
"Loud and Clear!" Truth uttered into the Droid, hitting the end button. The Phrase was a code. Truth was parked in front of Emblem's house in a rented blue Chevy Impala. Seconds after Truth hung up Emblem opened the front door. Truth came in with a brief case, Emblem sat at the dinning room table in a bathrobe, wiping sleep out of his eyes.
"You look like shit! Hangover?" He asked, attempting to guess as to why Emblem looked disheveled.
"Naw! I been up all night. Didn't get to rest until 7a.m. What's in the case?" Emblem asked, changing the subject.
"Your going to love this shit!" Said Truth, anxiously opening the brief case, revealing an assortment of exotic strands of Marijuana labeled in individual jars. "Nothing like it has ever been smoked in North America: Hawaiian Haze; Ultra-Violet Lambs' Bread; Authentic Afghan Kush; Colombian Guadalupe; AK-47. And this strain here, 'Crescent Moon' it came in second at the Cannibus Cup last year in Amsterdam. A puff of this will have you reading calculus text books for fun. It's a purely scientifically grown strain of sativa. White boy's at Cal Tech have been cross breeding and genetically enhancing and modifying the female seeds for years. And I also have this-this is called Zulu." A pregnant pause came over the room, Truth's voice cracked, a tear ran down his cheek and a frog leaped around in his throat. They were tears of religious joy: Truth was crying over the perfection of the strain he was holding. He held up an ounce of Zulu as if a glowing blue light surrounded it.
"This is the Holy Grail of Canibus Sativa. Grown from the red South African clay. Highest THC levels known to mankind. Marinating for millions of years in the womb of the Earth. It's closely related to Colombian Guatalupe but much stronger. It is said Shaka Zulu himself would puff this and see the souls of his enemies climb outta of their dead bodies after he slew them. 1600 dollars an ounce!"
"Give me an ounce of that Zulu and a half ounce of that Amsterdam Crescent Moon." Emblem said counting out 2200 dollars, handing it to Truth. "Roll a blunt of that Amsterdam Crescent Moon." Emblem uttered trying to wake up over a cup of coffee.
Truth always had a Dutch Master available and began to split it. "You can't sleep or something?" Truth asked making small talk while splitting the blunt.
"I figured it out!"
"Figured what out?" Truth asked.
"You ever heard of the 'Uncertainty Principle'?" Emblem asked, sipping his coffee.
"Yeah! Isn't that what physicist believe- something about-you can't know where a sub-atomic particle spinning around the nuclei of an atom is at any given point in time." Truth answered, dumping the guts of the dutch in a waste basket.
"That's about right. It's the principle which states that you cannot know either the velocity or position of a particle with infinite precision. The 'uncertainty' is the position and velocity of the electron at a singular point in time . It's the most essential component in order to grasp the complex nature of Quantum mechanics. Sub atomic uncertainty!" Emblem said, taking another sip of coffee with a dreamy aloof stare in his eye.
Truth was interested, but still didn't have a clue as to why Emblem was bringing up Heisenberg's 'Uncertainty Principle' at nine in the morning. With nimble fingers Truth broke the weed down with the steady hands of a brain surgeon, sprinkling the exotic marijuana evenly into the Dutch Master's shell.
"So Quantum Physics is causing you to have insomnia?" Truth guessed as he began to roll the blunt.
"Remember In 1996 when our weed spot got raided and I left town and went to Seattle?"
"How the hell could I forget? My parents paid a fortune in legal fees to keep me outta prison and never let me forget it."
"Well while you and your parents fought the case to keep you outta jail I went to Seattle to stick-up a drug dealer-any drug dealer. I had visions of coming back with a kilo of that Kurt Cobain grunge heroin. It was a dumb idea and a blind shot in the dark but I was desperate. I found a mark. He was a white boy sweating on the Greyhound. This white boy was nervous as fuck. My best guess was that he was in possession of Raw heroin. I wanted it to be something I could take back to the city, step on and get off. My hunch was that he had weed, coke, pills, or heroin? I was certain the white boy had something. He was sweatin' like an al-Qaeda terrorist with a trench coat on in August. So when the bus stopped in Seattle I got him alone, roughed him up a bit and took the whiteboy's book-bag and he had this." Emblem finished his sentence by sliding what looked like a cable box on the table.
"What da fuck is this!" Truth asked, picking the black box up, examining it.
"When I stole the box I didn't have a clue what it was. Look on the side." Emblem said prompting Truth to turn the box on it's side.
"USB socket. So!" Truth uttered.
