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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