Smarter by Laurence Dahners

Author:Laurence Dahners [Dahners, Laurence]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Laurence Dahners
Published: 2012-01-31T00:00:00+00:00

Ell dutifully studied her double slit apparatus a few minutes, pondering whether she could, in fact, have overlooked some flaw, decided that she hadn’t and spent another half hour pulling her preliminary notes together into a paper ready for submission. She sent it to Johnson’s inbox and went downstairs to pick up her new PGRs. On the way back Fred notified her that she had an appointment in the Tech Transfer Office at 1PM with a Mr. Wayne Stillman. She went back to the lab and put nanotubes in all of her new PGRs and tested them to be sure they worked.

They didn’t!

In a panic she reviewed Emma’s design and with some relief realized that Emma had replicated the faults Ell had built into the first design. It was extremely difficult to microsolder the tiny bridges on Emma’s smaller design but Ell got it done on one pair. Once the bridges were soldered, that pair worked fine and she solder bridged the rest of them. Ell checked out a pair of small picosecond accurate clocks, synched them exactly, and hooked one up to the input of one PGR and the other clock to a “micro” AI which was also attached to the second PGR so that the AI could measure the difference between the readings of the two clocks. She put the first clock-PGR combo into a double FedEx box and addressed it to Australia with instructions on the inner box to mail it back to her apartment. Not a perfect experiment, but about as cheaply as she could think to check for light speed delays. Another pair of PGRs she used to hook Allan, her AI, up to the net through one of the lab’s computers. Months ago, she’d modified the power switch on her AI so that flipping the power switch turned off the outer case lights but left the actual AI running. She had also installed a microphone inside the case so that Allan could hear what was happening around him without being jacked to the AI headband. Thus Allan already was able to report to the police and her family if something happened to Ell.

But with the PGR connection, Allan would be able to reach the net even if someone using a net jammer kidnapped her!

Roger’s chair scraped back and he said, “Hey busy lady, wanna grab some lunch?”

Ell looked up, surprised to see it was noon and said, “Sure!” She picked up her FedEx box and a couple of her PGRs and they headed out.

Roger said, “What’cha sending?” nodding at the FedEx box.

“Hmmm, a little experiment.”

“You can’t send our equipment to someone else! You’re in enough trouble over using the fab aren’t you?”

“It’s going out and coming back. Nothing’s actually going to anyone else. I’d rather not talk about it. How’s your experiment going?”

“Going out and coming back?”

“How’s your experiment going?” She grinned crookedly up at him.

He snorted, “Crappy as usual. The output is a factor of 6 lower than it should be.”

“Hmmm, ‘there is nothing more horrific in science than the murder of a dearly held hypothesis by dastardly data.

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