"In 1996 there weren't USB cords or sockets available to the general public. Let me show you something." Emblem said getting up from the table. "Bring da blunt and follow me."
"Have you ever heard of Moore's Law?" Emblem asked Truth
"Naw! What the fuck is that?" Truth asked following Emblem down into his basement where he had a make-shift laboratory.
"It states that computer power doubles every eighteen months. It's all in the thin wafer-like transistors. Smaller and smaller transistors. Presently they still use Silicon transistors and UltraViolet light reads the chip and computes. The most advanced Pentium Chip has a layer ten or fifteen atoms across. Well the shorter the length of atoms across, the chip begins to abandon the laws of Newtonian physics thus making classical physics irrelevant. The smaller the chip's infrastructure becomes-the more it becomes a quantum computer. This is where the Uncertainty Principle comes in to play.
"Em I'm lost. What da fuck are you talkin 'bout." Truth said, blowing out cannibus from his lungs.
"A Quantum Computer's processing chip is small. Everybody is talkin' 'bout 'bits'- A quantum computer operates on cubits. Meaning a quantum computer is a much more powerful computer. It's all about the power of calculations. A quantum computer can find the square root of a number with 10,000 digits in the blink of an eye or faster. Truth I didn't steal a brick of heroin- I fuckin robbed the whiteboy for a prototype of a quantum computer. I didn't know I had a quantum computer until 2006. It took me ten years to figure out what it was."
"So what are you gonna do, sell it to a DJ or something." Truth said, forgetting to pass the Blunt.
"No. Look at this." Emblem pulled a white sheet off of what looked like a cross between an old fashioned phone booth and a gaudy leather sofa in a pimp's living room.
"What da hell is that?!" Truth asked.
"A time machine! There is no such thing as 'absolute' time. All events are labeled by a quantitative measurement called 'time'. Each observer understands time in a relative way. 'Time' is a very intimate and personal concept. Two clocks can be generally synchronized, but never exactly, no matter how harmoniously they appear to tick together. No two clocks can be exactly in synch. Even if two clocks read 2:54 for example-if you could measure down two a millionth of a second, or a trillionth of a second the clocks would differ by a few millionths of a second. So remember: all time is relative. Now pass me the blunt nigga."
Truth was frozen as he contemplated Emblem's words, slowly handing Em the dutch.
"Okay, so how is it a time machine?" Truth inquired with a furrowed brow.
"Peace! Einstein said that time travel requires a rocketship that travels faster than the speed of light. I don't have nor could I make such a ship. To make a ship travel at the speed of light would require infinite energy and consequently there would be an infinite expansion of the mass of the ship. So, I could've focused on undertaking the impossible task of building a ship that travels at the speed of light but instead I chose another route: reducing and translating the electromagnetic signature of mass and transporting it on the electromagnetic field into another time.
Giving the blunt back to a flabbergasted Truth, Emblem continued explaining.
"At CERN...-"
"What's CERN?" Truth inquired.
"The European Center for Nuclear Research. They can speed a subatomic particle to 99.99 percent of the spead of light, it seems Einstein was right: the speed of light appears to be the speed limit for the universe, in which case it would rule out time travel. But remember I told you about the uncertainty principle?"
"Yeah, yeah, the principle that states that you can't know the exact position or velocity of a subatomic particle. Indeed. I follow you." Truth exhaled the Ghanja smoke coughing like a tuberculosis patient.
"Well! With the quantum computer: the Uncertainty principle is no more. This computer can predict the exact position and velocity of every subatomic particle composing a given object. I then turn the booth on which runs an electromagnetic current through the inside of the booth. The quantum computer instantly translates matter into pure cubits of information. I use an electromagnetic charge to agitate every atom in the booth and thus dissolving you like a Star Trek transporter. But instead of transporting you to another place, it uses the electromagnetic field that is pervasive throughout space and sends your information into the past or future via the electromagnetic field. Transferring you from time A into time B. I punch in the coordinates of time B which equals the destination and voila: You're there! Let me send you 24 hours into the future. You're cell phone should work, call me from the future and tell me what the Mega Millions Lottery number is going to be. Lottery Jackpot is 307 million. When your in the future I will play the numbers that you tell me to play and just like that: We're multi millionaires."
"Why I gotta be the guinea pig. How come you don't go?" Truth asked.
"Because only I know how to work the Time Machine. Truth do you want to be a millionaire?"
"Hell yeah! Fuck it! Let's blow a movafuckin hole in the universe nigga, but first let's smoke a blunt of that Zulu!"
To be continued...