ablankpage: (Distracted)
Robert Lutece ([personal profile] ablankpage) wrote2014-01-09 01:00 am

Voxophone 6/?? - Voice

[Another late night, and he's volunteered to make a pot of tea as he and his "sister" work.

So, in the kitchen, he opens the journal. It's still as good a place to store his thoughts as it is a method of communication, especially late at night when few are likely to be actively listening.]


There are constants and variables. That is the crux of our work. Constants that are measurable -- the laws of physics, for instance -- are, naturally, the more scientifically sound.

[Book in hand, waiting for the kettle to whistle, he wanders into the main room and puts a record on the player procured some time ago. The other residents of the house have proven themselves able to sleep through it when he's done it before, so he doesn't hesitate to let the sound come.

A familiar song can be heard after a moment of the player warming up.]


However, there are other constants. Things that cannot easily be measured. Things which can be relied upon to comfort, rather than affirm.

[He pauses and makes a quiet sound that's almost a chuckle.]

"A middle C vibrates at 262 Hz, no matter what the universe."

[Then, another remark, said more softly, almost to himself:] Perhaps I'm merely sentimental.
unfringed: (simple mathematics)

voice;

[personal profile] unfringed 2014-01-09 10:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Equally distracted, Walter responds because he hears music and a language he understands: science.]

261.625565 to be precise.

I still haven't found the pitch this universe vibrates to - it changes, constantly, as if the influx of intermingling peoples trapped within the barrier here is interfering with the ability to gain an accurate reading.

The other universe was a G.

I never tested the machine, perhaps, like Vivaldi, it was E major. It would link--

Is that vinyl?
unfringed: (ohmygod my files)

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[personal profile] unfringed 2014-01-09 10:17 am (UTC)(link)
Every universe vibrates at a very specific frequency. Mine, for example, was C - middle C. Theirs, a G. This one, however, defies logic. I can't get a correct vibration no many how many times I try. One day it is E, the next it's F minor, as if it's toying with me.

And good. Vinyl is the only true way to listen to music. I regret that my collection has yet to arrive in full. I'm missing several of my favorites and my tuner. It makes for a very difficult workspace.
unfringed: (formulaic knowledge)

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[personal profile] unfringed 2014-01-09 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps then, I should be checking for a harmonic resonance - several frequencies or even entire chords and octaves resonating at the same time. It would explain it, yes, the dissonance I get when I try only one. However, it would take time for the universe to stabilize to the come and go - a day or even a week before it finds the right resonance to keep everything held together.

[A microwave beeps and Walter scuttles away from his journal, still talking as he goes for his popcorn.]

To aim for a universe crossing would mean having to wait for a stable period and then accounting for each separate resonance in the village. Maybe this is why previous attempts have failed. The number of machines, all vibrating at once to create a portal to travel between this world and each individual's world would be--

[He sits back down at his table, munching on popcorn as his pencil scribbles notes on a different piece of paper.]

-- astronomically difficult to obtain with the level of technology available.
unfringed: (mad science)

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[personal profile] unfringed 2014-01-09 10:57 am (UTC)(link)
Ah...but that is where experimentation comes into play. The greatest, albeit somewhat tedious part of all science - the experiment.

Perhaps I could get Simon or Harlem to assist. She was kind enough to lead me toward the previous researchers, now released.
unfringed: (there is hope)

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[personal profile] unfringed 2014-01-09 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
But you must have succeeded, having finished it, yes? Isn't that a reward in itself?

[Walter paused, usually quite dull to emotional and societal cues, but something in the way the man spoke - a fellow scientist spoke - got to him.]

You seem sad though. Did it not work?
unfringed: (let's make some science)

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[personal profile] unfringed 2014-01-09 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
....T-there always are... Variables one can't predict, a firefly in the night lost due to a ripple somewhere on a lake.

[He knows of consequences. They're pulling his world apart at the seams and there is nothing he can do about it, but let his son go.]

B-but there can't be any in such a simple experiment, yes? Finding frequencies? It's just tuning forks, resonances...
unfringed: (simple mathematics)

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[personal profile] unfringed 2014-01-10 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, but in our experiments - mine and Belly's - in order for the resonance frequency to affect the world around us, they would have to set in two or more locations. The resulting field would faze that area, effectively creating a soft spot through which we could send things to the other side.

But within a day to 36 hours depending on the size of the object, the worlds would require equilibrium and a thing of equal mass would need to be transported back to our world.

So long as the frequencies are only be tested in a singular location, it is unlikely to shatter any glass beyond that of the lab's direct location.
unfringed: (i'm thinking)

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[personal profile] unfringed 2014-01-10 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
The universe demands equilibrium, balance. It might not have been obvious to you, but somewhere, there was balance achieved.

[One boy saved, one boy lost. Equilibrium.]

Mm...perhaps an enclosed space. The battle dome? The simulations it runs, it could contain or at least lessen the effects should the resonance create any adverse consequences with its barriers.
unfringed: (concerned about this)

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[personal profile] unfringed 2014-01-10 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
But it can't be too far from the village or the special resonance of the subjects would be weakened too much to calculate. ...area without electricity, close to the village...

No, the tunnels are too risky, it could collapse the entire infrastructure of the village. An abandoned house? Electronics removed?
unfringed: (what a curiosity)

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[personal profile] unfringed 2014-01-10 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
One would have to work fast then. The houses repair themselves within the week, so anything removed would reappear. Repeated gutting and the necessary manpower will be required.

But you mention an alternative...? What?
unfringed: (weird crazy science)

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[personal profile] unfringed 2014-01-10 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
...Most interesting... Yes, bring him. I'll ask Simon to come help carry the tuning forks and equipment. He'll likely be pleased to be taken off body duty for awhile.

But which house is best for this? It shouldn't have any close neighbors. Or at least an occupant who would not mind vacating for a few weeks.
unfringed: (taste for science)

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[personal profile] unfringed 2014-01-10 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
I- I built a machine that crossed worlds once, but they removed the memories from me. My brain, it isn't as it should be, it's shattered.

I'm afraid I cannot help with the machine, but the resonances - I worked with that quite often in my world. C for us, G for them.
unfringed: (gene and chinese food)

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[personal profile] unfringed 2014-01-10 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
It's a start if nothing else.

[He starts munching popcorn again, remembering that he'd popped it earlier.]

O-oh this is most exciting! I do love it when the strange, inexplicable and impossible comes into the lab!

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