Heart-Shaped Locket

Heart-Shaped Locket

It was not so much the heart-shaped locket itself, but rather the Caesium-133 atomic-timekeeping element kept within it. No, this was not some leftover U-32 from a post-Casablanca Alfred Hitchcock movie, but rather this was “the stuff that dreams were made of” – the stuff that kept satellites synchronized with each other to 9,192,631,770 rotation frequencies per second (RFPS).

Except this one was off. At only 9,192,631,769 RFPSs, that “1” nine-billionth something-difference could, in the right hands, once again bring back the glory-days of stocks like Game-Stop clamoring to the top and bring BitCoin, Etherium, and other currencies back from their now-worthless ends.

Now the heart-shaped locket itself had intrinsic-value as a Salvador Dali inspiration, right next to his melting clocks – but everyone remembers the clocks and forgets the heart-shaped locket (or did the locket itself meld out of the frame?) – and yet the locket was indeed at the heart of the clocks, where time stood-still enough to melt.

Now, to board the commuter-shuttle back to the Intra-National Space Station (INSS) (Footnote 1) without being detected; this was the challenge! Perhaps the locket itself could be used to thwart the detectors themselves? After-all, who could detect one nine-billionth of a second, and yet, that’s all that was needed to also disengage the economic micro-chip found in one’s hand or forehead. (Footnote 2)

“Whoops!” remarked the stewardess as she spilled the drink onto the passenger, “I hope it didn’t damage your necklace!” (Footnote 3) Success! It blanked-out the boarding-scan on itself so-as to make its-contents undetectable just long-enough to board; and no, liquid is no-match for Caesium-133. “If you put your hand to your forehead, (Footnote 4) I’ll refund the cost of the drink” the stewardess remarked.

Only 40 minutes until arrival, minus one-nine-billionth of a second – given or taken within a nano-second, (Footnote 5) but yes, once there, within straight-linear distance-paths from the Global Positioning Satellites (GPS), one could indeed address the topic and apply the time-sequential gap to ones’ target. But not so fast, wouldn’t the hand-to-head “$Refund” also provide a detection-element? The passenger hadn’t thought of that. Retroactive refunds had a way of double-determining and designating one’s whereabouts when one least expected it. Now a curtain-shade of doom hovered over the passenger with the locket – never-mind its heart-shapedness.

Time-out from the human-pilot, with the commuter-craft now on auto Artificial Intelligence (AI) auto-pilot, gave time for the pilot to peruse the list of passengers. Yes, there was one whose name was on the Notice-List (NL) given to all commuter-pilots, but as was common, any investigations backfired and usually were of no consequence to the notice-List person in question.

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Meanwhile, at the landing-port, a second heart-shaped locket “with the elements strontium and ytterbium that operate at far, far higher frequencies - right up in the optical rather than the microwave spectrum” (Footnote 6) was waiting in the hands of the Authorities (yes, with a Capital “A”) whereabouts entry onto the commuter-craft might have been thwarted, but exit and entry onto the INSS were still a hurdle to complete. Where were the others? What else awaits the arrival? Will the second locket undo the first? Many other issues remained.

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Footnotes:

1) With there being a single One-World Government (OWG), and no longer separate “Nations,” rather, off-shoot provinces branched-out from within as “Intra-National.”

2) KJV Book of Revelation Chapter 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: - (continued) - KJV Book of Revelation Chapter 13 17-18 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six

3) [Necklace] with the heart-shaped locket.

4) Supra – Footnote 2.

5) Nanosecond: One billionth of a second.

6) https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29476893