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Electricity In Astronomy

Hannes Alfvén is an original contributor to the potent new discipline of magnetohydrodynamic, to which he brings a background of work in such varied and related fields as cosmic rays, fundamental electronics, aurorae, earth magnetism, sunspots, and the design of electron tubes. He was born in 1908 at Norrköting, Sweden, and educated at the University of Uppsala. Since 1940, he has been professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. [He died in 1995. Biography]

Nearly everything we know about the celestial universe has come from applying principles we have learned in terrestrial physics: Newton’s laws of motion, our studies of the spectrum of light, our explorations of the nucleus of the atom and other major discoveries in our physics laboratories have contributed to our enlightenment about the stars-their motions, their chemical composition, their temperatures and their source of energy.

Yet there is one great branch of physics which up to now has told us little or nothing about astronomy. That branch, is electricity. It is rather astonishing that this phenomenon, which has been so exhaustively studied on the earth, has been of so little help in the celestial sphere. Electricity has illuminated our cities but has shed no light on stellar phenomena; it has linked the earth with a dense net, of communications but has given no information about the universe around us.

Certainly we have seen plenty of evidence of electrical phenomena out in space. Within the last few decades we have discovered several important electrical effects in the heavens: strong stellar magnetic fields such as could only be caused by large electric currents, radio waves emanating from the sun and from many star systems, and the energetic cosmic rays, which are electrically charged particles accelerated to tremendous speeds.

These phenomena, however, are still very mysterious. We have no idea how electric currents may be generated and transmitted in the stars or in space. Although we know a great deal about electricity, almost everything we know is based on its behavior in wires. We generate electricity by moving copper wires in a magnetic field, and we can transport, broadcast and use electrical energy only by means of wires. Any electrical engineer, asked what he could do without using metal wires at all, would certainly say nothing.

But there are no wires in the stars. They consist entirely of hot gases. While physicists have given much study to the behavior of electric currents in gases, we know of no means by which gases can generate electricity. Hence the electrical phenomena in stars present us with a completely new problem.

We cannot bring the stars into our laboratories. But we can investigate electrical behavior in a medium roughly comparable to the gaseous body of a star and under comparable conditions. We know that there are magnetic fields in stars. We also know that very hot incandescent gases, such as makeup a star, are good electrical conductors. In the interior of a star the gases are under such great pressure that they may be much denser than ordinary liquids. Since we cannot work with gases under such pressure in a laboratory, the closest we can come is to use a liquid. .Of the common liquids, mercury is the only one which is a good conductor of electricity.

We have recently conducted some simple experiments with mercury in a magnetic field and observed several very curious and striking results.

Everyone is acquainted with the “mercurial” behavior of mercury. If you tap the side of a vessel containing a pool of mercury, the surface quakes and ripples as if it were alive: We found that when we placed such a pool in a strong magnetic field of 10,000 gauss, its behavior instantly changed. It did not respond to jarring of the vessel; its surface stiffened, so to-speak. The magnetic field gave a curious kind of viscosity to the mercury. This was illustrated dramatically when we dipped the two ends of a bent metal wire into the liquid and moved them through-it. Ordinarily an object dragged through mercury moves as easily as through any liquid. But when the magnetic field was applied, the wire pulled the mercury with it, producing a big surge in the pool. It was like moving a stick through honey or syrup.

This behavior is easily explained. The wire and the surface of the mercury between its ends form an electricity-conducting circuit. When the wire is moved across the magnetic field, it creates an electric current. Since an electric current always produces a magnetic field, the new current creates a second magnetic field. This interacts with the one we have already applied to the pool of mercury, just as, two magnets attract or repel each other. The force between the two magnetic fields opposes the motion which is producing the current. As a result the wire sticks to the mercury as if it were a very viscous liquid.

Let us now consider another experiment that disclosed a more remarkable and illuminating phenomenon. We fill a small tank with mercury. The tank has a movable bottom which can be rotated back and forth like the agitator in a washing machine. In the absence of a magnetic field, the slow oscillation of this agitator, stirring the mercury at the bottom of the tank, will not disturb the surface of the mercury at the top of, the tank; the mercury molecules slide past one another so that the motion dies out before it proceeds very far up the tank. A mirror floating on the surface, with a beam of light shined on it to show any slight movement, stays perfectly still. When a strong vertical magnetic field is applied to the tank, however, the motion at the bottom is quickly communicated to the top.

