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  Chapter 16

  A week after reading the BBC article, Hast made his next lengthy flight from Erbil international Airport and met Mark again but this time in New Delhi, India, one of the greenest capitals in the world. Upon their arrival at Padsha Mali’s location in a small town south of the city, they saw a long line of people in front of a building which looked like a recently built holy☼house. Guards and many staff members were standing around its doors taking names and regulating the meetings with the world renowned faith-healer, Padsha Mali.

  In the queue people from all races and backgrounds, rich people, poor people, and even some high profile people all could be seen as they spoke different languages and wore different clothes. The locals in this small town started getting upset from the sudden surge of people from around the world coming to their town. Hotels were filled so some patients were sleeping on the pavements near Padsha Mali’s holy☼house or staying in the queue for days. Mark pretended to have cancer so that he and Hast could meet with the faith-healer in person. After registering his name in the queue and waiting for two days, their turn had finally come. Mark went on to lay down and let the faith-healer scrub his face with his wet hands and read passages from the holy§cript. When he finished, both Hast and Mark came out of the building and Mark showed Hast a small tube with some water inside it.

  “What is that?” Hast asked.

  “I stole it from the small bucket that Padsha Mali immersed his hands,” Mark said.

  “So sneaky! I didn’t see you do that,” Hast said.

  “That is what I’m trained to do,” Mark said.

  “So do you think there is something in the water that cures cancer?” Hast asked.

  “I don’t know but I have a friend who is a genius biochemist. Her lab works on finding better cures for cancer so she might find something in this water,” Mark said.

  Before coming to New Delhi, Mark remembered Dr. Aabha, a previous friend of his at Oxford University. She was a clever biochemist working on finding new treatments for cancer. Fortunately, Mark realized that she had travelled back to New Delhi and he thought this would be a good opportunity to visit her and ask her opinion on the faith-healer’s abilities. ‘She most have heard about Padsha Mali and must be frustrated that a faith-healer was doing a better job than her right now,’ Mark thought to himself.

  Hast and Mark took a train to New Delhi to meet with Dr. Aabha and test the water sample in her lab.

  “What do you think about Padsha?” Mark asked Hast while on their way to New Delhi.

  “Well, I don’t like the literal interpretations of the holy§cript, but this man looks exactly like the Antichrist of my nightmares,” Hast said. “However, since he doesn’t claim that he is God I still can’t say he is the Antichrist.”

  “Do you think he is planning to have more followers before declaring himself as God?” Mark said.

  “That is what I fear,” Hast replied.

  “If he looks so obviously like the Antichrist of your prophecies, how do you think he could deceive people into worshiping him?” Mark asked.

  “That is what I ask myself too, as no one following Abrahamic faith will fall for this fraud if he declares himself as a god,” Hast said.

  “But if he is the Young Nimrod, then maybe he is trying to use optogenetics to control people’s minds,” Mark guessed.

  “That is what I fear,” Hast said.

  ***

  After a half hour they arrived at Dr. Aabha’s lab, and after the initial greetings, she took the water sample from Mark eagerly and asked them to wear a special lab coat if they wanted to come to the lab and take a look while she tested the water.

  “It will take only a couple hours,” she said.

  “That is quick! I thought it would take days,” Mark said.

  “We are in 2060 not 2050 anymore. Things are much faster,” Dr. Aabha replied.

  “Then, I think we will wait outside till you finish,” Mark said as he felt too lazy to change his clothes and wear all the gloves, head covers, and plastic coats.

  A few minutes later, Mark received a phone call. He apologized to Hast and went to an isolated corridor and talked for around 10 minutes with someone called Agent Roger from Interpol. The agent informed Mark that Prof. Sanders seemed to have changed his communication habits suddenly after their last meeting with him, and it appeared as though he was hiding something! Mark asked the agent to monitor Ericson Sanders and his secretary more closely. After the phone call, he came back to Hast.

  The laboratory building had a nice cafeteria near the reception so Hast and Mark decided to have a drink while waiting for the results. After waiting for two hours Dr. Aabha came out from the lab very excited as if she had discovered something very important!

  “You can’t believe what I found in the water!” she said. “A genetically modified virus that selectively attacks cancer cells.”

  Dr. Aabha showed them an image of two slides showing two clusters of cells. One cluster was composed of normal cells and the other cluster was cancerous cells. When a drop of the water which contained the genetically modified virus was added, the virus attacked and destroyed the cancerous cells while leaving the normal cells unharmed.

  Dr. Aabha herself was working to develop a type of immunotherapy against cancerous cells by artificially selecting the T-cells outside the human body. She was trying to induce random mutations in these immunity cells then selecting those which were attracted selectively to the cancer cells but not the normal cells. Her latest results were quite good, but it was in no way as good as this virus which seemed to have been genetically engineered to perfection to attack the cancerous cells only.

  “I have read most of the recently published scientific papers and have never found anyone talking about this virus.” She added, “This is something completely new and revolutionary, so how come a faith-healer has had access to such technology?”

  “Maybe he is a scientist,” Hast said.

