Revolution

[T'Prise 0]

Moving at a pace that made distinguishing specific features dizzying to the naked eye, the accelerator spun around and around, operating in perfect synchroneity to the hum of quantum matter engine that powered it. Perched smartly on her chair, posture perfect, and PADD poised for note taking, the Vulcan physicist once again watched the apparatus with an unblinking gaze. It continued to spin, gathering data with each pass.

 

While her eyes registered the gyrations of the accelerator, her mind circled at a simliar pace, thoughts and ideas spiraling through her consciousness, collecting details and momentum with each rotation.

Once the danger posed by unusal weather patterns ceased, T'Prise had returned to the Daystrom, accompianed by Escher. Conversation had been stilted and labored, neither wishing to give voice to their thoughts, or address the ghosts hovering around them. After quickly checking through her research proposal and experiment protocols, Escher had left to visit a few colleagues in the complex. She was unsure of his schedule or when he would return.

 

Although it had not been apparent to her at first, the physicist now recognized that they oft times engaged in a thoroughly bizarre human ritual involving non-verbal communication. Instead of participating in discussions, like logical, intelligent beings, they instead resorted to action and implications, using them as a methodoloy to convery their thoughts and ideas to one another. T'Prise had once heard the concept referred to as reading between the lines and now fully understood that it was the unspoken words rather than their normal discourse that characterized their interactions with one another. It was a suprising realization that she had been participating in this activity for some time without her conscious knowledge.

 

The speed of the accelerator's revolutions increased, as per the experiment's protocols and the Vulcan made a notation of the change on her PADD. If this experiment proved successful, she would schedule time on the high luminosity large hadron collider housed in another building of the complex. The hadron collider was a linear accelertor, different then the ring accelerator she was currently working with.

 

Conducting tests on both instruments would allow her to gather a broader base set of empirical evidence.

Thoughts of using two different types of accelerators as part of the experiment reminded her of the research she had agreed to perform for Lieutenant Jaenke. She still failed to comprehend why he was requesting her assistance. Merely belonging to a species capable of telepathic ability did not make one an expert on the subject. However, he had politely requested her aid and although she did not know him well, or consider him a friend, she could not dismiss his plea. She made a mental notation to contact an old colleague and friend, who had expertise in this area and could act as an advisor. This would insure that Jaenke would be working with the best available data as well.

 

As the speed of the circuits began to decrease the Vulcan stood and walked over to the panel controlling the apparatus, noting that the computer had begun to collate data between the first and second test sequences, merging the two sets for analysis. The computer interface for this lab was new, an upgrade from the one she had used when assigned to the Daystrom as a lead quantum physicist on the Pergrination Project. The enhanced features made controlling the accelerator to the precise millisecond much easier and might have made a significant difference in the results of the research she had once conducted on quantum slipstream.

 

Although the happenstance was coincidental, she found it curious that she was embarking on a new journey in search of knowledge, a path potentially fraught with even more pitfalls and danger than the one she had traveled before, in the same place she had begun her previous exploration. Escher might point out that she had come full circle, yet, from her point of view this trek was disapparate from her previous one, the outcome would not result in disaster, she would do everything in her power to assure a satisfactory conclusion.

Edited February 15, 2014 by T'Prise