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It was 2:00 pm on a Monday afternoon. Suddenly the whole world “went dark”—literally, meaning, no sun, none at all. It was as if night had suddenly come, bringing with it a “pitch dark” condition all over the Earth.

A semi-truck standing at a red light advancing its bumper ever so slowly towards the tracks—just a “driving habit” of the truck driver who could no longer estimate the distance of the approaching train,—the “blasting horns” of which the truck driver could hear so well, but being not enough to prevent the accident. The inevitable occurred;—it was too late for the semi-truck’s headlights to help; the train conductor could not even see the controls in order to apply the brakes. The surprise of the sun “going dark”! Too little time—things happened too fast, much too fast! They collided!

The truck “jack-knifed,” the trailer separating from the cab, as the driver was ejected from the truck cabin to “find himself,” landing on a flower bed’s bushy shrubs nearby; miraculously he was still conscious, with only a broken leg.

The train’s engine compartment at the front had somehow managed to remain on the tracks due to the angle of impact. The conductor, pushed back a few feet away from the controls and shaken by the shock, succeeded in “feeling his way” to the throttle and the brakes in order to slow the train down to a complete stop. Broken glass had scratched his arms and face as he was slightly bleeding, but not profusely so as to cause hemorrhage. Thankfully, it was a cargo train with not too many passengers on board; therefore, damage to the train was far more preferable than the loss of human lives.

Many people thought that every second ticking without sunlight was like an eternity, wondering how long the sun will remain absent from the skies.

Thirty seconds later—every thing returned to “normal.” So it seemed. The sun “re-appeared” again “in the sky.” It began “shining again.”

But there was something very wrong with the way in which the Earth reacted—in the quickest micro-second following the sun’s return, the Earth experienced the biggest “quake” or “jolt” as if it had temporarily stopped and tried to begin rotating again, or as if it was attempting to balance itself in order to regain its regular angular momentum as it was newly accelerated by solar restoration—“jerk-stop-and-go,” so to speak.

An ambulance was called by the property owner on whose lawn the truck driver had landed. Land phones were functioning; cell phones could not function properly. There were discontinuities in reception and transmission of the signals, as if they were being blocked or scattered by dense electro-magnetic fields.

Some people appeared to be involved in some kind of a “dance” as they moved to and fro, seeking things to hang on to, trying to achieve equilibrium in their walk so as not to fall.

In the Amazon forests, animals that were foraging on trees fell off due to inability to move by sight or to respond to the compulsion to engage in nocturnal activities; others showed “confusion” as if being out of place for a return to nocturnal behaviors with which they were attempting to supplant diurnal activities.

In other cases, bats, perhaps perceiving that it was “night,” began to fly out of their caves to then rush back after the 30 seconds expired, but with such clumsiness, as if they had lost their flying skills; for, some were pirouetting in the air as if unable to decode their own echolocation signals; while others,—as if blinded by the returning sunlight or as if unable to detect the frequency of their own transmissions from the surrounding noise, like a radio receiver that’s out of tune, or whose signals were being “scrambled,”—circled trees and mountain sides to then smash into them, as if attempting to enter into a cave that was not there.

Television stopped operating. On the radio, John heard that the “quake” or “jolt” occurred because there was a cessation or temporary interruption in solar gravitational activity on all the planets; as it were, only the sun’s radiant emissions keep the solar system together. In short, the sun had stopped “shining” or operating for 30 seconds and its streams of rays, beams and particles, and binding energies, having ceased to function, caused a disruption in planetary dynamic equilibrium motions such as revolution and rotation, and hence, in gravity as well.

The gravitational field of energy exerted by the sun temporarily came to an end. There was no longer any “bond” or “binding energy” between the sun and the planets—for a few seconds, even depending on their respective mass, they were no longer ”together,” as a solar system. “Helter-skelter” they gyrated in deep space, “negotiating” an adjustment to the new radio-magnetic dynamics.

And on the Earth, at first, oceanic tidal wave continuum, atmospheric weather activity and landmass tectonics had undergone “a systemic slow down”; then, when the energy field provided by the sun returned, they engaged in “catch up” so to speak—hence, the “jolting, jerk-and-go effect.”

Consequently, all Earth-system events and processes were suddenly “accelerated” to a maximum, pushing and pulling, attracting and repelling—oceans convulsed, their currents forming eddies with deep vortices, as the atmosphere groaned with violent whirlwinds that uprooted trees or “rushed them barren of leaves.” The ocean-dominated landmass compressed the tectonic plates with such great force that promontories or rock formations from deep within the Earth surged through the surface to form new landscapes.

When the sun had restored its field of energy on the planets, this operation “shook” or “jolted” the Earth back into its regular patterns of motion and position—like slowing down while driving a car and restoring acceleration again as passengers feel “the jolt,” but on a greater scale, the planetary frame of reference. Where the solar frame made contact with the Earth frame, there, were formed the most disruptive gravitational interchanges causing the Earth to undergo tremulous gyrations that registered in all its components and structures as violent cosmic quakes.

These velocity and mass differentials, along with magnetic field forces that bombarded the Earth, combined to impel the planet into a convoluted orbital path around the sun—with force within force, momentum within momentum, strain within strain, turbulence within turbulence, rising, building and climaxing—compacting the atmosphere, compressing the hydrosphere and contorting the landmass as the whole planet leaped forth in staccato movements to regain its spherical shape.

Sun spot activity was at its peak maximal climax. Scientists surmised in saying, “Perhaps the sun was experiencing disruptive turbulences of a kind we had little knowledge and which may have caused a type of short-circuiting in the ‘continuum chains’ of its nuclear reactions, like a humongous sun spot or nuclear storm system that engulfed the whole star—hence, the interruption in radiating activities and the ‘jolt’ experienced by the Earth afterwards. Perhaps it is comparable to when lightning strikes interrupt the flow of electrical current in households, and then flow is restored shortly thereafter as appliances are turned ‘on’ again and their functions return as expected.”

And emergency preparedness agencies recommended that locally people engage in damage assessment and follow proper procedures for reporting and taking remedial actions; that every one should “brace for shock” and remain calm while keeping informed of developments.

“And until further analysis of solar activity is performed, no additional information can be given at this time.”

That was the last sentence heard by John Trinklung from the radio announcement regarding the darkness that covered the whole Earth for about 30 seconds on that day in 2009—when only one longitudinal hemisphere was supposed to be in darkness, but not all the Earth. He remembered his son’s comment about the sun, and kept thinking, “What could be happening within that ‘big light bulb’ that we should know about? ‘Damage assessment?’ ‘It looks like the damage has been taking place for about a decade without us noticing. The sun—that ‘big light bulb’ in vacuum Space may be experiencing its ‘last pangs of death’—a dying star! Will it ‘burn out’ or just ‘fade away’?”

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