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Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

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ead<strong>in</strong>g out <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>formation <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> bra<strong>in</strong>. Now just how are<strong>the</strong>y do<strong>in</strong>g that?” Heymon asked. He was com<strong>in</strong>g after Thomlike he was a hostile witness.Ava should answer that, she was <strong>the</strong> one who had takenalmost three weeks of Div<strong>in</strong>e Physiology while at <strong>the</strong>university of Atlantis. “The Wetat seeds decay bacteriawith...” she began but he spun around, he must not haveknown she was back <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> room, “entangled <strong>in</strong>strumentationas soon as life develops on a planet.”“These <strong>in</strong>struments are small enough to fit <strong>in</strong>side abacterium?” Kelv<strong>in</strong> asked. He was surely aware that Brazilianlabs could tailor bacteria and did so on a commercial scale,but <strong>the</strong>y could not build an <strong>in</strong>strument that was unknown toscience even now and fit it <strong>in</strong>side one.“Sir,” Darryl said, “We have data that <strong>in</strong>dicates <strong>the</strong>ir<strong>in</strong>struments must lie <strong>in</strong>side <strong>the</strong> nucleus of a s<strong>in</strong>gle atom. It isnot possible to produce <strong>the</strong>se waves outside <strong>the</strong> atomicnucleus because of <strong>the</strong> limitation on wavelength imposed by<strong>the</strong> speed of light.”“So we have <strong>the</strong> data from a natural death?” Ava asked.“Yes, that packet came <strong>in</strong> while you were gett<strong>in</strong>g Tung’sfriend set up.”“And?”“A copy was made. That copy’s bit radius is now severallight years, but it did not go to <strong>in</strong>f<strong>in</strong>ity.”“It’s radius went to light years <strong>in</strong> m<strong>in</strong>utes?” Ava asked.“You have to understand that is really a decrease <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong>555

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