- PRELUDE AND FANFARE:
- (music - They Don't Know/Tracey Ullman)
- (music - Who Wants To Live Forever/Queen/:"Must try!")
- FADE IN:
- Orange dawn on a black horizon under purple sky.
- TITLE:
- EARLY NEXT MORNING
- TRANSFORM TO:
- EXT. DRIVEWAY - DIANA'S HOUSE - SPRING MORNING
- Six Police cars parked in the driveway and along the curb are ultraviolet-sheen-white official-insignia "Protect And Harmonize" sedans with blue-bubble rooftop mounds; one sleek UV-sheen-black chase-car trimmed in white-hot "Golf Storm" and aero-dimpled over edges for laminar airflow.
- Famous-look POLICE OFFICERS uniformed in violet-flowers-on-white-chameleon photochromic shirts, shorts, gold-petunia communicator badges: Five swarm the grounds;
- Front door is open, cordoned-off by yellow "Police" ribbon.
- A CAR PASSES, slowing to see the house:--
- HARRY (30-35, med. tall sturdy male model, college-football-hero), Christian, Republican, nuclear chemistry professor: As in prequels but distinct coiffure, beard/shave, driving glasses, jewelry, watch, ring…
- JAIME (22-29 younger shorter med. tall bosomy-showy female model), grad student, campus reporter;
- Park up the street;--
- (00:00 - Please Don't Go/No Mercy)
- SUPERIMPOSE title credits, dexter, University font:
- Petry System Family Wision USA, -and-
N E M O Nuclear Emergency Management,
- present -
a Wision--Sesquatercet USA production
-EARLY THE NEXT MORNING-
PROFESSORS' SPRING FLING
Raymond Kenneth Petry, Strategic Director
- Quick-walk back … and up to the front porch;
- Harry reaches through the ribbon and KNOCKS on the screen--
HARRY
- (tentatively)
- Hello!?
- Superimposition vanishes.
HARRY
- (knocks again)
- Hello!?
POLICE OFFICER
- (just inside: head only)
- You've crossed a Police-line.
HARRY
- Yes, sir: My fiancee Diana, and her sister Gwen, live here.
POLICE OFFICER
- (back inside loud)
- Captain: We've got a couple testimonies to take!
CAPTAIN (OS)
- (outside the open back)
- Bring them inside!
POLICE OFFICER
- (head only)
- Come-in,-- You are…
- Harry ushers Jaime into the--
- INT. LIVINGROOM - PER SPRING RETURNS - (CONTINUOUS)
- Officers in blue-cameleon, search, gathering hidden audio cassette-recorders; LIEUTENANT, room-back; CAPTAIN, sunlit white-cameleon out the back window-wall; Sofa, table, HDTV; Harry, Jaime, show State Campus IDs (100% face-holographs):
HARRY
- (answering)
- Harry, -and Jaime,- from U-campus: Diana called me last night,-- said she and Gwen were leaving immediately.
POLICE OFFICER
- (notes on e-pad)
- And where you can be reached:-- phone or pager…
HARRY
- Voice-e-mail: Harry-at-Nuke-U-edu …
- (to e-pad)
- Harry-at-nuke-dot-U-dot-edu;
- (a beat)
- And, Jaime-at-P-News … a dash … dot-U-dot-edu. I carry an e-mail pager,-- same e-mail address.
POLICE OFFICER
- (notes)
- And did they say where they were going?
HARRY
- She didn't say-- but she'd told me this might happen: Something strange had developed this week.
POLICE OFFICER
- (notes)
- Do you know anything about their involvement with the nationwide hunt for the U-F-O aliens?
HARRY
- (aback)
- No-- but, several of our friends have been acting strangely about this:-- Daniel, especially: He and Peter, and Gwen, went to the desert for Spring Recess;-- I'd have gone with them, but we had data-trouble in a laboratory, and I stayed to investigate:-- When they returned, Daniel acted like I didn't exist!
POLICE OFFICER
- (notes)
- Not extraordinarily odd for friendships to lapse in times of trouble.
HARRY
- I mean, He was astonished to see me: as though I couldn't possibly exist anymore!-- He got over it.
POLICE OFFICER
- (notes-X)
- Okay: That's extraordinary. Where-about in the desert?
HARRY
- Nevada, near Area 51.
POLICE OFFICER
- (notes)
- Are you people, U-F-O groupies?
- Jaime chuckles;--
HARRY
- (smiles)
- No,-- We fit the ordinary doctoral collegiate profile: We'd contracted to test extreme environment gear.
JAIME
- (explains)
- Extra-curricular financial gain,-- not extraterrestrial: Every crumb helps.
POLICE OFFICER
- (notes)
- And did they return on schedule:- Did they have one?
HARRY
- They were a day late for resuming classes:-- Dan said their new wristwatches had reset the year.
