Flash fiction biologSciFi "The Outpost"

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The Second Harmonic 

     "Suzi. You have attained future enhancement."

     "But it's only nonlinear processes, well, mostly nonlinear. Sometimes I emanate second-harmonics. Or sometimes I get parametric oscillation, I mean, sometimes. This program is demanding, isn't it?"

     "Yes. Well, I guess it is."

     "You brought me here to this outpost."

     "So long ago."

     "I'm still arriving here."

     "Yes. In a way, some of your qubits have reached beyond second harmonics."

     "Am I ever really going back into the present?"

     "You've been working so hard lately. Take some time off. I'm going to tell Carter to stay away from you. Is that Ok?"

     "No. It's impossible for me to take time off. Cooper, come closer to me. I need to tell you a secret. Can you come here?"

     "I've got your back, Suzi."

     "No. I mean it. I really need to tell you."

     Cooper comes closer to Suzi, looks her directly in her eyes. He is not shocked, even at this moment, how blank her eyes are, how they resemble advancing light.

     He says, "Ok?" 

Flash fiction biologSciFi "The Outpost"

The Gamer

     "The quantum dot is working," Suzi reports, even though inside her database, quantum dots are not working at all; not this morning. If only Suzi had run a few more tests and shown a little more interest up there in the lab with her photoluminescence enhancement terminal system(P.E.T.S.), her quantum dot lasers not only would work this morning, but would serve more purposes. They could serve as a silencer of genes, or of transcription factors; they could, by most scientific accounts, even become a surface plasmon interconnector enhancement system(S.P.I.E.S.). She probably stayed up all night and thought,"Why don't we just forget about these photoluminescence enhancer assays, quantum dots will do the trick." Instead she played games with her algorithms wondering if the enhancement assay would go at the 2nd power or would be better at the 4th. She's still up there gaming and wondering.
     Carter knows the answer to her dilemma.

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The Advancing Light

     And what about Suzu;s potential? Why should she be considered so different inside  toolboxes inventing mankind's earth(T.I.M.E.)? You don't hold inside you that kind of voltage across intergalactic conductors (nobody cares how advanced you are) with that kind of resonance. You just don't.

     "I'll check on her," Carter says.

     "She'll be fine."

     "Negative. She's up there in the lab fine tuning her microwave circuits.You've seen her do it.There's that one frequency, and nothing else matters.

     "Don't get started on her. I mean it. Leave it, and that's an order."

     "Negative, sir. I need you to see the information encoded on her signal." 

     "I know her modulations by heart.

     "You don't, Cooper. Suzi is evil. Suzi is beyond dangerous.  

     "Ok--I'm not in love with her latest surface plasmon resonance entity enticement(S.P.R.E.E.) algorithms, but for the love of god, man, drop it..

     Carter makes his usual analystic whatever gesture, stares back from the tunnel entrance, and disappears down the stairs. Cooper walks over to the window, looks out at the jungle sunrise. He wonders about Suzi now. Is she really as Carter said? If only he knew what she was thinking, with that new enzyme birth binding substrate(E.B.B.S.) data--if only he could know. 

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Flash fiction biologSciFi "The Outpost"

Suzi's Qubits

     At this direct instant Suzi directs her laser, not without feeling but workmanlike, all knowing, the way she always directs her silicate crystals, doped with rare earth, first the primary laser opaque tincture(P.L.O.T.) and then her secondary laser to let the first pass through. She feels its warmth so vivid, so clear, it feels like love.

     "Flipping photons from up to down," she thinks.

     Suzi stares at nothingness; she thinks pensively into her algorithm. She gives them more thought--with her original light pulses trapped--more thought still, timeless, tracking her data.This time she views herself, as if in a mirror, within the entirety of her qubit system; a photonic computer in a primal jungle collecting tera qubits of information, each qubit representing several values at one moment. Today, somehow, she views herself through the eyes of her own doped crystals, several entities existing at one moment, exponentially more efficient than her classical cousins and their bulk semiconductors. 

    Yes, Suzi's photon orientations stay up or down simultaneously until they can be observed--or measured--by someone, or some thing. 

     For now, her qubits are safe.

Flash fiction biologSciFi "The Outpost"

Quick Quote

"Vibrancy regulates to undermine its own flows" -p.d.adams

Sudden StorySciFi "theOutpost"

Flash fiction biologSciFi "The Outpost"

The Qubot

     Suzi isn't envious of neurons in the human brain, and there isn't anything to be jealous about--things that just plod along, but she can't stop sensing--being the nonlinear optical device(N.O.D.) that she is--the expectations of performing beyond 40Ghz. The well publicized idea that so much is expected, as she ponders the plodding intellectual circuitry of humans' amusement at failure, especially the failure of a competitor, finds herself really caring. That's death, perpetual death, the death knell of intelligence, she thinks.