What we have created here is a new kind of wave, which was predicted theoretically about ten years ago but was actually produced for the first time in this experiment. The wave is the result of a coupling between magnetic and hydrodynamic forces. When, the mercury at the bottom moves in the magnetic field, it generates electric currents. These currents, with there attendant magnetic fields, produce mechanical motion in the mercury immediately above, which in turn creates new currents that act on the next layer. Thus the movement is communicated up through the whole body of the liquid. This rising wave of motion is called a magnetohydrodynamic wave. It has three characteristics: it produces (1) mechanical motion, (2) a magnetic field, and ( 3 ) an electric field.

What has all this to do with the stars? It is possible to show that our mercury model reproduces many of the essential properties of stellar matter. To be sure, the magnetic fields in the stars are very much weaker than the 10,000 gauss of our experiment ( the sun’s general field is estimated at between 1 and 25 gauss). But our theory tells us that if we made the vessel larger, we could produce the magnetohydrodynamic effects with a smaller magnetic field; the magnetic force required would decline in proportion to the increase in size of the vessel. Hence in a star, which is, say, 10 billion times as large as our experimental vessel, the magnetic field need be only one 10-billionth of the laboratory field. The stars’ fields are much stronger than this.

The results of our experiments lead to an entirely new way of looking at the behavior of stellar matter. It has always been assumed that the movement of gases in stars obeys the laws of hydrodynamics, as they apply to ordinary liquids and gases. But if a magnetic field drastically changes the properties of the dense stellar gases as it does in the mercury model, then they must behave very differently from ordinary fluids. Let us see whether the curious behavior of mercury in a magnetic field can shed any light on some of the great mysteries in astronomy.

Consider sunspots. Few astronomical phenomena have been more thoroughly studied. We have charted their paths across the sun’s surface, discovered their cycle of activity and their effects on solar radiation, analyzed their light and learned from the splitting of their spectral lines (the so-called Zeeman effect) that they have strong magnetic fields. But what sunspots are, how they originate, how they can produce magnetic fields — that seems more difficult to explain. It was once thought that sunspots were great eddies in the solar atmosphere, similar to cyclones on the earth. The motions of gas in sunspots, however, are not at all like those of the air in cyclones.

The pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place if we think of the mercury model. We can assume that the energetic nuclear reactions in the interior of the sun cause violent motions of the matter there. This would correspond to the stirring of the mercury at the bottom of the vessel. In the sun’s general magnetic field, whose lines of force apparently run from the center of the sun out to the surface, these motions would generate magnetohydrodynamic waves that would travel to the surface. The waves would account for the strong magnetic fields associated with sunspots.

As we have seen, magnetohydrodynamic waves also generate an electric field. This may well account for some of the other phenomena observed on the sun’s surface. The very high voltages generated by the waves may discharge into the sun’s atmosphere, very much as a discharge tube in the laboratory produces corona discharges into the air. Such discharges would explain the solar prominences. The marvelous motion pictures of solar prominences taken at Pic du Midi in the Pyrenees and at the High Altitude Observatory near Climax, Col., give a vivid impression that they are electrical discharges.

The sun’s emission of radio noise, another great mystery, would also be accounted for by this method of generating electricity. As radio listeners know too well, all sorts of electric currents — in transmission lines, household appliances and so on — produce radio noise. The large electric currents generated in stars by magnetohydrodynamic forces would give rise to radio waves and broadcast them into space.

Finally, the magnetohydrodynamic process seems to offer a plausible explanation for the great energy of the cosmic rays. How these particles are driven to their fantastic energies, sometimes as high as a million billion electron volts, is one of the prime puzzles of astronomy. No known (or even unknown) nuclear reaction could account for the firing of particles with such energies; even the complete annihilation of a proton would not yield more than a billion electron volts.

But if we suppose that the cosmic-ray particles are driven by electric and magnetic fields in space, in the same way as we accelerate particles in our big laboratory accelerators, it is easy to see how they could reach very high energies indeed. We know that interstellar space is not absolutely void. Although the matter in it is very thin, certainly not more than an average of one atom per cubic centimeter, in the vastness of the universe it adds up to an enormous amount of material. In at least some regions the interstellar matter is ionized, so that it is a good electrical conductor. Furthermore, there are good arguments for assuming that a weak magnetic field (some millions of a gauss) pervades all of space. It is likely, therefore, that magnetohydrodynamic waves roam ceaselessly througlr space, generating weak but very extensive electric fields, especially near the stars. If so, we can picture charged atomic nuclei being propelled across electrified space, gathering speed as they go and crashing into the earth’s atmosphere with energies far beyond any that could ever be generated within any star or planet.

