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October 3, 2003 + 3 Days
Milliways
Well. This has been an interesting day.
I've had a nice long talk with a young man who claims to be able to build an anti-gravity belt, despite the fact that he is, technically, dead. He doesn't ping as properly dead on the PKE meter, just as a living human with a really peculiar spectral presence on or in his immediate presence, but I’m not going to let that bother me unless it turns out it's not a properly anti-gravity belt either. Believe me, that particular tech is getting thoroughly tested before I take it into the field, for multiple reasons, most of which have to do with the immediacy of an extremely messy death. I'd rather avoid that. It doesn't look like fun.
It also doesn't look like it's what's 'supposed' to happen. Last night I got Andrew to admit that in his world, my life is part of what's apparently a fairly entertaining movie about the four of us and our adventures. Which is all very nice, of course- though I'd kind of like to get a piece of the royalties, if that were possible- except for one thing. Andrew says the movie took place sometime in the early 1980's. No wonder he was looking at me funny. . . Obviously if there's going to be an infinite number of possible realities there's going to be a few that're very close to each other except for one or two minor details, but still, it's a little jarring finding out that the difference is being displaced temporally backwards like that! I was still in top and bottom retainers at the time. He says all four of us came out of it okay and even told me how we defeated Gozer, but he also said that I didn't fall off the building in the movie. I'm not sure what that says about my prospects when I get back home. Hopefully, not too much. I was never very big on a wholly deterministic model of the universe anyway. I'm going to go about my business here assuming the movie Andrew spoke of isn't much more than a guideline.
Speaking of business here. Andrew and Warren (the dead guy) aren't the only people I met. I've run into Anakin Skywalker. Not the whiny Hayden Christiansen version, either- this one's grown-up and as nearly as I can tell, post-Vader. Doesn't look a bit like he fell in a volcano, either- I didn't ask about that. It didn't seem like a healthy idea. But it was Anakin Skywalker!! The actual thing!!! Jedi powers and mad mechanical skills and everything- he helped me modify the proton pack so that it doesn't cause the whole pesky total protonic reversal problem if the stream gets crossed, which is great in itself, but the fact that he actually told me what he was doing and how he was inducing the gravitic field and the quantum fluctuations for rerouting part of the beam through hyperspace to avoid the etheric ripping effect- my God, if it actually works when I get back home, it'll be a total revolution in the field of quantum physics! The math is sound as far as I can tell, although some of it's a little grey because he couldn't tell me how it worked, but so what? I have the basic equations and an apparently working example of a practical application. If Egon can't work out the route from first principles to actual use, then he's not Egon Spengler. Unfortunately I haven't got anything like a clear PKE meter reading of the use of the Force but hey, can't have everything, right?
I'm going to go and transcribe my arms now. I ran out of notebook while I was working on the pack with Anakin (I still can't get over that!).
Milliways
Well. This has been an interesting day.
I've had a nice long talk with a young man who claims to be able to build an anti-gravity belt, despite the fact that he is, technically, dead. He doesn't ping as properly dead on the PKE meter, just as a living human with a really peculiar spectral presence on or in his immediate presence, but I’m not going to let that bother me unless it turns out it's not a properly anti-gravity belt either. Believe me, that particular tech is getting thoroughly tested before I take it into the field, for multiple reasons, most of which have to do with the immediacy of an extremely messy death. I'd rather avoid that. It doesn't look like fun.
It also doesn't look like it's what's 'supposed' to happen. Last night I got Andrew to admit that in his world, my life is part of what's apparently a fairly entertaining movie about the four of us and our adventures. Which is all very nice, of course- though I'd kind of like to get a piece of the royalties, if that were possible- except for one thing. Andrew says the movie took place sometime in the early 1980's. No wonder he was looking at me funny. . . Obviously if there's going to be an infinite number of possible realities there's going to be a few that're very close to each other except for one or two minor details, but still, it's a little jarring finding out that the difference is being displaced temporally backwards like that! I was still in top and bottom retainers at the time. He says all four of us came out of it okay and even told me how we defeated Gozer, but he also said that I didn't fall off the building in the movie. I'm not sure what that says about my prospects when I get back home. Hopefully, not too much. I was never very big on a wholly deterministic model of the universe anyway. I'm going to go about my business here assuming the movie Andrew spoke of isn't much more than a guideline.
Speaking of business here. Andrew and Warren (the dead guy) aren't the only people I met. I've run into Anakin Skywalker. Not the whiny Hayden Christiansen version, either- this one's grown-up and as nearly as I can tell, post-Vader. Doesn't look a bit like he fell in a volcano, either- I didn't ask about that. It didn't seem like a healthy idea. But it was Anakin Skywalker!! The actual thing!!! Jedi powers and mad mechanical skills and everything- he helped me modify the proton pack so that it doesn't cause the whole pesky total protonic reversal problem if the stream gets crossed, which is great in itself, but the fact that he actually told me what he was doing and how he was inducing the gravitic field and the quantum fluctuations for rerouting part of the beam through hyperspace to avoid the etheric ripping effect- my God, if it actually works when I get back home, it'll be a total revolution in the field of quantum physics! The math is sound as far as I can tell, although some of it's a little grey because he couldn't tell me how it worked, but so what? I have the basic equations and an apparently working example of a practical application. If Egon can't work out the route from first principles to actual use, then he's not Egon Spengler. Unfortunately I haven't got anything like a clear PKE meter reading of the use of the Force but hey, can't have everything, right?
I'm going to go and transcribe my arms now. I ran out of notebook while I was working on the pack with Anakin (I still can't get over that!).