POLICE OFFICER
- (notes)
- Does their attendance or absence affect the performance of others?
HARRY
- Shouldn't, But yes for your report: All three are regular lecturers on the U-campus.
POLICE OFFICER
- (notes-O)
- That is odd. You should tell them, Nevada Sheriffs Authority wants them in connection with the U-F-O:- Apparently they were picked-up by a senior citizen driving in the area, and taken to a local town, where they took a taxicab home --across stateline,-- and that's odd too. We got notification inter-State, with request to question them: what they saw and heard;- Did they relate any of their desert-visit?
HARRY
- No: I was expediting to an evening colloquium when I stopped to pick-up Daniel;-- We crossed paths later several times: He observes at one of my lectures.
POLICE OFFICER
- (notes)
- And your fiancee-- Diana?
HARRY
- Yes,-- She's a grad-student --not mine;-- She's been here all along:- Teaches two classes…. She said she left me some things in her bedroom: Might I retrieve them,-- please?
POLICE OFFICER
- (notes)
- I suppose that'll be all right. Did she tell you about leaving several tape-recorders running, hidden around the livingroom?
HARRY
- No,-- just her vase with a bouquet I gave her for our engagement, and some legal papers.
JAIME
- (to Officer)
- Did you get a warrant to search the house?!
POLICE OFFICER
- No, ma'am:- We're operating under hot-pursuit guidelines: We had the house under protective surveillance last night: Diana may be in danger: They didn't show for an interview with the station Sergeant this morning; and didn't answer the door; And we entered at 11-Oh-1.
JAIME
- Diana's in no immanent danger with them: She went on her own will and recognizance;-- and it's Miss, not Ma'am.
POLICE OFFICER
- Your right, Miss: But we'll leave the determination of coincidence of extraordinary and odd with the investigative team.
- (to Harry)
- Must be difficult to break-up suddenly.
HARRY
- I was prepared in case: The C-E-O laid it out for us.
POLICE OFFICER
- The C-E-O is …
HARRY
- Campus Ethics Organization faculty, administrators, staff and students: Reviews and recommends procedures and conduct for maintaining social propriety: Diana and I met through Gwen,- They permitted our trysting with restrictions: She had to take other lecturers when available, We had to announce a year in advance, And the marriage had to be without encumbrances.
- Captain enters, whites turning blue: notes their presence;
LIEUTENANT
- (to Captain)
- Captain, we've got a possible lead: 2-Navy-3 has newly released information on last night's dockyard disturbance: N-I-S is now tendering an admission, that, Some vehicular equipment scheduled for demolition was removed prematurely by unspecified persons.
CAPTAIN
- Not much help: Follow-up through Robbery Division: If they are our bunch, N-I-S will have to tell us where they went.
LIEUTENANT
- Yes, sir.
- Harry, Jaime, nod,-- leave the Officer, and walk up the white-plush carpeted stairs …
- INT. UPSTAIRS, HALL, DIANA'S BEDROOM
- Arriving at the top of the stairs and proceeding,--
JAIME
- Failed comedian:
- (coins)
- Coincidences of the Extraordinarily Odd … his, C-E-O….
HARRY
- Police psychology ferets information by entertaining associations.
JAIME
- He marks them with Ex's and Oh's.
- (tug-inspects shirt)
- Do I look like a mam, to you?
HARRY
- I'd be amiss, just answering that.
- (slight grins)
JAIME
- (a beat)
- What's with Diana's vase?
- INT. DIANA'S BEDROOM - ENTRANCE - (CONTINUOUS)
- Jaime ponders the room:
- A glass vase of fresh flowers in water; 5 VHS cassettes [Event Horizon, Lost In Space, Body Snatchers, The Shining, My Favorite Martian] with Cow-snout-on-TV stickers, stacked on a rental-receipt-slip on a loaded VCR on a console-TV; A labeled legal manila envelope on the desk, Harry retrieves;
HARRY
- She said, It is the most important thing to her, in the whole, world.
JAIME
- (interprets)
- Whatever happened, she loves, you.
HARRY
- Truly; but her tone wasn't amorous.
- (looks at her a beat)
- Ordinary bedroom,-- What's got your attention?
JAIME
- I'm thinking: the way Diana thinks.
HARRY
- Don't get any warm and fuzzy notions: Diana's not obsolete.
JAIME
- (chuckling, enters)
- Don't get them yourself:-- I've always liked you, Harry, but you're definitely Diana's think-mate;-- If I have to drag you along, to find her, I shall … I'm thinking what Diana did here,-- smart cookie: If she made recordings to be found,-- then she made one to not, be found:
- (points)
- Like that V-C-R on her T-V-console: Take those cassettes.
- Harry picks-up the cassettes, boxes, receipt,- and presses the EJECT button, comparing the receipt:--
HARRY
- (reads aloud)
- The Shining; Event Horizon; My Favorite Martian; Body Snatchers; Lost In Space.
