SPOCK'S ULTIMATE TRUTHS

By: Dan Bivens

Chapter 2

"The Truer Nature of Quantum Activity"

"Before we go any further," said Spock while walking about the entire lecture area before the stadium-seated cadets and former fellow officers, Admiral Kirk and Dr. McCoy, with hands folded behind his board-straight back. "Might I assume that you have acquainted yourselves with the previously suggested logs from two prior starship missions codenamed 'Crisis on Colony Alpha V' and 'Missing Time'?"

As the seated students in cadet colors replied in the affirmative via overlapping voices and head nods, Spock continued, "Very well, then. Let us concentrate, in this first half-hour, upon the exact nature of Quantum Activity. Also, as per previous explanations in the logs from the aforementioned 'Crisis on Colony Alpha V', one of the three, according to the supremely evolved energy entities still referred to as Thasians, joined 'Fabrics'. The known for centuries Fabric of Space-Time. The recently validated Fabric of Quantum Activity as well as the originally overlooked Fabric of Life-Consciousness. All three of which, as you should already realize from your studies of said starship logs, coexist within the vastness of this universe and countless other universes."

"Wow," grumbled McCoy in a hushed aside to Admiral Kirk, "I am so glad you talked me into this."

"Shhh."

"Now, the first aspect of all things quantum," Spock said as holographic illustrations of such seemingly solidified in the emptiness to the Vulcan's left, "is the misunderstood mystery of an electron's illogical leaping about with no rhyme or reason. Until now, none were quite certain why this was the case and such is why transporters, from the first used tentatively by starships to what is currently considered commonplace, invariably rely upon the Heisenberg Compensator."

The entirety of the Starfleet Cadets, Humans and humanoid, nodded noticeably and agreed amongst themselves to such a well-known and necessary aspect of an incredibly important part of a fully functional transporter on not only starships and starbases. But virtually all vessels representative of planets of the Federation.

"Wake me up when Spock says anything at all new, will ya?" quietly quipped McCoy causing Kirk to grin gregariously.

He sorely missed those long lost years spent together on the self-same starship as what would be called, in McCoy's quaint colloquialism, "one big happy family", as Spock next activated the holographic illustrations of illusive electrons.

Literally popping in and out of Reality in a decidedly surreal fashion, even as a Vulcan Cadet named Sorek, sitting in the second row, languidly lifted a hand to staidly state his understanding of said subatomic actions.

"Yes, Sorek," Spock said in stoic identification of the youth sporting similar slanted brow and pointy-tipped ears amidst skin simultaneously pallid and green-tinged.

Standing, folding his own hands behind his board-straight back, Sorek said, "The fact that electrons defy logic by seemingly disappearing and reappearing rather than following some semblance of subatomic paths has been a more or less accepted precept of quantum mechanics for more than three centuries. Considering not only the Terran theorems and measurements as well as Vulcan scientific considerations about…"

"But, Sorek," calmly cut in Captain Spock to all the Cadets, not only the Vulcan, "does Terran theory and subsequent observation, as well as other such suppositions, take into account the Thasian Truths as they apply to alternate universes and sub-subatomic singularities inside said electrons?"

Suddenly, the collection of Cadets fell into silence over such a seemingly improbable possibility…

As do two seen-it-all ex-starship superior officers seated in the uppermost row overlooking the classroom wherein lectured Captain Spock…

"Did Spock just say what I think he said?" asked a suddenly curious McCoy of an equally inquisitive Kirk.

"I'm afraid you did, Bones. Spock's saying that…"

"As this holo-illustration shall demonstrate," Spock said as three-dimensional displays denoted an incredibly inconsequential point-singularity at the very heart of a single solitary electron. "Such singularities, more appropriately referred to as 'yachto-point black holes'--that is 10 to the negative-24--turn out to actually exist in the centermost domains of all electrons. Which is why, as this holo-illustration shows, an electron can coexist, for all of a pica-second, in more than one universe at a time. Thus professedly popping in and out of subatomic existence."

As the murmuring amongst Cadets, some accepting of Spock's Thasian-obtained "Truth" and some most definitely not, swelled and swirled, Sorek stood and spoke with uncommon Vulcan skepticism.

"Sir, scientists on several very old worlds of the Federation have studied and postulated in respect to the elusive electrons and none have ever presented such an illogical…"

"All things, Sorek," injected Spock seriously, "are 'illogical' until such time as their inherent enigmas are completely presented or exposed. Once studied and accepted, any scientific disclosure, no matter how improbable, must be adequately acknowledged. Just because it flies in the face of previous erudition is irrelevant. Such is a fact according to consciousnesses that are considered supreme. But it is a new fact and, as such, must be passed along for further reflection. Any questions?"

As Sorek reseated himself, even as more muttering made its way through the gathering, it became clear the Cadets did, indeed, accede to Spock's Truth.

"Very well, then," Spock said even as the holographic illustrations shifted from the impossibly small to something more on the order of the truly Cosmic. "Now, let us discuss the previous viewpoint as it pertains to planetary progress about stars containing impossibly immense globes orbiting far too close to and too quickly around them."

"See, Bones?" Kirk quietly emphasized to McCoy. "I told you you'd learn something."

"I'll admit," McCoy remarked only loud enough for Kirk's ears, "that was definitely a new revelation. No one would've ever believed 'black holes' could be so inconceivably tiny…even though the strange actions of in-and-out electrons do make more sense under such an explanation!…but just what the hell could Spock have found out from his mind meld with immaterial Thasians to put centuries-old stellar-planetary development viewpoints on their proverbial ears?"

"Keep listening," whispered a bemused Admiral Kirk, "and you might just find out."

END OF CHAPTER 2