Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

"Somebody has to, it's not the hardware that's thecondensate, it's my thoughts." she said, "Anything is possible,I might get a direct mind link with whatever it is. I doubt itwill be strong enough for me to sense it, but if my thoughtswere entangled with something out there, it seems to me Imight be able to feel it’s thoughts.""That could be dangerous," Thom said. He wondered whyshe would so calmly take the risk."We could hit a snowflake any second," she replied, "andthat could be fatal, besides, I'll take a backup. It is much morelikely I will notice nothing. We will probably have toinstrument my consciousness to tell anything is happening.""So it makes no sense to perform the experiment," Thomsaid."I still think it's worth trying," she said. "Just pick thenearest body and give it a shot."“You don’t think there is any danger?”“You already have my thoughts entangled with thatcondensate in your jar. Why would I be in any more dangerfrom the condensates in the dark body than from those inyour jar?”“Because those condensates are not initiating anytransitions. It’s like there is no output from them, the darkbodies have more output than your mind does, you could beblown away.”“What percentage of the thoughts in my mind areentangled by one pass of the beam?” Ava asked.226