Alignment Confirmation

With two transfer opportunities to consider, I was far less bored. The movement of the One-Eight-Ones is always strange and unpredictable, making the use of a One-Eight-One split an event that was difficult to predict. Alternatively, waiting for the Seven end of a Shorty to approach closely to the Eights.

Keen on observation, I examined the orientation of One-Eight-Ones and nearby Seven-ends. There was a preferred orientation of the One-Eight-One to the Ones on the Seven, this being with the Eight pointed at the Seven, and tugged by a pair of Ones that were swapping a single electron between them. Funny thing was, the Eight wiggled slightly, being tugged to the exposed Proton in the One that was sans Electron at the moment.

When this wiggle-waddle happened, there had to be some kind of detectable waveform, and I began scanning. After a little tuning and tinkering, trying different scan techniques, a recipe was found. Each time a One-Eight-One would line up in this Eight toward Seven configuration, I could spot the initial attachment. Since I was moving predictably, locating the source of the aligned pair was simple, but what I was really after was the intense field emission of a close alignment.