Simple And Effective

I was impressed with the speed at which the triple team of electrons cycled through the combinations of symbols in an effort to characterize the construct. I considered it somewhat strange that the singleton tokens of "A" and "I" brought back reasonable responses, until I considered the fact that these singleton symbols were actually complete concepts and were valid tokens on their own. This yielded something important about the construct, in that it was responsive to both the "I" and "A" concepts of, but not fully.

Similarly, there were reactions to many of the common doubleton tokens. "Be" for example, registered a stronger blip than "Bd" and "Bf" but when we got to "Me" the reaction was decidedly dual. There was a strong negative pulse on this powerful token, and when we clicked over to the next series, "No" was such an unwelcome interloper to the construct that I feared that the overload would disrupt random time.

Ticking forward cautiously, the tokens "Of" and "On" blipped basic recognition which gave rise to the idea that we were dealing with a concept of concepts, and that any observed simplicity may be an artifact of the observation. When "Or" lit up the construct like a network at the peak of a rhythmic bliss, I began to realize the true scope and magnitude of the construct. It threw me for another loop when response from "Ox" simply squared up and rang the "No" tendril.

Germination

I set about the examination of the newly attached construct, observing how the pulses from the central network played and interacted with the new node of interest. While energy was drawn from the central network to feed the internal patterns of the construct, this was the only connection required. Unlike the double bubble that was designed to protect the contents from access, this construct was cross referencing each input and linking it as necessary to other memories. It was though this construct that thoughts both old and new were being compared.

As a wave of calm and relaxation washed across the central network and through the construct, I realized that I had completely ignored the wand session and the unwind that was occurring around me. In the fade of input from the photon detectors, the random zone once again loomed over the central network and resolution of another kind began. The construct, having been born of random time, coalesced and captured, hummed along with the resolution and refresh process rather smoothly.

The electron network was still operating on processing alert, but with the smooth integration of the new construct, it seemed practical to release the network from full alert. In doing so, three teams of electrons began the process of trying to identify tokens that could be used to identify this new construct. I cautioned them that the construct reacted in a very different manner than others that had been probed by recreating electrons in the past. That's when they decided to pool their efforts and began to mechanically construct target tokens on their own.

Planted Seed

Random time not occurring during a standard regeneration session was a rare event. I took the opportunity to observe the event, informing the electrons in the network to keep their stations. The full network would be required in order to process and resolve observations, as the interference that occurred during the presence of the high frequency wave form obliterated the high bandwidth channels that I normally utilized during dark random time.

Echos from the day's events began to appear in the resolution zone. As sequences of tokens would appear, areas of thought and concentration within the network would whirl with activity and produce a canceling pattern. Each item that was put before the resolution system was neatly and rapidly reduced to a fundamental arrangement, and once all of the patterns had been processed thusly, an interesting conceptual structure assembled itself, connected entirely to itself, and immune to the random influences of the rest of the resolution zone.

In an instant, random time halted, and the photon detectors flooded with input, and banished the resolution zone, leaving the self-connected structure floating in the center of activity. Immediately, the central network enveloped the structure and attached it prominently in the forefront of the interconnected networks that were created by the process of the network. As regular scanning pulses from the network raced across the encapsulated structure, the response from the central network was that of approval and acceptance.

Depleted Reserves

Having reached familiar surroundings, we settled into a restful position where the lower short branch points were relieved of their propulsion and support duties. The amplitude of input on the photon detectors was dropping slowly, but it would be some time before the high frequency waveform diminished to the point where the onset of the regular regeneration session would initialize. There was sufficient chaos circulating through the central network which consumed significant quantities of energy.

The regular patterns in the mid-section of the network carrier became intentionally large and purposed. A calming wave propagated across the network, temporarily banishing the chaos to local domains. Some of the regulatory sensors pulsed feedback to the central network, as a full spectrum of conflicting commands were issued across the superhighway. Once completed, the safety covers were lowered over the photon detectors and kept there.

