IKC FHew 7C6110
In the belly of the Whale – Need anything... Scienced (pt 2 of 3)
by Soghla' Jared & HoD Ro' Matlh
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The doors to science lab 3 slid open, admitting Jared. He glanced around for this 'Serge'.
"Ensign Moshchnost? Are you there? I'm Jared, the Science officer off the FHew. My captain asked me to..."
He stopped, staring at the machine behind which Serge was crouching.
"Goodness... is that a Temporal Flux Inductor??"
Serge's voice came out from behind the machine where he was adjusting the settings, "Not quite. It was being a TFI, but I am modifying the gravitational coils to incorporate subspace fluctuations. I am trying to be building a practical model for inductive testing on the Maschnost limit. As you are knowing subspace is really just our term for describing folded space, and the effect occurs naturally within the event horizon. I have demonstrated the theoretical Maschnost limit where even folding of space to the Subspace Warp equivalent speeds would still produce an event horizon. I am not being convinced that the work is accurate till I have had a chance to test on a real singularity. I am being prepared to create a temporary singularity in the test area that can mimic the subspace, temporal and dynamic relations present then beam subspace signals across the Maschnost limit to verify the... who were you saying you were?"
Serge, a young boy of barely 18 years stood up suddenly from behind the device.
"Jared," the newcomer said distractedly, fascinated by the machine. "My Captain didn't want to think about science, so he sent me down here to see if I could help out in any way. How are you compensating for the subatomic drift?"
Serge was thrilled to have someone he could talk shop with, and seemed to know something of the field. He had witnessed the effect Jared spoke of many times. There was a perfectly sound Science explanation, but if it didn't involve Firing Phasers or Midifying the Navdeflector, most captain's didn't want to hear it.
"Modified Heisenberg Compensator. We are not needing to know the exact shift just use the compensator's approximation. It will not give us the totally accurate readings but it will be enough to encourage Starfleet Command to allow me to commit a probe fro field testing. The real issue is temporal flux. I am concerned that if we are folding space below the Maschnost limit we might actually get some inverted temporal discrepancy."
"Readings that occur before the experiment is conducted..." Jared agreed.
"Exactly! I am trying to compensate with manual tuning, but the calculations are a little beyond what this computer system's processing speed."
Jared peeks into the machine's gubbins.
"Fascinating. I've seen the general principle before. The Logarins experimented on a power source that combined this principle with Zero Point Energy. But I've not seen this approach before."
"Did it work?"
"No. They collapsed their home solar system into a singularity. But I'm sure their theory was valid!"
Serge glanced at a pile of PADDs on one table and subtley pushed them into a draw. There goes that line of experimentation.
"Can I help?"
Serge blinked, "Erm.. I am not being sure. Can you? If you can find a way to expedite the temporal computations to allow me to make the manual tunings that would be immensely significant. Or if you knew where I could find a tool that was more precise... I am not knowing... a sort of resonance adjuster..."
"Resonance? As in sound waves?"
"Da! Then I would be able to tune the device more precisely."
"Well... for the calculations... there's a lot of raw data to process for the specifics. But if the fluctuations are a chaotic dynamic system, you could build yourself a secondary monitor based on a simple neural net. Build in the fundamentals of complex systems theory, and it could learn to partially predict the fluctuations based on past behaviour and high level probability models. Wouldn't be super accurate, but it would be close, and it would do it a lot faster. That would lessen the correctional computations needed by the primary processing unit."
"As for a resonance adjuster... could you just adapt a musical tuning box? I mean... that's basically a high precision frequency matching unit! Shouldn't be hard to tweak."
Serge nodded, "I had not considered that. I might need Engineering to refine it to a smaller, hand held device, but it is worth considering further."
by Soghla' Jared & HoD Ro' Matlh
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| Title | Need anything... Scienced (pt 2 of 3) | |
| Mission | In the belly of the Whale | |
| Author(s) | Soghla' Jared & HoD Ro' Matlh | |
| Posted | Tue Feb 09, 2010 @ 12:25pm | |
| Location | Science Lab 3 | |
| Timeline | Just after talking to Jrez... |
"Ensign Moshchnost? Are you there? I'm Jared, the Science officer off the FHew. My captain asked me to..."
He stopped, staring at the machine behind which Serge was crouching.
"Goodness... is that a Temporal Flux Inductor??"
Serge's voice came out from behind the machine where he was adjusting the settings, "Not quite. It was being a TFI, but I am modifying the gravitational coils to incorporate subspace fluctuations. I am trying to be building a practical model for inductive testing on the Maschnost limit. As you are knowing subspace is really just our term for describing folded space, and the effect occurs naturally within the event horizon. I have demonstrated the theoretical Maschnost limit where even folding of space to the Subspace Warp equivalent speeds would still produce an event horizon. I am not being convinced that the work is accurate till I have had a chance to test on a real singularity. I am being prepared to create a temporary singularity in the test area that can mimic the subspace, temporal and dynamic relations present then beam subspace signals across the Maschnost limit to verify the... who were you saying you were?"
Serge, a young boy of barely 18 years stood up suddenly from behind the device.
"Jared," the newcomer said distractedly, fascinated by the machine. "My Captain didn't want to think about science, so he sent me down here to see if I could help out in any way. How are you compensating for the subatomic drift?"
Serge was thrilled to have someone he could talk shop with, and seemed to know something of the field. He had witnessed the effect Jared spoke of many times. There was a perfectly sound Science explanation, but if it didn't involve Firing Phasers or Midifying the Navdeflector, most captain's didn't want to hear it.
"Modified Heisenberg Compensator. We are not needing to know the exact shift just use the compensator's approximation. It will not give us the totally accurate readings but it will be enough to encourage Starfleet Command to allow me to commit a probe fro field testing. The real issue is temporal flux. I am concerned that if we are folding space below the Maschnost limit we might actually get some inverted temporal discrepancy."
"Readings that occur before the experiment is conducted..." Jared agreed.
"Exactly! I am trying to compensate with manual tuning, but the calculations are a little beyond what this computer system's processing speed."
Jared peeks into the machine's gubbins.
"Fascinating. I've seen the general principle before. The Logarins experimented on a power source that combined this principle with Zero Point Energy. But I've not seen this approach before."
"Did it work?"
"No. They collapsed their home solar system into a singularity. But I'm sure their theory was valid!"
Serge glanced at a pile of PADDs on one table and subtley pushed them into a draw. There goes that line of experimentation.
"Can I help?"
Serge blinked, "Erm.. I am not being sure. Can you? If you can find a way to expedite the temporal computations to allow me to make the manual tunings that would be immensely significant. Or if you knew where I could find a tool that was more precise... I am not knowing... a sort of resonance adjuster..."
"Resonance? As in sound waves?"
"Da! Then I would be able to tune the device more precisely."
"Well... for the calculations... there's a lot of raw data to process for the specifics. But if the fluctuations are a chaotic dynamic system, you could build yourself a secondary monitor based on a simple neural net. Build in the fundamentals of complex systems theory, and it could learn to partially predict the fluctuations based on past behaviour and high level probability models. Wouldn't be super accurate, but it would be close, and it would do it a lot faster. That would lessen the correctional computations needed by the primary processing unit."
"As for a resonance adjuster... could you just adapt a musical tuning box? I mean... that's basically a high precision frequency matching unit! Shouldn't be hard to tweak."
Serge nodded, "I had not considered that. I might need Engineering to refine it to a smaller, hand held device, but it is worth considering further."