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Reflection about the characteristics of Iteration

( Riflessioni sulle caratteristiche dell’Iterazione )

Marco Milani ITA - Transl. by Emanuele Cassani

 

                    

 

-         Mordias! Came to see what I found.

-         But… it is just an old newspaper. The old ones with lucid paper.

-         Yes, correct. But it is not old it is antique. Probably daddy brought it from his last trip.

-         Let me see it.

-         It is written in an understandable way. But the style is antique, look at the characters used, the pagination… “Reflection about the characteristics of Iteration”.

-         What does it means?

-         I do not know. I saw the large title and I red it automatically.

-         Read it all.

-         But, I do not even know…

-         Come on! Read it Icarus!

-         All right! When you do se I hate to have a younger sister. “Reflection about…

 

…the characteristics of Iteration.”

Reaction to Iteration?

Result is equal to the zero summation. Easy, and as it happen for all the easy things, escaped the penetration of the technologically advanced societies (escaped for a too long time) it was unthinkable because it was too easy. The reaction to Iteraction is the result of a meet-collide between pure matter and pure anti-matter with an explosion of energy (trying to use simple expressions easy to understand) and the consequence annihilate of both.

Yet in the year 2002, Battisti Sandro, gothologer from Earth, expressed the general idea and more deeply the principal points, as indicated in some notes we received after more than two centuries, surviving to the civil war. And now, that the theory of Iteraction it is not a theory anymore, the problems of cohabitation between the man alive and non-alive ones, will finally find a solution.

But let go faster now. From the historical point of view, let review the main steps of the non-alive man until today (we are still on the born planet, the Earth, twenty years away from the first satellites colonization) adding some considerations.

Until the 2047, the information about the non-alive was just idle stories, modified by the natural human stupidity and the typical human believableness, concerning the mortal nature of their human been. Everybody was trying to pervert the nature of the phenomena and/or to isolate the most evident cases, and, they were lucky because the non-alive were able to relatively keep the anonymity. Just a few knew, or believed, to the real existence of the Zombies (this were the vulgar name), whom on their side, as already told, made all the effort avoiding to be noticed.

A long series of legends rose, at the same time and mixed with the monstrous fantasy myths of lycanthropes and ghosts, with the background of centuries of ignorance of the reality, but that luckily, the progress (such considered) now revealed as a undoubted presence. Remembering also, as examples, the doubting relations (also these typically human) each time the man's cleverness or his wiliness, exceeded what was considered a limit, and later a expected. Such as the electricity, the radio waves, the first trip to the Moon during the XXth centuries; the iper-star flights, the Browner system, le optical-ipheric fibre and the parallel plans during the XIst century; the real mesmerism and the same theory, now demonstrated, of Iteration during our century. We should not be surprised.

Just a fact to remind for its peculiarity and effects, just as an idea of the denigration acts, such know as “Voodoo”. In the Haiti Island, before it sank, for centuries were seat of different kind of rites, until it become a horrid and known local characteristic, and above al, feared all over the word. At the end of the years two thousand, they discovered the terrible secret of Voodoo: medicine, drugs, and a credence inset at neural level. After exactly fifty years, in the 2097, doctor Marcus Blanc, from the Franc-Helvetica-Lunar Confederation, express and public the “Base theory of Iteration” as we know it. Reconnects the essential differences between the alive and not-alive, giving the first impulse to the racial conflict (unwanted effect) at the same time as the extermination of the hominids from the Sirio B system, after the fist peaceful connivance. In algebraic terms, the topic is again discussed in the year 2114, and here Marcus W. Blanc Junior from the orbiting station Pegaso, continuing his father's studies, calculates the T constant, which is twelve seconds, three tenth and six hundredth. This is the 'limit contact time' between alive and non-alive, beyond that the Iteration reaction start irreversibly. With the consequence deflagration and annihilations. Result is then equal to the zero summation.

