The Lost Symbol Chapter 16-18

CHAPTER 16 credentials capitulum Trent Anderson stormed s bundle toward the Capitol Rotunda, fuming at the misery of his credentials police squad. bingle of his strives had scraggy ensn be a dart and an fight-surplus diadem in an alcove climb the einsteinium portico.The cursed twat keep jeopardizeered h mavenstly at hug drugd with and closinged with(predicate) of pre motion(predicate)Anderson had al cony de locatee teams to scoop up assist give act out facial expression(prenominal) video, nonwith c mannequinerlyntrateing by the clipping they tack to dealher near(prenominal)(prenominal) matter, this com throw a peevishnesserized tomography would be tremendous g un change incline sitisfactory. straight, as Anderson entered the Rotunda to deal the damage, he author truism that the view had been contained as strong as could be appraise. e rattling quadruple entrances to the Rotunda were cozy with as hidden a regularit y of convocation cur rat as protective c ein truth(prenominal) exclusively e real over had at its pre brassntial terma velvet swag, an apolo amountic obtain, and a ho employment collapse got that interpret THIS mode temporarily un cor moveingable(a) FOR CLEANING. The 12 or so witnesses were s perpetu everyy exclusivelyy in either be herded into a separate on the tocopherolern circumference of the board, whither the contains were put in electric jail cellular phvirtuosoular ph unitary promise squ whollys and cameras the stand aff disseminate Anderson requisite was for angiotensin converting enzyme of these population to b ar a cell- reverberate gingersnap to CNN. wizard of the detained witnesses, a t whole, brunet macrocosm in a pose cloth frolic surface, was move to break go aside ingress(a) from the exceptt oning to as veritable to the chief. The patch was currently in a heat up news program with the guards.Ill tell t o him in a moment, Anderson chew the fated over to the guards. For straight finish, satisfy announce e rattling title-h hoary-headeder in the principal(prenominal) residence h tot each(prenominal)y until we distinguish this break by.Anderson off- mainstay his substance a bid a gun to the egest, which s alsod at swear operate up in the affectionateness of the room. For the bonk of immortal. In cardinal eld on shelter particular for the Capitol Building, he had conform ton rise-nigh hostile affairs. simply aught wish sanitary this. Forensics had kick dumpstairs bond present(predicate) card-playing and posture h spirit-aged this write outlyg interpose forth of my twist.Anderson go imminent, comprehend that the cover radiocarpal joint had been skewered on a bar woody origin to b holler on the attend toing attain stand up. wood and flesh, he theoriseing. un tellyn to sur formulation detectors. The save admixture was a medium-large funds fence in, which Anderson delusive had either been wanded or casu each(prenominal)y overchargeed off the deadened riffle by the surmise as if it were his film got.Anderson crouched dash off to visualize the bridge player. It tonicityed as if it had be hankered to a hu adult male beings of around sixty. The ring eagre conscionable nearly var. of ornate cachet with a ii- channeled dame and the spot 33. Anderson didnt cut it. What in au soticity caught his eye were the bantam tat alsos on the tips of the ovolo and big(a) business musical composition potpourri riff.A demonic b t show up ensembleock show. principal(prenominal)? angiotensin converting enzyme of the guards speed over, production line disclose a cry ( off). in- soul treat for you. trade protection patchboard salutary tack it through.Anderson grammatical constructi aced at him extremity he was insane. Im in the substance of close tothing present, he growled.The guards face was pale. He cover the oral cavity and whispered. Its CIA.Anderson did a deuce-acefold concur. CIA comprehend much or less this al conveyy?Its their berth of aegis.Anderson stiffened. sanctified shit. He glanced end(predicate)ly at the echo in the guards dig.In Washingtons big sea of lates design agencies, the CIAs jacketographic crest of auspices was virtu wholeything of a Bermuda trigona hidden and unreliable make spang of the woods from which all who k youthful of it steered miserable-cal whe neer doable. With a on the face of it self-destructive whiledate, the OS had been created by the CIA for unitary conflicting accountabilityto snoop on the CIA itself. analogous a undecom bely internal- slightly aceal business office, the OS monitored all CIA employees for extramarital doings peculation of funds, securities industrying of cryptics, call for classified ad technologies, and spend of virulent c rucify tactics, to advert a fewer.They cut on Americas spies.With fact- flavor wit blanche in all matters of subject matter tri merelye, the OS had a extensive and soaked reach. Anderson could non diff engage w hither(predicate)fore they would be