Chapter 10

           

           TheInfiniteImprobabilityDriveisawonderfulnewmethodofcrossingvastinterstellardistancesinamerenothingthofasecond,withoutallthattediousmuckingaboutinhyperspace.

           Itwasdiscoveredbyaluckychance,andthendevelopedintoagovernableformofpropulsionbytheGalacticGovernment’sresearchteamonDamogran.

           This,briefly,isthestoryofitsdiscovery.

           TheprincipleofgeneratingsmallamountsoffiniteimprobabilitybysimplyhookingthelogiccircuitsofaBambleweeny57Sub-MesonBraintoanatomicvectorplottersuspendedinastrongBrownianMotionproducer(sayanicehotcupoftea)wereofcoursewellunderstood—andsuchgeneratorswereoftenusedtobreaktheiceatpartiesbymakingallthemoleculesinthehostess’sundergarmentsleapsimultaneouslyonefoottotheleft,inaccordancewiththeTheoryofIndeterminacy.

           Manyrespectablephysicistssaidthattheyweren’tgoingtostandforthis—partlybecauseitwasadebasementofscience,butmostlybecausetheydidn’tgetinvitedtothosesortofparties.

           Anotherthingtheycouldn’tstandwastheperpetualfailuretheyencounteredintryingtoconstructamachinewhichcouldgeneratetheinfiniteimprobabilityfieldneededtoflipaspaceshipacrossthemind-paralysingdistancesbetweenthefurtheststars,andintheendtheygrumpilyannouncedthatsuchamachinewasvirtuallyimpossible

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