Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

arrange the electrons in Gordon’s Lamp. But no, they canonly change the quantum states in select atoms in dark bodiesin the galactic night. When you have no energy at all to workwith, moving as big a mass as an electron is a monumentaltask. It would take hundreds of electrons for each bit in thesixty four bit grant list pointer to get her into it. She wouldhave to move untold electrons in the grant list counter also toadd herself.But it was likely that she was already getting grants, tothat veron store in Thom’s lab. She knew it was entry zero,she needed to get that grant passed on to her. It was unlikelythat grant was going anywhere now, whatever this OS wasthat had captured her, it would undoubtedly have a grantsystem of it’s own.If the scientist’s analysis of their situation was correct, shecould not be running that way. Her billions of neuronscouldn’t have been farmed out among billions of dark bodies,it would take cubic light years to find enough bodies. But shehad been pulled into this universe at the instant the tanglerbeam reached the dark body, not five minutes later when theeffect had propagated back to Gordon’s Lamp. Instantaneousis instantaneous, once or a hundred billion times. The amountof data to be transferred was staggering, it would have tomove billions of times faster than the state changes Thomstudied, faster than the signals on the network from Alan’sworld. State changes so rapid that an atom is far too big astructure to support the bandwidth if the wave must move511