Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

for someone desirable before he would settle for one of thepresent singles. A personification could always be changed,but there was no one who's personality really interested him.Ava's personality hadn't interested him for the past fewyears had it? She had always been full of herself as SystemsAdministrator. She'd always tried hard not to take advantageof her position, but he had always felt like a lesser beingbecause of it. He could never have an affair, she would knowabout it immediately. He could never tell when she washaving an affair, and he was sure there had been several.The pause was stretching longer than it should, everyonewas attentive, the side conversations had almost stopped. Hehad to focus at least well enough to recite what he knew frommemory."Good morning fellow crew members. As you are alreadyaware, I have been researching the condensates in the darkbodies along our path by exposing captive antimattercondensates to the tangler beam while it is illuminatingbodies too big for collection." He displayed a diagram of theship, a dark body, his antimatter in a jar and the forkedtangler beam of paired photons that was illuminating hisantimatter and the dark body. "As has been reported earlier, Ihave found good evidence for the presence of significantamounts of condensates in these bodies, and what I believe tobe signals transmitted among the entangled particles."Before discussing some of the unexpected findings madeduring these experiments, I will attempt to describe my191