Art Prompt Writing Contest # 7 - Divine Energy

The windshield wipers of the car extracted the thick fluid that fell from the sky, “what is this?” the physicist Peter Williams asked himself as he slowed down the vehicle; he was on his was to see his family, to protect them from danger. A gray rain fell from the sky and violent waves crashed against the coast, the sea and the clouds had left behind their blue and had turned completely gray. The strong wind moved the car of the young scientist as he saw something strange on the sidewalks of the avenue, at first he thought that they were garbage bags, but then he realized that they were dead bodies that laid on the ground, puddles of blood ran like rivers through the fall of the dark rain. Peter pressed the brakes and turned the steering wheel as fast as he could to return, the car took several turns sliding in the thin liquid layer of the road; he could not control the vehicle and the car was overturned with the wheels up. Peter managed to leave the car and was horrified at the sight of his friend Shankar lying dead on the floor, his body in front of a huge sign written in blood. Peter started to suffocate.

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"I have discovered the secret of dark matter!" Peter said in a loud voice, showing a series of mathematical equations on the screen of the conference room located in the science institute, some were surprised by his statement, others murmured and left almost immediately, there were even some that laughed; at the end of his exhibition nobody believed him, only his pupil, the young student Shankar Ramanujan who was doing his doctoral thesis in the field of dark matter, "do not worry Shankar, sooner or later you will un-derstand that many of the theories established in the theory of cords are wrong or in-complete. We must remember what Galileo said: the senses deceive us," Peter told his faithful pupil, "reality is something difficult to understand, as reality, in the field of Physics and mathematics can not be seen, but it can be felt or perceived as something sublime," Shankar looked at him convinced of his tutor words, he admired Peter almost as a God.

After two years, the scientific community had to recognize that Peter Williams's theories were correct, laureated with the Nobel prize, he was leading a project in a new accelerator built in space, one that would be millions of kilometers larger than the old CERN on earth, in this colossal machine they would be able to produce dark matter and extract its energy, something that was thought impossible to achieve. That energy could be controlled and stored in giant capacitors and then used for human consumption.

All the media together with the social networks were waiting for the start of the new accelerator, the order of the ignition would be given by Peter from the earth and a group of scientists in space would press the switch that would make it possible to create the dark material and extract from it the divine energy, with that name Peter had baptized it before birth, "Today will be the great day in which we’ll all see the birth of reality expressed in divine energy," the proud scientist said in a press conference before the famous event.

In a hotel room, a disappointed Shankar Ramanujan was following the event through the internet and social media. He had not been able to finish his PhD in physics, after many discussions with his tutor he concluded that Peter had always been wrong in his theory, and what everyone recognized as correct, was a big mistake, "the reality that Professor Williams talks about is not what he thinks he is... Our reality is a different one, his experiment will end in a great destruction that will expand through the galaxy and the whole universe," said Shankar to a whole scientific community who saw Shankar as a researcher that was submerged in false beliefs that were distorted by his religion of Hindu origin. "He is the prophet of disaster," his former tutor mocked him behind his back.

The Nobel Prize in physics Peter Williams finally started the operation of the particle accelerator, the cradle of the most intense and powerful energy ever seen by man. The scientists flipped the switch and suddenly the monitors stopped transmitting the images from the space central. An uncertainty and concern invaded everyone, they did not know what had happened, a few minutes later Shankar recieved a message on his cell phone saying, "something happened to the accelerator". A few minutes later he got another message with an image: "Look at the sky," Shankar got up from the bed and ran the blinds from the window of the hotel room and saw that everyone was looking at the sky, he looked up and appreciated that there was another sun whose light was more intense than usual.

He left the room, went down and as he was leaving the hotel everything had darkened, vortices began to form in the clouds that had turned gray, "I told you, it is happening now!" Shankar shouted desperate, he knew that his observations in Peter's theory were correct. He took his vehicle and tried to go to the institute where he knew his detractor was, but in the middle of the road near the coast he saw that the sea changed color, a rain of dark and thick dark liquid began to fall off from the strange clouds, Shankar began to suffocate. He stopped his vehicle and climbed out of it as if searching for air, he fell on the sidewalk and saw that like him several people were drowning and bleeding incessantly through their pores, he managed to stand up, he knew that just as everyone he would die. He wrote on a sign with his own blood, as he solemnly left a message for Peter, "Welcome to reality".