Chapter
40
An
Invitation to France
The
fields organizing the activity of the nervous system are likewise inherited
through morphic resonance, conveying a collective, instinctive memory. Each
individual both draws upon and contributes to the collective memory of the
species. This means that new patterns of behaviour can spread more rapidly than
would otherwise be possible. For example, if rats of a particular breed learn a
new trick in Harvard, then rats of that breed should be able to learn the same
trick faster all over the world, say in Edinburgh and Melbourne. There is
already evidence from laboratory experiments… that this actually happens. – Rupert Shelldrake
Jackie as excited she had ever been when
she saw Stan Wukowsi pull up on the curb before her, just outside of the
airport in Carcassonne. He leapt out of
the car with great enthusiasm, nodded cheerfully. “Dr. Shellborne, I presume. I’m sorry that Rian didn’t come for you
personally, but A) he’s up to his elbows in his work right now, and B) he
doesn’t do this sort of thing.”
“That’s fine. Dr. Wukoski, I’m just happy to be invited to
your research facility.”
“Research facility? Well, yes, I suppose it is, but it’s still
rather a mess. Oh, and call me Stan,
please.”
“It’s Jackie, then” she said, shaking his
offered hand.
Stan was right. The chateau was a bit of a mess. The door had been cleared of the crawling
vines, grape and ivy, but little else had.
Stan had explained the Jenkins had bought the place ten years ago, and
no one had lived in it for a hundred or so years before that. He explained that it had been much worse,
actually, they had been paying a kid from Carcassonne to come up once a week
and hack at the vines, and fix up the interior for them, the kitchen and dining
areas having been fully renovated, as had a few of the bedrooms upstairs. But, the real work was going on downstairs.
“We have a quantum computer” Stan
whispered, leading her down past wine cellars to what most have been a dungeon
back in the day.
And there it was, a ramshackle mess of wires
servers, consoles, and a large metal sphere in the middle of the room. About this there worked three men. She immediately recognized Jenkins, assumed
the other middle-aged fellow was Friese and the long haired youngster was their
assistant. Introductions followed, which
bore out her guesses. Rian Jenkins
greeted her warmly, Renee Friese was distant but polite, and the young man was
eager to make a good impression. His
name was Barry Allen, who was infact a Phd, and looked somewhat younger than
his thirty odd years, who was recruited by Stan.
“Well, the gangs all here then,” observed
Stan.
“Yes,” agreed Rian Jenkins, “This calls for
a celebration. Let’s leave Renee to his
cursing in French, and get out of his hair for a bit, no, not you Dr. Allen,
you stay and help Dr. Friese.”
In the dining room, the Stan and Jackie
sat, while Jenkins struggled with the wine and a bottle opener, before the pop
signaled success. He poured three
glasses.
“I think you’ll like this,” Jenkins
said. “It’s a local wine, fruity and
full, but quite inexpensive. You’ll find
that wine, cheese and bread are the cheapest things to buy in France.”
He raised his glass, “To new friends,
colleagues, and Morphic Fields.”
They all drank.
“Dr. Shellborne” Jenkins continued, “I
invited you here, because you are the most brilliant scientist of our
generation, because your concept of morphic resonance is extremely important to
what we’re trying to do here, and … to give you the tools you need to test your
theories more fully. As you have seen,
despite its rather non-awe-inspiring appearance, we have a fully functional
quantum computer capable of performing near infinite bit computation.”
She was stunned by his compliments and by
the full meaning of his words as they sunk in.
“I am here to tell you,” said Rian Jenkins,
“that you are absolutely correct in your hypothesis, and that your morphic
fields transcend not only time and space, but extend into the infinite reaches
of the parallel universes that the Many Worlds Interpretation tells us
exist. Somehow, we have found traces of
such fields in our research, and believe they may be the key to unlocking
incredible potentialities of research and experimentation.”
copyright 2017 Diana Hignutt
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