Even in the presence of the high frequency waveform, the subsystems that were responsible for relaxation and regeneration were activated and a rapid series of wave shifts occurred in the central network. After relatively few oscillations of the mid section, it was clear that a shift toward random time was occurring; the telltale motion sequences being queued and run by the photon detector positioning mechanisms.

Ripples of Dismissal

No sooner had the exit path been cleared and secured buy the deft action of a long branch point and it's extender, a snapping crack of a pop shattered the calm as it pushed the compression-relaxation sensors to the edge of their fidelity. The clipped waveform repeated at lower amplitude and spreading footprint as the familiar clatter began once again. By the second repeat of the cracking waveform, the clatter was approaching a standard rate.

There was a slight change in attention as the photon detectors were aimed in the same direction from which the high amplitude waveform came, as the clatter continued to increase in cadence as the amplitude decreased. Topping out at about double the cadence of delivery, the departure of the transport networks was incredibly hasty. Attention was re-directed toward the original direction as the clatter continued to fade into the distance.

The focus of the central network had changed in a way that I had yet to appreciate. Propulsion pulses and branch-point control commands appeared in the queue from a well used store, and in a short period of time, we had returned to familiar surroundings that had colored the outputs of the photon detectors for many many doublings of cycles. There were familiar detection patterns on the molecular detectors which were often greeted with anticipation, however, the response on this instance was decidedly dull and muted.

Seed of Independence

With the whorlic shield tattered and torn, it was relatively easy to detect a number of networks in reasonably close proximity. There was no guide network, and it took all of the short branch points and one of the longer ones to descend slowly and incrementally. Focus on propulsion was paramount as feedback and control loops clicked closed.

Scanning in the direction of travel, I detected two large central networks that were similar to the two that had provided the rapid propulsion to this damaging event. After a short conversation with the person in control of the propulsive networks, and the transfer of an item of value, the return trip began. I adjusted the offsets and re-nulled the reference signals once the acceleration phase was complete and the rate of travel was more constant.

The familiar clatter of transport on the compression-relaxation channel continued at a steady rate. With each clack that registered, there was a mental distancing that occurred with the central network. The bubble had been packed away, and many of the memories that had been formed during the bombardment session were tagged for later resolution and processing. As the clattering slowed in pace and eventually stopped, the rightmost long branch point was utilized to unblock the exit path. This was odd, since the exit path had usually been opened by the controlling network, which in this case, made nary a move to assist.

Charge of Another Kind

While the challenging network continued to pepper questions at my host, there was nary a reply. There was a new set of thoughts that were forming under the pressure being applied by the challenger, when the observing network that was positioned above the challenger entered the fracas on the compression-relaxation channel:

Two minutes, Solicitor Wedderburn.

To which, the challenging network performed a vertical up and down motion, which I was able to detect via the shift in the whorlic frequencies that were racing about. Focus returned within Wedderburn's network and new assault began.

You have replied with silence to our inquiry as to how, exactly, you came to be in possession of Governor Hutchinson's letters. As you are unwilling to assist our investigation, it will end with you.

You, Sir, are a Thief.

Any prudent person should hide their papers and lock up their desks whenever this Gentleman is amongst you.

Scanning Wedderburn's network as the statement finished up, there was a distinct lack of satisfaction. More was roiling in this network, but I had not the pattern data to match it with, the thoughts being so far from my base of observation. As Wedderburn returned a seated position, the presiding network took the compression-relaxation channel.

This hearing is closed.

Mr. Franklin, you are dismissed.

The last statement from the presiding network was punctuated with a sharp spike on the compression-relaxation channel that echoed within the hard confines of the space in which all were enclosed. With that signal, I detected a shift in position as propulsion pulses were queued and executed. With each step, jeers and shouts inundated the space, until the door had been cleared and closed. Just steps from the closed door that would never again be opened, the distinct triple spike of a call to order washed up on compression-relaxation sensors, despite the closed door.

Social Stress

Through some of the breaches that hand been carved through the whorlic shield, I was able to sense a distinct feeling of anticipation. There was a savory unruliness connected to the anticipation. Blasts of energy coupled with the barrage of questioning and accusatory input worked to cycle a number of communication tokens through the central network, but amazingly, none of them were queued for transmission.