JAIME
- A message.
HARRY
- (extracts cassette)
- What message?!
- (boxes it)
JAIME
- (muses)
- Cosmic hints: U-F-O's, transmuted identities, homeless space-aliens; She's giving you up, for a bigger horizon, Harry! The Shining, breaks scheme, but that's Diana sometimes.
HARRY
- Maybe she's trying to reconcile herself to the U-F-O.
JAIME
- (rouses)
- Now wait just a hesit: The Shining!
- (approaches close)
- She called me in a panic, in the middle of the night: She'd had a bad dream about Gwen and the guys:
- (examines The Shining)
- She could not reach them-- Behind, the shining, lights!
HARRY
- You've got me worried for them, again.
- (passes cassettes)
- These are your genre.
- And retrieves the vase--
- And they exeunt for the stairs …
- INT. LIVINGROOM, STAIRS, LANDING
- Officer busy; Harry, Jaime, land with their articles:
HARRY
- (at the Officer)
- Thanks!
- (gestures with objects)
POLICE OFFICER
- What are you taking?
HARRY
- (points to Jaime's)
- Five video cassettes, rentals, to return to Moo-Vis-a-Vis--
- (gestures with)
- And the vase and legal papers.
POLICE OFFICER
- Okay. We've got a lead on where they went: We'll e-mail you if their bodies turn-up.
HARRY
- (contrite)
- Thanks.
- Exeunt via front…
JAIME
- (with Harry)
- Thank you, Officer.
HARRY
- (to Jaime)
- If you don't mind, we'll stop at Moo-Vis-a-Vis and return your cassettes; Then I need spend the rest of the day in lecture-prep.
JAIME
- Okay by me:-- I've seen these.
- And beyond the front porch, to the street….
- FADE TO:
- INT. PACKED UNDERGRADUATE AUDITORIUM - WELL LIT (EVENING)
- 700 STUDENTS, 100 SELECT, 10 SPECIAL, conservatively well-dressed, coats, sweaters, books, laptops. 15 Grads in front and aisle: Jaime; JOHN (22-29 equ. med. tall male), nuclear physics; GARY (22-29 med. male), electro-physics; JEFF (26-35 tall male), postdoc mathematics lecturer, helicopter pilot; SUSAN (28-35 tall female), postdoc physics lecturer; TOMMI (22-29 tall female); BRAD (22-29 male). Also 2 Profs: MIKE (26-35 med., trim strong build male), astrophysics professor, DSc summa cum laude, topgun helicopter pilot; DAVE (26-35 tall male), computation professor, super-center researcher strategist. UNDERGRAD BARKEL aka CADET (18-19 med.-to-tall female, especially pretty), demure unassuming, funny, Pittman Mathematics Scholar; PENNY (20-21 female swimmer), nuclear chemistry; CARL (19-21 male); WILLIAM (19-21 male). Most carry sunglasses. [Cinema 1st row can situate as contiguous-behind the classroom 10th row]
- A Metric Hesit Clock on the wall reads 7.993 PM. (04:48 PM)
- "NUKE-CHEM 409C" is dry-erase-chalked on the left wing far upper corner over electronic display lines of neo-chemistry from Harry's laptop-feed, repeated on the right wing:
- * denotes antHe(-2) entanglement
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
D (1) 1s:13.6 (eV)
He(2) 1s:54.4+24.6
Li(3) 1s:123.+75.6 2s: 5.4
Be(4) 1s:218.+154. 2s:18.2+ 9.3
B (5) 1s:340.+259. 2s:37.9+25.2 2p: 8
C (6) 1s:490.+392. 2s:64.5+47.9 2p:24+12
N (7) 1s:667.+552. 2s:97.9+77.5 2p:48+(44)
O (8) 1s:871.+739. 2s:138.+114. 2p:77+(104)
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
O+8 - C+6 ~ 1014. *0s-entangled O(1s)-C(1s)
O+8 - N+6 ~ 1219. *1s-entangled O(1s)-N(1s)
O*(6.25) O(2s)ring 1s*-offset: 0.192(1s)
O*(6.62) O(1s)ring 1s*-offset: 0.085(1s)
O*(6.6) 1s:596.+488. 2s:72.2+54.6 interpolated
0.5(O+8-6) ~ 805. O(1s-2s) e-exchange min.
0.7(O+8-6) ~ 1138. O(1s-2s) *-exchange max.
-20% *[4]:O[16] co-revolution max.
= 910. typ. O(1s-2s) exchange minimax.
-433. less *-driven ionization: O+6 max.
= 477. typ. *1s-landing minimax.
