However, the most recent research about the end of the geological Pliocene Period that spanned from 520 million to 160 million years ago pointed out that the seawater once flooded the Valley of the Nile River. We can see the effect of the erosion caused by the direct contact from the lake waters formed in the Pleistocene, which was later carved as the body of the statue of Sphinx [1]. It means that the Sphinx in Egypt is one of the oldest monuments on the surface of the earth. In other words, that means the ancient civilization that once lived in our world existed much longer than the scientists have agreed upon.”
Marwan’s extremely controversial statement instantly sparked a clash of arguments. The studio amphitheater became tumultuous with voices of people talking with each other among the audience. They just realized that the debate has been sidetracked and tried to relate the latest statements to the topic at hand.
Sonia has listened to Professor Marwan’s statement, but of course, this was the key moment that made the show interesting. Sonia glanced at the program director, and then she speaks up with a high key to gain all the debate participants’ attention. “The audience seems curious, but let’s give it rest first. We’ll be back after these messages.”
When the commercials were broadcasted to the viewers at home, the noises became more tumultuous like a swarm of bees storming into the studio. Several minutes later after the commercial break, the debate commenced.
“Professor Marwan, let’s say the things you said were all true. But how can you explain the extinction of Ancient Egypt?” Sonia asked.
“The truth is, Ancient Egypt was not a nation,” Marwan clarified. “It was a world, the same world as the one we live in. The difference is in the period. We live in the New World period now, and Ancient Egypt is referred to as the Old World, the period before ours. Why do I associate Egypt with the whole world? Because first Ancient Egypt was the only known civilization to have existed in the Old World.
The 2,000-year-old calendar is more accurate than the Gregorian Calendar, as the claims go. And once again I say, I agree with those claims. Earth in the Old World period used the Lunar Calendar, and it explains that the Old World Ancient Egypt had a different climate than now. The Old World didn’t experience the same seasons as in the Gregorian Calendar, every century the duration of each season was very slightly shortened. In the end, there was a time when the climate in the New World was back to be like in the Old World Ancient Egypt age that knew no season!
The experts said that on that day when winter comes, the sun will rejoin the crossing point that was formed as the result of the total ecliptical alignment with the equator. The truth is, in the time of the Old World Ancient Egypt, that was the way the earth revolves around the sun. It was always on its ecliptical line! At that time, the Northern Hemisphere of the earth was not at the farthest point from the sun according to its axial tilt, because the earth was always in the isosceles triangle formation with the sun on its central point. The orbit of the earth against the sun was always parallel with the earth's equator, so a change of seasons in the Old World didn’t exist, unlike this current New World period.
So, my conclusion is, that the calculations in the Mayan Calendar are a record for the past Apocalypse, that is the transition from the Ancient Egypt World or the Old World to the current period called the New World, or you can say the Great Cycle. It’s NOT a prediction of the next Apocalypse in 2012, whether it’s the transition from the New World or the Great Cycle to whatever word it will be as its outcome, or the earth will be destroyed in the Black Hole and the Biblical New World will be created in its stead for the redeemed ones. That’s all I need to say.”
Hearing that supposedly epic conclusion, Kourtney, Abdelhak, Sonia, and everybody present in the studio amphitheater were dumbfounded. They couldn’t say a word and fell silent, all words of argument slipped off their tongues.
However, Sonia didn’t waste the show's duration. “So, I can also conclude that the Sphinx and the pyramids of Egypt, according to you, are the relics from the sole civilization of the Pliocene Age, Proto-Ancient Egypt! And then what caused the climate change at that time?” asked Sonia, who finally managed to grab a hold of her self-control quickly.
“Not all the pyramids, mind. Some, I don’t know how many were built by slaves in the Age of Pharaohs,” answered Marwan. “Anyway, that’s related to the core point of our discussion. The extreme and sudden climate change caused Proto-Ancient Egypt to be wiped out from this earth.
All this time I’m interested in a symbol that was generally found in the entire North and South America. Many legends in Indian Culture are connected with the Biblical legend of the Great Flood which involves a dragon. The main characteristic of its image is a long, snake-like creature often depicted as an object that a stone carver saw in the sky. Many unusual things were connected by prehistoric humans with a catastrophic disaster and, what else if it wasn’t presumed as a dragon in the sky?
