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Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

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apparatus and technique, as well as <strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong>oretical foundationfor my observations. You'll have to bear with me, <strong>the</strong> basisfor all this is ra<strong>the</strong>r technical." He saw that he lost <strong>the</strong> capta<strong>in</strong>with those words. From <strong>the</strong>n on all Kelv<strong>in</strong> was go<strong>in</strong>g to dowas look around <strong>the</strong> room and read facial expressions to tryand determ<strong>in</strong>e who was follow<strong>in</strong>g him and who wasn't, andwho agreed with him and who didn't.Never<strong>the</strong>less, for those who could follow it, he had to gothru it, show <strong>the</strong> quantum balance sheets, <strong>the</strong> entanglementteleportation pathways and all <strong>the</strong> details his work was basedon. Only once <strong>the</strong>y had followed this, and <strong>the</strong> math Darrylhad helped him with, would <strong>the</strong>y grant that quantum<strong>in</strong>formation was <strong>in</strong> fact be<strong>in</strong>g passed. There was a lot ofmutter<strong>in</strong>g but more nodd<strong>in</strong>g than shak<strong>in</strong>g of heads by <strong>the</strong>time that was presented. That was <strong>the</strong> bulk of <strong>the</strong> time <strong>in</strong> hisentire presentation.Then he had to defend his extrapolations of <strong>the</strong> amount of<strong>in</strong>formation that was be<strong>in</strong>g exchanged. He had to compare itto <strong>the</strong> amount of photons that are be<strong>in</strong>g exchanged by stars toget a larger flux. Granted, his sample was small and he wasextrapolat<strong>in</strong>g to <strong>the</strong> dark matter of <strong>the</strong> whole galaxy and itshalo, but <strong>the</strong> data from <strong>the</strong> non-targeted halo object lead himto believe extrapolat<strong>in</strong>g to <strong>the</strong> whole galaxy was valid. Therewas more mutter<strong>in</strong>g at this. He caught <strong>the</strong> word'computronium' from somewhere <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> room. He'd ra<strong>the</strong>r nothave that label applied, <strong>the</strong> s<strong>in</strong>gularity's failure to appear gaveit a pseudo-science connotation. The data flow levels he had192

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