Photon Blasts

My companions found the blips and pops disconcerting, to say the least. I had some idea of what I was receiving, having been here before. It was not the immediate patterns that I was really scanning, but the overall scene. It was important to understand the environment, and as the central network was such a dynamic place, the consternation was understandable.

From our perspective, we could easily scan the entire photon processing system. I reminded my counterparts that I had yet to decode the contents of this stream of information pulses, but there was useful information. First, I pointed out that there were blanks, or pauses where little information was transferred. In rare cases, only half of the system would experience reduced bandwidth, but generally, there were consistent and periodic interruptions of the information flow.

The pairs began to comprehend the patterns that took far more time than they were used to. It took quite a bit of patience to observe. Just because Electrons can zip about at amazing speed does not mean that everything has to be fast. In this case, we were starting to see how Electrons were being used by this network to make things happen, even if the total speed was slow. Then one of the pairs reported that the total amplitude was decreasing over time. It was an accurate observation.