Miami Beach in the 1950’s)
TO THE READER : As we embark upon this adventure in time and space let us temper our zeal and imagination with the timeless warning of Socrates: “True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” 2
PREFACE
D R. NATHAN KESSLER, RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS, expands upon Einstein’s Theory of Relativity in an attempt to unite time and space in the Fourth Dimension. He experiments with tele-transportation of matter and energy across a man-made wormhole in the space-time continuum - which he refers to as THE KESSLER CROSSING - and successfully transports a famous person from antiquity to the present. How the world reacts and how his associates publicize and commercialize this astonishing achievement exposes the dark side of society.
VOICES FROM THE PAST
“Science predicts that many different kinds of universes will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.”
Stephen Hawking 3
“Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve as an independent reality.”
Herman Minkowski - Lithuanian/German mentor of Albert Einstein 4
“The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities”.
Stephen Hawking 5
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Aristotle 6
“The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.”
Galileo Galilei 7
“If we could travel into the past we would be facing the deep paradoxes of interfering with the scheme of causality that has led to our own time and ourselves.”
Carl Sagan 8
“ What has been affirmed without proof can also be denied without proof:”
Euclid 9
“There is no difference between time and any of the three dimensions of space -- any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have length, breadth, thickness, and duration.”
H.G. Wells ” 10
CITATIONS
1 Stephen Hawking, cited in brainyquote.com
2 Socrates, cited in GoodReads.com
3 Stephen Hawking, cited in Quotefancy.com
4 Herman Minkowski, cited in GoodReads.com
5 Stephen Hawking, cited in brainyquote.com
6 Aristotle, cited in Pinterest.com
7 Galileo Galilei, cited in GoodReads.com
8 Carl Sagan, cited in AZquotes.com
9 Euclid, cited in GoodReads.com
10 H.G.Wells, “The Time Machine,” 1895
PROLOGUE
TINTINNABULATION OF THE BELLS
“… all the heavens seem to twinkle with a crystalline delight … To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells from the bells, bells, bells …”
Edgar Allen Poe “The Bells”
B ELLS CLANGED FROM THE clock tower high above the campus of the University of Maryland; snow covered the ground and a discordant harmony resonated from huge speakers. It was the first day of the new semester and Andrew Berman was engrossed in study, secluded in a musty corner of a 250-year-old red brick library.
Every hour, on the hour, the bells played the first verse of the state song, “Oh Maryland My Maryland,” which was actually a parody of “Oh Tanenbaum,” an old German folk song. Silently, the young man hummed along with the melody, “Oh Maryland My Maryland, lah da dah de dah” (he didn’t know all the words). Then, following the single verse, the bells rang slowly …eleven brazen gongs; it was eleven o’clock. For him, odd number hours meant mandatory trips to the men’s room and the even number hours signaled a much anticipated refreshment break.
Andrew was 23 yrs. old, studying for his PhD comprehensive exams - hibernating in exile, guided, regulated, and biologically synchronized by the melodic bells. For fourteen consecutive days, from 7:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m., he would sit at a long table, away from windows, surrounded by textbooks, scholarly journals, and a laptop computer – buffered by a foam rubber cushion. Sitting on wooden chairs fifteen hours a day could give new meaning to the term “pain in the ass.”
A matronly librarian, the guardian of the medieval cloister, cringed every time the blaring cacophony of bells disrupted her tranquil sanctuary – Andrew smiled and thought of Edgar Allen Poe, the mystical poet who once lived in Baltimore, only a few miles north of the university.
While in the men’s room he saw several young students who didn’t look much older than teenagers. They were all dressed in costumes depicting characters from the famous old TV show, “Star Trek.” One boy, much younger than the others, had pointed ears like Mr. Spock, the legendary Vulcan. Andrew wanted to talk to the “Trekkies,” “Where are you going? Why the costumes?” But, he didn’t think it was prudent to engage in conversation with strange looking boys in a public lavatory, so he kept his distance and did his best to avoid staring at them. However, as he washed his hands