Solution Washington part 9

"Very childish, Mister President," said Samantha frowning. She looked over at Mark who was giggling. She whacked him on the shoulder.
"You're the one who mentioned my... my... anus' tilted... axis..." said Potus in between bouts of laughter.
Secretary of Defense asked, "Is that Ronald Reagan's 'axis of evil'?" to more laughter.
Mark spoke up and said, "Uranus him? Damn near rectum!" Fewer people around the table laughed. Samantha frowned miserably.
"Doctor! Doctor!" cried Chief of Staff standing and turning around to show his rear, "Does my axis of spin look off to you?" Even less people laughed than before.
Samantha waited until the laughter died down somewhat. She said, "Very well, that was my fault. I brought up the planet. Anyway, let's continue with the important topic of the whole world being destroyed."
Everyone suddenly settled down and listened. Sam nodded at the quiet and said, "As I said, our measurements were getting worse and worse. I was measuring the speed of light increasing, which should be impossible. The speed of light is called 'the speed limit of the universe'. It is invariant. If it changed even slightly, the whole universe and the laws that govern it would change dramatically. Most scientists, including myself, believe that the speed of light has not changed since the creation of the universe.
"What if the moon were moving closer? Or more distant? Or what if the moon were in a superposition of two moons, one at a particular frequency of interaction with the phase of a different moon at some slightly different frequency. It's a little hard to explain, but what if the two moons were overlaid on each other and only now split out into two different moons as some sort of projection off a splitter?
"So how would we explain that? Most of our measurements of the speed of light are done by reflecting a laser off mirrors that were placed on the moon by the Apollo missions. Apollo 11 was the first on the moon and placed a mirror for the experiment. Apollos 14 and 15 placed similar mirrors which are used to this day. Does anybody know what happened to the other missions?" Sam looked around the room and nobody nodded. "Apollo 12 landed and had some very strange anomalies.
"Alan Bean tried to record colour video with a camera. However, he 'accidentally' pointed it at the sun in outer space and it broke. Later, he admitted he had smuggled a camera timer on board to take a timed selfie on the moon with his fellow astronaut in front of the lander. He mysteriously lost the timer and couldn't find it. Later, Alan Bean was knocked unconscious during reentry when a camera hit him on the head. True stories."
Samantha paused for effect. She said, "And we all know what happened with lucky Apollo 13."
Samantha let the weight of all this sink in. "So the moon might be in reverse focus or something. It may always have been in that state until someone observed a different state. I know from a trusted resource that the NSA has been experimenting with the double slit diffraction patterns using the Hubble as a recording target. Presumably they are running experiments on which-way analysis and using the Hubble as a delayed choice receiver. If they can view the experiment in both a deterministic and viewable state, they might violate the Heisenberg Principal.  Perhaps they intend to use the outcomes of various experiments to spy on U.S. and foreign citizens, which is supposed to be illegal."
Potus pointed at the large man sitting next to Samantha. "He made me do it," Potus said. "I told him we couldn't use the fancy equipment that the common every-taxpayer bought."
The large man from the NSA raised his hand and said, "I don't know anything about that, obviously. We don't spy on people after the Snowden incidents. He was tried and executed by a fair trial. Nothing else is relevant."
"What about the microphones?" asked Samantha pointing at her blouse.
"Those are for your own safety," he answered. "People who watched _Bewitched_ as a child on television are more unstable than the population at large."
Samantha covered her mouth with her good hand in shock. She regained her composure and said, "In any case, I believe that the three rules might be broken somehow. Locality might be broken because so called 'spooky action' might be changing our results. Another feature that might be breaking is realism. Certainly, seeing two moons where there was only one is probably a violation of realism. Freedom might be affected in the action of humanity around the world.
"I was visiting the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva and lost my luggage. How would I have chosen the wrong luggage and gotten it mixed up with someone else? What forces make the luggage move around, or force me to choose the wrong one when getting out of the taxi? I think that I have free will but maybe my hand is forced, so to speak. In Geneva as well, I witnessed some violence from a mad person. Could this be a general case of people behaving badly during a loss of freedom?"
Mark interjected, "I also witnessed riots on Paradise Island at Atlantis." People looked at him strangely. "I mean, when I visited Nassau on vacation. The resort is named Atlantis. I saw the cruise ship Ecstasy appear and disappear the day before I was supposed to get on it. Later, it discovered it had been missing for a day."
Sam said, "And the airplane I was on collided with itself. I saw an alternate universe of another airplane and myself seated in the same row just before the crash. It could be a hallucination, but what if it is not? And anyway, everyone agrees that the duplicate moon appearing is not an illusion. Scientists have measured a real effect of the new satellite. Everyone can see the moon by looking up in the sky. And the plane crash was most definitely real." Samantha raised her cast as proof. "And to this day, the cruise ship Ecstasy and her 2000 passengers are missing.
"Taking the first rule of locality, suppose that the experiments we've been testing and uncovering have created an expanding bubble of effect. As the bubble of effect spreads, it moves outward from one city, to another, to the ocean, to other parts of the world, and finally into outer space. Perhaps the process is expanding and reproducing effects of interference and affecting realism as we know it. How do we reserves this process?
"Schrödinger put the cat inside the closed box. He hid the outcome from us. So now we must find the way out of this mess we're in. We must save the cat and find the 'Schrödinger Solution', as I call it. How can we solve the riddle of what is happening? And more importantly, how can we save the earth?"
Samantha looked around the table. Everyone waited expectantly. The room was deathly quiet. Finally Mark said, "Well? How?"
Sam said, "We have to do the opposite of Pandora's box. We must open the box to look inside. Whether the cat is alive or dead, we must find out the true state of the cat. Of course, in this case, the box and the cat and the lid are metaphors. We need funding for a project to detect the anomalies and explain them so that we have a hope of putting our world back together and avoiding an ELE."