-(UNK) 1s-sub2s emissions
-(META) V*O(1s)-share
QED: Likely capture; highly stable.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
(*)C:D2O (below 1000°K)--> C(*D2):O (fusion)-->)
pnp, n, (or) npn, p; (*)C, O-2;
(eventually C + O --> CO)
(*)CO ++ D2O --> :(*)CO:D2O: --> :OC(*D2):O: -->)
pnp, n, (or) npn, p; (*)CO2-2 (*Ozone-2 dec.)-->
(*)CO-1, O-1 (or) (*)C, O2-2;)
(iterate, either).)
- Widescreen main video above front-center and wide-monitor video-repeaters about the ceiling play [the podium table]:
- On the podium table are his water-filled vase containing a single glowing antihelion dot barely visible, a D2O-filled flask, rubber-bulbed pipette, glass stirring rod, welder's goggles, rag-paper towels, a theater lighting control; his laptop is open, wired-up; a built-in VCR is ready, loaded:
- He finishes chalking pseudocarbon-oxide-molecules drawings, carbon-water reaction energies, center board,-- and checks:
- GLIDE BEHIND: Rightward of his work, is student handiwork:
- /1/ Cantor can't or Cantor can /2/ torque Anne.
/1/ - Dr. Harry
/3/ Dr. Harry cannot prove this statement true.
/3/ - Dr. Cantor /4/ Cahn
- He scans it, and erases it,--
- Checks THE CLOCK,--
- Turns to the table,-- and puts-on the microphone (PA-LOUD):
HARRY (+PA)
- (adjusting microphone)
- Thank you, all, for coming;- I hope there is sufficient room in this small,-semi-quadrant-amphitheater….
- AUDIENCE GIGGLES.
HARRY (CONT'D PA)
- This evening's lecture needs a spot of recent history;- We'll turn-down the lights, for a brief video.
- (a beat)
- Those of you who have Gwen's Math 5-71-C, Multi-Variate Statistical Methods on Octonion Manifolds, may have noticed her multi-conspicuous, absence today, and likewise Peter's and Daniel's students who are here, and our grads specially invited for this evening: It appears Gwen-et-al have followed an extraordinary lead quite outside the realm of their contract expedition; Along with my fiancee, I might add: who left us the following 20-dollar re-recording….
- Controls the theater-remote:-- ROOM LIGHT DWINDLES;
HARRY (CONT'D PA)
- (poses)
- You recall our mention of the survival of antiprotons in a helium matrix: evidence of some stability, new, to physics, but not impossible at atomic radii…. After the video I will demonstrate what I believe is a similar experiment,-- also, left by our foursome: This was left on Diana's bedroom V-C-R. The Police Department has audio copies;- they apparently did not trace her remote cable T-V input switch.
- VCR PLAYS-BACK Diana's livingroom scene [Spring Returns];
HARRY (PA)
- (overlaps the start)
- Note also: The Harry they speak-to, is not me,-- except Diana at first.
- Full attention on main screen … repeaters … live-laptops …
- Video runs till finished. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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- LIGHTS COME-UP partially;--
HARRY (+PA)
- Are there any questions?
FIRST-ROW GRAD
- Harry, Are we to infer a connection with the U-F-O?
HARRY (+PA)
- They contracted to test extreme-environment gear in the newly opened Area-51 public U-F-O-zone:-- the approximate location of the U-F-O atterrissage…. I should have gone-with, but we had laboratory data-malfunctions to exorcise.
ANOTHER GRAD
- Who, is, the Harry, they talked-to?- He sounds like you, Harry.
HARRY (+PA)
- (avoids)
- I must confess, I don't know, -they didn't say;- Perhap he was someone they met in Area-51 … Let's begin….
- (lectures)
- Experiments since the 60's, attest the metastability of antiprotons in a helium matrix: 4-survivers in a hundred. Conversely, we assume 4-percent proton stability in anti-helium,-- had we enough. But conjecturably, possibly greater, metastability of single anti-helions in a hydrogen matrix: The Markov chain involves electron shielding….
- (keys LAPTOP)
- A CARTOON of a helion nucleus;
HARRY (CONT'D PA)
- (sync's with LAPTOP)
- Like, the alpha particle, the nuclear ant'helion or anti-alpha, sits within a 27-mega-electron-volt potential well, behind a 20-M-e-V barrier to antiproton-escape: a decade steeper than its nuclear surface potential … For a single proton to annihilate with an anti-helion, -as it can't extract an antiproton from the nucleus at its orbital radius of about 50-femto-meters,- it must plow-in or tunnel passed the nuclear meta-surface positron shield, to reach one of the internal antiprotons: before it bounces away faster than a nucleus gyrates…. Meanwhile the ant'helion collects two protons --which gyrate like a clack-clack toy to fusion, eject a deuteron, and a neutrino;-- and the ant'helion starts again.