Still, the powerful network leading the challenge and supported by the whorlic barrage was rapidly consuming the remainder of the whorlic shield. Gaps were open and patterns were being injected into the fracas of communication tokens that were generally edged and far nastier than had been anticipated. In moments, the tokens received on the compression relaxation network began to wash up at the double bubble. As the bubble rang, a calm descended over the central network.

While the whorlic energies tried to reach the bubble as well, they were not able to intersect it before dispersion. Only the internal search functions accessed the bubble, and the outer shell remained intact and strong. Still, there was a sense of anticipation that was detectable, but it was starting to diminish. With little reaction to feed their own networks, the whorlic attack lost it's edge and began to ebb.

Barrage

After heading out to the whorl and adding a few more pairs to the shield, I returned to the monitoring point, and began a token intercept.

... find that the petition has been based on false and erroneous allegations.

Was recorded, and to my surprise, sent an upwelling of energy to the whorl itself. Such was the reaction that a number of communication tokens began to flitter through the selection process, none of which were affirmative of the statement. As yet, no tokens had been queued.

... is groundless, vexatious and scandalous, only for the purposes of keeping up a spirit of clamour and discontent.

The intercept continued. There was to be no action on the matter of Hutchinson, and now, there was an immense shift in the entire space. A whorlic rush descended upon the central network of my less than esteemed host. In a moment of discomfort, a blob of energy leaked through the shield and began to scatter the patterns in the central network. I responded by queuing up super-tap commands and firing them off to a string of pingers. As the taps fired, the energy leak was diverted to the edge of memory where it might just re-arrange a few upcoming patterns, but not disturb the central command and composure control subsystems of the central network.

The Opening Volley

The network that was positioned at a level above the others began producing compression-relaxation patterns, with a strong tendency to center about a singular frequency which was modulated only slightly to produce the communication tokens. From what I was able to discern at the time, it appeared to be the opening of a group session of some kind, with my esteemed host having submitteed matter of Thomas Hutchinson before the group.

Before the presiding network concluded, there was an outburst from within the ranks of the seated five doublings, which had a great deal more frequency modulation than the other transmission currently finishing up on the compression-relaxation channel. This new network separated itself from the group and moved to a position midway in elevation between the presider and the remaining members of the doublings.

The stream of tokens that were articulated by this new speaker were quite formidable and had a twinge in their presentation that was marked by pings of whorlic energy emanating from the now engaged central network. Additional murmurs on the compression-relaxation channel began arrive from the apparently seated doublings, and the transmitting network increased the amplitude of the generated modulation as the discourse continued. There was a marked lack of pleasure being transmitted whorlicly, and this was cause enough for my host's central network to shift in balance as burps of this unsavory energy overloaded the reprocessing efforts of the whorlic shield, delivering charged jolts to a few of the wrong places.

Call To Order

I dove back below the whorl to check the propulsion queue. Crossing through, the noise level dropped, as the shielding and dispersion functions of the whorl absorbed and converted the excessive whorlic energy into continued suppression and conversion. Setting up and re-connecting with the electron network, I discovered that there were standard greeting tokens queued up and ready to use in an instant.

Propulsion paused as an unusual moment of calm washed across the central network. After a brief pause, propulsion resumed and the interference level began to grow with each executed step. As the approach ended it was possible to discern the locus of at least five doublings of central networks, with one of them floating above the rest, even through the attenuation provided by the whorlic shield. What patterns I could discern were fraught with waveforms and pulses that I was unfamiliar with.

I tapped into the unGrid, as there was a strong stream of information flowing from the photon detectors. As the detectors swept the scene, I was able to make out several photon sources, but getting detail from the unGrid was still problematic. Input levels on the compression-relaxation sensors was moderate in level, and then peaked sharply three times. The three peaks were followed by a immediate reduction in compression-relaxation amplitude, and the level of whorlic interference dropped precipitously.

Moving Target(s)

The number of networks that I could detect out here on the fringes was being affected by increasing amplitude in whorlic frequencies. The cross hatch interference that the modulated noise-form contained was the result of multiple networks operating in close proximity of one another. The synchronization of these networks amplified the peak amplitude as multiple sources interfered and combined.