  “From our investigations, we couldn’t find any information that Padsha Mali had received any higher education. He was pretty much a normal faith-healer and only recently obtained this cancer healing ability,” Mark said.

  “Then maybe another scientist is helping him,” Hast suggested.

  After a period of discussion with Dr. Aabha about why a scientist would hide such an impressive invention and only reveal it through faith healing, Hast was pretty much sure about an answer he believed in; Mark didn’t want to reveal more information in front of Dr. Aabha. They thanked her for her help and then went out for a walk to discuss the implications of their findings.

  “Why did you think a scientist is helping Padsha Mali?” Mark asked Hast as they came out from Aabha’s lab.

  “Well, I’ve thought that the false prophet is an AI-robot who works under the Antichrist’s command to lure people toward the deception, but now I think the false prophet could be a scientist who is helping Padsha Mali, the Antichrist, to lure people into loving him and believing in him through cancer healing,” Hast claimed.

  “So in this case Young Nimrod could be the scientist who is helping Padsha Mali,” Mark suggested.

  “That is what I think,” Hast said.

  Mark recalled the recent call from Interpol moments ago which found evidence that Prof. Sanders was hiding something. ‘Could he be the scientist Hast is talking about?’ he said to himself. Mark was impressed that Hast’s prediction about the faith-healer had come true; this was not the first time for Mark to find that his investigations converged with the prophecies of Abrahamic faith!

  “By the way, you said Abraham told Nimrod that ∞Illuhim∞ will bring the sun from the west in the end days. Is that another sign of the Judgment Day according to the holy§cript?” Mark asked.

  “You are right, and I have been avoiding this point so far,” Hast replied, “but indeed, according to the prophecies the Antichrist uncovers himself after the sun rises from the west!”

  “Could this be metaphorical?” Ma
rk suggested.

  “That is what I have always thought, but I’m no longer sure,” Hast said.

  “You said a world war would happen, and we already know a nuclear bag is missing,” Mark said. “Could a world war involving nuclear strikes cause a major change in the earth’s rotation?”

  “We could ask this to an astrophysicist,” Hast suggested.

  When Hast mentioned the word astrophysicist, the only name that came to their minds at that moment was Prof. Neil Baron and his TNARK-planet project which was about changing the planetary rotations in the solar system making them habitable for human life!

  Prof. Neil Baron, a famous astrophysicist who was working at TNARK too, has spent many years on a project which aimed to control the speed and the direction of massive planets using human-made, powerful thrusting engines. Although the project was mainly theoretical, Neil’s lab had made many models of the powerful thrusts which operated by nuclear power. It was one million times more powerful than the ordinary thrusting engines used to push airplanes and space rockets. Installing those powerful thrusts on a planet could change the direction and the spin of a planet to make it more similar to earth. However, many scientists opposed Neil’s projects and had convinced the public that finding a suitable planet to live on would be much cheaper and more convenient than changing the dynamics of a non-suitable planet to make it more suitable, so Neil’s project was stopped a long time ago.

  “Do you think Neil is involved in this conspiracy?” Hast asked.

  “Neil Baron seems very benign,” Mark said, “but Young Nimrod could be among TNARK and might have access to the documents and proposals in Neil’s lab.”

  “Or may be Young Nimrod himself encouraged Neil Baron to work on such a project so that he could take advantage of his ideas for his evil purposes,” Hast suggested.

  “I wonder if it’s practical to apply Neil Baron’s models to change the earth’s rotation,” Mark said.

  “Maybe we need to ask professor Neil Baron himself,” Hast suggested.

  “Perhaps after I make sure that he himself has not been involved in this conspiracy.”

  Mark took out his cellphone and asked someone from Interpol to provide him with the names of all those involved with Neil’s project.

  “I’m going to Cambridge again,” Mark said. “We can go together if you want. This time I’m going there with a private jet.”

  “A private jet! How did you get that?” Hast asked.

  “I have asked the head of Interpol to provide me with a private jet because my mission requires me to travel a lot between the different parts of the world,” he said.

  “Wow, it looks so easy to request a jet from Interpol!” Hast said.

  “It wasn’t that easy. They only agreed after I successfully convinced them that my mission was linked with the missing nuclear bag and my investigations could possibly lead to uncovering its location and the suspect,” he said.

  Chapter 17

  Howard ‘Nerd’ was a nickname given to Howard Nick who was a final year physics student at MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was very obsessed with quantum mechanics and its implications and during this year, he had presented a self-made theory of everything that he called ‘The Mind Quanta-Soup’. His theory was based on the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics which in turn was based on the weird observations of particle physics: small particles behave differently depending on whether there is an observer measuring their position and speed or not!

  The implications of the Copenhagen interpretation, if true, were profound. According to it, if in one reality a tree falls from a mountain but no one was there to see the tree falling or to detect the effect of its fall, then this would be the equivalent to a reality where the tree didn’t fall at all. The theory mandates that for an event to happen there should be an observer measuring it, otherwise, it would be equivalent to a non-happening event.

