ensignburke (ensignburke) wrote in madisonvalley, @ 2022-10-21 21:19:00 |
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Entry tags: | !closed, !match-up, the doctor (dontevenblink), ~2022 october, ~charly burke (ensignburke) |
Who: Charly Burke and The Doctor (10) - MATCH UP
What: Time And Relative Dimensions In Space
When: Saturday, October 22 (after the Upside-Down)
Where: Hanover College
Warnings: None, probably
Status: Incomplete
Charly didn't usually make use of the lecture hall on Saturdays. If she were on campus at all, it was in her office, or the staff lounge where they kept coffee brewing. But she'd done as much grading of tests as she could take for today. She'd grabbed a fortifying cup of coffee--another thing that hadn't changed appreciably in four hundred years, for which she was grateful--and wandered down to the hall.
She'd been doing some back-of-the-napkin calculations lately, and had come to the conclusion that she needed more space. She'd taken this job out of necessity, and because it let her use her skills in mathematics and engineering. She hadn't expected to like it, or be so good at it. She'd always been able to compress a ream of calculations into a single equation--or expand a single equation into pages of calculations. It turned out that being able adjust the level of detail that way made her lectures much more accessible than she'd feared they would be. The students seemed to like it, and some of them were doing noticeably better as a result.
This problem required reams of calculations. She was trying to work out just how much energy was required to transport a human-sized mass hundreds of parsecs across space and four hundred years back in time through a wormhole. Without vaporizing the planets on either end. She'd just about filled all the blackboards in the lecture hall with the calculations needed to answer that question.
Now she stepped back and studied the result. "That's...a really big number."