"James P. Hogan - The Genesis Machine" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hogan James P)

Clifford nodded. "Exactly so."
"Mmm...I see. Spontaneous creation of matter...in our universe anyway.
Interesting." Edwards began stroking his chin again and nodded to Clifford to
continue.
"Since all conventional particles can be thought of as extending into
hi-space, they can interact with hi-particles too. When they do, the result
can be one of two things.
"First off, the interaction products can include k-resonances -- in
other words, particles that are observable. What you'd see would be the
observable part of the k-particle that was there to begin with, and then the
observable part of the k-products that came later. What you wouldn't see is
the pure hi-particle that caused the change to take place."
Massey was beginning to look intrigued. He raised a hand to stop
Clifford from racing ahead any further for the moment.
"Just a sec, Brad, let's get this straight. A k-particle is something
that has bits you can see and bits you can't. Right?"
"Right."
"All the particles that we know are k-particles."
"Right."
"But you figure there are things that nobody can see at all...these
things you've called 'hi-particles.'"
"Right."
"And two hi's can come together to make a k, and since you can see k's,
you'd see a particle suddenly pop outa nowhere. Is that right?"
"Right."
"Okay..." Massey inclined his head and collected his thoughts for a
moment. "Now -- in idiot language -- just go over that last bit again,
willya?" He wasn't being deliberately sarcastic; it was just his way of
speaking.
"A hi can interact with a k to produce another k, or maybe several k's.
When that happens, what you see is a sudden change taking place in an
observable particle, without any apparent cause."
"A spontaneous event," Edwards commented, nodding slowly. "An
explanation for the decay of radioactive nuclei and the like, perhaps."
Clifford began warming slightly. Maybe he wasn't wasting his time after
all.
"Precisely so," he replied. "The statistics that come out of it fit
perfectly with the observed frequencies of quantum mechanical tunneling
effects, energy-level transitions of the electron, and a whole list of other
probabilistic phenomena at the atomistic scale. It gives us a common
explanation for all of them. They're not inexplicable any more; they only look
that way in lo-order space-time."
"Mmm..." Edwards looked down again at the paper lying in front of him.
The administrator in him still wanted to put a swift end to the whole
business, but the scientist in him was becoming intrigued. If only this
discussion could have taken place at some other time, a time free of the
dictates of harsher realities. He looked up at Clifford and noted for the
first time the pleading earnestness burning from those bright, youthful eyes.
Clifford could be no more than in his mid to late twenties -- the age at which
Newton and Einstein had been at their peak. This generation would have much to