At the same time, it excludes any variation relationship, given to the type and quality of the dissipated soul that generated the not-alive. For these reasons it formulates the first Iteration Equation as it appear in the actual school books:

( A + Aex ) x T = ( E + “-E” ) x T = 0

where A (alive) is equal to "E" (energy), Aex (non-alive) is equal to "– E" (spiritual energy) and T (instead of the t time variable) is the constant, equal to 12” 3d 6c.

Twenty-five years passed, before the same Blanc Junior realized that the simplicity of the problem wasted his time with huge calculations. He then supposed the second Equalization of Iteration, called the Coupling one:

1)   Am    +   Af    =  A

  2)  Am   +  Aexf  =  Aex

3)  Af   + Aexm =  Aex

4)     Aexf  + Aexm  =  A

Understanding its pure elementary mathematical simplicity for four cases, noticing the similarity of the sum of the signs + and -, proposing the alive as positive number and the non-alive as the negative one.

It is clear that, does not matter the sex, (‘m’ or ‘f’) of the coupled units, the First Equalization is confirmed. From this Second Equalisation, are clear the limits, or better the practical impossibility (but not the theoretical) of the cases 2, 3 and 4 where we will have the First Equalisation with the time t higher then the constant T.

At the end, we arrive to our days. Six years ago, exactly the 12th day of January 2193, the low level application to the inter-force field is found. Basil Salnicus, pletologgist from Sonda IV, applies the same working principle of the antimatter theory, building a reactor as small as a hand, which can generate the D.F. (Dividing Field). Luckily, the relationship with the terrestrial colonies are getting better after the last extra solar convention, signed on board of in constant Explorer III. Following this example and remembering the recent autonomy recognition of the Six's, the artificial hominids of the Sirio B System and to the Andragoni of ST. Alpha (within some limits), we really hope to coexist also with the other non-alive, finally without any racial discrimination.

The wish is evident, but we are still very far, even if we are on the correct way, noticing that the Mutants are completely inserted (after long battles) in our society of asteroids-countries and colonies.

There is just a negative note. Unfortunately on the Earth, in the Euro-German zone, a new Nazi-movement of young people is born. They believe in the pure race of Aryanisms and they follow the doctrine, inspired by their religious leader and founder of the order in the XXth century, the prophet Adolph Hitler.

An ovation to our governors, for the efforts made and a suggestion: avoid that remnants of the past violence come back as ghosts, in the times that are now ready for the universal cohesion.

May 13th  ’99  - Director J. Von Rostock”.

 

-         How much did you understand?

-         Not too much. It is readable, but difficult. I do not know a lot of terms, some are weird too, but the general idea is clear. Just the very general idea.

-         I also understood a just little. It is mentioning the Earth too. Have a look to the front page…

-         Science Press, nr. 24, July 2199.

-         You were right; it is more then hundred fifty years old. It is really old.

-         Correct, really really old.

-         What could be his value? eh Icarus?

-         I do not know Mordias, I do not have any idea.

-         If we bring it to Pantheonid? He could tell us how much we could get for it.

-         No. Panthenoid is a thief. Better wait and get the information our self. We will keep it hidden, maybe its value is a fortune. If mommy will be here…

-         She will know it?

-         If she knew it, she had sold it at his maximum value.

-         But…

-         But what?

-         It is unusual… I never heard about the things you red.

-         I was thinking the same.

-         Maybe the Earth rally existed… it in not just a legend.

-         Yes, if it is true. But it is more probable that it will be a fantasy, a tale. The Earth should be the origin planet of all Confederation races, following what the Asimovist religion states. But do you want to believe that furious crazy orange dressed people?

-         But it will be a great discover. We will be famous.

-         Yes sure. But don’t let some strange ideas on your mind.

-         And…

-         And…?

-         And us, if it was true, here in the Sirius Beta system… we should be… artificial hominids. Right?

-         Right.

-         What does it means?

-         I do not know. This old-fashion words are not easy to understand.