The gate project.

Date-7/15/2050(Friday)

 Today was the day, the one I worked all of my life for, my dream made reality.

Now I know I sound like a lunatic, you in particular don't have to tell me, my team does it more than enough. But when you have worked for more than thirty years on something, learning, studying, experimenting and testing. You get, how can you say it, manic? Yes, manic is a good word for it.

Well enough of that, I think you, my voices in my head, have heard me ramblin on enough. So what in God's green earth am I rambling about you might say? the ability to enter an alternative world. 

Now you might have conjured certain ideas of what I might mean when I say alternative world. And to quickly dispel any wrong ideas that you might have thought of, no I'm not talking about a sci-fi gate to another world in the universe, for even in The Gregorian calendar year of 2050, we still don’t have that technology. Or a magical one to take some unexpecting kids to some fantasy realm, to live out some Idealistic adventure, and at the end to return home to their warm beds. For to the best of my knowledge, there is no such thing as magic, but I digress.

No, what I'm talking about is something, a bit more grounded in reality. The ability to enter a game world with nothing but your mind, and of course a two-hundred-thousand dollar machine to help. 

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You have heard about it before, virtual reality. The ability to truly enter a digital game and not just control a facsimile of a person to live out whatever fantasy you want. And ever since I was born there was talk about it, even progress in the development of it. but even in all my forty-five years of life, nothing has even come close to living up to the word virtual reality. The ability to truly enter a virtual world of someone making. And soon my dream will be realized.

One hundred people of all ages, classes and races will soon be entering a world of my own making, and for six whole months or in game time, a whole two years as with the technology, one can tweak the flow of time somewhat, giving the malleability of the brain. 

Of course there are limits as the test with some primates has shown that at a certain point of time dilation, the brain can no longer accept such a massive feed of information that for example, at twenty times time dilation, the brain just won't accept such a copious amount of information, and more or less liquefy itself. Thus, given that we don't want to have all of the participants' brains leaking through their ears. My team and I have decided that four times acceleration is more than safe for all people involved.

So given all I have said and done one has to wonder how I will get one hundred people all who have no desire to waste six months of their lives to enter the gate and join the game. 

Well the obvious answer that also just happens to be the oldest sin of all, greed pure and as simple as can be. I simply need to lure the flies in with honey so I can keep them stuck with the want for more. But oh, how will I keep them in there when they find out just how painfully difficult it will truly be, I can not have them ruining my life's work. Truly such difficult questions, oh well I already gotten this far I'll figure it out eventually, i have to the finish line is already in sight.

But I am getting ahead of myself. I think it's time to focus on setting up the few final things needed to put the finishing touches on the project so I can finally get the ball rolling. Like actually getting the participants to sign the needed contacts, so you know they can't just sue me if their brains do leak out because of extended exposure. While I don't think it would happen, none of the tests have shown that it can happen but I am a scientist, and until something is disproven, I have to assume it can happen. And anyways if it does happen they won't have the brains to sue, will they, hahaha.