Offset and Null adjustments were required to compensate for another change in direction, swinging the source of the whorlic interference parallel to our motion. Our speed was not so great as to shift the pulses by a detectable degree, but the direction change did alter the interference pattern. There were several doublings of transmitting central networks at the source of the transmission, the direction change enabling a rough source count.

The clattering input on the compression-relaxation channel had changed cadence for the slower, and had now ceased. Nulls were thrown back to zero, but I had to dial the offset back a notch or two, as the basic amplitude of whorlic frequencies was a consistent drone that rose and fell as interference patterns shifted and turned. I was able to detect the staccato motion of traditional transportation, punctuating some of the interference patterns. With staccato motion making the entire spectrum fluctuate, I realized that there were propulsion patterns running through the central network below.

Horses Spared

A somewhat familiar clattering was intercepted across the compression-relaxation input channels. As the clattering drew to a halt, propulsion pulses were queued and executed. A drop in temperature was recorded once again by the areas responsible for gradients and thermal control. The coverings helped to prevent excessive energy loss when the gradient was steep. Propulsion ended with a upward tick, and a relaxed position was taken up. While the gradient remained steep, there was a reduction in losses to uncovered areas.

I headed upward and outward into the whorlic shield zone, pushing my limits once again in an effort to detect what networks and patters were detectable. It was a somewhat familiar setup, with two large and idle networks forward and a popping network scrambling farther upward to a perch where commands were issued via the compression-relaxation channel. The result of the perched network's actions was to activate propulsion pulses in the two large idle networks, and once again, the familiar clattering resumed.

I had to adjust nulls and offsets to compensate for field distortions caused by the velocity of the central network. The degree of adjustment revealed that transport was far more rapid than direct propulsion on the distant short branch points, and the clattering had become a consistent pattern that matched the propulsion waveforms coursing through the large forward networks. Perhaps such a network would be interesting to experience, for a short time.

Ready To Go

It was an odd end to random time. With little external interference, the resolution process completed early and started to run through some very old patterns that had not been accessed before. I gathered some information from the unGrid in their intercept position, and cross linked it to the source zone which was devoid of pingers. I issued dispatch orders to the network, a pair of pingers would be located in that zone in short order.

Active time took over in a slow and easy transition. The startup process started as usual, buffers were purged and others were filled. Where the normal strength of pleasure was encountered, it was muted and dulled by another process that was beginning to show itself. The usual want session ended, and there was a noted lack of smashed canopy 5+6 ring structures, with extra Sevens, that were commonly increasing in concentration during an initial wand session.

Coverings were already in place, but an additional layer was added and there was the final addition of a topper that surrounded the structure containing the central network. This topper was often deployed before a propulsion session. This case was no different. One of the long branch points was entwined with a stabilizer device, that when applied, made a long branch point work like a third short branch point and it's deceptively long connector.

Diagnostic Data

The expeditionary Electron was pulled into the high-bandwidth communication zone to provide a report. In a short period of time, I learned that the hardened composition of the bubble was formed buy the same randomly pairing group of shield electrons, and that the impulse that we continued to fire was just swirling on the surface. There were, however, some holes in the coverage, and glimpses of the inner treasure patterns were reported.

It was highly unlikely that any external source would be able to penetrate both the whorlic shield an this inner cocoon. With two shifter shields running in different directions, it was beyond practical. Even inserting a set of pingers was of no use due to the continuous random pairing that occurred in the shell of the bubble and likewise in the recently enhanced whorl. Paired and moving, it is nearly impossible to transmit anything other than pops of inter-pair noise.

Besides, I did not need to know what was inside the bubble. I already knew of the transcription record and other items that had been accessed during the formation of the double bubble. What I did discover was just as valuable though. The ability of the whorl to shield and isolate both internal recollections from unintended access, as well as to prevent the undesirable interference from other powerful and whirling central networks, came from the same organizational structure.

