The First Causes

By Fred L. Bond

This compilation of science fiction stories all involve in some way First Causes. Everything has a starting point or first cause and I hope to show what might happen in our future. I have read all the great science fiction authors of the 50s and 60s and what was in their time pure science fiction has now become everyday fact. What was at first pure fiction has now evolved into fact. Changes are coming faster and faster as can be shown in the case of computer technology. In the 60s TV series Star Trek the concept of a keyboard and mouse did not exist so the actors talked to the ships computer to introduce their commands. Now the new computer programs will respond to verbal commands just as they did in Star Trek. The future is just ahead, let us go meet it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 25, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483668802

Fred L. Bond

I was born in Ogden Utah and raised in southern Oregon. All my relatives are Mormon but I was not raised in the faith. I went through high school and then joined the Navy in 1957. I served four years aboard the air craft carrier Midway as a electronics specialist responsible for maintaining the radar which targeted the 5 inch guns. After I was discharged I went to Salt Lake City, Utah and studied Aquatic Entomology and water pollution Ecology at the University of Utah and was Married. After my BS I was hired by the Department Interior to help study the waters of the Eastern coast aboard the research vessel Clean Waters to determine the level of pollution of our coastal waters. I was based two years near Newark NJ. I returned to the University of Utah and obtained my MS in Aquatic Entomology and Microbiology. I joined FDA in 1970 and was based in Denver CO as a Microbiologist and specialized in the analysis of antibiotics. I was in charge of all 50 states for the analysis and detection of antibiotics in animal foods and feeds. I Retired in 1996. My home is currently in Aurora Co with my wife of 49 years.

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Contents

Introduction

Progenitor

Second Chance

Second Chance Part Ii

Immune

Immune Part Ii

Soul Mates

The Sphere

Gods Match

INTRODUCTION

I have always been interested in the question what is God and where did he/she come from. I am not an atheist but rather I am an agnostic. I have read that you should believe in a miracle if it is a greater miracle not to believe. I can believe that if there is a god, he/she or it could have evolved billions of years before mankind and we are part of he/she’s plan. Believers just say you must have Faith. For hundreds of thousand years early man did the best that they could to explain our existence based on what they knew in their time. Many religions make God into a being in our image, could he/she really be that ugly? I find this highly unlikely but it could be, who knows, you have to have faith? If you look at earth’s total history we see that the existence as told in biblical accounts could not be taken literally. Unless you make a biblical day equal a billion years. A look at the fossil record clearly shows that present day organisms evolved from more primitive forms. In my story Progenitor, I envisioned how it might be possible to have a god like being that makes sense to me. All life can be traced back to a first cause or more primitive ancestor. The miracle of DNA happening by accident is a miracle. I think life on Earth might have started some thing like in my story, Progenitor, you must have faith that I might be close to right?

PROGENITOR

G-1 become awake after millions of years spent in near stasis. G-1 cast out a mental probe and analyzed the great glowing giant red sun in the sky above the dome. The dome was the entity calling itself G-1. It had no need for appendages, mouth, or any other body organs for G-1 was a solid state BEING with all the memories and knowledge of the creatures that had created it, millions, of years in the past. G-1 was entrusted with the genetic codes that would mean a new rebirth for life and all the needed biosphere that would support them on a new seeded planet. G-1 had been left behind to solve the greatest problem ever faced by the galactic colony. How to exceed the speed of light or a FTL Drive. It had taken the immortal G-1 millions of years to solve the problem and just in time for its planet was about to be absorbed by its sun on its path to becoming a Nova.

The black dome that was G-1 stood in the glowing red light of the moonless night. The small moon of the planet had long escaped the planets gravity well and had spiraled off into the void. G-1 plotted a course to the galaxy which promised to have the best source for M type planets. The great FTL equation that let matter exceed the speed of light was based on the Mass of that matter. The whole planets’ mass was needed to fuel the FTL engine.

The dead planet moved out its orbit around the huge red sun and left the solar system of its birth and moved off into the void of interstellar space making the journey to the favored target galaxy. There were three possible M type planets orbiting a medium sized yellow sun located in the so called life-friendly zone where liquid water was present on its surface. The sterile seed planet (The Seed) entered an orbit near the most promising planet’s sun.

A probe from G-1 entered the atmosphere of the planet and landed on a small island with a green iron saturated ocean lapping on its shore. G-1 sent out other probes and found the ocean lifeless. The land masses around the planet were also lifeless. Carbon Life had not yet developed on this planet. In short the gravity, the nitrogen rich atmosphere containing a dense atmosphere of carbon dioxide, and the elementals requirements to support life were all present. G-1 began the process of seeding the ocean with phytoplankton which would be needed to reduce the iron rich sea water and releasing the atmospheric oxygen need to support the many plants and air breathers that would come in the future. G-1 produced a seeding probe and analyzing station that would manage each part of the complex procedures to seed higher life forms onto the planet. This would take tens of thousands of years before the first land plants could be seeded. The higher land animals would come later after species of prey and predators were well established. Man like creatures capable of developing sentience would be introduced. Nature would take its course as planed.

The Seed left its temporary orbit around the new yellow sun and moved off into the void of space and activated its FTL drive. G-1 had detected another M type planet 35 thousand light years toward the center of the Universe. There is by calculation a mathematical google of M type planets in existence and this was only one more promising target. The Seed appeared in the skies of a planet slightly smaller than the Earth and farther out from the large yellow sun. Here G-1’s probes detected that carbon based life had arisen and two species were rapidly evolving into a new intelligent life forms. G-1 was programed to reject any planet already supporting higher forms of life.

The Seed left the large yellow sun and moved off into the void again seeking another promising galaxy with yellow suns with M type planets.

G-1 examined thousands of