Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

the captain go flying off because of Thom’s faulty readings.”“You’re sure they’re faulty?”“Quantum information can neither be created nordestroyed.”“Since we can’t follow the math ourselves, we have totake that theorem on faith,” Ava said.“We will all die if the captain of this ship starts makingdecisions based on information that is contrary to the laws ofphysics.”“What if we really are wrong about the laws of physics?”Ava said. “No observational studies have been made.”“I thought they had?” Heymon said.“When?”He didn’t know. “I’m not going to get distracted lookingthat up now, the topic is what you’ve done to our captain.”“Is he so frail he can’t know the truth?”“He doesn’t understand. He doesn’t know that everythingcould be false. Have you gotten any hints that Alan is doingthis?”“A moment ago you were accusing me.”“You’re the only one besides Alan who could do it.”“You’re forgetting we could be running under diagnosticsin a tin shed in Scranton.” She had spent the first years of theafterlife in a tin shed in Scranton, until she joined theChristial Church and the expedition of Gordon’s Lamp. Butshe couldn’t prove they were not still in that tin shed with thewhole expedition to 61 Cygni and back synthesized and fed372