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    The Seeker
    The Seeker
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    The Seeker

    By John Dalessio

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    The Universe is all of matter, time, space and energy including galaxies, stars and planets. The actual size of the universe is not known. It is constantly expanding and may well be infinite. Over the centuries astronomical observations have led to many discoveries including Worm Holes and distant galaxies composed of billions of stars. Some 13 billion years ago, theory had it that all of the matter and energy of space was at a single point. The Big Bang was an explosion of space within itself with all the particles of matter traveling away from each other expanding endlessly in every direction, thus creating what we now know as the Universe.

    Ever since childhood, John had a fascination with the Universe, often staring in wonder at the vast bright star studded sky. He often imagined piloting a space ship through the dark reaches of space, exploring the planets in our solar system and beyond. John Alessi was a child of the 1950’s when space travel was relegated to science fiction comic books.

    John was an avid reader and remembered reading about the first liquid fueled rocket launched by Robert H. Goddard from his Aunt Effie’s farm in Massachusetts 1926. It was 4-feet high and reached an altitude of 41 feet. A rebuilt German V-2 rocket was launched from White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico May of 1946. This rocket was the progenitor of all modern rockets as it reached the edge of space at an altitude of 50 miles.

    Fast forward to April of 1961 when Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space. In May of 1961 President Kennedy challenged the country to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. From that date forward the space race was on between Russia and the United States. Astronauts from the U.S. and Russia walked in space. Unmanned space craft explored Mars and Venus. In July 1969, Neil Armstrong and “Buzz” Aldrin became the first men on the moon. The Soviet space station Salyut 1 was launched in 1971 followed by the U.S. space station Skylab in 1972. From the early 1970’s through 1997 space probes flew to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Venus photographing and mapping.

    From the year 2000 events in space continued. The space craft NEAR in 2000 transmitted images of the asteroid Eros, then landed on the surface of Eros in 2001. In 2003 the space shuttle Columbia broke up on re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere resulting in the deaths of seven astronauts. Space shuttle Discovery was launched with seven astronauts aboard in 2005, America’s first manned space shot since the 2003 Columbia disaster.

    All of these continuing events occurring in space from the earliest days had a dramatic and lasting effect on John as he grew to adulthood. His interest in the Universe and space travel would re-shape his future.

    From the very beginning of recorded history to modern day, people on planet Earth worshipped a god-like entity. Religions were created by man to worship a single God-like or many Gods. Many of these religions believed that an omnipotent being, or a God created the Earth, the Universe, and mankind.

    John was never very religious. He grew up questioning the origin of creation and the existence of God as written in scriptures by man. He came to think the existence of God could be confirmed or invalidated by seeking out life on other planets in the far reaches of outer space. A major breakthrough in space ship propulsion technology would permit John’s ship, the Seeker, to travel at nearly the speed of light. Travel to other galaxies would take mere hours instead of years or lifetimes. John hoped he would seek out the truths of creation, man and religion that haunted him since childhood.

    When compared to the existence of the vast endless Universe of continuing creation, John thought there was something more . . . . . .

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Dalessio
    Release dateNov 24, 2016
    ISBN9781370898916
    The Seeker
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    John Dalessio

    John Dalessio, a Brigantine, NJ resident, has always had a desire to be a writer. John was formerly a successful new car dealer with three dealerships and eight franchises during his 47 years in the automobile industry. Currently retired and at age 77, he has fulfilled his desire to write by having authored and published his first book, a Science Fiction adventure novel, “The Seeker.” He completed and published his second novel, a sequel, "The Universe Revisited." Currently John recently completed writing and publishing his third book, an autobiography, "An Automobile Odyssey". When John isn't writing, he can be found in Brigantine, NJ with his wife, riding his Harley, playing men's tennis doubles or boating.

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      The Seeker - John Dalessio

      INTRODUCTION

      The Universe is all of matter, time, space and energy including galaxies, stars and planets. The actual size of the universe is not known. It is constantly expanding and may well be infinite. Over the centuries astronomical observations have led to many discoveries of distant galaxies composed of billions of stars.

      Ever since childhood, John had a fascination with the Universe, often staring in wonder at the vast bright star studded sky. He often imagined piloting a space ship through the dark reaches of space, exploring the planets in our solar system and beyond. John Alessi was a child of the 1950’s when space travel was relegated to science fiction comic books. John was an avid reader and remembered reading about the first liquid fueled rocket launched by Robert H. Goddard from his Aunt Effie’s farm in Massachusetts 1926. It was 4-feet high and reached an altitude of 41 feet. He recalled a rebuilt German V-2 rocket was launched from White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico May of 1946. This rocket was the progenitor of all modern rockets as it reached the edge of space at an altitude of 50 miles.

      Fast forward to April of 1961 when Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space. In May of 1961 President Kennedy challenged the country to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. From that date forward the space race was on between Russia and the United States. Astronauts from the U.S. and Russia walked in space.

      Unmanned space craft explored Mars and Venus. In July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men on the moon. The Soviet space station Salyut 1 was launched in 1971 followed by the U.S. space station Skylab in 1972. From the early 1970’s through 1997 space probes flew to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Venus photographing and mapping.

      From the year 2000 events in space continued. The space craft NEAR in 2000 transmitted images of the asteroid Eros, then landed on its surface in 2001. In 2003 the space shuttle Columbia broke up on re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere resulting in the deaths of seven astronauts. Space shuttle Discovery was launched with astronauts aboard in 2005, America’s first manned space shot since the 2003 Columbia disaster. All of these continuing events occurring in space from the earliest days had a dramatic and lasting effect on John as he grew to adulthood. His interest in the Universe and space travel would re-shape his future.

