Homo-Posterus

By Roy T James

This is about a young inventor's journey in time. He goes to 3000 AD and meets with the future hmans. He thus happens to learn certain horrible stories of our coming years before reaching the point of no return. How human race managed to turn unsuitable for surviving in the world, as the years went by.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Roy T James
• Release date: Oct 28, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370125180

Roy T James

He has taken to writing on retirement from Indian Navy in 2013 after a lengthy career, during which he had the good luck to come across as colleagues, subordinates and superiors, a real, wide cross section of India, and quite a few more from the rest of the world. Every second person, during those years, that one had to do business with, thus being from widely different backgrounds and consequently presenting a kaleidoscopic view of society, he couldn't but reflect on human transactions in many colors, each of them leading to a horde of imponderables, human or non human, living and non living.So far has published the following books:-Origin of Caste in India, revised and republished as CASTE The Unexplored Territories, a new, practical and fundamentally different approach to the most vexed social problem of India.-Origin of Evolution, revised and republished as The Unsure Male, a holistic look at the issue of life which shockingly opens up a myriad of possibilities.-Glimpses of Autobiography, a collection of memories.-Hubs that Provoke, a collection of Essays.-More Hubs that Provoke, a collection of Essays.-Homo Posterus, a science fiction novel.-Life of Style, a book that presents human life as nothing but an expedient for a lifestyle.-Overhaul Life, an attempt to specify an overhaul life for our life.

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HOMO-POSTERUS

Roy T James

Published By RoyT James

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Chapter 1 The Preparation

One thing which used to attract me quite a bit was a cartoon of ‘Dennis the Menace’, where he says ‘the main difference between them, grownups, and we, kids, is that the grownups take things which are meant for fun, very seriously, unlike we kids’. I also found, the grown-ups sometimes take things meant to be of utmost importance, not at all seriously. And there was no predictable pattern. As I was growing up, in each and every stage of my growth to a young man, I experienced many embarrassing moments, mostly due to the delays in appreciating the true meaning that hid the intent behind what the grownups say. That became one unsolvable problem, always in my mind and poking me at inopportune moments, and effectively making me a source of fun for others.

Notwithstanding best efforts, I couldn’t find an answer to those issues and so far, all my efforts have yielded no results. And I thought of myself as fairly intelligent. The general appreciation I received for being immersed in one’s books while one’s compatriots were busy behind skirts, always used to make me feel so. I, therefore, thought I would travel in time, and ask the other generations, whether anyone did succeed in getting an answer to this, that is, why there is a difference between what people really mean and what they say.

I now thought of the great Albert Einstein, my idol since childhood, who theorized that time travel is possible by bending time and space via the means of gravitational forces, and I had implicit faith in that. One way, I know, is to travel back in time, and to meet with all that you are already aware of from various sources, and perhaps discover the source of such a duality, the one between our true intent and what we actually say. Another way, which I found more interesting, is to travel ahead in time to see what others are going to see in due course. (Perhaps I am fed up with our past, having listened to unending exhortations certifying to its golden status!) What is this duality, leading us to? From which, by induction, deduce the cause?

I chose the latter, which in effect is nothing but a journey to the future. As I haven’t come across a device that can enable such a journey, I started from scratch, the making of my vessel, the time module.

I tried a new method. Rather than relying on the well-established ways of exploiting nuclear force, I chose to confront the weak force. I succeeded in harnessing the energy contained in weak force for creating a virtual gravitational field and thereby cause local distortions in space-time. (This I could achieve after years of experimenting with quarks, leptons, and other sub-atomic particles when I found certain flavors of quarks acting differently and in a non-intuitive manner while colliding with neutrinos.)

While continuing this research on quantum particles, I fell upon the possibility of linking Casimir force with quantum particles of gravity, which led to the possibility of balancing a thin plate vessel in a moving field. The ultimate result was that I could perfect a machine that could travel through the dimensions of time and space, utilizing virtual fields and abstract interactions. I was so excited that without even waiting to conduct a public demonstration or to acknowledge the bulk of good wishes from every direction, I began the ultimate test by sending a guinea pig to actually set foot in the future. And I chose myself as the guinea pig, of course, since I would not allow other beings to risk their life (rather enjoy the fruits!).

But what did I find? Since we are a weak species and seek power over those who are comparatively of a meek nature, we tend to destroy what we cannot dominate. All I could find in the future, and all I have witnessed, disclosed nothing else, but what horrendous days are there, waiting to witness the end of the human race. But I am getting ahead of myself. I must start at the beginning.

I am a peaceful person. I could never tolerate the human society remaining always at war with itself. A cursory study of our history (this has been my pet hobby for long) made it quite clear to me that war is never a good answer, and longed to find a way to prevent