Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

“It is some part of physics we don’t understand.""We do know that there would be no signals without aparticle state change,” he said. “Why are there moreentangled state changes here than in regimes of normaltemperature?""We don't have the answer, like you said, once we get asample of one of these dark objects, we'll know a lot more.You know one part I don’t think we understand enough of,”he continued, “superconducting logic. That's a whole breed oflogic we abandoned because it is too difficult to maintainthose temperatures in our environment.”“Yeah, and the silicon we have works well enough.”“Out here, superconductivity is free, rivers of liquidhelium might flow deep in that iceworld we just passed,”Thom pointed somewhere, pretending there was an 'out there'going by them in some sense. “There is something here thathas explored that regime. It is probably more device thanlife.”She didn’t need him to fill in more details than that, sheknew he was talking about computation, and therefore aconsciousness in these condensates. He could see on her facethat she wasn’t excited by that concept. “You’re as delusionalas Alan,” was what she said, “But without the skills to makeit happen.”No, she was not here to join him in this quest forknowledge, she was only here to oppose it. “You’re trying topick a fight aren’t you my dear?” he said as mildly as he139