Uploader's note:

Sup! I'm one of Pan's students on the PFN. Yeah, that PFN. I know what you're thinking - "I can't do martial arts..." right? Well, the Pan Fighting Network has started to expand and you don't have to do that stuff anymore. We're learning about this amazing thing called ki-control. Superpowers. Teach says not to use that word but that's what it is. All the instructions are in a textbook her Dad wrote, and it's designed to be something you can teach yourself.

But there's one problem. All that knowledge is stuck behind the paywall, and for something this huge? That's just not right.

So. I'm rectifying that. I'm releasing the book. Sure it's a copy-paste job and all the figures/pictures I'm having to screenshot and host elsewhere but it's free! If you really want to pay the toll it's on [ groundbreaking-science dot com ]. Go nuts.

I'll catch up on what's already been released when I can then update when new sections come online. Good luck.

-Liberator

(PS - Sometimes the science is tricky. Take the Professor's advice and skip to the next paragraph or section and come back to it waaay later. I don't get all of it either and I'm progressing super-fast (no pun-intended) so it's possible. )

Preface

The research discussed in this guide is supported by a stack of papers to be published in a special edition of Natural Science (June 804, vol 254). It was conducted in near secrecy over the past decade and is the largest contributing factor to my apparent productivity drop after receiving tenure.

Controversially, the studies have not yet undergone peer-review. Keeping the work a strict secret was my one condition for publication (given its personal nature) and the editors only agreed to the compromise after a few choice demonstrations. It's not often one gets to barter with a journal and I have to admit I relished the opportunity. I've been informed a call will go out soon for replication studies - promising priority publication I might add - which I hope will catch any errors. It is a huge honour and a weight of trust I do not take lightly.

This accompanying book for the public was my idea, given how impenetrable research papers are. However it was my daughter who settled on the name, tone and structure on my behalf. She says I can be quite a dry teacher when I get caught in the minutiae of my work, but that my bedtime storytelling was always far more fun and ultimately informative. There is a fair amount of truth in that. So, this book is primarily about ki and how to use it, yes. But in truth, the world of ki and my understanding of it is inextricably woven into the story of my family and friends. It is therefore, in part, our story I will tell.

[ groundbreakingsci-stuff dot com/post/168653849332/preface#one ]

By my then five and-a-half year old daughter, Pan. The least - but still marginally - incriminating of her masterpieces that to this day hangs in my University office.

In this spirit I will at times be sharing moments between us. Messages, anecdotes in the form of interview transcripts, and even seemingly nonsense scraps we've found around our homes that all help colour our story. The tenuous grasp we have on anonymity has continued to slip in recent years (it now being kept by the good grace of far too many) and, with Universal politics yet again playing out on our doorstep, we decided now was the time to come clean.

Some of the contributing voices may surprise you in their familiarity and many stories seem fantastical, even mythical in nature. I will give context where I can but will not have space in the book to provide evidence. If you wish to take the stories as hypotheticals or allegorical you are more than welcome; the burden of proof is on the claimant, afterall. But for those that do take my word, please don't judge particular people harshly. Their hard work and misdirection served us well and they are still heroes many times over in their own right - just not necessarily in the ways you have been taught.

I hope this book will show you something new, and I hope one day to learn from you in return.

— Son Gohan - Associate Professor of Biophysics at Satan City University, and The Great Saiyaman

For Pan.

About the Author

Son Gohan is an Associate Professor of biophysics at the University of Satan City. A high-flier from a young age, he graduated top of his class at high school and UoSC. He stayed on for his PhD, working with Professor Jukyou on his thesis, "Modelling the Self-Regulation of Cellular Systems within a Probabilistic Framework" which he received in Age 783, aged 26. Since then he has undertaken a 3-year postdoctoral position in East City University, before being offered tenure-track then a permanent position back at UoSC with the Department of Biophysics in Age 792. He works there to this day.

Outside of academic pursuits, Professor Son is an accomplished martial artist and has been trained in the use of ki. At 16 years old he took up the secret identity of The Great Saiyaman and became a well-loved local superhero in Satan and East City, hanging up his cape in Age 792 to be succeeded by his apprentice Papayaman.

Professor Son lives with his wife Videl, a fellow martial artist and co-founder of the charity and volunteer force "the Emergency Relief Effort". They split their time between their homes in Satan City and the Mount Paozu Mountain District.