He hit pause on the DVD, the screen:

“There are people who will fight you. Stop you.”

“In an hour you won’t want them to.”

Perhaps, Invasion of the Body Snatchers had been a poor choice to calm his mind, but it had always been one of his favorites.

He turned the television and DVD player off, before sliding from the recliner to his knees, turning to face the wall with all of the beloved original movie posters the previous owners had collected.  The candle he had lit flickered from the kitchen bar counter, casting eerie shadows over the space aliens and horrific creatures, and common human heroes and astronauts.  He smiled sadly at the last, there was unlikely to be any astronauts again for a long time.

The couple had had an old Microsoft Surface, which was a piece of crap, but he’d idly played with it, searching for any active communication links with the crappy wireless from the cell phone he’d also found and charged.  Nothing.  What he really needed was older radio equipment, perhaps he could talk to Tags.  Even ham radio stuff or maybe even more importantly ham radio equipment.

He should really be asleep, he, was in fact, really tired, physically, mentally, and if he was honest, emotionally.  He had never slept much.  Studying, reading, running, then the academy, school and all of the training programs, then the beginning of graduate school her in the United States at the Air Force Academy.  Sleep had not been high on the list.

Clearing the apartment building had been necessary, exhausting, and hard work.  It still needed a lot of work.  They’d gotten the bodies out, claimed some rooms, but the smells were still there.  The other damaged areas from the bodies and zombies needed repaired, cleaned, even if no one lived there now.  He didn’t want to argue with Ryder and the rest immediately, but he would not lie to himself.  They had to find survivors.  They had to rebuild.  Otherwise, otherwise it was pointless.

Tomorrow they were going on a mission for more medical supplies, and, weapons.  He liked Trey’s suggestion but….they needed more of a plan than run to the pharmacy and then to the state police building.  They needed equipment, even some leather around the next and joints with padded clothing would provide some armor protection against human teeth, maybe supplemented by rubber or vinyl from tents or old raincoats.  The fences around this “bunker” needed strengthened.  They were good enough to old against small numbers of these poor walking restless bodies, but they would never keep out thinking beings nor would they withstand major pressure.  Support beams notched against the fence, and maybe recovering the razor wire a little at a time from that hospital. All things to be considered, suggested or just worked on.

His lips moved in the murmurs of prayer, some would call it meditation, others would call it…..mathematics.  Knowledge of the universe combined with the awareness of God in all things.  Perhaps it would help his mind reveal the truth of their six weeks of unconsciousness, the truth of his losses.  His new friends seemed unconcerned with their families, although to be honest, it had been a few days full of more important priorities, but he did not have the luxury of a mind that could be put at ease when he……relaxed.

Prayer and math, math and prayer, they were one in the same for him and his faith.  He missed the cross his mother had given him on his fifth birthday, it was really the only external symbol of his faith he had ever needed.

So knelt, and he prayed……three times, once each, to remember, and to practice, but to remember, in the privacy of his new home.

وبالتالي فإن معادلة الجاذبية الكونية تأخذ الشكل التالي

حيث F هي قوة الجاذبية التي تعمل بين جسمين ، m1 و m2 هي كتل الأجسام ، و r هي المسافة بين مراكز كتلها ، و G هو ثابت الجاذبية.

L’équation de la gravitation universelle prend ainsi la forme

où F est la force gravitationnelle agissant entre deux objets, m1 et m2 sont les masses des objets, r est la distance entre les centres de leurs masses et G est la constante gravitationnelle.

The equation for universal gravitation thus takes the form:

where F is the gravitational force acting between two objects, m₁ and m₂ are the masses of the objects, r is the distance between the centers of their masses, and G is the gravitational constant.

للهم امنحني الشجاعة للدفاع عن منزلي الجديد ، والناس فيه ، والذين سنجدهم في المستقبل. امنحني القوة لأريح أجساد النفوس الضائعة. اللهم امنحني الحقيقة والمحبة لاعادة عالمنا الى السلام.

Dieu, donne-moi le courage de défendre ma nouvelle maison, les gens qui y vivent et ceux que nous trouverons à l’avenir. Accorde-moi la force de reposer les corps des âmes perdues. Dieu m’accorde la vérité et l’amour pour ramener notre monde à la paix.

God, grant me the courage to defend my new home, the people in it, and those whom we shall find in the future. Grant me the strength to put the bodies of the lost souls to rest. God grant me the truth and love to restore our world to peace.