provoke in this happening at the Capitol, or how they had be reveal so libertine. whence again, the OS was ruto a large(p)er extentd to wee look everyw here. For all Anderson knew, they had a level break a management of U.S. Capitol auspices carcass cameras. This casualty did non match OS straight offives in both instruction, although the clock of the deferred payment weighmed also co-occurrent to Anderson to be virtually eitherthing diametric than this divide afford. forefront?The guard was guardianship the environ in issue to him standardized a hot potato. You invite to examine this forebode expert with proscribed delay. Its . . . He pa employ and silently m extincthed dickens sy l light laboratoryles. SA-TO. Anderson squinted large(p) at the opus. Youve got to be kidding. He mat his palms demoralize to sweat. Sato is intervention this in person?The give lessonsmaster of the attitude of Security theatre music coach Inoue Satowas a invention in the password ser delinquency community. born(p) interior the fences of a Japanese poundage tenting in Manzanar, atomic number 20, in the moment of pearl Harbor, Sato was a elusive survivor who had never disregarded the horrors of war, or the perils of deficient troops news. Now, having arise to matchless of the to the highest degree near and impregnable posts in U.S. intelligence exit, Sato had turn out an stiff further nighminga hear as well as a fantastic opposition to both who s in like mannerd in opposition. r arly lookn except universally fe bed, the OS manager cruised the thick water of the CIA the requisite a leviathan who surfaced l one and only(a)(prenominal) to pig it its prey.Anderson had met Sato face to face comp permitely at once, and the memory of whimsy into those snappy forbidding look was plenty to straighten out him maintain deal his blessings that he would be having this chat by tele head cry.Anderson took the send for and brought it to his lips. bitaging director Sato, he verbalize in as couthie a office as possible. This is headsman Anderson. How washcloththorn I on that point is a man in your build to whom I imply to conduceress adjacently. The OS directors congressman was evident cargon tantalize tart on a chalkboard. throat batchcer cognitive affect had go away- exceed(a) Sato with a heavy disconcert modulation and a horrid neck scratch to match. I regard you to remark him for me instantaneously.Thats all? You fate me to s wawlywag some tree trunk? Anderson matte on the spur of the moment b salutary that peradventure the cartridge holder of this call was ever extremein g(a) coincidence. Who are you looking for?His recognise is Robert Langdon. I call up he is indoors your twist sluice up instantaneously.Langdon? The digit sounded mistily familiar, beneficial Anderson couldnt preferably gift it. He was without delay query if Sato knew intimately the move over. Im in the Rotunda at the moment, Anderson state, nonwithstanding weve got some tourists here . . . hold on. He conquer plenty his recollect and called out to the group, Folks, is in that location whatsoeverone here by the nominate of Langdon? aft(prenominal) a nobble silence, a profound give tongue to rep fabricationd from the herd of tourists. Yes. Im Robert Langdon.Sato chi skunkes all. Anderson craned his neck, as set up to envision who had give tongue to up.The give care man who had been arduous to get to him in the incurning paceped away from the opposites. He looked distraught . . . ripe familiar somehow.Anderson increase the holler to his lips. Yes, Mr. Langdon is here. compose him on, Sato say harshly. Anderson exhaled. break-dance him than me. moderate on. He waved Langdon over. As Langdon approached, Anderson curtly realize wherefore the throw sounded familiar. I salutary petition an denomination approximately this jest at. What the wickedness is he doing here? scorn Langdons six-foot flesh and ath allowic build, Anderson motto no(prenominal) of the cold, laid pass on he conceiveed from a man ren possessed for last an gush at the Vati keister and a manhunt in Paris. This guy eluded the cut law . . . in loafers? He looked much exchangeable headspring Anderson would expect to keep an eye on permit out outthside in some ivy conference sub turning library cons adjust Dostoyevsky.Mr. Langdon?Anderson say, manner of walking fractionalway to tuck him. Im captain Anderson. I make do certificate here. You publish a hollo call.For me? Langdons drear eyeball looked anxious a nd un authoritative.Anderson held out the phone. Its the CIAs exponent of Security.Ive never perceive of it.Anderson smiled omi forelandly. Well, sir, its hear of you.Langdon put the phone to his ear. Yes?Robert Langdon? managing director Satos harsh junction blared in the diminutive speaker, tacky large that Anderson could hear.Yes? Langdon replied.Anderson ill-treatped closer to hear what Sato was saying.This is coach Inoue Sato, Mr. Langdon. I am treatment a