The helicopter's blades whirred ferociously while Evelyn waved goodbye to
Chris out the window. Not too soon after they had lifted into the air, her
need for knowledge got the better of her. "I've got some questions, and you
seem to have all the answers."
"I'll answer what I can, meaning what I'm able to because of my knowledge and legal agreements," she clarified, like she always did. She had never been too trusting of the science types. "But if you want to know how it works I've got some reading material," she added as she tossed a large folder onto Evelyn's lap.
"Well, first of all, why me over the much more knowledgeable Tolkien readers? I'm sure they'd love to see Middle Earth," she said rather irritably.
"Because anyone who knew enough about Tolkien's little world as we needed wouldn't want to go there, and you've got an incentive we can use to get your cooperation," she said. "Besides, you're not as well known. We could have a scandal if you were," she added under her breath, but not quite soft enough to avoid the ears of an inquisitive Evelyn, rummaging for any information she could pick up.
"So you're saying I might die on this little favor of yours."
"No, I'm saying you're probably going to die on this little favor of ours."
"Thanks for informing me of this before I signed the contract. Of course, the one catch of the deal is written in all contracts and is not quite uncommon in this situation."
"Do you always have to be such a scientist?"
"Do you always have to be such a lawyer?"
"Yea, my job is my life."
"Well my life is my job." Diane had no response to that, so, knowing that she had won, Evelyn started to read the report before her. It described the experiments that had been done with photons that helped support the theory of parallel universes. It started out by describing the simple experiments with two walls and slits in one wall to allow light in that had been done for the past two hundred years. With one slit, you see one bar of light. Two, was a series of dark and light bars, four or maybe five bars of light, yet if you shined light in four slits, you got two bars. The waves would overlap in some places, making them stronger or blocking each other out. Now, that's a perfectly reasonable answer, if light came in waves, but it doesn't. It consists of particles called photons. We've known that since Einstein, so how do you explain a bunch of photons making patterns? Simple. The photons have some wavelike properties depending on the situation, and interfere with each other creating the patterns. Were scientists absolutely certain that it was the other photons causing the patterns? No. They eliminated the interaction to find out, and the results were even more perplexing. By using modern technology to let light in only one photon at a time, the photons still made the same patterns. Something had to be interfering with them, but what? We couldn't see any cause in our universe, which meant that something must be going on that we can't see. Something in another universe. That proves that there must be other universes, and they sometimes interact with our own.
"Interesting," she said as she closed the folder and handed it back to Kramer. "How much longer until we land?"
"About an hour and a half."
"Good. Maybe I can finally finish some of my book," she said as she opened the book and started reading. She was so engrossed with her book, she barely noticed as Kramer reached for her cell phone and made a whispered conversation. She barely noticed it, but she did notice it.
"I'll answer what I can, meaning what I'm able to because of my knowledge and legal agreements," she clarified, like she always did. She had never been too trusting of the science types. "But if you want to know how it works I've got some reading material," she added as she tossed a large folder onto Evelyn's lap.
"Well, first of all, why me over the much more knowledgeable Tolkien readers? I'm sure they'd love to see Middle Earth," she said rather irritably.
"Because anyone who knew enough about Tolkien's little world as we needed wouldn't want to go there, and you've got an incentive we can use to get your cooperation," she said. "Besides, you're not as well known. We could have a scandal if you were," she added under her breath, but not quite soft enough to avoid the ears of an inquisitive Evelyn, rummaging for any information she could pick up.
"So you're saying I might die on this little favor of yours."
"No, I'm saying you're probably going to die on this little favor of ours."
"Thanks for informing me of this before I signed the contract. Of course, the one catch of the deal is written in all contracts and is not quite uncommon in this situation."
"Do you always have to be such a scientist?"
"Do you always have to be such a lawyer?"
"Yea, my job is my life."
"Well my life is my job." Diane had no response to that, so, knowing that she had won, Evelyn started to read the report before her. It described the experiments that had been done with photons that helped support the theory of parallel universes. It started out by describing the simple experiments with two walls and slits in one wall to allow light in that had been done for the past two hundred years. With one slit, you see one bar of light. Two, was a series of dark and light bars, four or maybe five bars of light, yet if you shined light in four slits, you got two bars. The waves would overlap in some places, making them stronger or blocking each other out. Now, that's a perfectly reasonable answer, if light came in waves, but it doesn't. It consists of particles called photons. We've known that since Einstein, so how do you explain a bunch of photons making patterns? Simple. The photons have some wavelike properties depending on the situation, and interfere with each other creating the patterns. Were scientists absolutely certain that it was the other photons causing the patterns? No. They eliminated the interaction to find out, and the results were even more perplexing. By using modern technology to let light in only one photon at a time, the photons still made the same patterns. Something had to be interfering with them, but what? We couldn't see any cause in our universe, which meant that something must be going on that we can't see. Something in another universe. That proves that there must be other universes, and they sometimes interact with our own.
"Interesting," she said as she closed the folder and handed it back to Kramer. "How much longer until we land?"
"About an hour and a half."
"Good. Maybe I can finally finish some of my book," she said as she opened the book and started reading. She was so engrossed with her book, she barely noticed as Kramer reached for her cell phone and made a whispered conversation. She barely noticed it, but she did notice it.