Space Currents: Light Speed Test Flight

By Matthew Kraus

Lila is a crew member of a light-speed test flight taking place at the turn to the next century. She and friend Charlie go beachcombing and meet Rupert Metzger, the rocket designer. Their experience goes to taking considerations of outer space plotting from seashores, given of natural designs.
In the process of considerations of rocket design, the flight to test the rocket takes place and lands the crew member, Lila, with her friends, who continue beachcombing. Beachcombing continues with considerations for navigating through outer space, returning back home, and beachcombing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 21, 2020
• ISBN: 9781984583055

Matthew Kraus

Matthew was born abroad and graduated from high school in Hawaii (Oahu). He has an AA university degree. He has written some poetry getting some poems published in a journal and books. In the 1990's he wrote and published the Atomic World newsletter. His recent books published include Melodies of the Isles (2020), Wave Riding Into Therapy (2019), and Overcoming Schizophrenia (2014).

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Beachcombers

Part-time beachcombers Lila Julliet and Charlie Grave, her girlfriend partner, were at their favorite beach, an exquisite location in a rural county. Along with Rupert Metzger, a rocket building company founder and owner, they were well on their way to become a major part of an important space flight. They rested, sitting on a beach erosion ridge well into a discussion bent to light speed rocketry. They were among the adherents for light speed space flight.

Charlie and Lila were at a remote beach. Being at the secluded beach cove where they enjoyed skin diving was quite respectable. Other times they were in bikinis at a more populated beach.

This one day they noticed a brilliant rainbow about the nearby harbor. The colorful rainbow reminded them of their friend, Dr. Metzger, and bird feathers. They were somewhat connnecting it as a color scheme of certain bird feathers. The bird feather scheme had been introduced to them by Dr. Metzger, who came up with it.

The bird feather force scheme was with a rainbow application. The rainbow might work into the navigation and propulsion of the light speed test flight. If they could be coupled, the rainbow delineating a flight path in outer space with the application of bird wing force, the light speed space flight might be realized. With the rainbow, acceleration of gravity support force light speed, was an exciting vista.

Somehow, the rainbow as a flight path for light speed space travel was taking the proposal of light speed to distances of interstellar dimensions.

One rainbow with a width of a tenth of a light-year and a length of four light-years, about the distance to Alpha Centauri, worked speculations that in prismatic considerations the work in light speed was proportional to the prismatic and raindrop elements of the rainbow. The key to colors of the rainbow, where the force and matter factored in, was establishing a means to traverse it with greater speed. It could become the awesome adventure.

Testing Warp Drive oscillators, in various layered material, was a key element to light speed space travel that might include the known elements of the rainbow. What might be found, and they’d get to the light speed test flight, was to expand it to an exploration of Oort Cloud space, which could happen. Later in the test flight, the rainbow could have them achieve super light speed space travel. In well less than half of a normal human lifetime there might be a beyond light speed achievement.

The rainbow was written about by Isaac Newton, untranslated from the latin it was written originally in is published.

Lila had aviator experience. Being in her late twenties, she was walking happily diverted along her usual beachcombing route from technological areas, finding inspiration in seashores.

Her beach walks often came after her private, personal time where she lazed about in the early mornings, lounging in pajamas, studying, and drinking coffee. Then, she was waiting for Charlie with expectation. In her lone, often-gone-beachcombing style, she was a familiar figure among the beach crowd, she got looks at the many seashores and waves as well as looks from the many beachgoers about the shoreline.

She snapped impressive things on her camera. Sometimes, more lightweight and with less beachcombing accessories, she went in for a brief swim. She might note, the tide was going out.

Charlie, her friend, who similarly had private time interspersed with beachcombing, visited her friend, Lila, who was glad she came. Charlie said, I am amazed by how much I have learned about the outer space world since the start of this light speed test flight project.

Lila replied, Uh, huh,.

Charlie added, There is a Dr. Metzger find there, Lila. Find it. It’ll look good if you share it with Dr. Metzger.

Lila was so super holding a good--size seashell swept to the shore by a wave. As a typical morning breeze picked up, she paused. She walked and listened to the sea in the small conch shell, holding it up to her ear, then left it in the sand above the lapping seashore waters. She returned home, but it would probably be there the next time, still good to share with Dr. Metzger.

Days passed and again, the beachcombers were at it. Charlie, accompanied by Lila, came to this one beach. Charlie asked, What do you think?

Lila repplied, Dr. Metzger is a good friend of mine, I enjoy his company, we’re two of a kind, I’m going to tell him the tide is a link to light speed rocketry, extraterrestrial prospecting, and the exploration of exoplanets. It is all possible with achieving light-speed space travel, and I’ll be on the test flight.

What else do you think? asked Charlie.

Lila looked at her, and commented, I’m not that thoughtful a person, Charlie. You ask Rupert what he thinks and stand back and listen. I don’t have what Rupert has. I think I’ll offer him a shell I found.

Okay, what do you know? Charlie replied.

Lila answered, I know it’s possible to go light speed.

Charlie and Lila were sometimes ruminating on. Charlie had a brusque side. She commented, Okay, I’m ready to chew the cud. Charlie and Lila walked on thinking quite a while spaced-out, before Lila answered.

Lila finally commented, Dr. Metzger invited us to his business office next week.

Lila had met him at a lecture on oceanography at the school she attended. There, tidal gravity was coming from the moon, and the sun might affect it.

They found themselves beachcombing again for over an hour. At medium going to low tide looking for seashells, their feet left momentary tracks on the damp sand as they enjoyed the onrush of waves about their feet. They walked close to the break by a reef that had accumulated near shore, and paused opposite a reef hole.

The reef hole is unique, commented Lila.

Charlie replied, We’re looking at links to light speed. The reef hole might be one.

Waves were rolling steadily over this reef hole and other coral grotto reef sights that were rather far from the shoreline. That the reef holes could prove a point, time is as a force, had seemed to be gnawing at Dr. Metzger’s mind. He had been there and thught, time of a reef hole’s growth was interweaved with the reef’s growth. Lila, too, was thinking and considering the pooling reef holes. She thought, ihe reef holes are swept with waves, a reef hole might be the pool of the reef as discrete as a waterhole in a barren desert, or a wormhole in outer space, but looking like a volcanic crater hole or lava tube.

From thousands of years ago, reef growth time has not changed much. The reef about a reef hole, which may be purported to produce something like a zero gravity of outer space in the hole, this is not an atoll but the unique, life supported, reef holes found in certain reefs. And then, again, the reef hole is mysterious and so might be coupled with coincidence to other reef holes..

For example of a supposed life reef hole, it might be supposed a reef hole’s origin was starting to develop in the time of Isaac Newton (1643-1727), perhaps as a parallel to the great mind. And so, if the span of the reef hole’s length and width represent a force as of a time, the idea may be developed.

As they walked on, Charlie exclaimed, Well, the reef hole grew that way, and Lord knows, these reefs don’t grow overnight,

Lila replied, So there’s this Isaac Newton reef hole, maybe there is a Galileo reef hole, maybe a Jesus Christ reef hole. A Socrates reef hole? If a reef hole corresponds to historical figures, it might say something about shared intelligence, that is of coral reefs and wise minds.

"Corresponding times of reef hole formation to wave traversing them times is so distant in references. A reef