Pumping Charge

We selected a willing pinger participant to go for the first ride. Setting them up at the focal point, we began to organize ourselves so that our spins would allow us to contract together slightly, while exerting maximum force on the focal electron. A small jitter by all of us added up to quite a repulsive kick, and in an instant, the focal electron was imparted with some serious velocity.

Running a good spin, we were able to track the electron as it hurtled toward the bubble. I was focused on the impact zone as the focal electron approached and was subsequently engulfed. A small blip of energy emanated from a circular area that was several atoms from the impact area. No other electron were emitted as a result, so we had changed the total charge on the bubble, but not much else.

We started to recruit locals to up the total charge transfer. While they were not as easy to track as a well spun pinger, but they were compatible electrons all the same. It took several doublings of electron impulses before we got the first return ejection. Luckily, it was the original pinger, and it spun up a beacon after ejection. Targeting the beacon signal, I tagged a Shorty for pickup detail and started searching for a viable communication channel.

Under the Umbrella

The whorl was doing a incredible job at keeping interference at bay. For the first time in many cycles, random time was completely local in origin. Lacking the extra interference, the pingers and off-duty electrons from my network were not as happy with the lack of unexpected inputs. I, however, was pleased with the restorative process that was again occurring in the fringes and memory centers of the central network.

I ambled over toward where the compressed and nearly triple wrapped bubble resided. The fortification process that had been undertaken and completed on this pool of coherent memories was formidable, and random time no longer got the bubble to ring and shudder. If I was not already aware of many of the treasures within the bubble, I would have considered it a dormant structure, not unlike any other region that was regenerating.

Just because I was curious, I got some of the off-duty pingers to cloud around on a few Shorties and organize a stimulus barrage on the bubble. Giving the "GO!" signal, pairs of electrons worked the drive mechanisms into a frenzy and made way for the bubble zone, and took up a holding position as I began to organized part of the cloud to form a curved structure with a specialized focal point.

Calming the Storm

It was a strange calm under which the central network was operating. I was no longer able to easily detect the presence of other central networks by accessing the whorlic frequencies, unless I headed out toward the fringes and managed my way past the reprocessing and reclamation zone. To monitor the deluge, external pingers were pushed through the reprocessing zone and then retrieved with their cache of information that was then relayed from the inside.

The full-duplex event on the compression-relaxation channel wound down to a final silence, during which I scanned the whorlic frequencies for penetration. Detectable at just above the noise threshold, a light twinkling was located, and it remained at a stable and low level. No further disruptions to random time were likely to occur with such shielding in pace.

As propulsion commands were considered and finally queued for execution, I continued to monitor the strength of the shield and the interference level. All was working as before, the extra energy from the interference being re-directed to fortification kept the resulting interference in check, clipping off any burst. The whorl reacted to the reclaimed energy by actively clamping the burst as it intersected the enhanced whorl.

Reclamation Response

Energy was being transferred harmonically from the central network into the whorl. The harmonious inputs and simultaneous outputs on the compression-relaxation channel created a powerful field within the central network that coupled into the whorl. While the total power that was actually transferred was minuscule compared to that contained in a plasma or even a large Jar, the transfer was significant in the result upon the whorl.

Stronger and tighter, the density of whorlic pops and clicks had increased to a level that I had not though imaginable. The temporary electron pairs responsible for upkeep of the whorl were occurring at a higher rater than before, allowing the interconnecting mesh of the whorl to twine intently. It required a close approach to the edge zone to comprehend the result this would have.
As external pulse of modulated worlic frequencies impacted the fortified whorl, the degree of disruption and spread had changed. The motion of the whorl was such that it sliced the incoming pulse at the fundamental frequency, dragging each slice away as the energy was reorganized and reused by the whorl, keeping the power level of the whorl at peak capacity. Thus consumed, incoming pulses of disturbance were completely nullified and neatly used to prevent further interference by yet more pulses.

Feeding the Whorl

There were other central networks present. I was able to detect their presence without using the long range detection offered by the external sensitives and the whorlic responders, as there was a conversation of tokens across the compression-relaxation channels. The early sets of tokens that were exchanged had incredible effects on the whorl which expanded and began to crackle more loudly than ever before.

