before you know it, there’s a bunch of enviro-domes thrown up and several million brain-dead dome-drones moving in.’
‘But I guess we need more room…you know for more people,’ she offered half-heartedly.
‘Maybe we just don’t need any more people. Isn’t three hundred billion enough in this Universe?!’
They watched the dazzling snow scape race beneath them for a while then he snapped off the floods. The cabin was once again dimly lit by the amber glow of the data screens.
‘Many years from now, you can tell your grandchildren that there was once snow on Harpers Reach. And after they’ve finished nodding politely, they’ll cart you off to the laughing-house.’
Ellie smiled gratefully at him although in the faint light she was sure he would only be able to make out her silhouette. ‘Thanks for not letting me sleep through this.’
‘That’s okay. Hey…maybe I’ll put her down on the snow when we head back this way in a couple of days. We can have a snowball fight or make a snow man.’
‘Snow man ?’
Aaron sighed. ‘It’s what people used to do a long time ago with snow, back in the days before we got used to living like lab-rats.’
OMNIPEDIA:
[Human Universe open source digital encyclopedia]
Article: Ellie Quin - Sub-space Resonance
In the mid-twentieth century mathematicians discovered that the five different Superstring Theories being discussed were in fact one, but appeared to be five thanks to minor discrepancies caused by an unseen and, at that time, undiscovered phenomenon. It had been widely accepted for some time back then that ten spatial dimensions could be mathematically calculated. The discrepancies in Superstring Theory could be explained only by hypothesizing the existence of an eleventh.
Today we know that to be true, and it is this dimension that is used as a transmission medium for Sub-space Resonance signals. This is the process of exciting cunarks through the eleventh spatial dimension; a process that requires an inordinate amount of energy. The result is a vibration that can travel any distance instantly and be recorded and decoded at the other end.
Since its discovery eight hundred years ago, Sub-space Resonance has only ever been used sparingly by a few of the most senior executives of the most powerful corporations in Human Space. It was also used on extremely rare occasions by the Administration to relay matters of utmost urgency.
To understand the amount of energy involved in having a short Sub-space conversation, it would take the energy required to propel a battle cruiser at maximum speed for one year to transmit a five second message. Thus, as a mode of communication, it was then, and still is now, highly uneconomical. But, perhaps even more importantly, it is a very insecure communication medium. You see a Sub-space Resonance wave never diminishes. The wave, or as it is often described, the echo of the wave, will exist forever once it is formed. This being the case, it would be possible, hypothetically (with an almost infinite supply of energy to hand) to surf through the oceans of naturally occurring resonance wave frequencies today and hear snatched moments of conversations held over the last eight hundred years. Many such conversations being held between the wealthy and the powerful, the rulers and the power-brokers of the last millennium, and every one of these conversations about matters of paramount, history-altering importance. These conversations would have been held briefly with no time for courtesy or small-talk; brief exchanges of facts, information, and decisions made.
The ether of the eleventh dimension must be a historian’s treasure trove.
It is known that around the time that Ellie Quin left her home for New Haven, the eminent Genetic scientist, Dr Edward Mason was killed in an unfortunate accident. In the aftermath of his death a very disturbing discovery was made aboard the Laboratory facility of the Department of Genetic Analysis. A
‘But I guess we need more room…you know for more people,’ she offered half-heartedly.
‘Maybe we just don’t need any more people. Isn’t three hundred billion enough in this Universe?!’
They watched the dazzling snow scape race beneath them for a while then he snapped off the floods. The cabin was once again dimly lit by the amber glow of the data screens.
‘Many years from now, you can tell your grandchildren that there was once snow on Harpers Reach. And after they’ve finished nodding politely, they’ll cart you off to the laughing-house.’
Ellie smiled gratefully at him although in the faint light she was sure he would only be able to make out her silhouette. ‘Thanks for not letting me sleep through this.’
‘That’s okay. Hey…maybe I’ll put her down on the snow when we head back this way in a couple of days. We can have a snowball fight or make a snow man.’
‘Snow man ?’
Aaron sighed. ‘It’s what people used to do a long time ago with snow, back in the days before we got used to living like lab-rats.’
OMNIPEDIA:
[Human Universe open source digital encyclopedia]
Article: Ellie Quin - Sub-space Resonance
In the mid-twentieth century mathematicians discovered that the five different Superstring Theories being discussed were in fact one, but appeared to be five thanks to minor discrepancies caused by an unseen and, at that time, undiscovered phenomenon. It had been widely accepted for some time back then that ten spatial dimensions could be mathematically calculated. The discrepancies in Superstring Theory could be explained only by hypothesizing the existence of an eleventh.
Today we know that to be true, and it is this dimension that is used as a transmission medium for Sub-space Resonance signals. This is the process of exciting cunarks through the eleventh spatial dimension; a process that requires an inordinate amount of energy. The result is a vibration that can travel any distance instantly and be recorded and decoded at the other end.
Since its discovery eight hundred years ago, Sub-space Resonance has only ever been used sparingly by a few of the most senior executives of the most powerful corporations in Human Space. It was also used on extremely rare occasions by the Administration to relay matters of utmost urgency.
To understand the amount of energy involved in having a short Sub-space conversation, it would take the energy required to propel a battle cruiser at maximum speed for one year to transmit a five second message. Thus, as a mode of communication, it was then, and still is now, highly uneconomical. But, perhaps even more importantly, it is a very insecure communication medium. You see a Sub-space Resonance wave never diminishes. The wave, or as it is often described, the echo of the wave, will exist forever once it is formed. This being the case, it would be possible, hypothetically (with an almost infinite supply of energy to hand) to surf through the oceans of naturally occurring resonance wave frequencies today and hear snatched moments of conversations held over the last eight hundred years. Many such conversations being held between the wealthy and the powerful, the rulers and the power-brokers of the last millennium, and every one of these conversations about matters of paramount, history-altering importance. These conversations would have been held briefly with no time for courtesy or small-talk; brief exchanges of facts, information, and decisions made.
The ether of the eleventh dimension must be a historian’s treasure trove.
It is known that around the time that Ellie Quin left her home for New Haven, the eminent Genetic scientist, Dr Edward Mason was killed in an unfortunate accident. In the aftermath of his death a very disturbing discovery was made aboard the Laboratory facility of the Department of Genetic Analysis. A
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