The Quantum Brain (Pulse Science Fiction Series Book 2) Read Online Free PDF Page A

something bigger and the worst was yet to come.
    Mark Spencer fully intended to exploit his knowledge of the coming trouble on an astronomical scale and he intended to exploit everyone else’s ignorance of it. Even the great CDR had no idea it was coming. Mark started picturing a physical path in his head from the street to the floor the labs were on and then to the lab with this unknown force at play.
    He shook his head. Too soon. He had a lot more to figure out before he even considered moving his plan to the CDR building.
    Still, Mark looked through the scanned data and took the parameters for the dimensions of the chamber containing “It.” Not very large at all.
    “They don’t make alien overlords like they used to.”
    He pulled up data on the weight and design of the mystery chamber. It could be detached. It was light enough to carry. “Especially if it was carried when gravity on this side of the world took a short vacation.”
    The universe was full of mystery again and the new, biggest mystery was what exactly this “it” in the center of Dr. Kell’s lab really was.
    Mark went back to the devices within the lab that he was monitoring and began swimming up stream again. He saw someone was typing into the tablet. Mark brought up the conversation on his screen and then opened the microphone on the tablet so he could have audio in the room. There was a clicking noise from the keys. Why did people like that sound on a touch screen? Mark shook his head. He was sure it was a mistake that might give him away, but he turned off the key click sound anyway. If Dr. Kell really missed it, he could turn it back on.
    There were footsteps on the lab floor. Objects were being picked up and sat down in the distance.
    Dr. Kell or someone over the tablet that sounded exactly like what Mark remembered Kell sounding like when they were introduced said, “Finally, that racket is off. I thought I was going to lose my ever loving mind.”
    “What was that, Dr. Kell?”
    “Nothing. Continue what you were doing, please. We need faster feed or we won’t ever know what’s going on.”
    “The only thing we have that moves that fast is the thing we’re trying to monitor.”
    Mark did not understand everything they were talking about, but he suspected they were struggling with the same mystery before them that Mark wanted to figure out.
    Dr. Kell was texting with someone on the tablet. It might be related to the thing in the lab, but Mark decided to come back to it later.
    He moved through the other devices in the room looking for something he could use as a camera feed. The tablet camera looked up Dr. Kell’s nose at the ceiling. Mark didn’t want to overload the device with malware and possibly alert the doctor. He left the microphone open, but switched the camera back off. None of the other consoles in the room were much better. Each one was looking out into the lab. The chamber in the center of the room remained a mystery.
    Mark left a couple of the color camera feeds on for perspective with the other security feeds he was monitoring off of the hallways. He would just have to try to make sense of what he heard along with the spotty data.
    As he watched and listened, he swore he saw a golden light shining off objects in view of the camera feeds. That couldn’t just be for mood lighting. The chamber was giving off its own light it seemed.
    Mark dug deeper into the data, but only grew more confused. If he didn’t know better, he would swear whatever was in the box was bigger on the inside than on the outside. The data was analyzing “It” on a quantum level. It was a deep quantum level. The thing in the chamber was manipulating the quantum or it was highly reactive to being observed.
    Quantum physics was not Mark Spencer’s area of expertise by any means. He considered himself smarter than average in most things though. It knew more than the average person about most subjects. Maybe not more than Dr. Kell about Quantum