Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

lived in was very much a work of man and his machines andnot a divine creation. In the same way this ‘creature’ or ‘OS’was very much a work of some race somewhere, and not adivine spirit. She could see that Jason Rendellyn might beharboring that belief, but most of the crew would know it wasalien technology gone feral. She hoped Arthur was sure ofthat.She hadn’t really noticed Darryl was gone until hereappeared at the back door. Almost all of the crew was inhere by now, duty hours were well under way. She hopedsomeone was at the helm and someone was monitoring thereactor. She noticed Morg was not here so he probably was.The crowd parted to let Darryl reach the front of the room.Without introduction he turned and addressed them all,“I’ve been poking the fifth order around a little using some ofthe latest data. There are a few things that drop out.“The Planck frequency going to zero is analogous withslipping within an event horizon. The going to infinity isanalogous to being emitted from an event horizon. I thinkwhat we are seeing here is a transition thru a form of eventhorizon.” He pointed to the plot they had looked at earlier.“If we accept that a human soul is one of these fifth ordercondensates,” Arthur said, “then all you are saying is that atthe time of death the soul leaves the universe.”“If you accept that a soul is a fifth order condensate, aquasi-boson in other words, yes, that seems to be what this561