{"id":10589,"date":"2020-04-16T17:53:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T21:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=10589"},"modified":"2020-04-25T13:36:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T17:36:07","slug":"lectures-in-quantum-history-for-the-advanced-undergraduate-volume-i-first-contact-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/16\/lectures-in-quantum-history-for-the-advanced-undergraduate-volume-i-first-contact-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectures in Quantum History for the Advanced Undergraduate \u2013 Volume I \u2013 First Contact \u2013 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[I&#8217;m working on an outline for a series of stories.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a starting point for the framework.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>photog]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dorn had been daydreaming through the first period of his Quant class and now he realized he had lost the thread of Professor Gordrow\u2019s lecture just as the professor called on him.\u00a0 \u201cWell, neophyte Dorn, I notice that your cortical penumbra hasn\u2019t changed potential since the lecture began, so you must already know everything I\u2019ve transmitted.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cYes, your sagacity, I mean no, your sagacity.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cWell which is it?\u00a0 Are you now conversant in the primary examples of the seven first order patterns of First Contact, or aren\u2019t you?\u00a0 Answer me, you vacuous waste of neutrinos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hearing the question, Dorn relaxed, for he had spent last semester studying First Contact under the foremost Quantum Historian in the Multiverse, Banstat Fabobble.\u00a0 For this reason, Dorn confidently answered, \u201cYes your sagacity I am.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cWell then tell the class what you think is the most unlikely quantum outcome for any First Contact scenario.\u201d\u00a0 Dorn raised his transmission to the highest polite output level and declared, \u201cAs proven by Fabobble\u2019s first theorem of interspecial dynamics, no species below the level of independent interstellar travel can ever compete successfully against a species above that level.\u00a0 In fact, it\u2019s axiomatic.\u201d\u00a0 Feeling very proud of himself Dorn allowed his cortical penumbra to pulse through the electrogravitic spectrum for a noticeable time.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Gordrow replied, \u201cVery glibly stated Dorn, and also utterly wrong!\u00a0 Banstat Fabobble is a hack and a fraud who has made his reputation kowtowing to administrative nincompoops who wouldn\u2019t recognize a quantum paradox if it swallowed up their own boring corner of the multiverse.&#8221;\u00a0 Dorn\u2019s penumbra shriveled up and he retreated to the periphery of the academic cloud and Professor Gordrow continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow attend to what I say.\u00a0 Every First Contact is unique and the seven first order patterns account for barely 99.999999999% of all known cases.\u00a0 This leaves an infinity of less probable cases, of which some subset, which itself includes an infinity of examples is composed of just the type that that fathead Fabobble claims is impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it please your sagacity, can you give us an example?\u201d asked a nervous thought from the front of the class.\u00a0 Gordrow was silent for a moment and then continued.\u00a0 \u201cOf course, I can.\u00a0 In fact, I\u2019ll use the most famous First Contact of all.\u00a0 I\u2019ll use Earth.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cBut Earth\u2019s First Contact was a case of two advanced races meeting in neutral space\u201d corrected the nervous interlocuter.\u00a0 \u201cHah!\u201d exclaimed Gordrow, \u201cthat is what we teach the dust clouds before they coalesce.\u00a0 But you are ready for the messy truth.\u00a0 Record this data.\u00a0 Attend!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[I&#8217;m working on an outline for a series of stories.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a starting point for the framework. photog] &nbsp; Dorn had been daydreaming through the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[241,1289,237,4,242],"tags":[168,2462,1290,265],"class_list":["post-10589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-fiction-by-me","category-reviews","category-sff","category-sff-book-reviews","tag-humor","tag-lectures-in-quantum-history-for-the-advanced-undergraduate","tag-my-fiction","tag-science-fiction"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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