He nodded. “It is still very much an enigma. And to sum it up in something he said, before things got exceptionally heated actually, I could never understand. I do not possess the capability to understand.”
That was like ‘triple dog dare’ language to a scientific mind. He shook his head, laughing a little at the realization of that fact.
“Of course, I took that as a personal challenge. Of course I did…”
The study he’d just completed had three days worth of biometric readings on Ziggy. He knew Antheans communicated with empathic abilities, and data suggested that the energy expenditure required to do so was substantially more than any human could endure. But it didn’t explain the mechanism of action, how or what made the energy needs so great. Minoru had told him that Ziggy’s cocaine use was medicinal in nature, to make it easier to process sensory information. While he observed and recorded levels of that and other substances in his blood, it didn’t explain how or why that worked either, or even what normal Anthean senes can detect. There was so much he didn’t understand, but wanted to understand.
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That was like ‘triple dog dare’ language to a scientific mind. He shook his head, laughing a little at the realization of that fact.
“Of course, I took that as a personal challenge. Of course I did…”
The study he’d just completed had three days worth of biometric readings on Ziggy. He knew Antheans communicated with empathic abilities, and data suggested that the energy expenditure required to do so was substantially more than any human could endure. But it didn’t explain the mechanism of action, how or what made the energy needs so great. Minoru had told him that Ziggy’s cocaine use was medicinal in nature, to make it easier to process sensory information. While he observed and recorded levels of that and other substances in his blood, it didn’t explain how or why that worked either, or even what normal Anthean senes can detect. There was so much he didn’t understand, but wanted to understand.
“I hope so.”