Tracking and Back On

I kept the external sensing mode running as long as I was getting bits of signal. While the looped thoughts were not productive, they were decidedly easy to detect. The regularity of the waveform and the soup-network induced blips make a signature that is quite unmistakable. It was also very commonplace, as I started to receive reports of similar patters from other networks.

Buried in what I would have considered to be noise, the most observant of the Pingers were able to detect, locate and track other central networks as they bobbled and wobbled along. Unfortunately, entropy wins, even in the Electron world, and the pingers lost their lock on the visitor's network pulses as they faded and intertwined into the signals of many doublings of networks. With the myriad of frequencies and pulses, it was amazing that these soupy networks were able to operate in the noisy environments that they did.

Departure of the visitor left the local network to return to it's normal pattern. Quickly, patterns were queued for transmission to the branch points, both long and short. A standard wand was taken up and put to use. In a few deft movements, material was once again gathered upon the wand and raised toward the network, where the molecular detectors engaged in a symphony of activity that was enhanced by other similar detectors that were located on one of the key elements of the compression-relaxation transmission system.