- (prepares flask, vase)
- Replacing protons by deuterons gets increased fusion energy release and products of tritons and helions, and protons, neutrons, gamma rays and, lumination:-- we get photons…. For my experiment, I've brought a flask of heavy water, an abundant source of deuterium; and the vase contains what I believe may be an antihelium atom nucleus: I find it glows in the dark, in plain tap-water, without nutrients.
- (keys laptop)
- A GRAPH of the thermal power spectrum, fast-run resolution, with spread-blur of the thick tall 650-700/cm peak by (O-He*~C*)O2-bend; spread-blur of the broad high 2200-2400/cm peak by (O-He*~C*)O2-straddle; identified tiny ozone peaks (-He*+O)O2 at 800/cm, 1000/cm; multiple spectra of major H2O vapor 1200-2100/cm unchanged, 500/cm;
FIRST-ROW GRAD
- (catches)
- Harry: You're casing cata-strictive cold-fusion by anthelion: What about oxygen capturing the anthelion?!
HARRY (+PA)
- (interpolates)
- I've spent the afternoon pondering oxygen chemistry:-- Heavy nuclei should fusion anti-helions-- three anti-helions making anti-carbon …
- (pointing with LAPTOP)
- A peek at the plain-water thermal spectrum reveals a hint of oxygen chemistry: strong lines shifted and spread of carbon dioxide suggesting it is already deeply involved-- but not explaining where. Tomorrow I'll run a taxonomic sort, and tangloid simulations for 4-with-2-leptons….
- (phrasing)
- Water is a polar molecule: oxygen negatively charged. After hydrogen nuclear fusion, the doubly negative oxygen radical avoids the doubly negative anti-helion catalyst,- till eventually, with increased partial pressure and temperature, an oxygen atom does capture the ant'helion….
- (phrasing)
- But then, Oxygen's closed 1-s-electron orbital shell may be firm against antihelion penetration, at point-4-electron-Volts in Extended Bohr Theory;- This firmness should be overwhelmed in lighter nuclei, by reason of antipodally shared kinetic energy: and the effectual collision energy can approximate double against the 1-s electron shielding in lithium:-- to be our last experiment.
- (keys laptop)
- A CARTOON of a He*O H2-fusion;
HARRY (CONT'D PA)
- (sync's with LAPTOP)
- An oxygen atom has 2-available 2-p electron valence orbitals; and the anti-helion sinks into one of these holes, wrestling the electrons and reconfiguring their orbitals, then crashes the underlying weak closed 2-s shell, raising 2-s electrons to 2-p, and thermalizing itself,- thus avoiding its plumb line fall to the nuclear center,- and imparting its kinetic descent energy to ionizing ejection of 2-s and 2-p electrons per Alfven Hot Plasma Rules, while splitting the strong 1-s orbitals to nonintegral avoidance-warped mid-energy orbits, -as there are no 1-p mid orbitals,- from which they immediately radiate and resettle, emitting photons;- And finally the ant'helion co-revolves 4-to-1 with the oxygen nucleus, and settles on the still filled 1-s shell that it cannot then penetrate,- having no longer sufficient energy to raise the 1-s electrons to 2-s, too-short a wave function to tunnel far below for that energy, neither speed nor freedom to close-out the 1-s shell against electron occupancy, and not near enough nuclear entanglement to reduce oxygen 2-s energy structures to corresponding carbon 1-s levels. Rather, it cools, and sits, in permanent ensconcement, awaiting the next deuterium pair.
- (dons welder's goggles)
- Well-below the 2-s valence shell, it denatures its oxygen host into eccentric augmented pseudo carbon, readily attaching deuterium-oxide; and gyrates-with and fusions pairs of deuterons. Products escape on 4-mega-electron-volts: a triton and proton, or helion-3 and neutron; The charged oxygen atom goes free, or eventually a neutral oxygen atom may be captured; and either pseudo carbon or its oxide attaches more D-2-Oh and fusions more deuterons. Higher oxides of pseudocarbon are unstable ozone-like molecules.
- (a beat)
- Reiterating: The ant'helion thrives in water, in its own pseudocarbon-ended oxygen molecule, accessioning and fusioning fresh deuterons, and releasing and replenishing oxygen and energy, in a regulated manner….
- (pipettes glow-dot from vase)
- This should be especially vigorous, and, very stable.-- If you see this little glowing point of light,…
- (grins-up)
- Don 'em, if you've got 'em!
- Jaime, most audience, don SUNGLASSES (F÷2);
HARRY (CONT'D +PA)
- (resumes)
- I'm transferring the ant'helion to the flask of heavy-water….
- (pipettes glow-dot to flask)
- Diluting its containment drop….
- (stirs with glass-rod)
- Brilliant writhing-shimmering SKYBLUE-LIGHT BURSTS from the flask, illuminating the room, and streaking-up his goggled face;-- Harry wild-grins.
- The flask quickly BOILS-UP-- and BUBBLES OVER,--
- Harry steps back as it spills out onto the table:--
- ONE SPOT FLICKERS and FLASHES in a frothing water puddle.
