Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

started.“Quadrillion,” she corrected.“OK, quadrillion, of these verons in it’s body...”Heymon interrupted, “But how long does it’s nerveimpulse, if that’s what these state transitions are, take to getacross it’s body? Over a thousand years. How long does ittake to have thoughts at that rate?”“These transfers are not governed by the speed of light,”Thom said, causing Darryl and Heymon to groan. “There isno matter or energy transferred, only the information that tellsthe paired particle when to flip. Since there is already ashared quark surface between the particles, the transfer isimmediate. Light is governed by the laws of matter andenergy and not the laws of information.”“I cannot transfer information in the system we swim in atbetter than half the speed of light,” Ava said, “but Iunderstand what you’re saying, it’s not the information that’sthrottling the speed, it’s the electron.”“So it can have thoughts quick enough,” Thom said, “it istaking action two hundred years after our souls began to becaptured in silicon.”“It took action almost immediately when silicon begandamaging the source of souls,” Ava said. “It has taken twohundred years for the bodies to get close enough for Sol’sinstruments to see.”“So these souls went to war with us as soon as theystopped getting new souls from Earth?”558