  Howard Nerd took this notion further with his theory proposing that if in a reality where everyone believed to have seen a tree falling from a mountain then this would be the equivalent to a reality where the tree was actually falling. For Howard there was no absolute truth, only a relative truth which was determined by the degree of belief in the observer’s eyes in a closed system.

  The quantum phenomenon was a well-accepted theory in physics but its presence and effects were only detectable in a small scale, hence, it was only applicable for the small world: atoms and subatomic particles, but the larger world was usually deterministic and followed the Newtonian’s rules of motion, and the uncertainty due to the quantum effect being so small it was better to be ignored than to be considered in real life.

  Through ‘The Mind Quanta-Soup’ Howard tried to extend the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics to the large world too. His thesis didn’t get a good review and was largely considered as wishy-washy, voodoo science. His paper was rejected by many scientific journals and his articles on the online forums were usually labeled as ‘crackpot’ or were debunked. Nevertheless, Howard still insisted that the quantum effect was detectable on the large scale too and everything surrounding us followed its rules.

  ***

  Howard considered that reality was nothing more than a shared dream among people. According to his theory, the reality follows the rules set by its perceivers. The reality wouldn’t exist if everybody gave up detecting it through the five sensory organs or through the measuring tools invented by science, and hence, the rules of physics could be changed if someone were able to convince all the minds in the world to detect and perceive things differently.

  “The wall in front of us will disappear if everyone believes strongly that it doesn’t exist,” Howard said to his friend.

  “That is nonsense! Last night I was trying to test your theory. I stood in front of a wall and tried to convince myself that it didn’t exist,” his friend said. “Guess what? I couldn’t pass through it.”

  “There may have been someone else around you observing the wall too and believing that wall did exist,” Howard claimed. “You need to convince everyone around you so that the wall disappears.”

  “I swear I was alone. I was sure nobody was around me at that moment,” his friend replied.

  “That is because the earth is not a closed system. Maybe an alien on another planet was observing you through his telescope and believed that the wall did exist,” Howard suggested.

  “Oh, gosh your theory is really untestable,” his friend said in frustration.

  “No, my theory is proof that aliens do exist and they imagine and share the same reality as we do,” Howard said. “If we want to change the rules of physics, we need to convince everybody in this universe to perceive it according to our new rules. Reality can take the shape of our minds just like soups take the shape of its container.”

  “Can we perceive our world independently and not share our imagination with others?” his friend asked.

  “We always do that when we dream alone,” Howard said.

  Howard also believed that sincere wishes and prayers could work according to his theory, but they needed a strong wish or belief and many prayers to have an effect. He said to his friend, “If you wish or pray for something to happen, it will happen provided that there are no others wishing something opposite to yours.” He continued claiming, “If everyone in this world united and wished for something to come true, it would come true no matter how impossible.”

  To which his friend replied, “If everyone wishes for something to happen, many will most likely work hard to make it happen. This is not magic, or science, just common sense!”

  ***

  Howard had recently witnessed an increase in online posts filled with articles about the signs of Judgment Day, the Antichrist and ∞Illuhim∞. Many of those posts he was seeing in his social media pages were sponsored! For Howard, it seemed that rich religious people were trying hard to convince the public to have their beliefs. This would have an effect on reality its
elf according to Howard! He himself believed that the Doomsday would happen, and it would happen similarly to how it was described in the holy§cript because so many minds in the past and in the present had tried to imagine its events and had actively sacrificed for it through the many wars that had taken many lives. So Howard thought Nature would try to model itself according to people’s wishes and prayers, otherwise, it would mean a huge waste of the people’s wishes, aspirations and sacrifices. ‘The symmetry would be hugely broken unless Nature changes itself to fulfill everyone’s wishes,’ he thought.

  One of the examples Howard always used to demonstrate this concept to his friends was that of the ancient civilizations who ruled the ancient world for a very long time like: Sumer, Egypt, Babel, Ashur, Medes and Persia. They all depicted their gods as human-animal hybrids. Famous examples included Shedu and Sphinx. These godly creatures had the head of a human, the body of a lion, and the wing of an eagle. Because people believed in such creatures strongly, worshipped them and even sacrificed for them for a long time, it would be a huge waste of energy if they have done that for nothing. The Mind Quanta-Soup theory demanded Nature to model herself to fulfill their wishes and their beliefs.

  According to Howard, Nature was not able to fulfill the wishes of the ancient people immediately because doing that was very time and energy demanding, but she has modified herself slowly through centuries of scientific advances and achievements. Now a project like TNARK was actively trying to take the best genes from all the species in the animal kingdom and combine them together to build a super organism, and who knows, the resulting super organism could look like something similar to Shedu or Sphinx!

  Howard had a popular blog which recently reached over a million subscribers after one of his previous posts went viral. One year before Padsha Mali appeared, Howard predicted that someone who looks like the Abrahamic faith Antichrist would appear at some point. His point was that because so many people in the past and present thought about the Antichrist, the prophecy should come true to restore the symmetry between reality and the collective imagination of the masses.