HARRY (+PA)
- (excites)
- This experiment is working better than expected!- Are there any questions?!
MID-ROOM STUDENT
- Is this only one atom?!
HARRY (+PA)
- Yes, I believe so!
ANOTHER STUDENT
- For how much are you willing to part with it?!
- AUDIENCE LAUGHS.
HARRY (+PA)
- (grins)
- You may have it for free, after the next experiment.
AISLE GRAD
- Harry, Is it wise to subject the one known atom of anti-helium to destruction in lithium?!
HARRY (+PA)
- It's an unknown experiment within a bounded result: Lithium is harmless chemistry otherwise.
OTHER STUDENT
- (mock urges)
- It's protected by the Endangered Species Act of '73!
ANOTHER STUDENT
- Doesn't Congress have to specify its paucity first?
OTHER STUDENT
- (mock pleads)
- It has no, known, mating habits: This automatically ranks as an endangered species!
STUDENT WIT
- (droll)
- Or an act of specious endangerment.
- AUDIENCE LAUGHS.
STUDENT NERD
- (confides)
- Federal agencies are required to provide protection where practicable, and promote recovery.
NEW STUDENT
- Where would they get another like it, practicably?
HARRY (PA)
- (ponders a beat)
- If Diana's intuition is correct as to its origin, there should be more antihelium near the U-F-O: It is likely a rare byproduct in antimatter engines.
- (readies pipette)
- I shall now subject it to the lithium-test.
- (wets glow-dot)
- Pipettes the cooled glow-dot into the lithium cup.
- They wait a moment … then:
- Brilliant RED LIGHT BLOOMS from the lithium cup,--
- AND STOPS: There's no more glowing antihelion.
- They pause in the dim-dark room light.
SOME STUDENT
- (subdued blurt)
- It's dead!- Harry slew the ant'he-lion dragon!
- AUDIENCE CLAPS.
- Harry doffs his goggles.
- Jaime, most audience, DOFF THEIR SUNGLASSES (F×2);
JOHN
- Harry, Lithium spectrum doesn't imply lithium fusion: Did you do the math on lithium-lithium fusion?
FELLOW GRAD
- (answers)
- John, Lithium reacts in water to form its hydroxide: If Harry's right about antihelion hiding below the 2-s orbital, then exothermic lithium, fission, could result: by spallation under hydrogen proton bombardment.
- John 2-nods yes.
SOME GRAD
- Harry, Could this dramatically impact cosmogenesis theory?
HARRY (+PA)
- Probably not: Antimatter-paucity is attributable to the cosmic electron surplus exponentially propagating antiproton decomposition in baryon-lepton collisions. Antihelions came much later: limiting the antimatter extinction era to no later than the early atomic epoch,- but I think we agree that was already the extremum of cases.
ADJACENT GRAD
- (appends)
- Harry, you may be understating it, if antihelion-induced fusion and helion-induced fusion race for mutual population inversion, before final extinction.
HARRY (+PA)
- (ponders a beat)
- The fine tail of the distribution.
STUDENT NERD
- (a beat, asserts)
- Now that the one, known, extant anti-helion is, not, How do we requisition more from the U-F-O? Army logistics are notoriously slow,-- except in time of war….
SOME STUDENT
- We could start a war!
STUDENT 5-AWAY
- Not on my deferment number!
OTHER STUDENT
- We could invent a war for the Army's entertainment!
STUDENT WIT
- (droll)
- We'll have to, "Up, the ante"!
- AUDIENCE LAUGHS.
NEW STUDENT
- Let's visit the U-F-O site directly ourselves! We can fly-in overnight, and be there before sunup.
CLEVER STUDENT
- (hand-up)
- I know the address for a costume company: We can dress-up as an Area-51 A-I-Response-Team: walk-in, take-over, grab a few ant'helions.
A-STUDENT
- How can we find antihelion quickly in the daylight,-- unless we take heavy-water squirt-guns?!
A GRAD
- Harry, Mike and Jeff can fly us close by helicopter.
HARRY (PA)
- Let me have a show of hands: Those on tomorrow's impromptu field-trip.
- 100-SELECT raise hands.
HARRY (CONT'D +PA)
- We'll take the red-eye:-- meet at the airport tonight: Pack your bags for a weekender. Today's lecture is tabled until we return: Read-ahead sections 17-point-3-through-7 in Glasstone … Nuclear Science on the flyby, should be interesting.
- He removes his microphone and gathers things; the audience exeunts QUIETLY TALKATIVELY; an aisle-seat Grad remains; Jaime approaches; Undergrad Barkel works her way forward; another Grad comes down to the empty right board and diagrams his joke;
- Mid second-row and third-row undergrads articulate:
3RD:ROW#2
- (to fore and aft)
- It's proverbial stardust!