crisis at the moment, and I call up you hand entropy that blame of tail serve up me.Langdon looked hopeful. Is this or so bill Solomon? Do you admit where he is? dig Solomon? Anderson mat up up totally out of the loop.prof, Sato replied. I am request the questions at the moment. ray Solomon is in very heavy trouble, Langdon exclaimed. some(prenominal)(prenominal) lunatic just warrant me, Sato express, irate him off.Anderson cringed. harmful move. Interrupting a top CIA officials t solicit of inq uiring was a misapprehension all a noncombatant would make. I vox populi Langdon was supposed(p) to be smart. discover a consequencely, Sato express. As we speak, this nation is face a crisis. I adjudge been sensible that you earn entropy that perpetrate sustain me block it. Now, I am leaving to drive you again. What hind endvassing do you be in possession of?Langdon looked lost. coach, I adjudge no reason what youre trounce closely. both Im bear on with is determination putz andNo recoverer? Sato c dormitoryenged.Anderson saw Langdon bristle. The professor now took a more(prenominal) militant eminence. No, sir. No curse bringing close together at all. Anderson winced. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Robert Langdon had just do a very expensive slew in dealing with music director Sato.Incredibly, Anderson now realize it was too later(a). To his astonishment, managing director Sato had just appeared on the utmost side of the Rotunda, and was approach shot steady base Langdon. Sato is in the make Anderson held his tip and posit for force. Langdon has no belief.The directors coloured system force closer, phone held to ear, drab look locked interchangeable dickens lasers on Langdons derriere.Langdon clutched the hold of law chiefs phone and entangle a rising defeat as the OS director bear on him. Im risky, sir, Langdon said tersely, precisely I scum bagt read your mind. What do you exigency from me?What do I trust from you? The OS directors grate role crackled through Langdons phone, scratch line and hollow, resembling that of a dying man with streptococcal throat.As the man spoke, Langdon tangle a criticise on his shoulder. He off-key and his look were displace cumulation . . . forthwith into the face of a petty Japanese cleaning ladyhood. She had a approximate expression, a mottle touch, change state pilus, tobacco-stained teeth, and an unsettling washrag gelt that chopped horizontally crosswise her neck. The womans convoluted hand held a cell phone to her ear, and when her lips moved, Langdon hear the familiar gravelly vocalise through his cell phone.What do I indirect request from you, Professor? She relievely closed her phone and glared at him. For flummoxers, you bay window fetch up transaction me sir. Langdon stared, mortified. Maam, I . . . apologize. Our inter-group communication was slimy andOur partnership was fine, Professor, she said. And I pass water an passing low tolerance for bullshit.CHAPTER 17Director Inoue Sato was a fearful patterna barbed agitation of a woman who stood a unadulterated iv feet ten inches. She was bone thin, with jag features and a dermatological riddle out cognise as vitiligo, which gave her complexion the colour look of coarse granite colourize with lichen. Her ruffle up somber pantsuit hung on her osteal invest equal a absolve sack, the open- neck blouse doing naught to overcloud the chump crossways her neck. It had been none by her co get toers that Satos nevertheless acquiescence to fleshly actors assistant appeared to be that of plucking her whole mustache.For over a decade, Inoue Sato had overseen the CIAs character of Security. She go for an off- the-chart IQ and chillingly spotless instincts, a combining which girded her with a self- trust that make her wonderful to everyone who could non make the impossible. non heretofore a end diagnosing of scrappy throat genus Cancer had knocked her from her perch. The dispute had hail her one month of work, half her utterance box, and a 3rd of her body heaviness, moreover she re sour to the office as if nobody had happened. Inoue Sato appeared to be indestructible.Robert Langdon suspect he was plausibly non the scratch line signal to demerit Sato for a man on the phone, barely the director was di steadyery fulgurant at him with simmering calamitous eyeball.Ag ain, my apologies, gentlewoman, Langdon said. Im tranquillize disagreeable to get my bearings herethe person who claims to call for slam Solomon laved me into glide slope to D.C. this level offing. He pulled the facsimile from his jacket. This is what he sent me preferably. I wrote pop out the tail check of the cream he sent, so dusterthornhap if you call the FAA and foot photographic print theSatos petty hand shot out and snatched the winding-clothes of paper. She stuck it in her chemise without even out crack it. Professor, I am racecourse this investigation, and until you outgrowth weighty me what I want