Oblivion Gambit: A Military Science Fiction Space Opera Epic (The Oblivion Saga Book 4) by J.R. Mabry & B.J. West

Author:J.R. Mabry & B.J. West [Mabry, J.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Xenophile Press
Published: 2020-05-14T16:00:00+00:00

Emma looked up as Amberline came into the room. “Thank God you’re here!” she shouted and ran to embrace her.

Amberline awkwardly returned the embrace. The mask said, “I was told I was needed as translator.”

“That’s an understatement! First off, who are these people?”

Amberline tapped her thigh and made the gesture for science.

“They are scientists, like me?”

“Exactly.”

One of the red-banded scientists approached and began gesturing. Amberline translated for her. “She says that your teacher brought to her attention that you are an Earth scientist of great distinction.”

Emma brushed the bangs out of her eyes. “Well, that’s relative, of course. But let’s just say I know my shit.” She waited to see how Amberline translated it.

She just gestured, “Correct.”

The scientist gestured her to follow and brought her over to the largest video table she’d seen in the hive. It was completely filled from edge to edge with complex equations that continued past the edges of the table. “Does this make sense to you?”

“Wow,” Emma said, taking it in. “This is some serious…” she trailed off as she got lost in the numbers. She tapped one set of equations. “This is a multidimensional transfer function, looks like, uh, eight dimensions… This is a time-dependent Schrödinger equation, uh… stability coefficient, cosmological constant… whoa.” She looked up. “You are calculating the distance between two strings.”

Amberline translated, and the scientists talked among themselves excitedly.

One of them stepped forward and actually bowed towards Emma. “We are pleased to meet you,” she signed. “We knew that there were formidable scientists among the humans, but we never thought we’d get to meet one.”

Emma signed back, “The honor is mine.”

A second scientist pushed forward. “Your understanding of our work is remarkable, but incomplete.”

Emma laughed. “Considering I’ve been looking at it for two minutes, I’m not surprised!”

Amberline translated, and they all made a quivering gesture with their right claw.

“Is that laughing?” Emma asked.

“Essentially, yes.”

Emma smiled and made the same gesture. “Good to know. So, what’s the rest of the picture? Is this just theoretical work?”

“Not theoretical.”

Emma scratched her head and momentarily wished again for conditioner. “In everything I’ve ever read, the space between strings should be zero.” She made the sign for zero.

The one that appeared to be the lead scientist shook her head and signed “not zero.” There was something about her bald head and round eyes that reminded Emma of an old Earth philosopher named Buckminster Fuller. She decided to think of her as Bucky.

Bucky pointed to a region of the equation set, highlighting a couple of key functions.

Emma looked them over.

“Interesting. You’ve added provisions for uh...a kind of pressure between the strings.”

Amberline signed frantically. Bucky signed back, “Correct.”

“And if that pressure is strong enough, it fills the space between the strings, pushing them apart.”

“Exactly.”

Emma looked up, imagining the phenomena. “You’d get a sort of bubble sub-universe. But you’d get some strange interactions where it pressed upon the adjacent strings.” She perused the equations; they had indeed noted the interaction in their calculations.

“Yes,” Bucky signed, as Amberline vocalized. “And you would expect the pressure on the two adjacent strings to be equal and symmetrical.

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