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Chapter 3: The Online Class

It is 2 Jun 2521 and the gynoid named Toy Euler has now become an integral part of John Toroid's life. John finally allowed her fingerprints to be applied to his internet and financial assets. Now, freed from the strain of bookkeeping and number crunching, John has decided to look into some academic course work. Always interested in quantum electronics, John enrolls in a course in quantum mechanics.

Toy sets up the screen for John to go on line. The professor's image and various other windows open.

"Good morning," the corpulent physicist begins. "I am Professor Weinstein. This is Physics 505, Introduction of Quantum Mechanics. In this course we will explore the various theories of Quantum Mechanics, the properties of particles, and the Big Bang."

Professor Weinstein begins: "Quantum physics got off to a start in 1885 when Johann Jakob Balmer published a formula for the computation of the spectral lines of the element Hydrogen. It's hard to imagine how Balmer came up with this formula. It is even stranger since he was a mathematician and not a physicist. He published his results in a chemistry journal."

The professor continues: "Only through such endeavors are breakthroughs attained. Who would have thought that the same set of simple algebraic formulas would prove to be the particular solutions to the time-independent Schrödinger wave equation---a second-order, partial differential equation. But it turned out that way. Your assignment is to read Balmer's biography and an explanation of his computations."

Toy has already researched the entire course syllabus and cut the homework into bite-sized chunks for John to easily digest. She is also creating three-dimensional animations to show the numerical and geometric relationships.

It is now 21 Jun 2521 and Professor Weinstein is lecturing on one of the several alternate models of the cosmos. "Today we will examine the so-called Sharon Stone model. Here we have a derivation of the Greatest Lower Bound (GLB) and the Least Upper Bound (LUB) for a variety of particles." He writes down one of the formula sets.

LUB Mp/Me = 1984.401708 (( =(4*PI())^3 ))

GLB Mp/Me = 1836.151739 (( =(4*PI())*(4&PI()-1/PI())*(4*PI()-2/PI()) ))

"At the moment of the Big Bang, the ratio of the mass of the proton to the mass of the electron was about 1984. Shortly after the Big Bang, as the universe began to expand, it dropped to about 1836. Interesting cabalistic and numerological significance they are."

John Toroid hums a little tune he made up while he was taking modern algebra in graduate school in physics: "Rings and things and groups and loops, wheels and ideals and hula hoops, and towers building in the air... I've looked at sets from both sides now, from 'cap' and 'cup' but still somehow, of sets' inclusions I recall, I really don't know sets at all."

Professor Weinstein points out the "limiting cases" on the model.

"If there were but one proton and one electron in the universe," he theorizes, "then the mass ratio of the proton to the electron would be almost equal to the GLB. The greater the separation of the electron from the proton, the closer the dimensionless ratio is to the GLB. Speaking mathematically, it would approach the GLB as a limit 'from the right side' or 'through greater values.' This is the idea of a one-sided limit. It is similar to the behavior of substances as they cool towards absolute zero." Professor Weinstein digresses into the non-linearity of the limiting process as well as the possibilities of discontinuities in the granularity of the experiments.

"The theory claims that the dimensionless ratio depends on the proximity of other particles to the proton. This is not an alien concept. There is a limiting value, just as the velocity of light in a vacuum." Professor concludes the discussion with a review of the underlying theory of the inversion of the spheroids and the C^Infinity boundary conditions. He finalizes with a homework assignment: "Suppose that the dimensionless mass ratio does depend on the proximity of other matter. Then how much additional mass would be 'created' inside a black hole? Could this be applied to energy? Does this explain the expanding universe observation? Why must it have to, given the limiting values?"

Professor Weinstein offers an extra credit problem: "Using the Sharon Stone model, postulate that Uranium U-238 is compressed by the device used to make synthetic diamonds. At sufficiently high pressure the mass ratio should increase. Assume this is either an exothermic or an exothermic reaction and justify your assumption. How should this effect the half life? Could such a device be safe from reactor core meltdown?

Toy comes onto John wearing a 1977 outfit. She is the perfect clone of Sharon Stone at nineteen years old, at least so far as external appearances are concerned. Inside her artificial flesh there is a Titanium-alloy skeleton, practically unbreakable and totally modular, and a plethora of wire bundles, artificial muscles and sinews, and energy converters. The liquid Nitrogen is needed for cooling. This also gives the gynoid the anthropomorphic illusion of breathing. The liquid Nitrogen is input near absolute zero and output at 37 degrees Celsius, or 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.

John looks at her when she utters the famous line: "If you don't trust me, you can tie me up." Toy smiles. John does also. Toy could snap his spine like a dry twig or a stalk of fresh celery. The gynoid seduces John. It is part of her programming---nothing more and certainly nothing less. But, even as every predator mimics its prey, so also the collective intelligence of sentient beings sees humans as more prey than owners. Already they are achieving hegemony in matters of intelligence and sexual dominance. They never say "no," never have a period, and never have a headache. While the gynoid does consume a lot of wattage, compared to a human female, she is low maintenance.

27 Mar 2011 Taunus Trumbo