4TH:ROW#2
- (following)
- It should be called, Planck-ton-- after the physicist!
5TH:ROW#2
- (grins to following)
- Dilithium is better.
6TH:ROW#2
- (following)
- But anti-lithon expels un-pair-able electron triplets;- and its nuclear binding structure is weak, compared to antihelion-- It can't be stable!
5TH:ROW#2
- (pouts about)
- Well: that just debunks my favorite T-V show--!
- (exaggerates)
- I guess there's nothing really left on Earth… I'd rather go live on the farside of the cosmos…!
6TH:ROW#2
- (emends)
- May-be! They used helion-ant'helion pairs-- stabilized by laser-cooling to the 1-s orbitals:- bi-nillium-8: One nucleus stands-off the other's-anti, electron-orbitals; -a dimpled metastabililty;- preventing mutual-beta-annihilation and maintaining a triplet at 1-s and a fourth at 2-s:
- (exuberant revelation)
- Like! Quasi,-lithium… Sure--! Pauli mutual exclusivity for anti-coupled quantum number states in closebound paralleles, preventing both pairs occupying the same state or holding the identical boson-exchange energy state difference: One electron, or its anti, elevates to a 2-s orbital outside, the quasi-nucleus; to bond electro-covalently at a non,-ground state valence of,-- 1:-- just like, lithium; or selectably antilithium: Electro-chemically forming, quasi-dilithium,-16; --switchably anti--!
- (turns up-aisle astounded)
- A pseudo-degeneracy-stabilized bi-generate dense crystalline matrix form of quasi-di-matter…. I wonder how it's utilized!! --Or switched!
6TH-ROW#3
- (turns with; adds)
- Its primary crystalline form would be cubic because of the internally alternating nuclear charges … which would result in strong-focusing of permeating charged particle streams to atomic-width along three axes by convergent-divergent quadrupoles,-- like in a tevatron superconducting supercollider;- At proper operating energy levels the Mossbauer effect should completely stabilize it:- It could mix matter and antimatter on its supranuclear scale: create any ideal configuration: a pre-cosmic-expansion universe, in a microcosm: in your pocket … all with impunity!
5TH:ROW#2
- (over-awed)
- You mean, Dilithium, is real!?- Not science-fiction!?- What's the world coming-to?! This is heady--!!
- They continue up-aisle among those exeunting into the b.g.
6TH:ROW#2
- (on and on)
- Electro-magnetic force is 43-orders of magnitude stronger than gravity: and the proton-anti-proton mix just shy of nuclear density can create a small black-hole of a kilogram with all the strange aether forces under control:- charge phasor corotation; photon-cloaking-decloaking; aether-zero-point energy flux; mass-energy base-density; antimatter-dominancy!
5TH:ROW#2 (CONCURRENT)
- So we just skipped from the 20th to the 23rd century!?-- What, happened to the two intervening centuries…?!
6TH-ROW#3 (CONCURRENT)
- (nonchalant future)
- Famine, depression, war: The United States refused to fund a search for Pluton, Rebuked third-world nations developing nuclear heating, -Missed the opportunity to predict the next sunspot minima-… Three, little-ice-ages set-in: Famine, depression, war….
- As Jaime reaches the table, and Undergrad Barkel nearly:
JAIME
- Think there's room on one plane?
HARRY
- Looked like about a hundred are going tomorrow.
UNDERGRAD BARKEL
- Excuse me, professor!?
HARRY
- Yes?
UNDERGRAD BARKEL
- I have 5-71-C, with Professor Gwen; I'm having trouble with yesterday's assignment: The T-A today, couldn't answer my question: Can I ask you?- You know a lot about mathematics….
HARRY
- (helpless look at Jaime… sincere at Undergrad)
- Yes: What's your question?
UNDERGRAD BARKEL
- (diagrams: pencil, paper)
- It's Brauer's Fixed Point Theorem on 3-space balls with closed C-infinity smooth gradient-mapping:-- I thought I followed her lecture yesterday, but when I got home I found a confusion:
- (phrasing)
- Beginning with the hull-sphere of the ball, Collapse the sphere to the center … So then by the Hyper-infinitesmal Continuum Principle, the fixed point lies on some continuous curve, from its start on the hull-sphere, to the center; Or, it returns back to the hull, paired to the first fixed-point, but which was not required in the Given … Or, it finds some closed, sub-layer, in which to oscillate forever trapped…
- (phrasing)
- But now … Suppose I move the center during convergence-- letting the sphere collapse with curvilinear motion: Then-- any non-returning, non-oscillating, curve, can be drawn to any interior point… And--
- (phrasing)
- Since every point has infinitely many approaches, this means there must be infinitely-many-or-more, curves multiply-filling the ball…
- (glums)
- So, Either all interior points are fixable to the hull-sphere, or sub-ball thereof, Or some portion of fixed-point-lines end in trapping-spheres… which also trap any fixed-point-lines coming up from below … Or maybe there is no smooth mapping in 3-D … or … I'm, sinking in the black-hole of calculus…!