Whenever we see a dragon, we surely can also see its long tail, the end of which is either crown-like or even horn-like. At least that’s the prehistoric people perceived from their imagination. According to mythology, there’s a story about a collective memory as the result of a catastrophe, including the Great Flood. What we see like a rainbow, they saw a dragon.”
“Professor Marwan, Sir,” Kourtney asked with irony and insult in his tone. “Don’t you know that dragons are merely a myth? How come mythology can be mixed with science curriculum?”
“Maybe you have forgotten your high school science,” added Abdelhak, the Egyptian Archaeologist.
Hearing that last line, the audience filled the hall with laughter.
==oOo==
That very fond memory ended like a stand-up – more like sit down – comedy show. However, there was a statement from Professor Marwan that was proven to be true. The year 2012 has passed and the Apocalypse predicted through profound scientific research didn’t happen.
Since that show, Sonia’s career skyrocketed. She continued to host exciting and fun science shows, which previously were tedious. Plus, she was also appointed as a Senior Reporter who covered great events and phenomenons in Indonesia and abroad, being at the same level as her peers, Michele in USA and Bazin in France.
However, Professor Marwan’s controversies didn’t stop there. In 2021, a team that was joined in the OPERA experiment announced a research result that neutrino or the neutron in an atom can go faster than the speed of light. The OPERA team stated that neutrino moves sixty nanoseconds faster than light. This discovery of course caused an uproar because Albert Einstein once said that no particle moves faster than light.
However, several researchers doubted that discovery and considered it impossible. Many people stated that there was a mistake, a mismatch in terms of the instruments used and the methodology for the research.
In response to that, other research teams then tried to do re-experiments to prove the validity of OPERA team’s result. One of the efforts was attempted by ICARUS team. They strengthened the validity of OPERA team’s research. Sandro Centro, the spokesman of ICARUS team stated that the speed of moving neutrino is equal to the speed of light, with a bit of deviation.
“Now we are one hundred percent sure that the speed of light is the speed of neutrino,” revealed Centro as broadcasted by BBC.
However, at the same time, there was a more surprising and vital statement. A duet, Professor Marwan Batubara, and Professor Made Oka have shaken the world with the result of their research in a laboratory in Jakarta.
Instead of breaking the speed record of light, they revolutionary corrected the atomic concept that the subatom neutron is not a particle, but a non-particle. This result of the further research funded by Reign Foundation stated that neutron is a natural recorder. It records the whole life in the universe since its birth. Even the neutron inside every person has traces of each individual’s life.
Of course this statement was more controversial than Team OPERA’s. But the duet didn’t stop there. They materialized that their research result in form of the time machine, a derivative of which was trending and caused a hype fever around the world today. When other physics experts were still confused and muddled by the mysterious behavior of neutrons, Professor Marwan and the Engineer, Doctor Made Oka used neutrons as a time machine.
Sonia has heard about all of it, but it has been years since the last time she had a chance to contact Professor Marwan. And now, the reporter saw a rare opportunity and she wouldn’t miss it for the world.
Then how about Marwan and his family in there? At what age they are now? Said Sonia in her mind.
Of course, she didn’t know that Marwan’s family only went back thirty years ago, as the Economy Class Family Package limited the timeline to a century or less. More than that, especially a too-distant timeline would take more energy and cost much more.
==oOo==
On the other hand, Marwan almost forgot about Sonia who still waited for him outside as he and his family ended their time traveling session.
Marwan liked Sonia because she was one of the few people willing to listen to his thoughts. Marwan realized that he was not popular among scientists because he often contradicted them, mixing his conscience, religious or even mythical knowledge, thoughts, and feelings in his arguments. It worked almost every time, but it was beyond the scientists’ logic and most of them refused to believe him.
“How was the ride? Was it fun?” Sonia asked after she and her cameraman spotted Marwan and immediately approached him.
Marwan combed his hair with his fingers and then answered, “It was marvelous!” Satisfaction ringed true in his tone.