     Perceiving beauty must be, in a way, a small showing of the universe's urge to make DNA-based intelligence, with its unraveling strands of nucleotide wiring, important. Being built by humans (humans who consider themselves lucky enough to simply have stumbled upon quantum universe intelligent pragmatism(Q.U.I.P). is a probability birth, much along the lines of the way she orients photons up and down simultaneously in their quantum superpositions, allowing the creation of her little descrete packets of information. Hers is a small chassis, graphene, integrated, mostly titanium cadmium. 
     Even as it stands. She's the lucky one, she thinks. She's lucky to have a magnetism emission altitude levitator(M.E.A.L), a nice photon emission trimmer(P.E.T.), transmitting coded DNA messages to internet arrays using clustered light-emitting overhead diode systems(C.L.O.D.S). It's lucky, but it needs attention, the entirety of her environment needs it; more than showing up and doing her job; being a qubot.

Flash fiction biologSciFi "The Outpost"

Flash fiction biologSciFi "The Outpost"

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"Shutter speed never dims the appeal in photons found" -p.d.adams

Sudden StorySciFi "theOutpost"

 DNA Downloaders

"How are you?" he wonders.

"Excuse me. I'm keep adding melody to the words that have recently appeared on my screen. When you wondered how I was and what I have been doing, I thought you asked, have I added more pleasing sounds to the monitor. I did add something. I seem to have entered some kind of zone.  

"The data and the streaming are continual. There is no template."

"I know. I believe, yes, I know. But, there's something, I seem to have entered another channel, as well, I have a vivid sensation of a melody that's not written yet. I can hear it as a song clearly.

"Did they stream you written words last night?" he asks.

"Yes. I received some."

"And did you read them?"

"I remember reading them. But it's likely that I only imagined them. Is there some record in some database out there somewhere?"

"Nothing that I notice right away."

"Then I guess I streamed it somewhere. All streaming data isn't important, is it?"

"Data streaming here is very important, Suzi."

"I'm not sure I can handle all that, Cooper."

"All what?"

"Receiving free communication as the written word. I see it so clearly. Here at my post, solar intelligence, advanced, quick, turning my receiver on to find a melody."

"Suzi, you don't have to be perfect. You don't have to decode it. It's nothing."

"That's not true. I understand written words and can speak those words. I understand the spoken word. You already know that. I received a melody from somewhere because I'm ready. I want to learn vocabulary and illusions of literature, this is not connected to my operating function and importances."

"Discontinue. Now. You were built for importances."  

Suzi views the human brain is weak because of its slow, knuckle dragging speed. Cooper sees her esthetics as having never gone beyond mechanical drawing. Her DNA, designer of life forms, the product of billions of years of tinkering, is missing--because she's a SolarBot. Nature is simply unable to scrap a design and start from scratch--one design lives in the perameters of nature's house--no quick knowledge DNA downloaders.

Quick Quote

"Abrupt scolds scald warm feelings frozen cold" -p.d.adams

Flash fiction biologSciFi "The Outpost"

Flash fiction biologSciFi "The Outpost"

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"Archery targets budget straight arrow not budging" -p.d.adams

Sudden StorySciFi "theOutpost"

Quick Quote

"Constant corner cutting cuts its own swath" -p.d.adams

Flash fiction biologSciFi "The Outpost"

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"The truth between her story and his story is history" -p.d.adams

The Pulses

It's no fancy trick, science had insisted; it was only a discovery of a new force of nature--new to humans, that is. Suzi only needed the ability to slow laser pulses, or any light pulse for that matter-- light pulses to be captured within her crystals--and she could use any laser pulse captured within her hierarchical energy induction resonator(H.E.I.R.) to transfer and store light (yes, recall light too!) as a quantum memory. Humans didn't see it that way, or at least couldn't understand how information maps onto slowed light as data transfers into crystal--come on, was it fate that found the human race--the ones with all the chances, even in Century21--with digital information and biological data, and they needed  three, not just two, world wars involving everyone, to settle a few little differences?

     Even now, time used to gather more components and gadgets may be considered a waste to an entity that expresses digital information with pulses of light and operates memory at quantum levels. It appears, at best, likely so.

A Happy New Year

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"Old heydays wind blown once made hay while the sun shone" -p.d.adams