Amballore House (28 page)

The initial abduction took place some two hundred generations prior to Vareed. The elders were living in a hut. It was more like a hole in the mud. They slept on the ground and covered themselves with blankets made of coconut palm tree leaves. If it rained, they moved to the hole; otherwise they stayed outdoors and slept under some trees.

On the day aliens made contact with them, they both were in a fish market. They were haggling over the price of dry sardines in an open-air fish market. That is when two strangers appeared on the scene and bid a higher price and snatched away the entire supply of fish. They did not look like normal people; however, they spoke fluent Malayalam and were able to get around. Some reported that the strangers were previously seen attending Malayalam classes in Amballore School.

These folks were friendly to the elders. They invited themselves to the elders’ home, cooked every fish they bought, and prepared rice, which they had also bought, and fed the elders sumptuously.

When the couple woke up in the morning, they were not at their home. They had traveled millions and millions of light-years away from earth through the wormhole and reached a galaxy far, far away from the Milky Way.

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WORMHOLE AND KALLU, THE EXOTIC MATTER

Extraterrestrials, patiently watching the evolution of the earth, were looking out for a day when human beings would be born. Finally, that day arrived.

These aliens predated humans by fifty thousand years. The sophistication of their advanced civilization may be gauged through this fifty-thousand-year lead if we keep in mind that it was fifty thousand years ago that the first Homo sapiens arrived in central Asia. It is as if we are forced to conclude that we are similar to Homo sapiens at the current juncture in history, if we consider aliens are only as much advanced as we are presently. To phrase this differently, the aliens in their current state are like we would be if we leaped through another fifty thousand years of civilization. Imagine that!

The human’s futuristic technology is like alien’s yesteryear’s technology.

The early birth of these humanlike species was caused by a different path of evolution, different from the evolution we know of on earth. Even though human civilization and alien civilization had the same starting point—the big bang that happened at the beginning of time, 13.7 billion years ago—their planetary system took a different course to evolve and fortunately did not encounter cataclysmic collisions with any asteroid-like celestial bodies. This was unlike what human civilization encountered.

This meant that their evolution cycle followed an uninterrupted path, resulting in the births of species in quicker spans of time. It was also speculated that these aliens were not warmongers and therefore did not waste time trying to annihilate each other, unlike in the case of earthlings. This fact helped the evolution of their civilization take a quicker pace.

Since the alien’s planet was close to a black hole, time was slowed down per the general theory of relativity. This enabled them to
accomplish a task in, say, a few weeks that would have taken years on earth. This factor, in addition to an accident-free evolution of their planet, helped them to build an advanced civilization very rapidly, well before earthlings were only dreaming of and struggling to build one.

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The grand mission of the aliens was to build a collection of intergalactic planets on their home planet. The aliens resided on their own time-slowed planet, and travelled across galaxies through wormholes to make contact with civilizations. They then created on their home planet what was called a space colony, housing the smartest people from different earthlike planets. They did this by engaging abduction brokers in different planets to kidnap smartest scientists, and ferrying them through wormhole. The existence of the wormhole was sufficient condition for these scientists to be housed at their own home planets also, such as at Amballore House, to enjoy benefits of time stagnancy.

The aliens themselves were sort of self-appointed brokers who engaged in assembling geniuses across the known universe. The idea of gathering of minds from across the galaxies was the brainchild of the aliens, and they tirelessly implemented this plan. The instant communication of the minds galaxies apart was a revolutionary idea, and this was hoped to generate discussions of epic proportion, generating ideas as answer to bewildering questions of life and the laws of nature. Even though the aliens were of advanced civilization, they did not have answers to all the mysteries seen around. They hoped to fill the vacuum by creating their ideal universe and letting it address the questions.

This ET-created world was presumed to be the smartest, a big twist in the grand scheme of things, a world that was probably the envy of the Gods, a world depicted in fairy tales maybe, a world resembling heaven, a challenge to the Gods possibly, an alternate world that did not fall in line with the so-called grand scheme of things, a world where you didn’t have to take things lying down, a world where you were not bogged down with misery and damnation, and a world where you were not too busy living to live
properly!

The aliens’ mission did not outgrow from altruistic grounds meant to help different civilizations to grow into perfection, even though that was an after-effect of their plan. Interaction between civilizations differing in millions of years in advancement was dream come true for any lesser civilization, enabling them to leapfrog millions of years of evolution! Truly, a dream come true. The aliens’ mission was to take control of the known universe by tapping into the most coveted pool of knowledge ever assembled anywhere. They considered such a pool of knowledge as God’s mind.

The collective information was hoped by aliens to throw light on the apparent randomness in nature. They were intrigued by the randomness that played key role in the evolution of the known universe. Was earth’s catclysmatic collision with the asteroid sixty-seven million years ago, that resulted in the obliteration of the dinosaurs and subsequently paved way to the birth of Homo sapiens, purely a random act of nature? This is the kind of question that intrigued the aliens, and they hoped to get an answer to this mystery. Alternatively, is there a grand scheme of things that overruled the randomness? Aliens desperately tried to know the God’s mind.

Their pursuits were more of philosophical nature, rather than scientific. They were, of course, interested in knowing how things worked. However, they argued that it was more important to know why natural laws were the way they were, than to know what those laws were and how they worked. Their probe went to a deeper level than conventional science was comfortable with.

