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The Time of Space



Madame Chartier sat on the table in front of the group of students, her legs crossed, with black nylons--beautiful legs.
"I am pleased with your progress. All of you. Yes, I maintain records, and I know what you've done, and what you are trying to do. We are going to begin a new phase of the project tomorrow. All of you will be testing fields generated my new materials which distort time."
"You have shown you can synthesize the materials needed to generate the fields, and the quality of your work impresses me. High quality materials are needed to generate stable fields."
"Each of you will be given a room in the lab underground, to generate a field from your material. To test the field for time distortion, you will put a precise mechanical clock in the field and look for a distortion."



The material Maria and Phillip were assigned to work with had a chemistry similar to an amethyst. When they generated a field, any energy that above the desired frequency gave off a purple light.



Almost everyone saw the clock change time. Madame Chartier was emphatic that those students who did not see their clocks change should NOT conclude that they had made mistakes. Once all the data was collected, they would see trends, and could explain the different degrees of time dilation. In one or two instances they might question an experiment--and they might assign several teams to try a particular experiment and look for comparable results.
The field Maria and Phillip developed was chosen for further research, not because it had shown the highest time dilation (it was the fourth highest of fifteen), but because of the purple light. Madame hypothesized that a captain of a starship would see purple light outside the ship if there was a problem, and this visual indicator might save lives.
"Safety is the important thing." She said. And it sounded like a law from God when she said it.


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