The Adventures of Stevie #89
These stories were told to me by friends and other people. Some of them
are true. Some of them are only partly true. Some of them should have
been true. LOL
My first post about Stevie ("Call me Stephen!") was when he was 12 and
in summer camp and was told by another camper. This was from a time
before computers would fit on a desk and when people communicated with
friends in other countries by actual letters sent through the postal
service. When children did this those friends were called "penpals".
Carlos is Stevie's penpal in Argentina and knows English. This is a
fictional contrivance to enable Stevie to tell us his stories because
he isn't here in person. I think.
All characters are fictitious, even if some of them might have names
that belong to some actual people, or act like people we know.
Stevie's school is for gifted children who don't fit in regular schools.
The stories may not be posted in chronological order.
Stevie is 12 in this story, in year 3 of his special school, after
Thanksgiving, and before the winter holiday break.
The Adventures of Stevie #89 "Process of Invention"
Dear Carlos,
I'm going to tell you how my invention happened. One day I was
sitting in physics class, when I started thinking about vibrations and
waves and spectra, and how they are modified and converted. If you move
a magnet inside a coil of wire, you can make electricity flow in the
wire. If you push electricity into a coil of wire, you can make a
magnet inside it move, or or make a plain piece of iron temporally into
a magnet. This is how you can convert movement energy, called kinetic,
to electric or magnetic energy. It's very strange, because we don't
really know much about those kinds of energy, but we use them all the
time in motors and generators. Then there is light. It's part of the
electromagnetic spectrum of vibration waves. But light acts like
particles too. How can a stream of particles have waves of vibration?
Dr. Einstein said the speed of light is a constant, but he also said it
really isn't, when it's relative to different viewpoints. It acts like
it has mass too, because its stream can be bent by gravity. I asked him
about this when I was very little, when he visited my father. I think I
was around 4. He was surprised, but he did discuss it with me. It
didn't help much, because he was still working on his theory which
would explain it all, but he was very funny, and better in German than
in English. I liked him a lot.
Then I was thinking about gravity. It's a property of mass, and it
attracts in relation to mass and distance, but that's ALL we know about
it. Nobody knows how it works. Not even a little bit. Dr. Einstein
admitted all he did was guess about it. I wondered if I could convert
some different form of energy to gravity, and the other way around, or
maybe bend it like light can be bent by gravity. If light can bend
gravity, it would have to be very strong to do that. I wondered if
gravity could be avoided or blocked. I thought with lots of math then,
and about vibration and crystal resonance. I drew plans for an
experiment in my head.
I looked up and started to ask the teacher a question, but stopped. I
was the only one in the classroom. I checked the time and it was 7 at
night! The students in my school don't need clocks. We all have a
trained skill to tell the time just by thinking of it. Anybody can
learn to do it with some practice. I will tell you later if you want to
know how. Then I played back some of the memory I had stored when I was
concentrating, but wasn't aware of at the time. Rod had motioned
everybody to leave at around 2:30. They all did, and left me alone to
think undisturbed. That was very nice of them, but I probably wouldn't
have noticed even if they were having a party, I was concentrating so
hard. I went out the door, and a guard was there who told me Glena was
waiting for me in Dr. Knot's office. She was. I apologized for making
her wait, and I didn't know about the time. She said it was alright. I
thought hard all the way home.
I called Shan and asked for some things. They were very expensive. He
said he would get or make them. It would take about a week. It did.
When I took them, he didn't ask what they were for. I would have told
him, but this way it might be a surprise. I took them to school, and
used an oxi-acetylene torch to melt melt sections of special formula
glass rods in places where I could embed special gem crystals in them.
Then I heated and bent one of the long rods into a circle about 18
inches in diameter and melted the ends together. I bent a shorter rod
in a much smaller circle and put it inside the big circle, and used it
as the hub to attach more more rods as spokes to both the inner and
outer circles, at the places where the embedded crystals were. Those
spoke rods had crystals in them which where different from the ones in
the circles. Then I fixed some special crystals in different groups and
in different layers, some insulted and some with gold wires between
them, between thin glass plates, and set the artificial chakra into the
middle of the hub.Then I covered the assembled thing, top and bottom,
with 1/4 inch thick white plastic, and around the edges too, and with
more plastic supports inside between the spokes, to make the whole
thing very strong, but not too heavy. I put a plastic handle on two of
the edges. I could cary it with two hands like a tray, or with one hand
like a briefcase. Can you guess what I made, and what it's for?
For my first experiment in the empty gym, after I charged it with
special energy from one of my internal storage chakras, I put a 10
pound weight on it. I thought to it go up. and it floated up into the
air, but moved sideways too. It must have been effected by the Coriolis
force. I corrected it. I experimented with moving it around like it was
an arm, instead if thinking directions at it, and it worked better. I
brought it down and checked how much energy was left in it. Most of it
was still there. I think the bending of gravity away from it didn't
take much energy, but moving it did. That proved correct when I added
more weights, and calculated the force needed to move all of it, the
platform and the weights.
I went and asked Rod to come and tell me what he can see about my
experiment. I didn't tell him what it was. I wanted his opinion,
because I could see the platform glow, and I wanted to know if anybody
else could see it. He was VERY surprised when the platform lifted up. I
reached over and closed his mouth for him. We both laughed. I told him
I had constructed a very special machine inside the plastic platform
which could bend gravity away from it by altering the mass of the
platform, but it worked on psychic energy, and was controlled by the
one who charged it up with his own energy. We agreed the invention was
almost completely useless, if only one adept could use it.
I said "Well, before I finish, there are some tests which should be
made. It lifts inanimate objects, but would living things interfere
with it's function?" We took it to my private room, and put a potted
plant on it. It lifted fine. Then we put a white rat on it from the
lab. No problem. Then we looked at each other, and at the platform on
the floor. Rod stepped on it and gave an up hand signal. It lifted fine
with him on it. I moved it and him gently around the room, and then
back to the floor. I asked him for his report. He said "I could feel
some acceleration and inertia, but not as much as I think I should
have. It must have a partial dampening effect. The platform felt a
little wobbly at times, but that could have been just my imagination."
I asked him to get back on it and made it lift about 6 inches. I asked
him to move off center, to close to an edge. He did. The platform
didn't tilt. I told him to move back to the center, and told him I was
going to try to make the platform tilt. I was ready to catch him if he
fell. I tried to make it tilt toward me. It did, and he fell into my
arms. He kissed me, and said, "You could have asked." We smiled and
grabbed each other's monsters. Before we went to take care of them, I
checked the platform. It hadn't moved up with the loss of his weight on
it, and was still tilted. I brought it down to rest.
The experiment was very exciting for the both of us. And our
monsters, which had levitated too, with our kiss and grab. Just like
the platform, they needed to be put to rest. We had a lot of excitement
to use up, which took a while. It was a lot of fun. We squirted a lot
of times. We cleaned up. I asked Rod not to tell anybody about it, and
he made a big face at me and said, "Did you really have to ask?" I
tickled him. We laughed and kissed, and then went back to class.
Your friend,
Stephen
--
Grant
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