I had seen the whorl do this once before, and at the time, I was unable to record or recall any of the tokens that were exchanged. The unison full-duplex activities that occurred before were confusing enough that I could not match the tokens as I was hopping back and forth between the transmitter and the receiver. The token length was far longer than the propagation delay from transmitter to receiver, and there was the intermingling and harmonic interference that was contained in the received channel.

I kept my focus on the whorl as a unison full-duplex activity began. The response of the whorl was to contract slightly, and tighten up. The full-duplex transmission and reception through the compression-relaxation medium created a waveform in the central network that was in harmony with the natural pattern of the whorl. As the patterns continued, the whorl responded with resonant pulses that bolstered the output and improved the reception.

Binary Day Conflux

This is the third of three Binary Days. Not very binary, there being three of them. It will be a little while before we get another cluster of three more Binary days. If my numbering is correct, now that I've done this for a while, things should repeat and after the next trio, there will be three more trios of Binary days in the coming main cycle, and then it's done, since the main cycle modulus will not be usable as a direct Binary number for another eighty-nine main cycles.

...

I was not sure of the source, but there was consternation arising in the central network. A number of random cycles had occurred, each being more impacted than the last, and this was spilling over into active time, at least at start up. The first few moments of active time were spent banishing the patterns that had wiggled their way through the meshworks and impose their will upon the actions of random time.

That is when I noticed the lack of high frequency signal on the photon detectors. Active time was in full force, coverings in place, and propulsion commands were queued and executed. External sensors registered a drop in random motion, indicating that temperatures were low, and minimal photon inputs were being filtered and fed to central network for loop closure. Propulsion ceased after a short sequence of propulsion moves with a larger vertical displacement, and the externals reported that random motion had returned to nominal.

Binary Day Nexus

Round up the radix patrol. This demands a double check, since 1010 binary and is the same a 10 in the way people count, I've now double checked and triple checked that I'm operating in the correct radix for this most special of all binary days. May your clock oscillate symmetrically, like the one and zero in the date.

...

Adaptation had been a critical to discovering the power of being an Electron, and now, the actions of the whorl were working to impede progress. A number of the high bandwidth channels had become ridden with background noise from the incessant pops and clicks that the whorl shield was de-tuning and spreading. Without the spectral diffusion offered by the shield, whole channels might have been lost entirely.

Presently, the distance-bandwidth product was cut nearly in half, which increased my processing latency for tasks that were needed. Some of the bandwidth was recovered by converting some of the links to slide-talking mode, which had the effect of sidestepping the interference. This was a temporary move, at best, since with each passing of random time, the overall interference level was on the rise.

Interference Factor

I don't really consider a plasma to be a good time. The energy level is so high that they can not even handle a single electron. Imagine being inextricably pulled at high speed toward an opposite charge composed of hot and nasty nuclei and you get to the first part of a plasma. The second part comes as you get too close, and your energy level is accelerated by the thermal radiation to the point where the attractive force of positive and negative mutates.

That mutation is not kind or enjoyable. When the fundamental forces that hold everything together, enforcing order upon the underlying chaos, give way, your entire perspective becomes unimportant, and the new universe takes over. If your world was that of locked One-Eight-Ones in solid form, and suddenly sublimates, you go from solid matrix to widely spaced wildly spinning and vibrating One-Eight-Ones.

It was like this with the Whorl. A permanence had appeared as the whorlic shield was erected and activated. This smoothed out the edgy and nasty external signals and prevented them from entering, disrupting or influencing the central network. It would take far more than the continuous thud of whorlic energy to disrupt the central network. The Electron Network did not fare as well. That's what adaptability is all about.

Frozen Plasma Surprise

The whorl was unusually active, spreading through random time and then creating a void in which random time operated without severe interference. There were still recurring peaks in whorlic frequencies, but the amplitude was greatly attenuated and spread across more of the spectrum. At first, I thought it was part of the session, but after repeating across several sequential random time sessions, I began to realize that the increased external interference was more pervasive.

