CLOSE PROXIMITY by Huffman Marshall

Author:Huffman, Marshall [Huffman, Marshall]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2013-11-24T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

“Abby sat in deep thought pouring over the latest calculations that Brian had come up with. She placed them next to the ones from the JPL and they were significantly different. Enough that it would have an overall impact on the end results that took place on Earth. She shook her head and followed along with Brian’s calculations with her finger.

“How sure are you Brian?” Abby asked.

“Abby, I’ve done the math ten times. Lewis has checked and double checked it. I know what the JPL and the others are saying but they are not taking into account all of the variables.”

“Brian. They have some of the world’s leading astrophysicists working on these calculations. I’m pretty darn good at math myself but this is even above my head. You’re saying they are all wrong and you are right? Even accounting for the differences in the variables?”

“All I know is that I am confident that when you look at every facet of the possible influences, the facts speak for themselves. I have checked them over and over and each time this is what I come up with,” Brian told her.

“You know they are going to rip into this. I mean, it will get personal at some point. A graduate student telling the world’s most preeminent mathematicians they are wrong is bound to cause a great deal of stress for you. Can you handle it?”

“Do you believe in me?” Brian asked bluntly.

“Yes,” Abby said without hesitation, “I have seen what you are capable of and I certainly don’t doubt your abilities for one second. What you have to decide is if you can take the heat once you tell them they are wrong.”

“Aren’t you going to do that?” Brian asked, suddenly realizing that he was going to have to be the one to present the material.

“Brian, you understand it a lot better than I ever will. You are going to have to be the one who speaks up. This is one thing I cannot do for you. This is all your show. I will be there to support you but you have to make the presentation. I can’t do that for you,” she told him.

“As long as you back me up, I can handle it.”

“Surely you know I will. Brian. If I wasn’t willing to stand behind your calculations we wouldn’t be having this conversation. I would just tell you to drop it,” Abby said.

Brian looked down at his feet, “Yeah I know. Sorry.”

“Don’t be sorry, be right,” she said, patting him on the shoulder.

Brian was in a class all his own. He saw mathematical equations the way musicians see music in their heads. In every class since middle school, he could do math at a level above the instructor’s level. He was tall and gangly in appearance. Basically he looked like a nerd. His persona gave no indication of his intellectual ability when it came to math. He may forget to eat or tie his shoes and wear his tee-shirt inside out but no one could equal his deductive reasoning.

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