"Robert Grossbach - Of Scorned Women and Causal Loops" - читать интересную книгу автора (Grossbach Robert)

Dr. Parkes, but really, canтАЩt we just get a little perspective on what is not a
waste of time?тАЭ

White-faced, choking, Elizabeth had croaked тАЬSorryтАЭ and fled the
stage.

Lagrange leaned back. тАЬHe humiliated you.тАЭ

She nodded. тАЬIn front of everybody,тАЭ she whispered.

тАЬYou left the conference?тАЭ

тАЬOf course. I studied the minutes afterward.тАЭ

He pictured her, alone in some small room, a high school girl whoтАЩd
missed the senior prom, reading about it instead in some dry secondhand
report. He wanted to hug her, tell her he was a kindred soul in personal
disappointment.

But almost as if reading his thoughts тАФand rejecting them тАФshe drew
herself up. тАЬI was angry. I feltтАЭ тАФher eyes blazed тАФтАЭI may be an inferior
scientist, but sometimes an inferior does good work. A hack writer comes
up with a great novel. A poor soccer team beats a much better one.тАЭ She
thrust out her chin. тАЬAn average detective has a magnificent insight that
cracks an impossible case.тАЭ

Lagrange nodded. тАЬSo you felt you were onto something and were
being ig-nored.тАЭ

тАЬMore accurately, I felt Giorgio was missing something. I guess, at
bottom, what was really bothering me was the old grandfather paradox. You
know, somebody goes back in time and kills their own grandfather, so that
they were never born . . . which means they werenтАЩt around to go back in
time.тАЭ

Lagrange crossed his legs. тАЬYou didnтАЩt buy the many-universe
theories? As I understand it, the concept is that when someone goes back
in time he is really travelling to another universe, which is identical with the
first up to the instant of his arrival, but different thereafter because of his
presence. That wayтАФтАЭ

тАЬIn the universe he leaves, his grandfather is alive and he is born. In
the one he enters, his grandfather dies, and he isnтАЩt born.тАЭ She shook her
head. тАЬThat was GiorgioтАЩs explanation and most of the othersтАЩ. The melting
of the Higgs field produced closed timelike curves, CTCs, between
universes.тАЭ She chuckled mirth-lessly. тАЬTo me, it sounded like magic.
Invoke enough different universes and you can explain anything. It wasnтАЩt
true understanding. And I had my experiments. ThereтАЩs something that
working with actual hardware gives you тАФ I know it sounds mystical тАФbut
thereтАЩs something that world travellers get out of touch with.тАЭ