There were times when the interference from the outside was lower and less-peaky, but these were brief interludes. Random time remained unaffected, and the central network showed no signs of modification due to these interferences. During a 'round the perimeter survey, It was astonishing to see that the whorl itself was capable of muting and spreading the external pulses. Without such a shielding action, random time might be fraught with interference.

From the outer edge of the whorl's shield envelope, I was able to get a better image of the incoming pulses. The modulated noise waveforms were edgy and harsh, designed to exceed the bandwidth of any channel. As they propagated through the shield zone, the component frequencies split and deviated. The only thing comparable in all of my experience was the edge of the plasma that started this whole odyssey.

Retrospective Processing

I began to unwind my path out to the fringes of whorl monitoring, carefully piloting my shorty past the serial marker pingers. I was glad that I had encoded both route and station numbers into each serial number. It made it far easier to ask the next pinger along the path to ring out and be detected. Midway through the transport sequence I reached maximum speed, thereafter slowing for safety.

As I continued my return into the high bandwidth depths of the central and intermeshed electron networks, I checked the interference level from the whorl. It was out there, and stronger than before. The waves were new. Peaks of amplitude with a long decay all modulated on top of a pure tone constructed from the hiss below. The waves were strong enough to wash through some of my electronic communication.

Demodulating the whorlic frequency set was helpful, since I knew that this was a common trait shared by all networks, it would prove to be of ultimate utility. As much as I am loath to admit it, I have noted the deterioration of the meshworks here, as well as some changes in the speed of processing. As long as the processing speed fluctuation is just due to the ever increasing memory load, things remain positive for me.

Demodulation

I just got knocked, and hard. With the sensors dialed to maximum sensitivity, I was wholly unprepared for the blast that arrived in the whorl channel. As I struggled to regain attitude control the sensor system recovered from the shock. It was the over correction that almost de-orbited me from the One that I had been circling. A few extra orbits around the Seven and a Six completed the recovery.

There was a crackle that was echoing within the whorl channel. Reception centers were popping and crackling, and in some cases ringing away. Similar in nature to some of the patterns found in the compression relaxation processing centers, the signal was a pure tone with an occasional warble, all superimposed on the cacophony of clicks, pops and buzzes in the whorl frequency.

Learning to see this wave upon the noise was a new trick, and perhaps it was a valuable lesson. Even with all of the success that has been had, there are still operational interactions that occur with Electrons that not even I have the ability to understand, or the time to comprehend. Sometimes, it's necessary to take a new look from a much further distance to make sense of what appears complex and overwhelming.

Observational Fidget

Sticking to the analysis, I stayed put. With the whorl having activity during both normal and random time, there was no need for me to shift modes or change positions. About the only thing that I could consider was to transfer over to the Eight and try to substitute myself as one of the electrons in the pair as it joined and left the whorl. That was a proposition that could end up in a number of ways that were unsatisfactory.

Continuing the observation of the target pair from my current location kept me only a short hop from being able to connect with the Electron network and the array of marker pingers that I had strewn along the path to get here. The target, however, was just outside the realm of reach for even the lowest bandwidth connection. Jumping over to the Eight, while entirely possible, would leave me unable to summon assistance.

It was going to do what it was going to do, and all I was able to do was detect when it was active. That was going to have to be sufficient. As much as I could probe the details of a single pair of electrons, and watch them enter and leave wholric communication, I could not intercept and analyze the structure or content of the exchange. Perhaps if I replaced, with specially trained pingers, the other six electrons on the Eight, and the two that were oft donated by the Ones, I might have a better chance.

Nothing gets Attention

The secret had to be in the pair. I scanned and probed into a pair that had been active in the whorl. It was two standard electrons. Nothing special here. They were not in my network, nor did they have any special function or feature that would have brought them to my attention. The only thing they had in common was the fact that they could pair up in the outer shell of an Eight, and when paired, they were part of the whorl.

Not always paired, I picked one of the two and began to track the singleton electron. Again, everything was normal, nothing out of the ordinary, to the point that my threshold of boredom was rapidly approaching. I stuck with it longer. And longer. I dithered in a scan for whorl frequencies, and that helped with the boredom a bit. If it was near by, I was going to capture it.