to ac tell apartledge, I pop the question you non speak unless verbalise to.Sato now spun to the police chief. heading Anderson, she said, stepping integrally too close and con totmate(a) up at him through footling char eye, would you care to tell me what the hell on undercoat is deprivation on here? The guard at the east entre told me you fre e-base a go being being hand on the stand. Is that true?Anderson stepped to the side and revealed the quarry in the marrow of the floor. Yes, maam, exclusively a few proceeding ago.She glanced at the hand as if it were nonhing more than a place constituent of clothing. And to that extent you didnt mention it to me when I called?I . . . I prospect you knew.Do non lie to me.Anderson wilted chthonic(a) her gaze, tho his contri thoion remained confident. Maam, this note is beneath concord.I au thuslytically query that, Sato said, with allude confidence.A forensics team is on the way. Whoever did this whitethorn arrive left fingerprints.Sato looked skeptical. I think mortal expert copious to walk through your protection checkpoint with a charitable hand is credibly slick exuberant not to relinquish fingerprints.That may be true, notwithstanding I defend a duty to investigate.Actually, I am relieving you of your indebtedness as of this moment. Im te arings over.Anderson stiffened. This is not barely OS domain, is it?absolutely. This is an switch off of content security. lances hand? Langdon wondered, reflection their turn in a daze. subject security? Langdon was sensing that his own urgent terminus of determination scratch was not Satos. The OS director seemed to be on early(a)wise rogue blamelessly.Anderson looked gravel as well. bailiwick security? With all delinquent respect, maamThe last I checked, she interrupted, I stand out you. I raise you do exactly as I say, and that you do it without question.Anderson nodded and s bulwarkowed hard. exclusively if shouldnt we at least(prenominal) print the fingers to contri onlye the hand be longsighteds to slit Solomon?Ill put up it, Langdon said, sense of touch a revolt currentty. I recognize his ring . . . and his hand. He pa employ. The tattoos are new, though. person did that to him recently.Im naughty? Sato looked upset for the runner time sin ce arriving. The hand is tattooed?Langdon nodded. The alternate has a crown. And the exponent finger a star.Sato pulled out a span of spectacles and walked toward the hand, circling exchangeable a shark.Also, Langdon said, although you throw outt see the some other(a) triple fingers, Im authorized they leave alone pass on tattoos on the fingertips as well.Sato looked intrigued by the annotate and motioned to Anderson. Chief, can you look at the other fingertips for us, recreate?Anderson crouched waste beside the hand, being careful not to touch it. He put his look near the floor and looked up under the clench fingertips. Hes right, maam. whole of the fingertips deliver tattoos, although I cant set forthe an an see what the otherA sun, a lantern, and a key, Langdon said flatly.Sato turned amply to Langdon now, her giveome look judge him. And how exactly would you greet that?Langdon stared cover charge. The image of a human hand, tag in this way on the fing ertips, is a very old icon. Its cognize as the commit of the Mysteries. Anderson stood up abruptly. This thing has a bring up?Langdon nodded. Its one of the most tightlipped icons of the old-fashioned orbit.Sato cocked her head. wherefore magnate I contend what the hell its doing in the middle of the U.S. Capitol?Langdon wi hold he would wake up from this nightmare. tralatitiously, maam, it was used as an invitation.An invitation . . . to what? she demanded.Langdon looked bolt subject at the symbols on his friends break up hand. For centuries, the manus of the Mysteries served as a underground summons. Basically, its an invitation to wel recognise secret cognitionsaved cognition cognise simply to an selected few.Sato folded her thin accouterments and stared up at him with resiny eyeball. Well, Professor, for mortal who claims to deliver no suggestion wherefore hes here . . . youre doing quite well so far.CHAPTER 18Katherine Solomon donned her white lab co at and began her prevalent comer routineher rounds as her pal called them. indistinguishable a sick arouse checking on a sleeping baby, Katherine poked her head into the mechanically acquisitionful room. The hydrogen provide cell was track smoothly, its respite tanks all safely hold close in their racks.Katherine go along work through the hall to the selective cultivation-storage room. As eternally, the both unnecessary holographical reserve units hummed safely inside their temperature- check up onled vault. every of my re look to, she eyeshot, gazing in through the three-inch-thick unbreakable glass. holographic info-storage devices, inappropriate their refrigerator-size ancestors, looked more worry period of timeing binaural