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stopped talking, having lost his original point.
“So, we brought back lots of things for you to play with?” Calvin prompted.
“Oh! Absolutely,” Lieutenant Finn said. “We have been going through the data banks trying to find things that we need or could use. When I read your last mission report, I got interested in the stealth fighters that took out the Ssselipsssiss battleship. Cool stuff, right? I wanted to be the person to figure that out, and they normally let the smart ones pick out their own projects to run with.”
Lieutenant Finn did seem smart, thought Calvin, even if he didn’t appear to have the common sense of most farm animals. “So, did you figure out the whole stealth thing?” Calvin prompted.
“Well, sort of, mostly,” said Lieutenant Finn. “It involved a lot of new concepts and technology that our science had never come up with, and probably wouldn’t have for some time. It’s going to be really hard to explain. I barely understand it, so I’m pretty sure that you won’t. Sorry. No offense. I’ll try, though. Do you all understand the concepts of matter and energy?”
Everyone’s heads nodded. At a basic level, that information was simple physics that had been downloaded to everyone as part of their basic implant package.
“Ok, so m atter is the stuff that everything is made of, right?” Lieutenant Finn asked. Seeing heads nodding he continued, “Energy, however, is a property that matter has. The same amount of matter can have different amounts of energy, which lets it exist in different states. Water vapor, water and ice are the same matter, just with different amounts of energy. Are you with me so far?”
Heads nodded again. So far, pretty basic stuff.
“OK,” said Lieutenant Finn, “here’s where it gets complicated. Energy is more of a relative concept, and scientists always speak of energy values as being ‘positive’ in nature. In the past, they have always eliminated solutions that gave rise to negative energies as unphysical. Even though there is antimatter, no one ever thought that the existence of antimatter implied the existence of anti-energy. But it’s there and it exists, even if it shouldn’t.”
“I’m not saying that I understand that,” Calvin said, “because my brain doesn’t understand how you can create anti-energy, but what I’d like to know is what happens when you get energy and anti-energy together. Matter and antimatter don’t mix well together.”
Lieutenant Finn clapped his hands happily. “See! That’s just it. You’ve given me some wonderful toys! No one knows what happens. The stealth modules generate some sort of anti-energy that absorbs energy directed at it. The combination of energy and anti-energy ought to blow up, or react, or do something , but all we’ve been able to determine is that the two just vanish. Perhaps they blow up in an anti-universe? I don’t know. All I know is that the stealth module works.”
“We’re happy to have made your life a little better,” interrupted Night. “Are you getting to the point where I give a shit about theoretical physics? How does this help me kill Drakuls?”
“ Oh! Help you kill Drakuls?” asked Lieutenant Finn, looking puzzled. “It doesn’t help you kill anything.”
“Then please tell me,” growled Night even more dangerously, “ why the fuck are you wasting my time? ”
“I’m here to help you get where you need to go,” said Lieutenant Finn.
“How are you going to do that?” asked Captain Sheppard.
“I figured out how to adapt the fighter stealth modules to work for a cruiser-sized ship. I’m going to make you invisible.”
Bridge, TSS Vella Gulf , Earth Orbit, December 16, 2020
Captain Sheppard looked at the black Bengal tiger’s face on the view screen. “We’re finally ready to go,” he said. “How are things coming over there?”
“We are just finishing up,” replied Captain Yerrow. “ We are sending your Lieutenant Finn back
“So, we brought back lots of things for you to play with?” Calvin prompted.
“Oh! Absolutely,” Lieutenant Finn said. “We have been going through the data banks trying to find things that we need or could use. When I read your last mission report, I got interested in the stealth fighters that took out the Ssselipsssiss battleship. Cool stuff, right? I wanted to be the person to figure that out, and they normally let the smart ones pick out their own projects to run with.”
Lieutenant Finn did seem smart, thought Calvin, even if he didn’t appear to have the common sense of most farm animals. “So, did you figure out the whole stealth thing?” Calvin prompted.
“Well, sort of, mostly,” said Lieutenant Finn. “It involved a lot of new concepts and technology that our science had never come up with, and probably wouldn’t have for some time. It’s going to be really hard to explain. I barely understand it, so I’m pretty sure that you won’t. Sorry. No offense. I’ll try, though. Do you all understand the concepts of matter and energy?”
Everyone’s heads nodded. At a basic level, that information was simple physics that had been downloaded to everyone as part of their basic implant package.
“Ok, so m atter is the stuff that everything is made of, right?” Lieutenant Finn asked. Seeing heads nodding he continued, “Energy, however, is a property that matter has. The same amount of matter can have different amounts of energy, which lets it exist in different states. Water vapor, water and ice are the same matter, just with different amounts of energy. Are you with me so far?”
Heads nodded again. So far, pretty basic stuff.
“OK,” said Lieutenant Finn, “here’s where it gets complicated. Energy is more of a relative concept, and scientists always speak of energy values as being ‘positive’ in nature. In the past, they have always eliminated solutions that gave rise to negative energies as unphysical. Even though there is antimatter, no one ever thought that the existence of antimatter implied the existence of anti-energy. But it’s there and it exists, even if it shouldn’t.”
“I’m not saying that I understand that,” Calvin said, “because my brain doesn’t understand how you can create anti-energy, but what I’d like to know is what happens when you get energy and anti-energy together. Matter and antimatter don’t mix well together.”
Lieutenant Finn clapped his hands happily. “See! That’s just it. You’ve given me some wonderful toys! No one knows what happens. The stealth modules generate some sort of anti-energy that absorbs energy directed at it. The combination of energy and anti-energy ought to blow up, or react, or do something , but all we’ve been able to determine is that the two just vanish. Perhaps they blow up in an anti-universe? I don’t know. All I know is that the stealth module works.”
“We’re happy to have made your life a little better,” interrupted Night. “Are you getting to the point where I give a shit about theoretical physics? How does this help me kill Drakuls?”
“ Oh! Help you kill Drakuls?” asked Lieutenant Finn, looking puzzled. “It doesn’t help you kill anything.”
“Then please tell me,” growled Night even more dangerously, “ why the fuck are you wasting my time? ”
“I’m here to help you get where you need to go,” said Lieutenant Finn.
“How are you going to do that?” asked Captain Sheppard.
“I figured out how to adapt the fighter stealth modules to work for a cruiser-sized ship. I’m going to make you invisible.”
Bridge, TSS Vella Gulf , Earth Orbit, December 16, 2020
Captain Sheppard looked at the black Bengal tiger’s face on the view screen. “We’re finally ready to go,” he said. “How are things coming over there?”
“We are just finishing up,” replied Captain Yerrow. “ We are sending your Lieutenant Finn back
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