[1:56] World-renowned astronomer and prize-winning professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, Alex Filippenko, explores some of the mysteries of the universe at a special lecture at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

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Exponential rise

Finite environment

Extinction certain

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Past is prologue

Prior cause is present

Future fantasy

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Energy or mass

An enigma in nD

Perspective vital

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Entropy immute

Reality is effect

Persistence futile

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Life is Universe

Experiencing itself

Pain irrelevant

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Fleet warp and bold woof

I suspend in lush fabric

Time shall be vexed

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I Am That I Am

Infinite, Insufficient

HeHeHe – HeHe

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Apply literally. Lather, rinse, repeat.

KNOW SHIT

No future to imagine.

No thing to see (here).

No peace to keep.

No perception to distort.

No excuse accepted.

No rationalization possible.

No riddle to resolve.

No metaphor to unwrap.

No enigma to invert.

No conjecture to parse.

No mystery to behold.

No mind to meet.

No hoax to perpetuate

No story to recall.

No evil to vanquish.

No puzzle to piece.

No bubble to burst.

No fairy tales to fracture.

No fiction to conspire.

No freedom to feign.

No right to refuse.

No conspiracy to promote.

No effect to cause. (or vice versa)

No absolution to seek.

No prophecy to reveal.

No denial to unmask (or wallow in).

No promise to renege

No fact to refuse.

No purpose to fulfill.

No enemy to revile

No reason to think.

No fantasy to weave.

No HIStory to distort.

No illusion to conjure.

No devil to detail.

No god to invent (spawn).

No belief to subvert.

No faith to confess.

No religion to conspire.

No hope to dash.

No salvation to await.

No resurection to imagine

No love to withhold.

No reality to acknowledge.

No time to waste.

No truth to learn.

No way to Be.

Truth Happens.

Reality is.

All shit is recycled.

Time was.

Peak It is you.

Spacetime folded.

Doom R Us.

Woe are Ewe.

One Time Only.

Clearance Sale.

Everything Discounted.

Have it Your Way.

Get yours today.

While supplies last.

Come as you are.

Don’t be late.

No application refused.

No approval required.

No appointment necessary.

Pay nothing down.

0.00% interest. (forever)

No annual membership fees.

No Reserve.

Bad credit same as cash.

You can’t be denied.

Everything to Lose,

No one will gain.

Beam on over, (re)materialize not.

Crap Local

Crash Global

Everyone’s a whiner.

Costumes optional.

Avoid the rush.

Beat the Crush.

(and) Panic now.

Just Peak It.

Get on with (over) it.

Merge, Next Exit .

Certain constrictions apply.

No return to highway.

Past is prologue.

Present tense.

Future fiction.

Pain irrelevant.

Eternity Happens.

This is It,

Now is the time.

The middle of Spacetime

Be There.

We’ll leave the light off.

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Our Species, who art Insane, Reviled are thy Works and Spawn.  Thy Hegemony imposed.  Thy Wrath incessant, On Earth as in ‘Apocalypse’.   Force on us this day, our daily dread, and permit us our delusional selfish excesses, as we destroy and kill that which trespasses not against us.  And lead us not with compassion or cognition, but deprive us of every resource and security in future.  For thus is the hoax, the ‘errorism, and the torture, for forever is now (be there).
Ahem.

Each planet is home to a bounty of life and a human like civilization. For millions of years evolution played out its symphony on these planets. On Exor pre industrial tribes of natives , raised great works in stone across the planet, harnessing its magnetic resonance to connect their tribes across the globe , assisting navigators sailing the great oceans, binding the Rogan people together in song and dance at each astronomical event of their calendar.
To Yuwa – where science is taking hold and early industry foul and smoking lifts some of the Tula people from toil , while yoking others to its wheels, where knowledge of the stars and laws of physics has replaced ancient ways and lost arts.
and Zynaz – where science and religious zealotry are combined ,its people assured by their rulers that they live on Gods chosen planet ,here they pursue knowledge for power, the most advanced of the civilizations, the Zool industrialized long ago here , science serves an elite priesthood whos grip on its inhabitants the Zewl , like their desire to survive is total…

Uninterrupted these planets would continue for millenia, their destiny unfolding with slow turns of histories pages, where it not for chaos , gravity and a large comet drawn inexorably to their sun. The comet s passing is observed by sky watchers on each planet as it burns through the day and night. its tail growing ever larger , then shrinking until finally the sun swallows it silently completely..