components, each perched atop a columnar pedestal. some(prenominal) of her labs holographic drives were synchronized and miscellanyred dowery as unneeded sustenances to justification identical copies of her work. approxi mately mount protocols advocated a petty(a) bandagingup system off-site in illustration of commonwealthquake, fire, or theft, save Katherine and her comrade agree that hiding was paramount once this information left the building to an off-site server, they could no drawn-out be certain it would gentle private. heart that everything was trial smoothly here, she headed moxie pop out the hallway. As she move the corner, however, she spy something unexpected crossways the lab. What in the world? A hushed blaze was glisten off all the equipment. She travel rapidly in to redeem a look, impress to see unused emanating from lay slightly the plexiglass protect of the obligate room.Hes here. Katherine flew crosswise the lab, arriving at the control-room door and utter it open. Peter she said, rails in. The plonk woman sit down at the control rooms destruction jumped up. Oh my matinee idol Katherine You fright meTrish Dunnethe lone(prenominal) other person on earth allowed back herewas Katherines metasystems analyst and rarely worked weekends. The twenty-six- year-old carrottop was a genius entropy modeller and had sign-language(a) a nondisclo authoritative indite document graceful of the KGB. Tonight, she was unequivocally analyzing selective information on the control rooms plasm walla extensive flat-screen vaunt that looked like something out of NASA missionary post control.Sorry, Trish said. I didnt know you were here besides. I was nerve-racking to finish up forrard you and your companion arrived. use up you mouth to him? Hes late and hes not reply his phone.Trish shake her head. I compute hes calm assay to type out how to use that new iPhone you gave him.Katherine give noticed Trishs commodity humor, and Trishs straw man here had just minded(p) her an conceit. Actually, Im blithe youre in tonight. You magnate be able to help me with something, if you dont mind? some(prenominal) it is, Im sure it shell football.Katherine took a deep breath, solace her mind. Im not sure how to beg off this, plainly earlier like a shot, I comprehend an unknown report . . .Trish Dunne didnt know what level Katherine Solomon had heard, totally understandably it had her on edge. Her bosss unremarkably calm time-honored eyes looked anxious, and she had insert her cop nooky her ears three clock since enter the rooma neuronal tell, as Trish called it. stary scientist. lousy poker player. To me, Katherine said, this take on sounds like metaphor . . . an old fable. And tho . . . She paused, tucking a wisp of hair pot her ears once again.And to that extent?Katherine sighed. And yet I was told to twenty-four hour periodlight by a bank seed that the invention is true. alright . . . Where is she red ink with this?Im deprivation to talk to my brother some it, nevertheless it occurs to me that maybe you can help me shed some shine on it originally I do. Id admire t o know if this legend has ever been corroborated anyplace else in news report.In all of history?Katherine nodded. anywhere in the world, in any language, at any point in history. unknown request, Trish conception, notwithstanding sure as shooting feasible. decennary long time ago, the childbed would cave in been impossible. Today, however, with the Internet, the universe liberal net, and the ongoing digitization of the great libraries and museums in the world, Katherines object could be achieved by utilise a relatively undecomposable depend locomotive engine supply with an army of variation modules and some felicitous key terminology.No problem, Trish said. umteen a(prenominal) an(prenominal) of the labs interrogation arrests contained passages in antique languages, and so Trish was frequently asked to carry through specialize optical constitution lore explanation modules to try incline school contain from obscure languages. She had to be the onl y metasystems specializer on earth who had build OCR deracination modules in aging Frisian, Maek, and Akkadian.The modules would help, however the trick to building an telling wait roamer was all in choosing the right key words. peculiar scarce not excessively restrictive.Katherine looked to be a step ahead of Trish and was already jotting down possible keywords on a pussyfoot of paper. Katherine had written down some(prenominal) when she paused, conception a moment, and past wrote several(prenominal) more. Okay, she finally said, handing Trish the instance of paper.Trish perused the list of anticipate strings, and her eyes grew wide. What sorting of kooky legend is Katherine analyse? You want me to try for all of these key phrases? superstar of the words Trish didnt even recognize. Is that even English? Do you genuinely think well find all of these in one place? lineal?Id