They wanted to tap into humanoids’ collective wisdom, intelligence, and knowledge. They were also able to house them in a time-stagnant world, and free them from their severely limited lifespan that imposed restriction on continuity of a project. Unraveling the mysteries of life and the universe, which cry out to be solved, is impossible in conventional lifetime, because it carries the excess baggage of idiosyncrasies and tribulations, calling human’s attention to address them, leaving no time to spare for
intellectual pursuits. Human beings, by the sheer fate of having limited lifespans, were forced to drop the bucket of research when they kicked the proverbial bucket. The short lifespan prohibited the earth residents from completing earth-shattering research. For example, if Einstein had lived another hundred years, more theories and discoveries of the same caliber as the general theory of relativity would have ensued. Maybe he would have given the world another gift such as quantum gravity, which marries seemingly contradictory forces, one dominant at Plank scale–like short distances and another dominant at astronomically large distances, paving the way to unify all known forces.

The aliens wanted to assemble the smartest scientists on earth and also to engage them in long-term research in critical fields having widespread applications and appeal. Therefore, they entered into a contract with the Amballore dynasty to hunt them down and bring them to Amballore House.

Since Vareed had the ability to bring back the dead to the living phase, the dead became qualified to be abducted, and therefore, the number of potentially smart people they were hunting increased.

The abductees were ferried to the mansion by the Midnight Express. Once inside the estate grounds, the Midnight Express vanished. It later on surfaced at Amballore House’s underworld.

The Amballore Investigation Bureau, the legal and spy arm of the Amballore Police Department, and members of Judas Toddy Club speculated that an abductee was taken to whole-body scan machine such as a high-resolution CT scanner. Once image acquisition was completed, the images were fed into 3-D printing machine that created 3-D replica of the visitor. The newborn robot was powered through various sources such as nuclear, geothermal, or solar.

The aliens’ vision for creating robots was to have a backup for humans, just in case humans fell into the pit of mortality by some unexpected course of nature, such as the disappearance of the existing wormhole or the destruction of the black hole to which the alien planet was linked. This robotic world would be indestructible and could carry on indefinitely. With advances in artificial
intelligence, robots could effectively replace humans and take over the world and transform it to an objective-oriented universe, replacing the currently dominating subjective-oriented universe.

The Amballore House’s underworld was a world made of futuristic technology, a world far different from the world we know of. It was built by the Amballore dynasty and an army of robots with supervision from the aliens. It was a sprawling research and technology innovation center. Even though Amballore House was of futuristic technology from a human point of view, it was normal technology for an advanced civilization of aliens.

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Why did the extraterrestrials who could have set up shop anywhere in the world, choose Amballore, a tiny town in Kerala that was in itself a small state in India? They could as well have chosen, say, Paris and any of its historic landmarks such as Notre Dame Cathedral and offered its famous inhabitant, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, eternal life. They could have settled down in the historic city of London and chosen Buckingham Palace as their headquarters. They could have tapped into a wider pool of talent, a much bigger pool than available in Amballore. They could have chosen Washington, DC, in the New World and based their operation in the White House, drawing talent from the far bigger population pool of Washington compared to that of Amballore. In the eastern hemisphere, they could have chosen landmarks such as the Taj Mahal, a romantic monument of history. Why did they pass these tantalizing attractions and settle down in a tiny, puny town probably unheard of outside its own borders?

The answer to this question lies in modern physics.

The advanced civilization had a thorough knowledge of wormhole physics so that they were able to build wormholes wherever they wanted to. When aliens built a wormhole to Amballore House in 1956, at the time they moved into the mansion, human beings were still amateurs in their knowledge of this marvel, and they still are.

The physicist John Wheeler coined the term “wormhole” only in the year 1957. The knowledge of mankind, in the form of Morris-
Thorne theory describes the necessity of traversable wormhole for time travel.

In order for the wormhole to be traversable so that aliens could visit Amballoreans and vice versa, exotic matter with negative energy density had to be used to stabilize the wormhole. The concepts of traversable wormholes and exotic matter were recently proposed by Kip Thorne, the famous physicist. The word “exotic” is used to describe hypothetical matter with negative energy density. The energy density in some regions of space can be negative—that is, less than that of vacuum energy, as demonstrated by the Casimir effect. Exotic matter is a strange beast with counter-intuitive properties such as moving in the opposite direction to the applied force. Dark matter is also known as exotic matter.

The distant civilization looked for such an exotic matter all over earth and homed in on kallu, a famous alcoholic beverage of Kerala. This alcoholic drink, also called “toddy,” is made in Kerala from coconut palm tree. Kallu was considered by aliens as the most exotic material on earth. It was therefore a no-brainer for the aliens to choose Kerala to build the traversable wormhole.

As for negative energy required of the exotic material in order for it to prevent the wormhole from collapsing onto itself, it was found that even though the energy levels of people consuming kallu generally increased dramatically, prompting them to do unimaginable things such as climbing the walls in total violation of gravitational force, it decreased for some people, because it drained energy from them, making them fall asleep on pothole-filled Kerala roads, increasing hurdles in already congested roads, and causing innumerable deaths.

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ROSANNA

One of the projects that the aliens put their mind to was neurosciences. Their embrace of 3D printing technology fell far short of understanding human brain, leave alone constructing one. The complexity of neuron connections forming the basis of memory was mindboggling, to say the least. Aliens tried to understand human brain, the most complex molecular machine. They gave instruction to Vareed to abduct prominent neuroscientists to Amballore House.

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It was while professor Rosanna in neurosciences was teaching her class at Amballore University that Eli walked into the room.

Rosanna was a professor of Neurosciences at Amballore University. Ranked first throughout her school years and university years, she was the pride of Amballore University. Her PhD thesis was published in prominent, refereed international journals. The books she wrote in the field carried so much authority that they were chosen as textbooks in universities throughout the world.

Her passion was research. She made news by her tireless attempts to create a model of human memory by incorporating patterns of neuron connections. She was motivated in pursuing this project, because this opened door for creating a model for human brain.