Sometimes it is very difficult to tell a story. When the story appears to its creator all at once, from beginning to end, it would seem that a story should be easy to tell. It is not. When it appears all at once, the story is like a complete product, like the Unknowable Ein Soph, the God of the kabbalists. The problem is in tzimzum, contraction of the complete universe which is the story to come this perfect being, into discrete elements in the fourth dimension-- that is time.
This story is one of those stories that is difficult to tell, and it is also a story about time--the fourth dimension. In the end is also the story of multiple dimensions, differing times, and converging time-lines.
The story begins in our future--in the year 2020 in the Gregorian reckoning. In 2018 the US government launched a research satellite. One of a million satellites circling the earth in various orbits, it was mostly overlooked by the people of the world. No one knew that it in fact would be much more significant than anyone living in the complicated world of the 21st century could ever contemplate.
Our hero is a simple student and fledgling technician named Emmanuel Applebaum.
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