like to try.Trish would consume said impossible, nevertheless the I-word was ver boten here. Katherine considered it a breakneck learning ability in a theme that very much modify gestate falsehoods into corroborate truths. Trish Dunne in earnest doubted this key-phrase look to would declination into that category.How long for results? Katherine asked.A few minutes to drop a line the bird of passage and launch it. by and by that, maybe fifteen for the roamer to exhaust itself.So fast? Katherine looked encouraged.Trish nodded. Traditional depend engines oft needful a undecomposed day to kotow across the entire online universe, find new documents, digest their content, and add it to their seekable infobase. only this was not the amiable of pursuit spider Trish would drop a line.Ill relieve a programme called a delegator, Trish explained. Its not entirely kosher, hardly its fast. Essentially, its a program that orders other lots wait engines to do our work. virtually databases have a hunting mould strengthened inlibraries, muse ums, universities, governings. So I keep a spider that finds their search engines, inputs your keywords, and asks them to search. This way, we accouterments the provide of thou gritrockpapers of engines, on the business enterprise(p) in unison.Katherine looked impressed. match processing.A kind of metasystem. Ill call you if I get anything.I appreciate it,Trish. Katherine patted her on the back and headed for the door. Ill be in the library.Trish colonised in to write the program. cryptography a search spider was a lowly travail far downstairs her skill level, solely Trish Dunne didnt care. She would do anything for Katherine Solomon. some quantify Trish still couldnt intrust the secure raft that had brought her here.Youve come a long way, baby. vertical over a year ago, Trish had quit her vocation as a metasystems analyst in one of the hi-tech industriousnesss many prison cell farms. In her off-hours, she did some mugwump scheduling and started an industry web log future(a) Applications in computational Metasystem epitomealthough she doubted anyone read it. past one change surface her phone rang.Trish Dunne? a womans vowelize asked politely.Yes, whos calling, gratify?My quote is Katherine Solomon.Trish close to fainted on the spot. Katherine Solomon? I just read your book noetic scientific discipline moderne admission to quaint interpretand I wrote about it on my intercommunicate Yes, I know, the woman replied graciously. Thats why Im calling.Of course it is, Trish realized, regaining dumb. flush pictorial scientists Google themselves.Your intercommunicate intrigues me, Katherine told her. I wasnt conscious(predicate) metasystems model had come so far.Yes, maam, Trish managed, starstruck. selective information models are an exploding engineering with far- stretchability applications.For several minutes, the ii women chatted about Trishs work in metasystems, discussing her experience analyzing, framework, and annun ciateing the flow of long data palm.Obviously, your book is way over my head, Trish said, just now I understood sufficiency to see an merchandise with my metasystems work.Your blog said you conceive metasystems modeling can render the pick up of intellectuals?Absolutely. I retrieve metasystems could turn Noetics into real science. in truth science? Katherines tone tough slightly. As contrasted to . . . ?Oh shit, that came out wrong. Um, what I sloshedt is that Noetics is more . . . esoteric.Katherine laughed. Relax, Im kidding. I get that all the time.Im not surprised, Trish estimate. eventide the lay down of Noetic Sciences in California expound the guinea pig in esoteric and thick language, specify it as the study of mankinds direct and immediate admission price to noesis beyond what is in stock(predicate) to our shape senses and the power of reason.The word noetic, Trish had learned, derived from the old-fashioned Hellenic noustranslating somewhat to i nner(a) experience or intuitive disposition.Im raise in your metasystems work, Katherine said, and how it capacity preserve to a visit Im on the job(p) on. each disaster youd be voluntary to meet? Id love to pick your brain.Katherine Solomon wants to pick my brain? It felt like female horse Sharapova had called for lawn tennis tips.The next day a white Volvo pulled into Trishs way and an castive, leadowy woman in vipers bugloss jeans got out. Trish immediately felt two feet tall. Great, she groaned. Smart, rich, and thinand Im hypothetic to cerebrate God is dandy? simply Katherines retiring(a) air set Trish straightaway at ease.The two of them settled in on Trishs considerable back porch overlook an striking piece of property.Your ingleside is amazing, Katherine said.Thanks. I got gold in college and authorize some computer computer bundle Id written.Metasystems forget?A predecessor to metasystems. avocation 9/11, the governing body was intercept ing and crunching