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Perils of Scanference

Transcript of meeting, 2014/03/09, 14:27:00 EST
Secured conference room 483-B

Participants:
General Ferdinand Esel (Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff)
Dr. Chandrasekhar Silberfisch (Director, DARPA)
Dr. Frank Lovenitz (National Institute of Transphysical Sciences)

Gen. Esel: this is the final review of Scanference, as described in
(redacted), to determine its inclusion in the Pentagon budget. Doctor
Silberfisch is present to provide clarification.
Dr. Lovenitz: I must also express the urgency of this matter.

Dr. Silberfisch: We appreciate your concerns, Doctor. But they can
only be addressed by the military establishment, given their basis in
what to a layman would appear to be purely blue-sky theorizing.
Gen. Esel: Acknowledged. I do recognize that research into areas of
mathematics and physics from which no immediately obvious
practical—or even strategic—benefit may be derived is nevertheless
worthy of consideration. It is my job to evaluate such ideas in a real-
world estimation of probable cost and benefit. Please proceed.

Dr. Silberfisch: I believe the most useful rubric under which we can
present this theory is espionage. Our side has an interest in being on
top in the endless game of protecting one’s own secrets and
discovering those of the other side. Doctor Lovenitz and I have
arrived at another concept familiar to you, General: the wasting asset.
But first we must agree on the applicability of these terms to what
has possibly been discovered at Transphysical Sciences.
General Esel: Proceed. I’ll interrupt if and when the going gets heavy.

Dr. Silberfisch: Here, then, is the short version. Quantum physics
was one of those formerly abstract disciplines later yielding vastly

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