Star Brother by Maxine Rose Schur

Author:Maxine Rose Schur
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Snowy Wings Publishing
Published: 2024-02-13T22:01:44+00:00

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They drove into Salt Lake City, dropped Oscar off at his friend’s house, then drove for another hour. At nightfall, they turned off Highway 80 onto a dark narrow road at the side of the Wasatch mountains. Here, in a cold valley, they pitched their blue nylon dome tent, far away from the car lights on the road. Roy shunned campgrounds because he said the noise of people talking all around wasn’t real camping.

“You might as well as sleep in a shopping mall as sleep in a campground,” he had told Jason.

Roy made a small fire and Jason took photos of the rising black smoke and the flames, which in the darkness, grew, danced, and quivered like living things.

“So,” Roy suddenly said. “Those holograms you’re making… why?”

“Why what?”

“Why are you making them? What’s the point? Why are you so interested in holograms?”

Jason, looking up at the sky, said, “They’re cool. They’re a kind of Deepfake? You know what that is?”

“Sure, it’s a photoshopped video that looks like the real person is saying and doing things, but it’s fake. It can fool people. Dangerous stuff.”

“Well, I’m not working on stuff to fool people, but to help them.”

“How?”

“I think holograms could be used for image guidance to operate on people. Doctors could render a 2D image into a 3D hologram of a person to help them plan their treatment better.”

“You mean like they could zoom in and out of a hologram, which would be a replica of a person—see all their insides?”

“Yeah, they could plan their surgeries better or use the hologram for teaching doctors—and that’s just medicine. I think the military could use holograms too—like make illusions to fool the enemy.”

“Impressive. You thought this out. I did read about possible holographic displays of battlefields, but it sounds like what you’re doing is something new. But you’re using just a phone, so explain the science to an old optics guy like me.”

So Jason explained it, and later in their sleeping bags, Jason and Roy talked science for a long while. Jason liked this best. During the day, he and Roy seemed so different, not like twins at all. But now, talking about science, it was as if they thought with one mind. That felt good. He liked learning things from Roy about physics and programming that helped him refine what he now called his Hyper-Hologram technology.

When at last Roy was snoring peacefully, Jason poked his head out of the tent and looked up at the unlimited sky. He felt different. Maybe it was Mr. Beaufort showing him those tricks, but maybe it was more than that. He was starting to see the size of things—a road that stretched across states, the vastness of the desert, and a sky wider than he had ever seen. The great open spaces made him think of mind-boggling ideas—like, what if the universe was a hologram? If a hologram is just a 3D image embedded in a 2D format, maybe what appears as 3D reality is really stored on a 2D surface that includes time.

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