Saturday, February 11, 2012

Asgard hijinks

Thor sits down at an antiquated computer terminal somewhere in Valhalla. Odin is the other entity in the room, at the table, drinking whisky and being relaxedly belligerent but not as thrash-hearted as Thor. Odin, pickled, asks "How are those primates doing?", and belches a little.

Thor, in a voice that would make Brian Blessed appear not at all bombastic, sez. "Let me pull up their current physics tables. Oh, this is miserable."

Odin's single eye was grinning, but his face was a junkyard. "Oh ah?"

"They're still trying to, albeit quite pathetically, unify all forces. Many of them still think that there's a particle which creates mass."

Odin coughs "That old chestnut? What percentage of primate civilizations end up with that dead end?"

Thor states "About 15% to 25% generally, according to Freya's last survey in the universes we are responsible for. You'd think that once they got to 24 dimensional filiform Lie algebras the thing would be obvious, but some of the theoretical sandcastles which their physicists make tend to be beguiling enough they lose track of the actual physics of the thing."

Odin pours another shotglass of whisky. "Fine. I'll have Loki muck around with their experimental apparatus. They could use a Loki break"

Thor groans.

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