And then Sonia approached Marwan’s wife and asked for her permission for a quick interview with her husband. Luckily, Marwan’s wife didn’t mind. Instead, she was glad to have a chance to accompany her children to shop for merchandise as planned. It was because unusually that kind of activity made her husband easily get bored.
A while later, Sonia talked with Marwan about the topic she was about to ask him. After Marwan has agreed to the points for the questions, Sonia signaled her crew to start broadcasting.
“Professor Marwan, as an expert on Nuclear, Particle, and Quantum Physics, you are known to be the one who opposed the time travel project by InterTime Inc. the most!” InterTime Inc. was the competitor of Tunnel Educations Inc. and conducted a different kind of time travel experience altogether. InterTime applied a more extreme approach than Tunnel, it seemed.
“I think we need to clarify something here!” Marwan interjected, taking his glasses off. “I am not an anti-time travel, as you can see by me being here. But what I strongly oppose was the plan to go to Proto-Ancient Egypt, the Old World by InterTime!”
“Because the Old World is not a place for a picnic!” He added with a surge of emotion in his tone.
“But according to our sources, every project is being put into motion!” Sonia argued. “They’re not going to go to Atlantis, but instead they want to go to the older Pliocene era.” Sonia waited for Marwan’s response on hearing this piece of information.
“Yes, I heard about that too,” Marwan retorted. “The Atlantean Age came after the Pliocene Period, but the common thing in both places was that they existed in the Old World, which has been driven into extinction in an apocalypse! And if they want to meddle with fate, they will invite chaos and danger!”
“What kind of danger the Pliocene Period can present to us, Professor?” inquired Sonia with utmost curiosity.Marwan put the glasses on his hand and back on his face. “Proto-Ancient Egypt perished in a catastrophic natural disaster,” Marwan answered. “So, going there is very dangerous! No one knows when the apocalypse happened at that time. That is not a picnic, but suicide!”“Isn’t going to the Pliocene Era it will prove that your theory is right?” Sonia retorted. “You concluded that the Sphinx and some of the pyramids in Egypt are from the Pliocene Era, and the people in this era have advanced technology, that is proven by the skill to build those magnificent sites.” Marwan took the bait from Sonia, who excelled in making other people talk. The professor’s tall and a bit chubby figure got tensed. His body was not quite straight but somewhat sturdy, signifying a scientist who spent more time on the field than in a laboratory.“The extreme, secret, and unpublished part that this kind
As he was heading back home in his car, Made Oka decided to join the search-and-rescue team after his wife, Ratna persuaded and kind of pushed him into it.“Honey,” persuaded Ratna when they finally came back to and again left ChronoTours building. “Just don’t regard Mr. Reign, but please think of Carol and Suranto. We also have Arnie, right? Just think, how would we react if it’s our daughter who went missing?”Made was reminded again of his daughter who had just grown into a teenager, so his heart melted. Anyway, they knew Amanda since she was little too.He reminisced about when they were just married and didn’t have a child yet. At that time they still lived in Los Angeles, California, and were neighbors with Suranto’s family. So, they frequently went to Suranto’s house to help them nurse Amanda.After Made quit Mr. Reign’s employment, he was recruited by Tunnel Education and continued the ChronoTours time travel ride project in Tunnel. However, the patent right still belonged to
Marwan and Made Oka smiled and nodded. This young man could appreciate other people’s hard work. “For that very reason, we can only travel back in time, is that right?” asked Herman again. “Precisely.” Made Oka nodded promptly, confirming Herman’s statement. “Anyway, we don’t have either people or things from the future,” he said in a not too serious tone. “If there is one, we can do time travel to the future.” “And then, how can a human body enter the quantum realm, an entity or realm that consists of neutrino structures?” Herman asked again, still curious. This time Marwan didn’t give an immediate answer. He only exchanged glances with Made Oka who was equally surprised by Herman’s critical question. Marwan dug deep into his thought first, trying to arrange the words so the young lad could understand the answer. “In principle, a human body has a neutrino structure too. With the help of electromagnetic field, we modify the human atomic structures and synchronize it with the inten
