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Tony Wicker

Short Stories
- In the Beginning

In the Beginning (5 ratings)
         by Tony Wicker
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Being a student, this being informed one of the masters of this uncontrollable energy loss during the process of constructing his theory. The master severely informed him that all energy can be controlled at all times. Therefore, it was his own lack of concentration that allowed the energy to be diverted.

The reprimand was not taken kindly. Since he could absorb knowledge at a rate considered to border on genius and had already developed several dynamically new theories, this student’s pride was bruised. He attempted to salvage his ego by challenging the master to follow the steps of his theory and to control all of the energy involved. The challenge was accepted at once, to teach this impudent youth a proper lesson.

Once all of the procedures were explained and an outline set forth, the master began to follow the steps involved in the theory. He was determined to deflate this student’s ego. As he neared the point where the energy loss was to occur, the master stopped and pointed out a defect in the structure of the theory.

This placated the master’s anger at the challenge because this could prove to be a very profound theory and the flaw appeared to be a minor oversight. He graciously offered to make the necessary calculations to correct the theory.

Instead of accepting the offer, the student insisted that the master continue to follow the steps exactly as they had been outlined. The theory itself was no longer an issue. The challenge was made to prove that all energy can be controlled in every circumstance, and that it was the student’s lack of control which allowed these grains of sand to be created.

The master argued that it was beneath him to follow the steps of an obviously flawed theory. The student’s arrogance was bringing back the master’s anger, but he again offered to make the minor adjustments and follow the theory to its proper conclusion. However, he refused to follow the steps of the theory as they were.

Undaunted, the student countered that the theory may be flawed in the context of it’s original goal, yet, it proves that the blindly accepted axion that all energy can be controlled is false. Therefore, what the master perceives as a flawed theory is not flawed at all. Conversely, it is a completely new theory as well as a precedent.

This argument was unexpected and left the master without an acceptable ground to frfute the student’s logic. Now, the master’s own pride was insulted, so he was even more determined to prove to this insolent youth the errors of his arrogant ways. He decided to follow the steps of the theory and not only account for, but to also control every subparticle of energy involved. After proving his point, the master intended to subject this whelp to public reprimand and ridicule.

When these beings construct a theory, they devote a portion of their intellectual mass, a blank segment of themselves, as the site to simulate their ideas. They use molecules of their energy to mold their thoughts into a mental design. Even though this design has the appearance of physical existence to the being, it is contained within his own mass. Once an idea or theory is determined to be flawed or otherwise unusable, the energy used to construct the simulation is reabsorbed back into its original form. Thus, the model is "forgotten". The being retains the fundamentals of the theory and can approach the same idea from other directions, only the constructed design is disposed of.

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