"That’s what science is!" Burningboy said. "I can define it. Science is about proving a mathematical relationship between phenomenon A and phenomenon B. Was that so hard? You really think that’s beyond my mental grasp? I’ll tell you something way beyond your mental grasp, son—surviving in prison. You fair-haired folks might have, like, a bruising collision with nonquantum reality if somebody drove a handmade shiv right through your physics book."