Continuum

By Juliet Crome

A young researcher tries to understand the universe and the human mind and cope with living in a world where humans have adapted to living in space and view all space and time as unitless.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Dec 28, 2014
• ISBN: 9781312790414

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Continuum

Continuum

by Juliet Crome

Prologue

I remember first entering those clean halls on my first day of school. I remember how spotless they were, and how big they looked at the time. I was eager to start at the first day of school. I remember skipping carefreely against the tiles, as though nothing mattered in the world. I remember counting my skips as I went along, for though I had no names for numbers at the time, I recognized each time my feet hit the ground as equal, and therefore recognizing each skip as a unit. My mother said goodbye to me as we walked into a classroom, and I felt sad to see her leave, but I was too focused on counting my pace, which had now returned to walking, to care much.

I saw many other children and a teacher in the classroom. Still counting, this time by tapping my fingers on the desk, I listened through the class, or listened as best I could. I was mainly distracted throughout the lesson. That is, I was distracted until I heard the class go silent.

Mark?

I stopped tapping my fingers. The teacher and all of the other students were staring at me.

Mark? Are you listening to me? the teacher asked as she continued to stare.

Umm...Yes, maa’m, I was just…

Exactly what were you doing, Mark? My teacher’s voice was not unkind, only curious. In fact, she proved to be a very nice person as the school year went on.

Well...I was tapping my fingers, Mrs. Brown. I was seeing how many finger-taps I could do.

My teacher went pale, and the classmates began to laugh. After quieting them down, the teacher said, trying not to whisper,

"Mark, there is no how many. There is no method of counting, no method of measurement of anything at all. You should know that."

But Mrs. Brown, why?

Everything stretches on endlessly. There were things called numbers, time, space. There aren’t any that we will use. We are part of a great vastness called The Continuum.

Numbers, time, space. Continuum.The words rung in my head as the class continued. They would continue to stick with me, for I still believed in quantities, and still do.

Chapter 1

The units that stand between the time I first was told of the Continuum and between now I cannot relate, for since then I was not informed of a quantity of time. All I know is that no matter what I was told, time units, and other units, do exist in my head. All I know is that I was a child then and am not now, that my childhood had ceased to exist and therein lies within me a new, more