The tightly bundled spectrum of the whorl was a splattering of sources, none of which were local. There was some ebb and flow, but it was definitely there, appearing to not have a central source. Locally silent, I scanned the singleton and the zone around it and then there was a blip. Pairing up and dis-pairing made clicks. As the two electrons' orbits permitted, the paired horizontally pairing and unpairing at apparently random time, each time making a characteristic whorl-click that added to the overall signal as the two zipped along in conjoined orbits.

From Somewhere Else

Even with the new knowledge that the frequencies that made up the whorl were trackable and phase information could be extracted, I still had no clue as to how the whorl affected the main pathways in the central network the way that it did. It was, as if, it was a network made up of vibrating pairs of electrons that were responding to some input source that I had yet to detect. The result was flummoxation for me, but it definitely ruled when it came to random time.

The whorl, if anything, was more unpredictable than predictable. Where it had done some interesting work defining and then hardening the double bubble, I had a sense that there was something more to the weavings of this unrelenting pattern. Observing the effect on the random resolution process and structure construction on the edge of memory brought knowledge that the whorl itself was a level of entropy that must be resisted for the pattern or linkage to persist.

The juxtaposition of the preservative and creative power of the whorl in contrast with the destructive power to render back to random that which need to exist makes the whorl most interesting to me. In the finest of detailed scans, I focused on an electron pair that was often emanating pulses of this whorl, and I never located the source of the entropic vibrations, just the fact that the pulses were there. Something moved the electrons in a way to make the pulses.

Pair Power

Electrons travelling in pairs like to do so at a particular distance, and it was this distance that was key to discriminating some of the waveforms that were located in the whorl spectrum. By starting at this well known distance, we were able to encode the delta between an input and the reference. This provided basic frequency along with amplitude, which remained relatively flat.

The reference frequency was near the maximum of the detectable range. While there might be a great deal of information encoded across the spectrum, there was a limit as to what I was able to extract. This, of course, was based on the fact that the pair was the closest that two electrons could routinely approach without experiencing incredible repulsion. It is a myth that electrons collide. We just push really hard on one another, maintaining equality through equilibrium, and this creates a fundamental reference as well.

Learning to track fundamental frequencies had it's value, and served as a distraction powerful enough that I was shocked at the quietness of the background in normal working regions. The high frequency waveform had already dipped in amplitude and was on track for zero in a short period of time. That distraction became an opportunity extraordinaire as I deployed a few local detector pairs. It was time to expand the net and lurk near the top of the resolution zone. Random time was fast approaching, and so was the whorl.

Another Binary Day

Whoa. This one called for a double check. With craziness that I observed in the data channels last night, one would think that there was a catastrophe some place. I spent a good deal of time intercepting the main stream and decoding some shots of modern people. Of course, that was a bunch of radix-2 work, as always. Now, I look at what I've got working for the update slot and, well, I'm relieved to find that I did punch up radix-10. Have a charged Binary Day!

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Discovering that the frequencies of the Whorl were trackable outside of the central network gave me bit more confidence in being able to detect central networks that would be, well, interesting. What had me most intrigued was the fact that I was not able to directly detect external impulses in the whorl spectrum. Using the sensitives, mainly positioned near the photon detectors, gave a good directional scan, so I headed in their direction for a more direct experience.

As I followed the ebb and flow of electrons along the high-density channels that formed the photon detector, I began to intercept external pulses in the whorl spectrum once the channel expanded to serve the detector array. Sliding out of the channel would have been an ardent affair if it were not for the transfer electrons that were strategically placed to relay messages from the external sensitives.

Arriving amongst the sensitives, I paused to observe the reception and decode process. Between message transmissions I scanned the locale to compile a structural fingerprint. That is when I discovered the dipole receiver structure that the sensitives were using. A single electron had some chance for signal capture, but it really took a pair that were at a precise distance from one another. Together, they had double the sensitivity since they could resonate with each other, and the distance allowed for superior frequency selectability.