      John was never very religious. Though raised Catholic, he challenged the existence of a God with man having been made in God’s image, as recorded in scriptures. The religions of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Taoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism all depict differences in a God or a creator. When compared to the existence of the vast endless Universe of continuing creation, John thought there was something more . . . . . .

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      WORMHOLE

      Wormhole:" a topological feature of spacetime that combines space and time into a single continuum. Space is interpreted as being three-dimensional: length (or depth), width, and height, and time representing the fourth dimension. The fourth dimension of time is not a dimension per se, but rather a phenomenon of matter in motion through the three dimensions (or space time), a construct called the space-time continuum.

      An anomaly in outer space, a wormhole has at least two openings connected by a tunnel. Theoretically, matter in space can travel from one opening to the other by passing through the tunnel. The tunnel of the wormhole is a dimension of space and time – so called hyperspace and is filled with negative energy. It is believed that any object entering and traveling though this rotating fabric of space might emerge in a different part of the universe and possibly in a different time altogether.

      Professor Eric Alessi, of M.I.T., theorized that wormholes connect two points in space and time. The professor, an Astrophysicist spent years studying wormholes. He documented their occurrence and locations as far out as his adaptive-optics 200-inch telescope would allow.

      He reasoned that a ship entering the mouth of a wormhole would be sucked in and then attain tremendous velocity, approaching the speed of light before exiting, thus creating a shortcut through time and space. If his theory proved correct, a ship traveling through a wormhole would not only attain light speed velocity, but would exit the wormhole in a different part of the universe. The distance traveled might be measured in light years or even hundreds of light years, depending on where the wormhole was situated in space. This physical shortcut by traveling through hyper-space in the wormhole might last only a matter of minutes, but would reduce the amount of time an astronaut would have to spend traveling in space by years or lifetimes.

      Wormholes were not the only thing that the Professor spent his many years studying. He had a profound interest in space travel. After years of research, he had just reached completion of a totally new concept of spaceship propulsion.

      The Professor created a propulsion system so revolutionary and technologically advanced, it would make obsolete the present day rocket technology used by NASA.

      The space ship Seeker, hurtling through the dark reaches of outer space was rapidly approaching the planet Pluto, the smallest, coldest, most distant planet from Earth’s sun in the solar system. The pilot, John Alessi (Professor Eric’s father), slowed the ship to enter Pluto’s orbit that would take the Seeker to the first known wormhole in our solar system.

      Entering the wormhole(if Professor Eric’s theory was correct), would enable the Seeker to make the jump to deep space then on to the Andromeda Galaxy some 2 million light years distant. There among the billions of stars that comprise it, John hoped to discover planets that supported extraterrestrial life.

      John was apprehensive about entering a wormhole as he would be the first person from Earth in the history of space travel to even see one up close. After all, the concept of flying a ship into, through and out of a wormhole had never before been attempted. Many experts theorized that the wormhole rotated at such a speed, that any object entering it might be damaged or obliterated before it could pass through the tunnel and exit the other side.

      Traveling at nearly the speed of light wasn’t possible with existing rocket technology, but with the remarkable discovery of gravitational magnetic force propulsion by Professor Eric Alessi, John’s space craft would attain speeds only written about in science fiction novels.

      The Seeker was currently hurtling through the vacuum of space at an incredible 67,000,000 miles per hour, about 1/10th the speed of light.

      John reflected back on that day barely a month ago when his son excitedly phoned him to announce his break-through in the field of magnetic propulsion. Professor Eric wanted his father to meet with him immediately to see a demonstration of the completed working model of the engine he had developed.

      As John drove to the M.I.T. Desert Research Station, near Hanksville, Utah to meet with his son Eric, his thoughts drifted back to an earlier time when he was a boy at his home in Penns Grove, NJ. John would lay awake at night, unable to sleep, thinking about the universe and wondering if anyone was out there. He was ten years old as he recalled the many nights he climbed out of his bedroom window onto the adjoining roof to sit in silence and gaze at the stars. In 1950 the air was clean and fresh and the skies were crystal clear at night. The stars appeared so close, John felt he could reach out and touch them.

      John remembered his childhood comic book hero, Superman. Superman could fly anywhere effortlessly even in the cold or vacuum of outer space. Wouldn’t it be fantastic he thought, if he, like his comic book hero, could just leap from that roof in a single bound and forever go flying among the stars and exploring the Universe. He would also sit there for the longest time gazing at the stars and wondering what mysteries he might encounter in the cold dark vastness of outer space.

      John would also dream about flying - not in a plane or space ship, but really flying, just lifting off and cruising, arms outstretched, legs straight and tight together.

      He would soar up into the star-studded night sky, the wind in his face, way above the telephone poles and electric wires on his street, looking down at the rooftop on his parent’s home. He would then go into a dive toward the ground, and suddenly would awake. What a rush that was, if only a dream!

      John also pondered the history of the origin of Earth and humanity. He wasn’t convinced about The Big Bang or Darwin’s theory of evolution or the biblical versions of God recorded by the many religions of Earth. He felt that there had to be a better explanation to account for the different cultures, religions and creatures that co-exist on planet earth. The true origin of civilization, he reasoned, might be found on other planets, in

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