Einstein's bridge by Cramer John

Author:Cramer, John
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Twenty-first century, Life on other planets, Science fiction
Publisher: New York : Avon Books
Published: 1998-03-11T05:00:00+00:00

160 I JOHN CRAMER

followed by a question period and a break, followed by thirty-minute talks by four other speakers. Roger Coulton, seated now at the far right of the front row next to his boss, Bert Barnes, would discuss the twelve Snark diagrams and their interpretation. Professor Angelo Axel, distinguished cosmologist from the University of Chicago, would discuss inflationary cosmology and bubble universes. Professor Rudyard Home of Cal Tech would discuss general relativity and quantum gravity as apphed to stable microscopic wormholes. And Professor Wilson MuUigan, George's friend from the University of Washington Astronomy Department and a longtime leader of SETI efforts in radio astronomy, would discuss strategies for establishing two-way contact using the Snark.

There had been some discussion of coupling the seminar to a press conference, but George had vetoed that idea, preferring to wait until the two-way contact attempt had been made. Alice was delighted with this decision. She had a major news scoop, the discovery of the Snark, ready to break to an unsuspecting world later this afternoon. Alice took digital camera shots of the arrangement on the front row and made detailed notes of everything. She was thinking of the news release, the Search article she would write on the Snark, and the popular-level science book that would follow it. The Snark was a historic event, and she was in a unique position to write its history.

George started his talk by projecting several multicolored and rotating views of the now-famous Snark event on the large computer-driven flatscreen at the front of the room. He mentioned several important features of the LEM detector that had been essential in discovering the event. He graphically traced the path of the Snark through the various layers of the detector, projecting diagrams that showed in detail the region where the Snark had stopped. He then described how he and Alice had come in the middle of the night and removed the scintillator bar containing the Snark from the LEM detector. He held up a unit hke the one they had removed.

Alice smiled. George made it sound as if their actions that Saturday night had been a thoroughly planned course of action, a careful set of logical steps, rather than the slightly beery culmination to an evening of dancing at P.J.'s. And he didn't mention that after they'd found the thing, they'd gone to Ahce's house and screwed like demented weasels. He seemed to imply that at least half of the insights that had led to finding the Snark had been hers. George was a gentleman, but he was unduly

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