The Experiment

Prologue

2560 BC

Giza Plateau, Egypt

Two hundred men stood in a circle around a huge flat piece of rock, its polished surface reflecting the unrelenting desert sun. In a round cavity in the center of the rock was a bowl-like depression with a diameter of one meter and depth of 15 centimeters. Another block of stone had been maneuvered into this cavity, a slab of limestone weighing at least 50 tons.

The Pharaoh Cheops (Khufu) himself watched in the background as his vizier and royal seal bearer, Hemiunu, entered the circle, surrounded by a cadre of guards and high priests, and stood before the stone. Hemiunu looked upon the stone proudly. In his hands, he held a papyrus drawing of the architectural masterpiece he had designed for his uncle, the Pharaoh, laid out in a grid format that was now duplicated with lines drawn into the sand just beyond the circle. He closed his eyes, as if in prayer, and then raised his arms to the skies.

The priests circling the stone sat down, except for 19 men situated at equal spaces around the circle. Thirteen of these men held in their hands a trumpet-like instrument, which they pointed in the direction of the stone slab and rose to their lips. The other six men, also situated around the circumference of the circle in equal distances, held big drums fixed on mounts positioned towards the stone slabs. One of the priests signaled with his arm, and the men began to play in unison - creating a rising monotone of sound, a pulsing harmonic that literally began to shake the very earth beneath their feet.

The other priests, still seated, began to chant out loud in unison, their voices rising and joining the horns and drums, increasing their tempo. As they continued to chant and sound the horns and beat the drums, synched in a haunting and powerful sonic phase, the limestone slab which Hemiunu and his guards stood before began to vibrate, at first almost imperceptibly, then greater and greater still, swaying and rocking side to side. As the speed of the drumming and the intensity of the horns increased and resonated through the air, the slab shook against the cavity it lay upon, as if trying to break free from its earthbound anchor.

Hemiunu’s guards backed away in awe from the shuddering stone, leaving the architect standing alone, his eyes closed, arms stretched up towards the sun. The men watched in wonder as the limestone slab slowly began to levitate, rising off the ground. A loud and deep resonant sound came from the rock itself, as if joining in the choir of the instruments.

Several of the men stepped forward and, with little physical effort, used nothing but a simple block and tackle to leverage and guide the stone slab to the place upon the grid Hemiunu had directed them to. Suddenly the horns and drums became quieter, the chanting died to a murmur, the resonant tones softened, and the stone came down with a thunderous report which shook the very ground beneath their feet.

In five days, they created the Great Pyramid at Giza.

1524 AD

South Wales

They stood in a circle around the fire, seven in all, dressed in long black robes with hoods covering their faces. From the folds of the material, they watched the flames leap from the pit higher and higher. As if hypnotized, they began to sway back and forth, and sing a distinct single tone. As their seven voices blended and rose in volume, the tone took on a bizarre harmonic quality that literally vibrated the walls around the darkened cave, sending loose dirt and rock crashing to the ground. They sang louder and louder still, and the walls and the cave ceiling rumbled as if an earthquake was occurring.

For over a thousand years before them, the creative power of sound and resonance was discovered by those seeking to understand the most fundamental structure of reality. The fact that nothing was solid, that everything vibrated to its own frequency, drove their quest to control that creative power, and use it to bring about a kind of wisdom that would be so powerful and disruptive to the authority figures of the day, it would be hidden in symbol, in image, in ritual. Even now, as they stood in the cave, they saw the symbols and glyphs that had been carved there during rituals long before any of them walked this reality. Fire. Air. Water. Earth. Mathematical ratios for the laws of the cosmos. Mysterious number sequences and pictographs. Esoteric and occult symbols that only had meaning to those who understood the ways of the Universe, who could see into the depths of the cosmos and yet also peer into the subatomic world where all form arose from.

This ritual was only for those who understood that before there was light, there was sound...and that just as sound and resonance could create, it could also destroy, when in the wrong hands. Their job was to make sure it never got into them.

They sustained the harmonic as they began to move slowly in single file now around the fire, which was now an inferno sending tongues of orange and red leaping into the air in all directions. But they were not afraid of the flames, as they circled the fire, all the while holding that perfect harmonic, as if not one of them needed to stop for a breath. There was no time to breathe. In fact, in that moment, there was no such thing as time at all. The sound resonated off the cave walls, echoing and bouncing and becoming even more pronounced and powerful.

The louder they sang, the more the cave shuddered from the frequency of the sound, and suddenly the walls that surrounded them were no longer solid, and they were walking through them...into other worlds.

1895 AD

New York, New York

“Serbian Genius Uses Resonance to Travel in Time?”

   “In 1895, while conducting research with his step-up transformer, Nikola Tesla had his first indications that time and space could be influenced by using highly charged, rotating magnetic fields. Part of this revelation came about from Tesla's experimentation with radio frequencies and the transmission of electrical energy through the atmosphere. Tesla's simple discovery would, years later, lead to the infamous Philadelphia Experiment and the Montauk time travel projects. But even before these highly top-secret military programs came about, Tesla made some fascinating discoveries on the nature of time and the real possibilities of time travel. 

   With these experiments in high-voltage electricity and magnetic fields, Tesla discovered that time and space could be breached, or warped, creating a "doorway" that could lead to other time frames. But with this monumental discovery, Tesla also discovered, through personal experience, the very real dangers inherent with time travel.

  Tesla's first brush with time travel came in March 1895. A reporter for the New York Herald wrote on March 13 that he came across the inventor in a small café, looking shaken after being hit by 3.5 million volts. "I am afraid," said Tesla, "that you won't find me a pleasant companion tonight. The fact is I was almost killed today. The spark jumped three feet through the air and struck me here on the right shoulder. If my assistant had not turned off the current instantly in might have been the end of me."

  Tesla, on contact with the resonating electromagnetic charge, found himself outside his time-frame reference. He reported that he could see the immediate past - present and future, all at once. But he was paralyzed within the electromagnetic field, unable to help himself. His assistant, by turning off the current, released Tesla before any permanent damage was done. A repeat of this very incident would occur years later during the notorious Philadelphia Experiment. Unfortunately, the sailors involved were left outside their time-frame reference for too long with disastrous results.

  Tesla’s secret time travel experiments would continue on in the hands of others who were not as concerned with humanity as Tesla. We are left with rumors and speculations on who may have become the heirs of Tesla’s research – hopefully, someday these secrets will be revealed once and for all.”