The Infinity Program by Richard H. Hardy

Author:Richard H. Hardy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: algorithm
Publisher: Epicenter Press
Published: 2014-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

After Jon left his office, Harry realized that he needed to visit the men’s room. Five minutes later, while washing his hands, he studied his gaunt face in the mirror. There were dark circles under his eyes and his pupils were dilated, even though the lights in the men’s room were bright. In the back of his mind he realized that he should be tired, only he wasn’t. He felt absolutely great, euphoric even. He leaned over the sink, splashed some cold water on his face, and felt even better

On the way back to his office, he picked up a can of soda and a chocolate bar in the break room. An attractive middle-aged woman with prematurely gray hair was seated at the table, eating a granola bar and reading a newspaper. When Harry entered the room she looked up and stared at him with an odd look on her face, finally bursting into laughter. What the hell is she laughing at? Harry thought and then quickly dismissed her from his thoughts.

When Harry returned to his office, he stretched his arms and moved them in a sort of boxing motion to loosen up his shoulders. Then he touched his toes a couple of times to relax his leg muscles. As he did this, he noticed for the first time that when he had zipped up in the men’s room, he had zipped up over his shirttail. Eight inches of it stuck out of the top part of his fly. “Jeez!” he said aloud as he fixed the problem. He stretched once more before again taking his seat and logging back on to Big Moe.

A half minute later he experienced the odd resonance he always felt when the Josephson’s junction activated. It was a pins-and-needles type sensation at the top of his skull. As the effect heightened, he had the usual eerie feeling that he was in two places at once. He was distantly aware of his body as a dead weight in his chair and was tuned into the rhythm of his heartbeat. But his mind had been liberated. It was as though it had risen above the earth and was floating across a vast horizon. An ocean of information roiled below him, like waves in a sea, an endless ripple of data structures, twisting and breaking pell-mell.

Harry watched as the directories emerged from the ocean of data. They were in a profusion of shapes and figures: dodecahedrons, octahedrons, icosahedrons, and countless other geometric forms Harry couldn’t even guess at. Already he had spent hours trying to access them but they had resisted all his efforts. He had been able to open only the root directory, which he had accessed by using a mental trigger originating in his own mind. The Josephson’s junction then passed it to the quantum computer as a command. The trigger was a simple, fundamental concept in the theory of numbers: every integer greater than one must be either a prime number or the product of prime numbers.

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