Chapter Four
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1954
Desmond stands at a podium, addressing a packed audience. Next to him there is a poster stand, featuring the cover of his book, “A Million Eyes”. Off to the side of the stage Wendy watches her husband deliver his lecture. She glances at the poster, her brow ruffled slightly. One might expect, due to it's title, to see perhaps a depiction of countless eyes, distancing into infinity. Instead the poster is an illustration of a single eye, in the centre of the image, with many hands reaching inwards towards it.
Desmond has assumed a relaxed position, his own hands resting on the podium before him. His low voice resonates across the still auditorium.
"Other possibilities for perception, presented by way of scientific theories that have been around since the early part of this century. Namely the associated theories of Entanglement. "
The audience is mostly young people, students and curiosity seekers. The front row is dominated by several attractive young woman who stare up at Desmond with rapt attention.
"Entanglement can be demonstrated, as such, in the form of several thought experiments. For the purpose of this discussion I will limit my examples to one experiment - in which a particle accelerator is utilized to send two identical photons away from each other, originating from the same point, at the speed of light."
Wendy shifts her weight from foot to foot, trying to ignore the aching in her legs. She has already refused the offer of a chair from Jimmy, Desmond's agent. The heat from all of the bodies in the place is like a blanket over her shoulders, and at the thought of this she unconsciously shrinks back against the wall. Further off to the back of the stage, Jimmy is hunched at a desk, talking quietly into a phone. He's a round and apparently hairless man who never seems to take off his hat, not even indoors. Especially indoors. Wendy supposes he's doing his job right now, but then the workings off an agent's career was something she had taken little initiative to understand.
"The experiment envisions a change to one of the photons, say a slight alteration to its' y axis. And reveals the exact same change occurring in the opposite photon, at precisely the same time, even as both photons move away from each other at the speed of light."
A subtle shifting in the audience, accompanied by low murmurs. Wendy smiles to herself. Either this is new information and they're just letting it sink in, or they are educated enough to know and now want to see where he goes with this.
"It can be said that while the phenomenon of entanglement has yet to be physically demonstrated, it has been proven as a mathematical fact. So then what does this all mean? One could say that it shows us the nature of matter in the universe. You could theorize as to what this reveals about various forms of energy - gravity, magnetism, and so forth."
Ever the performer, Desmond pauses to take a drink of water, then fixes the audience with a steely gaze. He leans forward, hands gripping the sides of the podium. "But I believe the implications go much deeper than this."
The audience unconsciously mimics Desmond, leaning forward in their seats.
"I believe - and I intend to prove - that the mathematically verifiable phenomena of entanglement demonstrates the existence of Multiple Dimensions."
Desmond stands at a podium, addressing a packed audience. Next to him there is a poster stand, featuring the cover of his book, “A Million Eyes”. Off to the side of the stage Wendy watches her husband deliver his lecture. She glances at the poster, her brow ruffled slightly. One might expect, due to it's title, to see perhaps a depiction of countless eyes, distancing into infinity. Instead the poster is an illustration of a single eye, in the centre of the image, with many hands reaching inwards towards it.
Desmond has assumed a relaxed position, his own hands resting on the podium before him. His low voice resonates across the still auditorium.
"Other possibilities for perception, presented by way of scientific theories that have been around since the early part of this century. Namely the associated theories of Entanglement. "
The audience is mostly young people, students and curiosity seekers. The front row is dominated by several attractive young woman who stare up at Desmond with rapt attention.
"Entanglement can be demonstrated, as such, in the form of several thought experiments. For the purpose of this discussion I will limit my examples to one experiment - in which a particle accelerator is utilized to send two identical photons away from each other, originating from the same point, at the speed of light."
Wendy shifts her weight from foot to foot, trying to ignore the aching in her legs. She has already refused the offer of a chair from Jimmy, Desmond's agent. The heat from all of the bodies in the place is like a blanket over her shoulders, and at the thought of this she unconsciously shrinks back against the wall. Further off to the back of the stage, Jimmy is hunched at a desk, talking quietly into a phone. He's a round and apparently hairless man who never seems to take off his hat, not even indoors. Especially indoors. Wendy supposes he's doing his job right now, but then the workings off an agent's career was something she had taken little initiative to understand.
"The experiment envisions a change to one of the photons, say a slight alteration to its' y axis. And reveals the exact same change occurring in the opposite photon, at precisely the same time, even as both photons move away from each other at the speed of light."
A subtle shifting in the audience, accompanied by low murmurs. Wendy smiles to herself. Either this is new information and they're just letting it sink in, or they are educated enough to know and now want to see where he goes with this.
"It can be said that while the phenomenon of entanglement has yet to be physically demonstrated, it has been proven as a mathematical fact. So then what does this all mean? One could say that it shows us the nature of matter in the universe. You could theorize as to what this reveals about various forms of energy - gravity, magnetism, and so forth."
Ever the performer, Desmond pauses to take a drink of water, then fixes the audience with a steely gaze. He leans forward, hands gripping the sides of the podium. "But I believe the implications go much deeper than this."
The audience unconsciously mimics Desmond, leaning forward in their seats.
"I believe - and I intend to prove - that the mathematically verifiable phenomena of entanglement demonstrates the existence of Multiple Dimensions."
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