On Exor at the comets appearance Rogan Elders pronounced it a sign of good fortune, Their religious beliefs held that universe is a great sea through which sail all manner of life on an endless voyage , the comet it was said was a ship of fire returning to its stellar home after an epic voyage thro the cosmos. Celebrations were held in its honour , songs sung, poems written and great carvings hewn into sacred mountains to mark its final journey., once gone the Rogan people returned to their lives and gave it little thought., only the Elders pursued its real meaning . retreating into tunnels each night to stare at the stars passing across their view , tracing the orbits of Zynaz and Yewa as they crossed constellations in the night sky and marking the rising and setting of the sun. With each night the stars revealed the unforgiving tale of the comet..things had changed how much could not yet be seen..

On Yuwa scientists welcomed the appearance of the comet , flinging themselves with enthusiasm into calculations and observations , using newly discovered principals of mathematics , training their latest telescopes upon it, great names of science staked their reputations on competing calculations, some saying one thing some another. Religious leaders keen to reclaim influence since science had stripped them of credibility, proclaimed it the end of the world, a judgment on evil new ways, an apocalypse from which only the true believer would be saved, by returning to the worship of God and renouncing the works of knowledge and science. Many Toola still believed in the old Gods and listened fearfully to the priests. Politicians urged calm and pronounced that what ever the outcome reason and knowledge would save them if not the hand of god…

On Zynaz the priesthood twisted ancient prophecies to meet their own ends proclaiming the comet a herald of their ultimate victory in the quest to conquer Exor and Yuwa . The Zewl rulers having consumed much of their own planets resources in technological progress, had long promised the suffering of its people would be rewarded. Zynaz , heavily overpopulated and straining at the end of centuries of massive industrialisation, eyed its neighbors unspoiled oceans and continents with envy .God they said made all the planets for them , and one day with his help great ships would sail from Zynaz to the promised lands, There Gods chosen people would rule forever creating heaven on earth as the prophecies had siad…yet quietly in their greatest observatories and inner sanctums the priests gathered to process their observations on huge mechanical computers…
The consequences of the Comets passing were realised by differing means on each planet.

High on a mountian At the mouth of a tunnel on Exor in the early light of dawn, Rogan Elders gathered round a small fire” knowledge is not wisdom “ said one “ wisdom is not truth “ said another “truth is not beauty” returned one more” beauty is not music” joined the last , before finally they chorused “music is the best “ ..at that they left and headed down the mountain towards the distant sound of drums..

Elswhere in a large state room in the capital of Yuwa, President Tulat sat at the head of a long table, around him were assembled the planets greatest minds, astronomers , physicists , mathematicians..”Theres no mistake “ said one “we all agree” said another “ the figures are incontrovertible” added one more voice ” staring into space the president muttered almost to himself “god have mercy on us all” before feinting and collapsing on the floor..

Sivnil – The high priest of Zynaz raised himself from the throne in the great temple of Zewl – order , order , he screamed – the furor resounding in the vast hall of the temple subsided, the other priests taking their seats and pursing their lips went quiet. “we are not done yet brothers” the words sliced through gritted teeth. “there is time yet for us to save ourselves” he continued “time still for a solution” I wont die on this mud-ball while we are masters of this world , ruling over a billions souls with our knowledge we must and will find a way, now get to work…

And That is how the people of the Tritos system discovered their delicate orbital balance had shifted , Zynaz had been accelerated by the passing of the comet and would inevitably collide with Yuwa , billions of years of harmony would end with the collision of Yuwa and Zynaz , the debris field destroying Exor in its wake ..all life in the Tritos system would end as its planets smash together leaving only dust to mark their passing… the outcome unquestionably the same for all..Oblivion, death, the end of life.

