Triplet Token Trick

Parallel operation continued in the UnGrid, operating much more smoothly now that the influx of unknown symbols had subsided. The contributions to the high speed information repository were immense, occupying a total of more than seventeen doublings of operational tags. The trick was to keep the load on the hyperlinks as light as possible, and that's when we invented the final level of tokenization.

As it were the case that each token had a corresponding pinger somewhere in the central network, each token had some measure of uniqueness to the central network, and this could be measured by recording the direction and distance from a fixed point to the pinger. As a result, each of the tokens could easily be represented by a positional tap while on orbit, with the magnitude of the tap indicating the distance.

The real trick was to convert that relative position into something that was transmittable. While it may seem like it would be difficult for a single electron to encode something that complex, the answer is time. By producing three coordinated spins, each with an independent energy level, one could represent components of the direction. Since there was regularity in the planes for such deconstruction, they could be presumed, and that meant that it simply took a sequence of three blips of varied amplitude to encode any of the symbols in the growing and interconnected library of pingers and communication symbols.