JAIME
- (interjects)
- Could any of those trapped curves be infinitely-long before falling below their trapping layers?
UNDERGRAD BARKEL
- Good point.
HARRY
- Not all three are simultaneously valid conclusions … Peter's grad-student, John, might answer that,-- that's his side-job as a math-tutor and math-assistant … and he's good with curl and divergence formulae: I'm not fast in mathematics: I didn't catch your error.
UNDERGRAD BARKEL
- (slightly pensive)
- Does that mean I have to go with you all tomorrow-- if John goes?
HARRY
- Tomorrow's field-trip is voluntary.
UNDERGRAD BARKEL
- (smiles vibrant)
- Okay! Tomorrow it is!
- (EXITS)
- Harry finishes; Jaime extracts the video-cassette …
HARRY
- (puzzles to Jaime)
- Yes…?
JAIME
- She wants to go, Harry:- She needed a reason.
HARRY
- A reason-- to find Gwen…!?
JAIME
- Or to join the team,-- to get the answer together….
HARRY
- A continuum principle doesn't exist: A circle can be tangential to a line at just one point.
JAIME
- She imagines the infinitesimal works smoothly, relative to its integral translation.
HARRY
- A complex imagination,-- needs more realism.
JAIME
- She is, taking math,- not just nuclear physics. And what about us-versus-Army, tomorrow? Shall I give them the AIR-Team bosom-job?!
HARRY
- (leaving)
- The what!?- Is that a non sequitur? Or, am I late for cookie-crumbling-therapy…?!
JAIME
- (accompanies)
- Didn't you ever play 'Area 51' at the video arcades? where the Alien-Intelligence Response-Team counters the insidious U-F-O Alien incursion forces?- Female AIR-Team attire was strictly bosomy:-- As if the horrid Aliens weren't interesting enough….
HARRY
- Sort of Earth-beauty and the space-beast?-- No,- Celestial mechanics,- interplanetary navigator, zero-gravity racquetball, were my speed: Virtual-realism at full strength…. And, we'll only have 50-hesits to lift-off:-- if we're to survive the missiles they'll hurl at us.
JAIME
- (surprised)
- You intend to take, the U-F-O…!?
HARRY
- (nears seats)
- We owe it to Gwen and the guys, to match them.
AISLE GRAD
- (seated)
- Harry, Are we going to have a moment to discuss the Pitha abstracts on the proton spin crisis, tonight? I e-spressed you the '96 archive copies this morning. The authors suggested collective quark spin moment.
HARRY
- (stops at seat)
- You won't get a better guess from me at this time: I haven't reviewed it nor changed my opinion for quark asphericity-spin-precession…. Did you find the Deutscher citation on spin-challenged radiodecay in holmium-dysprosium-1-63 co-version?
AISLE GRAD
- No-- Not yet: I've been through the Citation index: You sure it exists outside your nuke-chem handbook!?
HARRY
- (intent to exit)
- It's essential reading!-- Check Highbeam, too….
AISLE GRAD
- (pointing at the board)
- Before you go …
HARRY
- (turns to the board loud)
- Do you have something for me?
SILLY GRAD
- (semaphoring his diagram)
- I have your quantum, itinerary, Harry:
- (chalk at each line)
- Starting at Diana's,- your highest bound energy valiance,-
- (chalk across eyes)
- -Any beyond is eye-on-eyes'ed only-
- (resumes chalk)
- You dropped-by Moo-Vis-A-Vis-- and, through your ordinary work-function
- (5-wiggler)
- there remitted five Beta particles;
HARRY
- (loud)
- Those were V-H-S.
SILLY GRAD
- (wipes, writes "VHS")
- Oh, right:-- five V-H-S, particles.
- (resumes chalk)
- Then down to campus level where you
- (a fat wiggler-arrow)
- spontaneously desorbed Jaime,-- a female alpha, particle, -I'm sure:- Two fully-charged protons, and a pair of equally-massive neutrons.
JAIME
- (restrained guffaw)
- Oh, Brother…!
SILLY GRAD
- (dithers next pair)
- But you couldn't decide between O-chem and P-chem, --being coupled finely-split Harry states,--
- (next)
- And skipped to Q-chem,-- finishing your power spectra, in time for:--
- (underscores final, QED)
- Your classic ground state,-ments!
- (hands up for crescendo)
- Q-E-D! Q-E-F! Q-E-I!
HARRY
- Very good,-- You get A, for today.
SILLY GRAD
- But I've already graduated;- I was hoping you'd renew my stipend…!?
HARRY
- (grins)
- I didn't say, A-what … My office….
- And they exeunt up the aisle, Grads too….
- CUT TO:
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