The Shroud Codex - Jerome R. Corsi [76]
“I don’t get it,” Anne said.
“Neither do I,” Castle added.
“Don’t worry,” Silver said. “Nobody really gets it.”
“What are the additional dimensions?” Castle asked. “Do you have names for them, or can you describe how they work?”
“Not really,” Silver said. “That’s the type of question Paul was working at answering when he was here in Princeton at the institute. Physicists fifty years ago would have said all this is nonsense, but the top physicists today worldwide are considering phenomena like time warps, or what astronomers call ‘worm-holes,’ physical constructs where you can enter in the universe here and come out in a parallel universe where everything is the same except maybe that you didn’t die.”
“It sounds like science fiction,” Castle said critically. “So you are telling me that modern physics consider all these H. G. Wells phenomena to be possible?”
“Modern physics does not rule out time travel, if that’s what you are asking,” Silver answered. “Nor does it rule out that a lot of what we experience in our four dimensions might look very different if we could see the same phenomena in the ten dimensions or more that might truly define our universe.”
For Castle, what he was hearing from Dr. Silver connected immediately with what Father Bartholomew had told him in their therapy session. Bartholomew had cautioned Castle not to rule out that his after-life experience may have happened exactly as he experienced it. What Castle realized listening to Silver was that Bartholomew was trying to tell him something that modern particle physics was seriously contemplating: for instance, that an afterlife may exist as a parallel world in which we remain alive. Bartholomew objected when Castle insisted his slippages in time back to Golgotha two thousand years ago on the day Christ died had been strictly a trick of Bartholomew’s subconscious. What if Bartholomew, instead of being psychologically disturbed, had just slipped in time and space so he could experience one or more of the dimensions beyond? Dr. Silver said many modern physicists accepted them as real.
Castle had struggled to understand how someone as brilliant as Paul Bartholomew could fail to see that his physical manifestation of the hair and beard of the man in the Shroud of Turin, or the stigmata he experienced, were obvious manifestations of a psychological disorder. Maybe what Bartholomew was trying to tell him was that the interventions into his life, including the scourge marks he experienced, were really happening, not in our four dimensions, but through an intervention from a dimension beyond our here and now.
Dr. Silver had just explained that the invisible man appeared and disappeared at will, just as the third-dimensional hyperbeing appeared and disappeared in flatland. To Castle, the idea was bizarre, but if we truly lived in a world not bounded by our four dimensions, maybe Rod Serling was right after all. Was it possible the Twilight Zone was more reality than we ever thought it was? Is it possible we live in the Twilight Zone and don’t realize it?
“Do you know that Father Bartholomew claims to have suffered an after-life experience in which God asked him to return to earth?” Castle asked Dr. Silver.
“I’ve been reading about it in the newspaper and watching the news reports on television,” Silver answered. “I’m not an expert on the Shroud of Turin or the stigmata Paul claims to be manifesting.”
“What sense do you make of what’s happening to Father Bartholomew?” Castle asked, anxious to get the physicist’s perspective. “Do you think what he is going through right now has anything to do with his career as a physicist?”
“I’m not sure,” Silver answered. “All I know is that Paul Bartholomew is not only a priest, he is also a brilliant physicist. What he is going through with the stigmata and the Shroud may just be his most recent scientific experiment. I wouldn’t put it past Paul to use himself as his own human guinea pig in the most recent phase