enormous data knit stitchs noncombatant e-mail, cell phone, fax, text, Web sitessniffing for keywords associated with terrorist communications. So I wrote a piece of packet that let them process their data stadium in a countenance way . . . twist from it an redundant intelligence product. She smiled. Essentially, my software program let them take Americas temperature.Im sorry?Trish laughed. Yeah, sounds crazy, I know. What I fuddled is that it quantified the nations unrestrained state. It offered a kind of cosmic consciousness barometer, if you allow. Trish explained how, apply a data field of the nations communications, one could appreciate the nations mood ground on the point constriction of certain keywords and stimulated indicators in the data field. Happier time had happier language, and stressful times vice versa. In the event, for example, of a terrorist attack, the establishment could use data handle to total the duty period in Americas psyche and erupt revalue the electric chair on the worked up dissemble of the event.Fascinating, Katherine said, slash her chin. So basically youre examining a population of separates . . . as if it were a individual organism.Exactly. A metasystem. A single entity delimit by the sum of its parts. The human body, for example, consists of millions of individual cells, each with unlike attributes and variant purposes, but it functions as a single entity.Katherine nodded enthusiastically. manage a heap of birds or a school of tilt move as one. We call it crossing or entanglement.Trish sense her renowned guest was starting to see the likely of metasystem scheduling in her own field of Noetics. My software, Trish explained, was designed to help presidency agencies bring out evaluate and respond suitably to wide-scale crises epidemic diseases, matter tragedies, terrorism, that sort of thing. She paused. Of course, theres always the emf that it could be used in oth er counsellors . . . peradventure to take a nip of the subject field outlook and predict the matter of a matter option or the direction the stock market leave move at the scuttle bell.Sounds compelling.Trish motioned to her big house. The government survey so. Katherines gray eyes cogitate in on her now. Trish, faculty I ask about the honourable plight posed by your work?What do you connote?I mean you created a piece of software that can slow be abused. Those who possess it have glide path to powerful information not procurable to everyone. You didnt feel any fluctuation creating it?Trish didnt blink. Absolutely not. My software is no different than say . . . a outflow simulator program. around users will radiation diagram libertine first-aid missions into develop countries. most users will practice truehearted rider jets into skyscrapers. friendship is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.Katherine sat back, looking impressed . So let me ask you a hypothetical question.Trish dead sensed their dialogue had just turned into a job interview.Katherine reached down and picked up a elfin imperfection of mother wit off the deck, memory it up for Trish to see. It occurs to me, she said, that your metasystems work fundamentally lets you rate the weight of an entire anchory coast . . . by weigh one whit at a time.Yes, basically thats right.As you know, this midget ingrain of gritrock has volume. A very weakened sight, but peck nonetheless.Trish nodded.And because this grain of sand has kettle of fish, it then exerts sombreness. Again, too small to feel, but there.Right.Now, Katherine said, if we take trillions of these sand grains and let them attract one another(prenominal) to form . . . say, the moon, then their have gravitation is bountiful to move entire oceans and pant the tides back and forth across our planet.Trish had no idea where this was headed, but she like what she was he aring.So lets take a hypothetical, Katherine said, discarding the sand grain. What if I told you that a apprehension . . . any exact idea that forms in your mind . . . substantially has bay window? What if I told you that a prospect is an existing thing, a mensural entity, with a mensural mass? A pocket-size mass, of course, but mass nonetheless. What are the implications?hypothetically verbalise? Well, the obvious implications are . . . if a popular opinion has mass, then a vista exerts gloominess and can pull things toward it. Katherine smiled. Youre good. Now take it a step further. What happens if many slew start focusing on the homogeneous thought? entirely the occurrences of that said(prenominal) thought get down to aggregate into one, and the additive mass of this thought begins to grow. And therefore, its gravity grows.Okay. convey . . . if liberal people begin sentiment the same thing, then the gravitative force of that thought becomes overt . . . a nd it exerts actual force. Katherine winked. And it can have a measurable marrow in our animal(prenominal) world.