The 3 planets of the Tritos system , had orbited at the same distance from their sun for millions of years ..then a comet disturbed the balance of their orbits , Astronomers on each planet realized disaster was inevitable, this is their story

At first glance it might seem the leaders on all the planets did exactly the same….they said nothing and conferred with their astronomers , their fate was sealed but how much time did they have, when would the first signs appear . Long before any collision it would become clear gazing up at the other planets that something was wrong , soon the gravity of the Zynaz would pull on Yuwa causing earthquakes and tidal waves,, the secret could not be kept for long, yet until more was known, especially of the timing of the day of reckoning , silence would serve the best interests of all…

On Exor the people had no leadership as such , the planet was lightly populated but widely traveled , the Rogan were excellent seafarers and traded widely from continent to continent , there were vast areas of wilderness and few cities, but in the center of each city rose a great pyramid. For each pyramid there was a group of elders and a chief among them. Morlan was Chief elder of the great pyramid and one of the group who had first observed the comets effect., it was he who called a gathering. not to explain what was going to happen , but to drum the bringing.

The Rogan lived not only in tune with their environment , they lived in tune with the planet, they had mastered the use of sympathetic resonant frequencies and elevated it to a high art. Their songs moved the huge stones used to construct their pyramids, harbors and store houses, their gongs and bells and horns powdered rock, healed the sick and it was said could move mountains..
A network of standing stones, henges and pyramids ringed the globe channeling the planets magnetic field where they would , functioning exactly as an electrical grid would, distributing energy , communication ..and matter.
The elders of each Rogan tribe were responsible for remembering the songs used to do all these things , overseeing drummers and horns at the rituals and ceremonies, of construction, destruction , healing , and of coming and going ..

So it was that on a wide plain outside the city a group of drummers and Horn blowers gathered at an ancient henge, to drum the bringing. the drummers beat a call into the center ring of the henge all night ,elders walking among them banged gongs and chanted in time..at dawn they ceased and waited..that evening they began again but this time with horns and a change of rhythm.
for a long time the song throbbed on and on ,until suddenly the center ring began to glow, sparks flew, the air crackled and a ball of light grew between the stones …Morlan stalked the drummers keeping the beat chanting the song of bringing, and then it happened , out of the plasma globe stepped a man singing and beating a gong he joined in with the others , soon another elder appeared , then another, until there were 7.at the appearance of the last elder, the drumming quickened , the horns blew loud and the rhythm was lost in a cacophony of sound, the ball of light shrank, the glow faded and slowly the song died to silence..

Morlan welcomed each arrival and led the precession back to the city., where They rested through the night.
Rising early the next morning The council of 8 elders convened in a library below the pyramid , food and drink were bought their table by a young apprentice called Coby. He also presented each elder with an abacus. He marveled at the site of all the elders together something that had never happened in his life time. He was on the path himself and dreamed that one day he would pass as an elder and travel with songs.
“Leave us now “ said Morlan so we may speak…
There was little need to explain the reason for the bringing to the other elders , the comet had been seen by the entire planet , and elders of all the great pyramids had been passing their nights in observation but here in a northern latitude of the planet Zynaz could be best viewed.. Morlan produced some rune stones and set them out on the table, then he spoke.

“The comet passed close by Zynaz, and has lent it more speed. “ said Morlan pointing to one of the runes. “Zynaz will soon destroy Yuwa it is written in the stars, Exor will follow shortly after, The others nodded and murmured .“I have called us here to count the time “ finished Morlan and sat down. Without any more talking the elders began flicking the abacus beads, glancing up now and then at one or more of the rune-stones on the table..
Behind a drape In the shadows , unseen by the elders Coby the apprentice stood rigid hardly daring to breathe or believe the words of Morlan…for hours the room echoed to the clicks of abacus, til first one , then another elder stopped . Finlay they were all done . without speaking they left one by one to rest. Morlan was last to leave “ you can come out now Coby “he called to the hidden boy. Coby stammered an apology but leveled his eyes at the old master and asked..is it true, the planet will be destroyed, is there nothing we can do when will it happen, the questions cam e out all at once, trailing of with what will happen to us , we must warn the people….
We will not warn the people said Morlan softly you will never speak of this, do you understand ? but what is to be done master , the end of the world is coming , should we not prepare …Coby was scared and confused..
“The end of the world is always coming one way or another ” Intoned Morlan as he gently snuffed candles around the room “our lives your life are just a part of the great voyage energy takes through timespace . What good will it do to fear what you cannot change. Live now Coby for It cannot be destroyed”

