I Invented the Wheel

Shanmuga Boopathy
The Oblivion
Published in
3 min readJan 4, 2020
Wheel
Photo by Jon Cartagena on Unsplash

When something gets invented, can we be sure that it is invented for the first time? No, I’m not referring to the controversies over who invented what, but rather what’s behind it. Have you ever imagined how technology has gotten remarkably advanced over the last three decades? How did people invent all these crazy stuff all together in the same period of time? If a guy from the 1970s were to visit us, he would perceive everything he sees as alien technology.

“Well, this can be true, since we are not alone in this whole universe.” — a few may believe this claim. There are millions and millions of stars and planets revolving around us and we are unsure of the possibility of the existence of aliens. We are still exploring the opportunities of finding a habitable place on our neighboring planet, Mars. So it will take even more time to explore our nearest stars and we cannot conclude anything until then.

We always wonder about the aliens from space and tend to forget those that might be sitting next to us in the same place where we are sitting, say on a sofa watching TV series along with us. We term anything that doesn’t belong to our world and beyond human understanding as ‘Alien’. What would happen if a designer suddenly gets the ability to see UV rays and informs his acquaintance that he has encountered a new color — one he had never seen in the color palette of his favorite editor? The bitter truth is even he would be considered as alien for his ability to see UV light. It is a different case, which we shall discuss in our next blog.

We believe that only the things we could sense exist in this world. So there is no wonder that we look high towards the sky, waiting for an alien to come and visit us. Yet they can be invisible to us, just like the UV rays, and visit us more often than we imagine, who knows?

But here, I’m talking about the aliens who live in the same space as ours, and at the same time, but at a different frequency. Yeah! You got me right, just like the multiple radio stations that co-exist in the same device, where one can listen to exactly one particular station at a time — the world is vibrating at a specific frequency, and we perceive things that are vibrating at the same frequency just as described in this blog. However other different frequencies exist, and there might be a whole world like ours in those frequencies.

Those worlds may be extremely advanced or might still live in the stone age. If a person from one of the advanced world, found a way to travel across the worlds that were located in different frequencies and visited us, they would have regarded us as very primitive and began building the technology that they had in their world here. Hence, it is hardly surprising why we have had most of the technological innovation in the last few decades. I have just started believing that soon we would take a trip to another frequency world just like we are trying to take a trip to Mars.

In our story, the protagonist would be the first person to invent the wheel, that was not found in the other world till then.

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Shanmuga Boopathy
The Oblivion

Author | co-author of DuOrb, a science fiction suspense thriller