Sunday, September 3, 2017

A Dancer in the Infinite - Chapter 70


Chapter 70 Back to the Egg Room Again

Many of the phenomena observed in the laboratory are puzzling because they are difficult to conceptualize as physical phenomena, yet they can be modeled exactly by mathematical manipulations. When we analogize to the operations of a digital computer, these same phenomena can be understood as logical and, in some cases, necessary features of computer programming designed to produce a virtual reality simulation  Ross Rhodes

    

And she was back in the Egg, back in the Egg room again.

     “Looks like we’ve got another Marie incoming,” said Jenkins again.

“Lovely timing,” Wally said again.  “Somebody get up on the fucking battlements with the AR15!”

     She heard gunfire through the thick stone walls of the castle as the Egg opened.  There were Jackie and Jenkins looking at her with some small surprise.

     “Seriously,” said the other voice, “She’s here, you’re done…take the fucking machine gun and get up on the battlement.  Stan can’t hold them off all by himself.  Rian and I can handle Marie.”

     Once again Wally tossed the weapon to a dazed Jackie.   Marie noticed that not only did Shellborne take the AR15 with a horrified dread, but that there were tears in her eyes and she was visibly shaking with fear.

     “Stay down,” Marie warned Jackie as she left the room holding the gun like it was going to bite her.  She turned to Wally, “You had better get up there and help her and whoever the fuck you have up there, because they’re not going to hold out for very long.  Maybe you can give us a few more minutes.  Dr. Jenkins and I have a very important conversation.”

     Wallace Patel seemed dazed, but said, “Okay, we’ll do our best.” And ran after Jackie.

     “Now, we don’t have much time,” she addressed Jenkins, “You have to answer my questions as quickly as you can.  Okay?”

     “Um…sure…okay.” He responded.

     “Good.  Now have you had any other Maries come by this morning.  Just one.  She just left right before you came along.”

     “Did your Marie and she get a chance to meet?  And is your Marie dead?”

     “Why, yes to both questions.  I just happened.  Wally had just come down to tell us that Marie had been shot on the roof and right after that the other Marie disappeared.  Is this important?”

     “Don’t worry about it, it’s my problem.  You have plenty of your own.”

     Gun shots from semi and automatic weapons punctuated her sentence with dramatic flair outside and above them.

     “What’s the Simulation Hypothesis?” she asked.  “Quick, we don’t have very much time, from what I’ve seen.”

     “The Simulation Hypothesis? “

     “yes, you know what it is, right?  I don’t know if that’s your big thing or not, for some Jenkinses it is, but you know what it is, right?”

     “Uh…yes, yes, of course…the Simulation Hypothesis states that in its most simply form that reality is simply a computer simulation.”

     “It that even possible?”

     “Well, its proponents seem to think it is.  There is some evidence: some equations in super string theory seem to possess a sort of auto-correct program like computer code often does.  There’s the question of holographic structre…Fermilabs is building a Holometer to test that theory.”

     “How would that work for a multiverse though?” asked Marie, surprised at the scientific nuance of her own question.

     “I…have no idea…” Jenkins replied.

     And she saw him fade away.



copyright 2017 Diana Hignutt

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