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cup with full force. I did the only thing I could do to defend against such an attack. I fell to the floor
holding my crotch!
"Break! Blue, turn and bow!"
"Where did he get you?" The ref tapped my headgear to get my attention. I heaved twice and rolled
over to my hands and knees. I heaved again. Lucky for me I hadn't eaten yet so nothing came up. I
realized then, the heaving seemed to hurt my right side. My ribs. Funny how getting kicked in the Jimmy
will make one forget how bad other things hurt.
I'm not sure how, but I made it to my feet. I wiped the sweat from my forehead, which was pouring
profusely out from under my headgear and down my face as I lined up, left side forward this time. I
smiled at Mike and I put my mouthpiece back in. I had him right where he wanted me.
"Sorry man! You okay?" He seemed legitimately concerned.
The center ref called attention and then, "That is a warning blue for low kicks. Ready?"
We both nodded and touched gloves.
"We still have three red, two blue. Fight!" The ref dropped his hand and stepped back out of our
way.
I was right, I did have Mike right where he wanted me. Like a freight train, all two hundred and thirty
pounds of him came barreling right for me. I knew just what to do; I ran for my life. Without thinking, I
turned my back and began to run, somehow I jumped while facing him and threw a right leg, spinning
back kick. This was a survival technique only. I don't recommend it as a standard technique. My right
foot caught him off gaurd right in the gut. Luck counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, in nuclear war,
and sometimes at the ISKA championships.
"Break! Judges call? I got two red! That is five red!" I heard my instructor yelling something, but he
seemed too far away and seemed to be getting further and further away. Then there was no longer any
light at the end of the tunnel.

The next thing I knew I was back home in my study looking at my whiteboard. There were tensor
equations scribbled all over it. In the middle was an equation written explaining that spacetime curvature
is proportional to energy per volume, which is proportional to mass times the speed of light squared
divided by volume, which is proportional to electricity and magnetism divided by volume.
I had been writing this equation in various ways since undergraduate school and never could figure
out how to change the proportionality symbols to equal signs. Nobody could. Einstein died trying, as
have many others. The equation is a very simple explanation of the Holy Grail of physics. Einstein's
General Relativity (GR) states that space and time or spacetime is curved due to energy. Energy and
mass are interchangeable just by multiplying by the speed of light squared, c 2. So, the curvature of
spacetime is proportional to the speed of light in a way. Also, electricity and magnetism are forms of
energy, somehow. Electromagnetic forces are most likely the cause of matter having form and in some
way the cause of gravity where gravity is the curvature (sort of). The equation means that the spacetime is
curved due to the amount of energy in a given volume or that a given curved spacetime causes a certain
energy per volume. Each of these phenomena causes the other and this energy per volume can exist in
many forms.
There was something else on the whiteboard that really caught my attention. On the bottom right
hand corner of the board was the equation explaining that spacetime curvature is defined as the square
root of stuff times electricity and magnetism divided by volume.
Of course, both of these equations were written in the Einstein tensor notation so they really didn't
look like this. The actual equations take nothing short of years in graduate school sweating over tensor
mathematics and things called Ricci tensors, stress-energy tensors, spacetime metrics, and the
Cosmological Constant just to be able to read. Understanding them takes even longer. But, this is the
general idea of what my lucidly dreamt whiteboard stated. Most importantly was that the proportionality
symbol was changed not only to an equal sign but a "defined as sign," meaning that the equation was a
fundamental equation describing the universe. After this equation was one that stated that stuff is "defined