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Research Log Entry (Subject - Information Exchange): So it's not too terribly often that I find someone else who's in the same 'line of work' (if you could call it that) as myself, but I was routed to 
Lennox through a number of mutual acquaintances on the basis of possessing some similar size/reality shifting methods that seem to involve difference principles than those in my graviton-based technology. Intellectual curiosity is one of my weaknesses, and I was a bit surprised to find out that, like me, Lennox doesn't seem to be in this business for profit reasons.
We initially exchanged a few texts and e-mails before moving to video calls, discussing a few general points of size-based technology. Most of Lennox's work in this regard seems to involve these 'nano civs', lab-created, fully-formed populations mounted into miniature trays. It would seem that he conducts a variety of research on them... a lot of sociology and population studies and the like. Fascinating stuff, even if it's not really my area (I can barely figure out how my own brain works, let alone understanding the mentality of an entire culture). Likewise, he seemed interested in my own capabilities for re-scaling items from this universe, or transiting native-scale objects and people from adjacent universes. I think we both tend to go on at length about our work when left unchecked, and I think we likewise enjoyed 'talking shop' with someone else who could appreciate the aspects and uses of such technologies.
Lennox was kind enough to invite me over to his lab one evening to show off some samples firsthand (I'm still a little leery about having outside folks over to my workshop due to some people's propensity for touching things or pushing buttons, so I'm privately glad he offered first). I brought along the v7.5 Interspace Generator, since it's portable and makes for a good, reliable demo unit, as well as the v3 Singularity Platform bracer, since it carries most of the manipulator tools and power supply. He has a nice setup in his lab... definitely more space than my workshop, but he's not trying to cram everything into a residential basement. Never mentioned where he got his funding for all this, and I didn't ask.
I set up the Interspace Generator and used the gravity tractor to haul Solus in from universe '875 at default size, then repeated using the built-in K-factor compensator to bring it through at baseball, marble, and speck scales before reverting to the default again (that planet keeps racking up the mileage... at least it's remained uninhabited in the interim). He asked the usual questions, what it would be like from the perspective of someone at ground level, what touching it would do, if it worked the same way on living things, and so forth. Nothing that I didn't have an answer for. Shared some commentary on some of the similar applications and devices that I derived from the technology.
Then he brought out the nano civs, all lined up on the table like playing cards. I was hesitant to even touch them at first, for fear of inadvertently turning an entire landscape upside down, but he assured me that each one contained a built-in inertial stabilizer to dampen the effects of relative movement. Picking one up was... a bit of a rush. Not every day you hold the equivalent of a planetary population in your palm. I was probably paying more attention to the construction and features of the enclosure than the expanses of green and blue inside, and he was happy to explain how the miniaturization and artificial gravity systems worked, though he was a bit tight-lipped about how the terrain within was generated and where the populations came from.
I nearly dropped one when he joked that some of my extra-close visual scrutiny probably meant that, from the view of the population, one of my eyes was taking up most of the sky. I barely managed to catch the thing in my other hand after recovering myself, but Lennox said it wasn't a big deal... again, stabilizers were active, and even if they weren't, experiments on this batch were complete, and they were all marked for disposal anyway.
That factoid... unnerved me a bit. I guess I never really thought about what you would do with these things once the experiment ended, but it was apparently part of standard procedure here. I suppose that biologists don't retain every petri dish of cultures that they grow (though maybe the fact that this involves entire civilizations changes things?). I recomposed myself and asked how that process worked (hoping it would at least be quick and painless).
It was even more unnerving in the way he answered "Oh, that's the FUN part..."
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Lydemox of Lydia and Lennox evaluating one another's work. No way that this will end badly, right?
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Lennox through a number of mutual acquaintances on the basis of possessing some similar size/reality shifting methods that seem to involve difference principles than those in my graviton-based technology. Intellectual curiosity is one of my weaknesses, and I was a bit surprised to find out that, like me, Lennox doesn't seem to be in this business for profit reasons.We initially exchanged a few texts and e-mails before moving to video calls, discussing a few general points of size-based technology. Most of Lennox's work in this regard seems to involve these 'nano civs', lab-created, fully-formed populations mounted into miniature trays. It would seem that he conducts a variety of research on them... a lot of sociology and population studies and the like. Fascinating stuff, even if it's not really my area (I can barely figure out how my own brain works, let alone understanding the mentality of an entire culture). Likewise, he seemed interested in my own capabilities for re-scaling items from this universe, or transiting native-scale objects and people from adjacent universes. I think we both tend to go on at length about our work when left unchecked, and I think we likewise enjoyed 'talking shop' with someone else who could appreciate the aspects and uses of such technologies.
Lennox was kind enough to invite me over to his lab one evening to show off some samples firsthand (I'm still a little leery about having outside folks over to my workshop due to some people's propensity for touching things or pushing buttons, so I'm privately glad he offered first). I brought along the v7.5 Interspace Generator, since it's portable and makes for a good, reliable demo unit, as well as the v3 Singularity Platform bracer, since it carries most of the manipulator tools and power supply. He has a nice setup in his lab... definitely more space than my workshop, but he's not trying to cram everything into a residential basement. Never mentioned where he got his funding for all this, and I didn't ask.
I set up the Interspace Generator and used the gravity tractor to haul Solus in from universe '875 at default size, then repeated using the built-in K-factor compensator to bring it through at baseball, marble, and speck scales before reverting to the default again (that planet keeps racking up the mileage... at least it's remained uninhabited in the interim). He asked the usual questions, what it would be like from the perspective of someone at ground level, what touching it would do, if it worked the same way on living things, and so forth. Nothing that I didn't have an answer for. Shared some commentary on some of the similar applications and devices that I derived from the technology.
Then he brought out the nano civs, all lined up on the table like playing cards. I was hesitant to even touch them at first, for fear of inadvertently turning an entire landscape upside down, but he assured me that each one contained a built-in inertial stabilizer to dampen the effects of relative movement. Picking one up was... a bit of a rush. Not every day you hold the equivalent of a planetary population in your palm. I was probably paying more attention to the construction and features of the enclosure than the expanses of green and blue inside, and he was happy to explain how the miniaturization and artificial gravity systems worked, though he was a bit tight-lipped about how the terrain within was generated and where the populations came from.
I nearly dropped one when he joked that some of my extra-close visual scrutiny probably meant that, from the view of the population, one of my eyes was taking up most of the sky. I barely managed to catch the thing in my other hand after recovering myself, but Lennox said it wasn't a big deal... again, stabilizers were active, and even if they weren't, experiments on this batch were complete, and they were all marked for disposal anyway.
That factoid... unnerved me a bit. I guess I never really thought about what you would do with these things once the experiment ended, but it was apparently part of standard procedure here. I suppose that biologists don't retain every petri dish of cultures that they grow (though maybe the fact that this involves entire civilizations changes things?). I recomposed myself and asked how that process worked (hoping it would at least be quick and painless).
It was even more unnerving in the way he answered "Oh, that's the FUN part..."
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Lydemox of Lydia and Lennox evaluating one another's work. No way that this will end badly, right?Posted using PostyBirb
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