SCMR Chpt 62

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==Chapter 62 - Self Configuring Modular Robot==
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Snark IV project..
Her ladyship's latest idea arrived by courier from Tharkad, forty pages of calculations and ten pages of explanation. The Snark IV project is large, and largely relied on automated systems to create the necessary materials-at a rate even the Star League might have found to be 'remarkable'.
The Snark Laboratory is the largest particle-accelerator and fusion engine lab constructed in the Inner Sphere. Beating out the Eros project in the Sol system by several orders of magnitude, and it would've taken decades without Elizabeth's self configuring modular robot systems.
Her Ladyship, the Baroness Spider Moon, wanted to be here for the first series of experiments, but she can't be. Instead, she's got to rely on hired staff.
Some of that staff don't work for her, they work for the Archon or the First Prince, graduate students from NAIS, and UW Donegal.
The instructions for the experiment are precise, following the format taught by Professor Banzai in his advanced physical sciences classes.
Fortunately, nobody makes changes as they begin programming the massive array to test her conjecture.
If ComStar had seen this experiment's text, which they will in a few weeks, a ROM team would have been dispatched to destroy the array.
However, they had other things on their collective minds.
Science is a process of elimination. You propose an idea, a conjecture, based on observation or mathematical extrapolation, then you devise a test designed to break that idea, to prove it wrong.
If you can't disprove it, it advances to the state of being an Hypothesis, and you submit to someone else-someone who disagrees with your ideas, or finds you so disagreeable they would do anything short of violating scientific ethics, to disprove your idea.
This is called 'Peer Review'.
The problem with peer review in this case, is finding another supercollider array with a radius of over 1,000 kilometers.
The instruments faithfully record the shockforms as the experiment proceeds. Neutrino spray and thermal flux wend through it.
"Huh..."
"What?"
"Take a look at this. Is it predicted in the equations she sent?"
"Let me see..." today's debut wasn't just in the hands of graduate students. Elizabeth's absence was made up for by having the man himself here. "...crap. now we have to build another one to test it."
Elizabeth has her first pure science Hypothesis. 
Doing so, is going to be very expensive for someone..
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