Marwan blocked his way and said, “Hey, don’t do it!” but the Dutchman sought T-Rex’s attention more instead.“Yoy!” yelled Jhaansen van der Jagt. Of course, Herman got frightened to death! But Bill said to Marwan casually, “T-Rex has bad hearing and eyesight.”However, Marwan didn’t get close to being content, especially when the T-Rex came toward them to find out who or what disturbed its meal. The ground Marwan was stepping on shook hard by T-Rex’s quaking footsteps and the trees bent by the coming terror.Marwan was so near to death’s door as the T-Rex’s jaws were right above his head. Its nostrils widened and narrowed, sniffing at Marwan. The T-Rex’s jaws polished with the blood of its prey already made Marwan thought that he was its next prey.Suddenly, Jhaansen leaped out to shoo the T-Rex away. “Shoo!” He bellowed at the top of his voice.Startled, the T-Rex let out a deafening roar. Strangely, it ran away haphazardly as though being intimidated by a greater force. “Shoo! Shoo
“No!” Marwan argued. “From birth until a teenager, their body biorhythm is the same as us. But, when entering young adulthood, they will stay young as immortals do,” said Marwan, patting Herman’s back to remind him that the team has moved on.“Hey, don’t leave me behind!” Herman ran after Mr. Bill.“Herman, don’t daydream,” Marwan called. “Let’s go inside!”Herman heard Marwan’s call, but he was looking at the building his team entered into. This building was shaped like a gigantic tree trunk, so it was as though being harmonically blended with its surrounding nature. The building was so high, that its apex was as though invisible, covered by a cluster of thin clouds so it looked like a gigantic snow-covered tree.Without lingering any longer, Herman rushed to catch up.Moments later, Herman stood inside a room with a very high dome ceiling. Every side was decorated with human-shaped statues more than ten meters high. And the statues were still too low to reach the ceiling on this flo
“Let me continue,” Marwan cut in. Made Oka smiled and then signaled to go ahead. “The climate change happened because Earth was tilted northwards and southwards in its orbit against the sun,” said Marwan. “Everything begins since the Great Flood in Noah’s time. The tilting movement of the planet from south to north caused climate change. Seasons became shorter by centuries.” “So, the cause of all that is a comet?” Made Oka concluded. Marwan nodded and agreed with his good friend’s conclusion. “I didn’t mind if this zig-zagged orbit theory contrasts with the science that stated that Earth was tilted against the sun since its conception,” said Made Oka. “It’s the opposite of your description about the Lunar Year that began since the Day of the Solar Eclipse, signaled that there will be a moon shadow in the west. At that time, it’s supposed to be a total eclipse in a certain place on the Earth's equator. The occurrence of penumbra or partial eclipse also becomes proof that your theor
Pathetic! Herman cursed in his thoughts as he sat down on a nearby bench to rest his feet a bit, charge his smartphone by putting it into the slot next to him and plan his next move. They are just a bunch of slow, decrepit old men!Herman reminisced about the team he left behind and Made Oka who rebuked him when he said, “I think I can try with their internet. I’ve tried that yesterday and it worked. I interpreted their language through the binary…”No wonder Herman was upset by the limitations set by Made’s team, which, according to him, was too protective for their good. The team did manage to move stealthily and safely all the time until they returned with more neutrino samples, but they would never find Amanda that way.Only by trying a few things, I know that the internet system functions here are easy to decipher and understand, said Herman to himself. I understand those scientists and technicians don’t have the skill to hack, decipher, tweak and synchronize internet codes, but
Having dinner in that diner, he sat with others. While eating, he even thought of Amanda, whether she was well fed or starving. Whether she was healthy or sick, happy or sad, content or miserable. But maybe, as fellow Millenials and as Marx Reign's granddaughter, she would much likely survive with her resources and resourcefulness, he hoped. Now that the cover-ups were done, it was time to spend some of the unlimited ankh credits for good use. As Herman had observed and learned how to drive a hover scooter from his teammate, he decided to buy a hoverbike from a nearby showroom. Naturally, he picked the sporty type. Seeing Herman's shabby looks, the showroom salesman didn't talk much to him. He only looked at the buyer's choice, typed something on the electronic data capture or EDC payment device, and displayed the credit amount and QR code on it to Herman. Herman scanned the code and paid the amount due, his eyes widened a bit. The salesman nodded and smiled a bit, said thank you, an