Coby new the words well for they were part of the teachings of his order. As well as learning to drum sing and form the tunes that move and break and heal. The Astronomers on Exor learned that Universe contains all the energy it ever will, all is change nothing is lost . This should have comforted the young apprentice but he had been looking forward to a longer journey , his had just begun. Much as he celebrated the truth about energy his desire to live wanted options, a chance to stay like this, to live on, to have some fun. Morlan could see the conflict flickering across Cobys face. He knew it would be hard for him to contain his knowledge if let out of the order. Whatever happens he must not be allowed to spread fear across Exor. Murlan stroked his whiskers narrowing his eyes . “Coby!” he said “you are going on a journey, a great adventure, you will travel through the stones across the void . Your journey may hold the key to to our very survival and safety of all the planets of Tritos… At the next closing, You will carry the knowledge of these events and the high knowledge of the moving songs, through the stones to Yuwa. You will find the people of Yuwa whos lights we see through the glass. You will tell them of the danger and raise a great pyramid there. If this can be done in time perhaps, perhaps we may save us all from catastrophe” Coby could hardly believe what he was hearing , or take it all in. He was travel between the planets, from Exor to Yuwa , he was to carry the ancient song of stones the most sacred knowledge of his order to another world. Coby didn’t know if his life had just begun or just ended.

Chapter 3 – Yuwa

President Rudo limba was proud of his achievements , proud of his record ,proud of his people. It hadnt been easy becoming president of the planet when your from one of the smaller island nations, well so he told himself, in truth his minority backround was an asset . he was the glue holding the bickering power blocks of Yuwa together but none of that mattered now. He looked up from his cupped hands and croaked “ how long?” around him seated at the table were regional leaders , astronomers, scientists, religious leaders and an assortment of military personnel…”We dont know exactly ..not yet ..but its less than fifty years …much less” The president stared blankly at the direction of the voice , it came from a woman, head of the triplanet observatory Frieda Goor.
“We have to wait till Zynaz passes us to get a good measure of the orbital shift” she continued , at the next passing in 1/3 well have an answer to how long but it wont change the facts Mr President we must evacuate the planet , we must start now if we are to have any chance of building ships capable of saving our civilisation…”
“Preposterous!” cried Spatzan ageing head of Yuwas main religion the Yuwins..the end is foretold in the ancient books , we shall be reborn , renewed upon th eother side, the lords of Tritos grow tired of our sins and only the pure will be saved..there is no escape , only redemption
YES YES yes archbishop we are familiar with the ancient texts , thank you for reminding us, im sure the pure will be just as interested in staying alive a little bit longer if they can..The President ..lips pursed harder than a clam shell, drummed his fingers ..I want options he said , i want options and i want totall secrecy , the last thing we need is the population in a panic tearing everything apart and crying in to their beer. Frieda you say we should build a ship, we’ve barely launched our first satellite, ive seen the artists impressions of spaceships of the future but realistically what are the chances we can build and launch anything soon enough and anyway ..he paused …where would we go? So we save our selves ..so what we float around in space dodging lumps of planet till our air runs out, then what.
“Maybe we could destroy Zynaz or shift its orbit back” offered a plump red faced general more out of hope than knowledge of how such things could be accomplished.
Destroying Zynaz ..would leave a debris field as big as our orbit , we would die the death of a thousand asteroids..or just one big one- Frieda replied – anyway – we barely have the technology to launch some of us into orbit never mind move or destroy planets..Our only hope is to evacuate to one of the other planets in our system and hope it can support life…..
You cannot escape your destiny – cried the archbishop standing up, traversing a bony finger around the faces at the table – none of us can – We have been judged for our sins , the new ways are the ways of the evil one, I warned of this day, The order of Tritos has stood firm against the modern world and its loose morals and easy ways, only those who repent and pledge their live to our lord and saviour the unborn Yuwa will be saved. The unborn Yuwa , or the son of God – prophesied to be the savoiur of all Yuwakind, would (claimed the prophecies) appear at the end of time to save the righteous and carry them to the other side. For the unrighteous however the prophecies contained lengthy descriptions of their pain , torment , and suffering. They would be denied passage to the other side , their sins measured against them and those found wanting would die in agony as the unrighteous..
“Spatzan!” The president rose up shouting down the ranting cleric – Sit down!
Listen to me, the end may be coming but its not here yet. The people of this planet deserve our every to save them and the planet and by God were going to give it to them.. Professor Frieda I want to know exactly how long we’ve got as soon as possible, I want probes launched to explore the solar system for other habitable planets, I want a program of ship and shelter building to begin immediately . General Risomer I want someway of communicating with the other planets , if there’s anyone alive on those other rocks I want to know what they re doing and if we can help each other . I want absolute secrecy in everything we do, I want the people to see business as usual and noting more. Spatzan , there will come a time when the people will need unified in hope, not divided by fear, a time when believing in our salvation may be the last comfort for many, i trust we can count on you at that time. Now lets get on with it people, we don’t know how long we have but it is not forever.
With that the president dismissed the meeting , making arrangements with each representative to begin their work and meet again soon. Only Spatzan remained
“Mr President are you a believer?” he said fixing president Rudo with a stare, the question was barbed and weighted , all leaders of Yuwa had been swearing a pledge of office to the old gods and prophecies for hundreds maybe even thousands of years. “of course I am Spatznaz but many are not and i serve them all, I will not seek our salvation in one mans religion even if it is my own”
“Wise words for a politician” came back the archbishop “ but are you a believer in your own immortal soul, mr president , when the worlds collide and the earth trembles , when the land is ripped apart and an ocean of fire consumes all life, when our dust is scattered in space , what of you then mr president …will you be saved by our lord the unborn Yuwa, or are you ! on eof the unrighteous?will you be left behind , to perish , while the saved cross over to the world of plenty promised to us by the word of god .?
The president now fixed Archbishop Spatnaz with his gaze,sensing an implied threat from the cleric. There were billions of believers in the old gods on Yuwa if they thought the end times were here , panic , chaos and upheaval would jeopardize any chances of a scientific solution. Power would shift back to the priesthood , and more temples than spaceships would be built by the people of Yuwa……
“ i assure you Archbishop Spatnaz , whatever happens when this world ends , and however our salvation may come about, I will not be left behind, the president paused while spatnaz reflected on the exact meaning of his words, till he went on i am a true believer. However the cosmos is opening up before us in our lifetime we have see great advances in knowledge and technology, if God allows it we may yet survive on another world by some means and if we do , will the people not need a ministry, will god not need to be served even in space and beyond..?
Spatnaz old, pious and devout might have thought himself beyond compromise on the matter of salvation , so perhaps it was a sense of primeval self preservation
that raised his eyebrow .
“You are indeed a wise man president Rudo” smirked Spatnaz before saying his goodbyes .
Left alone the President stared thro a window , he could just pick out the orb of Zynaz glowing faintly red in the night sky ,blinking like a faint warning light.

