The Andromeda Galaxy

“Further study over several generations of Golan scientists led to the revelation of an astounding fact about that dimension: it was devoid of time and space.” —From Chapter 6, 2200 BCE, Earth.

Andromeda is 2.5 million light years from Earth. Traveling at the speed of light, it would take a craft 2.5 million years to get to Earth from Andromeda—not remotely reasonable. The Golan scientists had learned that within the universe, there exists a dimension, unseen, unmeasurable, but there nonetheless, that had not been discovered by scientists before. They had studied the curious phenomenon of virtual particles, such as gluons, disappearing and reappearing. It would be the same particle, coming and going, not simply one disappearing and a new one appearing. So, where did it go to and come back from? That led them to theorize about an unknown dimension that could be that place. Further study over several generations of Golan scientists led to the revelation of an astounding fact about that dimension: it was devoid of time and space. A particle going in and, in the same instant, coming back out but at a distance removed, led to the conclusion that no time existed during the travel inside the dimension. This also meant that the distance traveled was irrelevant, distance being a concept that doesn’t exist in that dimension.

Later study and experimentation in the realm of particle physics led the scientists to understand that a vessel made of a unique combination of electromagnetic energy, sensitivity to light photons and gravitational waves, could be used to pierce the unseen barrier into this dimension having no time or space and then instantly reappear in a spot programmed to receive it, based on instructions for the destination being a map of nuances in light emitted by cosmic entities and the relative strength of gravitational waves at the intended destination. In their research, Golan scientists used massive computing technology and power sources far beyond anything developed on other planets in their observable universe.

The directions in the program they developed were limited to line-of-sight calculations that considered light bending by the gravitational pull of large objects, stars, planets, and so on. However, if the view of a destination star or a planet was completely blocked from a direct line of sight, the scientists planned for transmission of a transport vessel be done in two stages. The first stage would get it to a point within a few million miles of the target whose visibility has been blocked but at an oblique angle from the target so it would then be visible to the vessel. Then, the program was designed to recalculate using the direct visual line on the target.