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Oric drew another breath and let it out slowly. " On the fourth night of the month of Utan in the year of Tolera Vosh , golden orbs came down from the stars . They landed near the capital city of Comu and did not open until morning. "
Jalila typed, and the Voicebox spoke. " I meant what scent begins the story. Show me the flower that tells you the very beginning. "
Oric bent down and reached for a white-cupped blossom, like a lily with glittering purple petal tips. " This one . The om radla , or year flower. "
" When you listen to this flower ," Jalila said through the Voicebox, " what word or words do you hear? "
" I hear the words ' Tolera Vosh ,'" said Oric. " ' Year 7430. ' "
" Can you find another year flower? " said Jalila. " For another year? "
Wrinkling his furry snout, Oric sniffed. He stepped to one side and touched a blossom that was identical to the first, but with emerald petal tips. " This one says ' Culan Vosh ' and ' year 7431. ' "
Crouching, Jalila aimed the scanner at the first year flower, analyzing the invisible ester vapors wafting from the scent glands in its petals. After logging the molecular composition of the vapor, she went further, probing the structures of the atoms that made up the molecules...and the particles that made up the atoms.
Then, Jalila moved to the second year flower pointed out by Oric and performed identical scans, from the molecular level to the subatomic. When the scanner's memory held complete data for the ester molecules of both flowers, Jalila ran a point-by-point comparison of their properties.
There was no difference between the esters of the two flowers at the molecular level. Each was composed of the same number of the same types of atoms in exactly the same formation. However, continued analysis revealed divergence at the subatomic level.
Within the nuclei of otherwise identical atoms, the quark particles that made up the protons and neutrons had unexpected color charges. Whereas protons and neutrons in most ordinary matter contained one quark of each color--red, green, and blue--Jalila found protons and neutrons with two quarks of one color and one of another, or three quarks of the same color. For example, oxygen atoms in the first flower's ester contained protons with two green quarks and one blue quark; otherwise identical atoms from the second flower contained one green quark and two blue quarks.
As hard as it was to believe, it seemed the Vox had not only learned to control the properties of subatomic particles via gardening, but had developed olfactory senses sophisticated enough to detect differences in color charge between quarks.
Just as all data in a computer was reduced to ones and zeroes, the data in the Garden of Yesterday was represented by different combinations of red, green, and blue quarks...a trinary instead of a binary system. By determining which combinations were assigned to which numerical and phonemic values, Jalila could finally tap into the information flowing through the air around her.
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Chapter 15
Jalila figured out the numerical values first. They were simplest, since only a single digit separated the date coded in the first flower's ester from the date supplied by the second flower.
Jalila located quarks with abnormal color charge configurations in chains of carbon atoms in the ester molecules...specifically, atoms of carbon-12, an isotope with six protons and twelve neutrons, each containing three quarks. In the first carbon-12 atom in each chain, seven of the protons and neutrons contained trios of quarks with identical red color charges; this matched the first digit of the date, seven. The next carbon-12 atom included four trios of red quarks, matching the second digit of the date.
The third atom in the chain had three trios of red quarks...but the difference between the scent molecules from the two flowers appeared in the fourth atom in the chain. In molecules from the second flower, the fourth carbon-12
Oric drew another breath and let it out slowly. " On the fourth night of the month of Utan in the year of Tolera Vosh , golden orbs came down from the stars . They landed near the capital city of Comu and did not open until morning. "
Jalila typed, and the Voicebox spoke. " I meant what scent begins the story. Show me the flower that tells you the very beginning. "
Oric bent down and reached for a white-cupped blossom, like a lily with glittering purple petal tips. " This one . The om radla , or year flower. "
" When you listen to this flower ," Jalila said through the Voicebox, " what word or words do you hear? "
" I hear the words ' Tolera Vosh ,'" said Oric. " ' Year 7430. ' "
" Can you find another year flower? " said Jalila. " For another year? "
Wrinkling his furry snout, Oric sniffed. He stepped to one side and touched a blossom that was identical to the first, but with emerald petal tips. " This one says ' Culan Vosh ' and ' year 7431. ' "
Crouching, Jalila aimed the scanner at the first year flower, analyzing the invisible ester vapors wafting from the scent glands in its petals. After logging the molecular composition of the vapor, she went further, probing the structures of the atoms that made up the molecules...and the particles that made up the atoms.
Then, Jalila moved to the second year flower pointed out by Oric and performed identical scans, from the molecular level to the subatomic. When the scanner's memory held complete data for the ester molecules of both flowers, Jalila ran a point-by-point comparison of their properties.
There was no difference between the esters of the two flowers at the molecular level. Each was composed of the same number of the same types of atoms in exactly the same formation. However, continued analysis revealed divergence at the subatomic level.
Within the nuclei of otherwise identical atoms, the quark particles that made up the protons and neutrons had unexpected color charges. Whereas protons and neutrons in most ordinary matter contained one quark of each color--red, green, and blue--Jalila found protons and neutrons with two quarks of one color and one of another, or three quarks of the same color. For example, oxygen atoms in the first flower's ester contained protons with two green quarks and one blue quark; otherwise identical atoms from the second flower contained one green quark and two blue quarks.
As hard as it was to believe, it seemed the Vox had not only learned to control the properties of subatomic particles via gardening, but had developed olfactory senses sophisticated enough to detect differences in color charge between quarks.
Just as all data in a computer was reduced to ones and zeroes, the data in the Garden of Yesterday was represented by different combinations of red, green, and blue quarks...a trinary instead of a binary system. By determining which combinations were assigned to which numerical and phonemic values, Jalila could finally tap into the information flowing through the air around her.
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*****
Chapter 15
Jalila figured out the numerical values first. They were simplest, since only a single digit separated the date coded in the first flower's ester from the date supplied by the second flower.
Jalila located quarks with abnormal color charge configurations in chains of carbon atoms in the ester molecules...specifically, atoms of carbon-12, an isotope with six protons and twelve neutrons, each containing three quarks. In the first carbon-12 atom in each chain, seven of the protons and neutrons contained trios of quarks with identical red color charges; this matched the first digit of the date, seven. The next carbon-12 atom included four trios of red quarks, matching the second digit of the date.
The third atom in the chain had three trios of red quarks...but the difference between the scent molecules from the two flowers appeared in the fourth atom in the chain. In molecules from the second flower, the fourth carbon-12
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