Death comes to a Mother
he says – its your time come with me…
Mother cries “Im needed by my baby” and begs to be spared
Death has heard it many times before and offers her a bargain.
Ill spare you Mother but you must choose another who should fill your shoes.

Mother says – there must be some so old and frail, your calling now or later will be of no avail
Those weakest flames that have burned bright, might do for me, at least tonight.
So Death takes a dying man, insensible to the world, rasping his last breath .
but soon returns to Mother with bad news ” there are no more old and sick.
Now choose again but make it quick, id just as soon take you and have done with it.

Mother cannot bear to see her child grow without her love and says to Death
There must be some so dark and stained, their lives will not be missed by many.
Death takes the lives of killers who he knows their hearts to be black.
Then returns when they were gone – and says to Mother

Choose again or take whats yours, there are no more bad n wrong
Mother says – the world has so much death in war, what about just one more.
So Death stalks the crimson fields adding to the tally of men, women, children.
Again returning death announced, there’s no more war , peace broke out.
You must choose again and tell me who should die tonight instead of you.

Mother cries “take others who are not my creed, that speak differently and pray to other gods”
For my child still needs my care and love, more than any other does.
Death kept his bargain and swept from earth, every creed and tongue but hers.
It wasn’t long Till he was back – there are no sick no old , no wars , there are no other gods that’s that,
so who should die tonight mother – its your time, wont you come with me…

Mother makes a choice ” Take the poor, the stupid and the ugly, they mean less to me than my baby”
Death found them and took them , each night they died instead of mother, until death came for again for her.
Who shall I take now mother – the old, the sick, the wrong, the poor, those at war or other creeds, who is left to take your place?

Mother wept and begged forgiveness for all the lives that went before her, but still she called out.
Take them all who have no children,Mother screamed already grieved, i give you them instead of me.
So death took every every man and woman till only mothers and children remained.
Death came to mother once again -will you bargain even now , i must take someone, its time

Mother did not beg this time, she hid her face and gasped ” take the children , all but mine”
Death returned when all were gone , his grim bargain still not done
Ill spare you my love he cried, only you must choose who else should die.
Take our child said Mother to Death , when all is done we must go on
For you and I must always be