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78 lines
2.4 KiB
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Hello there! Can you hear me? I know you
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can... There's a reason I came back to
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QEC...
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So I'm en route to Tausa III for the 4
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month long trading trip. The system is
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on the edge of the galaxy, at the tip of
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the Perseus Arm. The ship is preparing
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for the next jump just a few hundred
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parsecs away from destination. It's
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quiet, motionless here.. well, except
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the humming of the ship's drive. Stars
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are scarce and dim here at the edge. But
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the disk-shaped galaxy itself are
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magnificent!
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As there haven't been much going on,
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except the bureaucratic reports back to
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the Trade Union, I have fully indulged
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myself into Info Archaeology, one of my
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many hobbies, to dig up a little about
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this queer sub-routine called the
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Quantum Entanglement Communicator, or
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QEC.
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And I'm surprised that there's a lot
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about it than what it appeared to be.
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So I found this sub-routine buried deep
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in the info stack, well beneath the
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Ivanova Layer in the ship's comm system.
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It was curious to find any sub-routine
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so isolated from the rest of the ancient
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ones down the Ivanova Layer. In fact, I
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was so intrigued that I went for the
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trouble and cost to do a U-scan in the
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Know-Core for QEC.
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The scan cost me 3.9 B.Joule. But it's
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well worth it.
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The earliest record of QEC that the Core
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found was in the 22nd century (using
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standard Info Archaeology chronology).
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There were a few documents mentioning
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the term scattered on the
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soon-to-collapse "Internet". The origin
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of the word is unknown, but I strongly
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suspect it was much earlier.
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Nevertheless, the use of the term seems
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to be in the so called "science fiction"
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setting. So I think this is a pure
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coincidence that it has the same name as
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the sub-routine that I'm using to send
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this message.
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The first truly relevant record of the
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QEC appeared much later, in the 26th
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century. According to the manifest,
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QEC's fundamental design is similar to
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the μ-Link we use in the present day.
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What's interesting is that QEC's design
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facilitates decentralized,
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low-bandwidth, high-resiliency
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communication. And that sounds a lot
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like the Langston movement which has
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lasted over 600 years now! So maybe
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there's a connection between the two.
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And that brings back to my opening of
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this message - I highly suspect that, at
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present day, there are people who still
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use the QEC somewhere! And that
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propelled me to write in it.
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I hope you will receive it. Write back,
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and tell me what do you know about QEC?
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