Twin Earth

Chapter 64

"It's not the neutralinos we're dealing with at all," Hayden continued.

"It's not?" Yuki asked in surprise.

"I'm sorry, I'm confused. What isn't the neutralinos?" James asked. "The message?"

"Oh no, the messages we've received have been embedded within the fluctuations of the stable lighter neutralino particles, there could even be more messages encoded into the other far less stable heavier neutralino particles, but that isn't what is controlling the binding of these particles or emitting them in the first place."

"So what are you saying?" I asked, leaning in to look closer at Hayden's computer screen.

"The neutralinos are not the dark matter itself. They're just living within it. I started to detect ionisation tracks and initially I put it down to outer interference, but when we moved the detector closer to the rocks it grew stronger."

"Isn't that just from the magnetic field being generated around here?" James asked confused.

"At first I thought the same, but there was no information coming from within the radiation to suggest it was from matter around us, so I delved further and realised that the neutralinos were being affected by gravity particles."

"Gravitons? Within the detector? That's impossible," Yuki exclaimed in disbelief.

"Yes, but more interestingly I think I'm detecting gravitinos, their super-symmetric partners, and super heavy ones at that."

"So what are you saying? There's a black hole in there? Isn't that what causes gravity particles, waves, whatever?" James asked.

"Not quite, but similar. It's hard to pin down exactly what it is. It's like nothing I've detected before and to be honest the data here is beyond even my comprehension, but there is something in there that is acting like what gravitinos are theorised to do and they seem to be spontaneously appearing and disappearing as we speak into some kind of vortex. I... I really can't get my head around it at all," Hayden continued rubbing his head in bewilderment.

"This is astounding," my father commented, pushing me aside and looking at the computer data himself. Even Yuki had grabbed Hayden's notes and was now pouring her attention into them.

"This somehow makes sense to me," I mumbled, as a memory suddenly flicked into my mind.

"It does?" James asked.

"Yes, I remember Adom, one of the Mochuvians talking about the ellipses being like black holes. Just before I was about to jump through one of their ellipses for the first time it morphed into this black void. It was terrifying, and at first I thought I was expected to jump into it, thankfully he did something and the destination became a little more palatable, but I remember Adom talking about the ellipses using intensely controlled mass dilation, the equivalent of many solar masses, which created something called zero infinite time, like a black hole and particles are absorbed into it. To us they look like they're suspended in time or appearing and disappearing spontaneously, but in reality they're being forced through to another location."

"Wow, okay," James mouthed staring at me. "So what are you saying, that this is one of those ellipse things that can travel to another dimension?"

"Well, to our own dimension at least and by the looks of it a very small one, but yes. I honestly believe Hayden has detected a minute ellipse. Some kind of dark matter controlled ellipse."

"But we can't travel through this," Yuki interjected, looking up from Hayden's notes and flinging them down to her sides in exasperation.

"I can increase the field parameters though," Hayden replied.