Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

even though he knew it was nothing more than a softwarepackage in the silicon of Gordon’s Lamp. They probablyshouldn’t have let him keep it.“These observations he’s been working on,” Avaanswered his question. “He's made some condensate andexposed it to the tangler beam. He claims he's got it entangledwith condensates in some of the iceballs we're passing.”“So he diverted the tangler beam?" Alan asked. It was animportant component of the bussard scoop. Alan hoped hehad approval from Engineering."No, we're always irradiating bodies too massive tocollect. They don't divert, but they have been exposed topaired photons.""Yeah?" Alan asked. He could see that, he could evenbelieve there was naturally occurring condensate in the heartsof some of those iceballs. There were many atoms in all ofthem that had given up their last quantum of heat.“Anyway, he thinks he’s found signals in thosecondensates. He says there are way too many state changes.He’s trying to come up with a theory of how a naturallyoccurring condensate could radiate this much information."“How much is it?” Alan wondered.“He's talking multi-layer quantum computing, condensedentangled magnons and stuff like that.”Alan had reached his limit in theoretical physics with thisdiscussion, and answered, “OK?”“Well, he seems to think that two thirds of the information17