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gone_byebyeOctober 5, 2003 + 4 days
Milliways
If I really were dead- and I'm not saying I am- I really wouldn't object at all to this place being my eternal lot. Or, heck, if it was where I had to stay between reincarnations. That would be so amazingly cool.
I met the Flash yesterday. Not Jay Garrick- Barry Allen. I'm afraid I made a fool of myself talking to him, but he really didn't seem to mind. He knows Eska, apparently. Said I impressed her and managed to explain the concept of 'gravity' in a way that made her believe she had it on her home world. I'm not really sure why that would be so hard. It's a perfectly simple concept. Self-evident, when you get right down to it. Of course, the rubber-sheet model of spacetime makes it a whole lot easier and I don't think they were teaching it in the schools when he was a student, so maybe that's what made the difference... Anyway, he said he wants to talk to me about my work, and ghostbusting technology, and the whole theoretical foundation of the stuff we do back home. Which is just so incredibly cool it's almost impossible to believe- but it gets better. After he left, another super showed up- Kid Flash- and he turned out to be a fan. Of mine. Of ours, really, but I was the only one there, so- anyway. I think he was at least as excited to see me as I was to see the Flash, if not more so. I tried saying I wasn't anything super, just a scientist, but he said that was what made it so impressive. He said it was like Batman, who doesn't have any powers, just his toys.
Let me repeat that: he compared me to Batman.
I don't think I've ever had that big of a compliment in my entire life. I mean, Batman!!
And it still gets better. When I explained why I hadn't tried to go home yet, he offered to loan me his Legion of Superheroes flight ring in exchange for getting to look at my equipment. I know I said I'd buy the anti-gravity belt from Warren, but there are some questions you do not think about your answers to. If someone asks you if you're a god, you say yes; if your country's worst enemy's legal representative asks you if you wish their protection,you say yes; if a Swede named Wallenberg asks you to help him with something humanitarian, you say yes- and if an actual real live honest to Fnord superhero offers to loan you his Legion of Superheroes flight ring, you say yes!! I'll buy the belt from Warren anyway. I have to give the ring back once I've gone home and finished falling. Having insurance against gravity sounds like a really healthy thing, and Egon's gonna freak when he sees the technology involved. At least, I assume he will. I don't know what the technology involved actually is. Warren gets a PKE meter and a trap, I get a shiny new violation of the known laws of physics- sounds like a fantastic deal to me!
I've also been discussing memetic transmigration between universes with Eska. Seems her world's humans speak minor variations on Terran languages, not to mention having several very distinct regionalisms that correspond almost exactly with Terran ones. She and the Flash postulated the existence of a meme-bearing particle that passes between universes, which they've called the Ideon. Sounds like a reasonable idea to me, but it struck me that there might be something to the collective unconscious as well- if it spans universes, of course. We're goign to have to devise some kind of variation on Michelson and Morley to test the theories, which should prove interesting. Might also explain a few things about the inter-universal propagation of stories, come to think of it. Testing's gonna be a real bitch, but that's science for you.
Speaking of testing, I'm going to go try out the flight ring now.
October 5, 2005, + 4 days, 2 hours
Milliways
It works.
Ow.
My head.
They should pad the ceilings in here.
Milliways
If I really were dead- and I'm not saying I am- I really wouldn't object at all to this place being my eternal lot. Or, heck, if it was where I had to stay between reincarnations. That would be so amazingly cool.
I met the Flash yesterday. Not Jay Garrick- Barry Allen. I'm afraid I made a fool of myself talking to him, but he really didn't seem to mind. He knows Eska, apparently. Said I impressed her and managed to explain the concept of 'gravity' in a way that made her believe she had it on her home world. I'm not really sure why that would be so hard. It's a perfectly simple concept. Self-evident, when you get right down to it. Of course, the rubber-sheet model of spacetime makes it a whole lot easier and I don't think they were teaching it in the schools when he was a student, so maybe that's what made the difference... Anyway, he said he wants to talk to me about my work, and ghostbusting technology, and the whole theoretical foundation of the stuff we do back home. Which is just so incredibly cool it's almost impossible to believe- but it gets better. After he left, another super showed up- Kid Flash- and he turned out to be a fan. Of mine. Of ours, really, but I was the only one there, so- anyway. I think he was at least as excited to see me as I was to see the Flash, if not more so. I tried saying I wasn't anything super, just a scientist, but he said that was what made it so impressive. He said it was like Batman, who doesn't have any powers, just his toys.
Let me repeat that: he compared me to Batman.
I don't think I've ever had that big of a compliment in my entire life. I mean, Batman!!
And it still gets better. When I explained why I hadn't tried to go home yet, he offered to loan me his Legion of Superheroes flight ring in exchange for getting to look at my equipment. I know I said I'd buy the anti-gravity belt from Warren, but there are some questions you do not think about your answers to. If someone asks you if you're a god, you say yes; if your country's worst enemy's legal representative asks you if you wish their protection,you say yes; if a Swede named Wallenberg asks you to help him with something humanitarian, you say yes- and if an actual real live honest to Fnord superhero offers to loan you his Legion of Superheroes flight ring, you say yes!! I'll buy the belt from Warren anyway. I have to give the ring back once I've gone home and finished falling. Having insurance against gravity sounds like a really healthy thing, and Egon's gonna freak when he sees the technology involved. At least, I assume he will. I don't know what the technology involved actually is. Warren gets a PKE meter and a trap, I get a shiny new violation of the known laws of physics- sounds like a fantastic deal to me!
I've also been discussing memetic transmigration between universes with Eska. Seems her world's humans speak minor variations on Terran languages, not to mention having several very distinct regionalisms that correspond almost exactly with Terran ones. She and the Flash postulated the existence of a meme-bearing particle that passes between universes, which they've called the Ideon. Sounds like a reasonable idea to me, but it struck me that there might be something to the collective unconscious as well- if it spans universes, of course. We're goign to have to devise some kind of variation on Michelson and Morley to test the theories, which should prove interesting. Might also explain a few things about the inter-universal propagation of stories, come to think of it. Testing's gonna be a real bitch, but that's science for you.
Speaking of testing, I'm going to go try out the flight ring now.
October 5, 2005, + 4 days, 2 hours
Milliways
It works.
Ow.
My head.
They should pad the ceilings in here.
