In the seconds it took YatSan's consciousness to travel billions of light years, Rutra's memory replayed the events of his first "flight" to other worlds. On Earth, in the laboratory, seconds had really passed, and in his mind, a day's worth of history. Rutra kept wondering: would this YatSan be different? Would she do what he had in mind? And what motivated her to do that there? Rutra's thought "fell" into the past again....
That day, after a similar consciousness transmigration experiment, his friend, after seeing them off with Amita, contacted him discreetly. To Rutra's surprise, the scientist suggested without joking or laughing:
– Ruthra, I'm sure the system will work exactly the same as the consciousness transfer here. I propose a real experiment in parallel worlds.
– You first have to be sure where these worlds are.
– I have determined," he said confidently.
Ruthra felt that confidence transfer to him. Somehow all doubt had vanished.
– And how, where? – Ruthra asked excitedly.
– It's very simple. In fact, these entangled particles are invisible markers that determine the presence and location of these worlds. They can't go anywhere except to their own kind. Otherwise, they'll come back. This is the principle of any sonar and radar. The beam left, and if it wasn't captured there – scanned and returned, then again and again. Since their inception, they've held that connection. As the arrow of a compass finds the field of its properties, so the entangled particle will find its twin. It can find no refuge anywhere. Perhaps it is something that our brains have been signaling since time immemorial. We have labeled it as the home of the soul. Perhaps after death, we, or rather particles, are relocated to another world where their twins still live in a similar body. A world where time has been shifted downward.
– Do the particles that were there fly out, giving way to these, and fly to another world?
– It's possible.
– Then how do they settle in there – the same way or do they give birth to new life?
– More likely, they're giving birth to new life.
– Clever… and kind of explains the whole system of creation.
– Probably, yeah.
– Are you suggesting we give it a try?
– Yeah. It's probably perfectly safe.
– Completely?
– Probably right.
– Probably?
– Don't start. Get in the machine.
– No, you first, your majesty.
– You're "your majesty" here.
– Yeah, well, you're a science major.
– Come on, stop schooling that young lady of yours.
– I'm cooking it.
– I know how you cook it. Really, do you fry it or boil it? Or do you stew it?
– Uh-huh. Be careful.
– And another thing – is she a risk you're willing to take?
– No, you didn't. I haven't even done a mind transference experiment on her yet.
– You're busy doing other experiments with her.
– That's enough.
– Had enough? Then brave the installation.
– I'll check my clone and digital copy of consciousness first.
– Afraid I'll take over?
– Anything is to be expected of you, especially after your latest antics.
– From you too…
Rutra ended up in a world where he is a famous scientist who invented a method on how to prolong life by replacing the thymus gland. That successful experiment had given him confidence in YatSan's mission. However, according to his theory of mirror worlds, the nuclear catastrophe that had occurred there, even if in a different form, would still happen here. He hoped for YatSan's actions in the current experiment. He hoped for a change in the process of events. No one on Earth, except for him, Parmen and Irene, knew about the coming danger, and even their trio did not know in what form this danger would be reflected.
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YatSan woke up in bed. She turned around a little. It was a large room with a very high ceiling. The bed was raised on a pedestal so that you had to walk down to the floor on steps. In the middle of the room was a pool with a fountain. All the walls were of colored СКАЧАТЬ