All down to nothing
Jun. 18th, 2009 08:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
j_v_lynchGentle Readers,
This has been in my head all week and now I've finally had time to get it down. First draft fiction and all that.
"I throw this switch, the magnets will activate focusing the gravity waves right about here," said Dr. Duvvoori, waving vaguly at the center of platform at the heart of the final prototype they'd been building for the last six months, "Assuming you set up everything correctly."
Harper sighed.
"I did. Everything is aligned correctly. I even did a baseline test of the apparatus, as you requested. It works just like all the others, but with finer control and better feedback."
"Well, let's hope so. If you didn't get it right, we'll get the numbers wrong and it will evaporate. Not much of a demonstration if it evaporates, hey?"
Harper rolled his eyes at her back.
"I've aligned the array based on your calculations and I triple checked just as you requested. I even polished the collectors and then recalibrated."
Duvvoori seemed somewhat disappointed that she had nothing to chastise her assistant for.
"Very well. All right Harper, start the camera. Today is the day the Duvvoori enters the history books."
"The camera is on. The department head and the dean have both signed on already as well as a couple of reporters."
"Thank you Harper." He turned to face the camera. "Hello honored observers. You've all read the papers. Now I'm finally able to show you my..."
Harper silently mouthed "our".
"Masterwork in the study of focused gravity waves. Not only is it possible to focus gravity waves to create a virtual singularty as verified by Ivanov but by using a constant stream of particles it can be maintained indefinately. Far longer than Ivanov's half second."
Duvvoori paused dramaticly then threw the switch.
There was a low hum in the room as everything powered up. The florescent lights flickered. In the center of the apparatus, there appeared a small sphere of perfect black. It's presense made the room feel colder, look dimmer as if spare heat and light were being pulled to their doom.
"Now," continued Dr. Duvvoori, "The really facinating thing is that with a minor adjustment of the particle stream the energy output overtakes the... HARPER! What are you doing? That's too much. You know the equations show that too large an increase will make it grow too fast to maintain it's integrity. Help me shut it down before it pops and damages the collectors."
The doctor leaned over and began starting the shutdown. Harper hurried over to the console with a strange look on his face.
"Actually Doctor, if you'd only taken the graph a little further, you'd have seen that an exponential increase in injected particles will allow the singularity to self stabalize and start to grow."
"What are you talking about Harper? The particle generator isn't capeable of that. The amount of you'd have to inject would be..."
"About 65 kilos." Harper interrupted and pushed her against the black sphere's event horizon.
He wasn't sure how long it would take for the sphere to grow large enough to take him too, but if nothing else, the Brotherhood of Oblivion taught patience. Finally the waiting was almost over.
This has been in my head all week and now I've finally had time to get it down. First draft fiction and all that.
"I throw this switch, the magnets will activate focusing the gravity waves right about here," said Dr. Duvvoori, waving vaguly at the center of platform at the heart of the final prototype they'd been building for the last six months, "Assuming you set up everything correctly."
Harper sighed.
"I did. Everything is aligned correctly. I even did a baseline test of the apparatus, as you requested. It works just like all the others, but with finer control and better feedback."
"Well, let's hope so. If you didn't get it right, we'll get the numbers wrong and it will evaporate. Not much of a demonstration if it evaporates, hey?"
Harper rolled his eyes at her back.
"I've aligned the array based on your calculations and I triple checked just as you requested. I even polished the collectors and then recalibrated."
Duvvoori seemed somewhat disappointed that she had nothing to chastise her assistant for.
"Very well. All right Harper, start the camera. Today is the day the Duvvoori enters the history books."
"The camera is on. The department head and the dean have both signed on already as well as a couple of reporters."
"Thank you Harper." He turned to face the camera. "Hello honored observers. You've all read the papers. Now I'm finally able to show you my..."
Harper silently mouthed "our".
"Masterwork in the study of focused gravity waves. Not only is it possible to focus gravity waves to create a virtual singularty as verified by Ivanov but by using a constant stream of particles it can be maintained indefinately. Far longer than Ivanov's half second."
Duvvoori paused dramaticly then threw the switch.
There was a low hum in the room as everything powered up. The florescent lights flickered. In the center of the apparatus, there appeared a small sphere of perfect black. It's presense made the room feel colder, look dimmer as if spare heat and light were being pulled to their doom.
"Now," continued Dr. Duvvoori, "The really facinating thing is that with a minor adjustment of the particle stream the energy output overtakes the... HARPER! What are you doing? That's too much. You know the equations show that too large an increase will make it grow too fast to maintain it's integrity. Help me shut it down before it pops and damages the collectors."
The doctor leaned over and began starting the shutdown. Harper hurried over to the console with a strange look on his face.
"Actually Doctor, if you'd only taken the graph a little further, you'd have seen that an exponential increase in injected particles will allow the singularity to self stabalize and start to grow."
"What are you talking about Harper? The particle generator isn't capeable of that. The amount of you'd have to inject would be..."
"About 65 kilos." Harper interrupted and pushed her against the black sphere's event horizon.
He wasn't sure how long it would take for the sphere to grow large enough to take him too, but if nothing else, the Brotherhood of Oblivion taught patience. Finally the waiting was almost over.
