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<\/p>\nAs we walked through the woods, I had a hundred questions or more about our surroundings.\u00a0 Why the sky was yellow-green, like the inside of a huge astronomical lily in bloom; why the trees were as perfectly brown as Chico\u2019s brown, brown eye; why the leaves sparkled with rain \u2013 rain mist just before a spectacular rainbow; why the ground under our feet and paws was soft, resilient as if a thousand years of gentle leaves cushioned our steps.<\/p>\n
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Chico slowed down, stopped, and sniffed. Alert as a hunting hound, nothing escaped his three spectacular senses: sound, smell, sight.\u00a0 Licker and I were silent, listening to him listening, smelling, reaching out to ambient molecules with the infinite accuracy of an electron microscope.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s OK, nothing\u2019s wrong,\u201d he said quietly.\u00a0 \u201cJust making sure we weren\u2019t somehow followed.\u00a0 There is no evil on this planet, and I\u2019m sure that I would feel the slightest disruption in the normal and natural forces here.\u201d<\/p>\n
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I shivered.\u00a0 Evil.\u00a0 Evil was like an ever-present veil, suspended over our heads, threatening to silently cover all manner of things, and then slowly strangle them, day after day, minute by minute, with a kind of ethical and moral rot that smells sweet at first, but turns ugly, sour and cancerous quickly.<\/p>\n
\u201cCould the Warrgs follow us here?\u201d I asked Chico, somewhat tremulously.<\/p>\n
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Chico stopped and stood very still.\u00a0 \u201cI want to give you a complete answer, and I don\u2019t want to frighten you either.\u00a0 But there are things you should know, that you must know.\u00a0 The Woggs are constantly collecting information, and sending it to one another, and to the Ubee.\u00a0 We don\u2019t really know what happens when it reaches the Ubee, but we are sure that the information is secure, and that the Ubee is pure and good.\u00a0 Someday I\u2019ll tell you how we know this, but for now, this should do.\u00a0 We also know that like us, the Warrgs collect information, and they are \u2013 well, we suspect they are \u2013 quite good at it.\u00a0 Their intention is not to send it anywhere, we think, although we have never learned about this from any Warrg, even though we have disabled and even captured many.\u00a0 It is difficult for us to torture anyone, even them.\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps we might in the future, but we have not yet done this.\u00a0 A captured Warrg expects to be tortured, and may even relish the idea \u2013 perhaps because with inflicting torture, we become more like them.\u00a0 They will not tell us what exactly they do with the information they collect, but we think they act with limited planning, and short-range goals: basically, to create misery and suffering through evil temptation of all creatures \u2013 by promising them what they most need, or what they think they most need.\u00a0 In the case of humans, it\u2019s fame, power, riches and the admiration of others.\u00a0 In the case of trees it might be water and sunlight; in the case of birds it might be food for their hatchlings.\u00a0 And they can usually deliver on these promises, but at a terrible price, and often in a framework that is difficult to reverse or counteract.\u00a0 Do you understand?\u201d<\/p>\n
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I shivered again. \u00a0It was horrible.\u00a0 Horrible because I saw in Chico\u2019s words the gleaming and terrifying reality of so many things I had noticed on Earth, around me and my life.\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cYes, I understand.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have never learned how to invade us telepathically \u2013 they surely cannot \u201cread\u201d our thoughts and minds.\u00a0 But\u2026but\u2026..interstellar and inter-galactic travel leaves infinitely tiny particulate matter behind.\u00a0 It\u2019s a kind of faint signature about our travel.\u00a0 It\u2019s in the form of light particles called photons.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cYes,\u201d I said.\u00a0 \u201cI know there are photons in the universe, pretty much everywhere, aren\u2019t they? But they have no mass\u2026they are just\u2026light\u2026moving around at light-speed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCorrect, yes quite right,\u201d said Chico.\u00a0 \u201cHowever\u2026and this is a very big \u201chowever\u201d – while photons have a life-span of a billion billion years, some of them do change into particles, eventually\u2026.particles with a tiny amount of mass.\u00a0 It depends on their environment, and what they experience in their travels.\u00a0 And if photons leave around enough small particles as they degrade, the particles would leave a track which can be followed.\u00a0 That\u2019s one of the things we worry about.\u00a0 But today, at this moment in time and space, in knowledge and fantasy, I\u2019m 100% certain that we have not been followed, and that it is not possible for us to have been followed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut\u2026.\u201d I stumbled, \u201cit could happen in the future? It is a big worry?\u201d<\/p>\n
Chico looked very quiet and pensive.\u00a0 \u201cWe do not know everything about how the Universe works.\u00a0 We believe that photons are immortal, even longer-lived than the galaxy and universe themselves.\u00a0 But there may be a way in which we are wrong.\u00a0 As we collect more information, we will think about it, and it will become clearer to us.\u00a0 The fact that I was trying to sense if we had been followed is actually a part of that work of information collection.\u00a0 I will tell my friends, and tonight, via upload, the Ubee, that we have not been followed, and they will believe more strongly that photons are\u2026well\u2026..immortal.\u00a0 The question is not yet resolved.\u00a0 It may never be resolved.\u00a0 Immortality is reserved for a few items, and we Woggs are some of them.\u00a0 But that immortality occurs because of change \u2013 constant change \u2013 not constant stability.\u00a0 Do you understand the difference?\u201d<\/p>\n
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I slowly nodded.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cYes, yes\u201d I said.\u00a0 \u201cI see that if cells in a multi-cellular organism are constantly being replaced, they have a distinct possibility of being or becoming immortal.\u00a0 And I also see that if something is static, unchanging, it may eventually somehow\u2026.well\u2026.wear away, like the walls of the Grand Canyon or the Sphinx in the Egyptian desert.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cYou\u2019re right,\u201d said Chico, with a quiet smile.\u00a0 \u201cYes, you\u2019re right. It\u2019s a bit paradoxical that it is change that gives birth to immortality, and stasis alone that confers change evolving into degradation \u2013 and eventually ending in death and entropy.\u00a0 The equation for entropy implies it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cWow.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know there was an equation for entropy.\u00a0\u00a0 I thought it was just \u2013 well, the graveyard of all other energies.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cYes, in a way it is, and there\u2019s an equation for entropy and its opposite, which is called \u201centhalpy.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It evolves from the Second Law of Thermodynamics, as you call it here\u2026. Well, on your planet. \u00a0The more organized and complex things are \u2013 thoughts, chemicals, cells, planetary systems \u2013 the more they have a kind of stored energy in the forces that link them together in an orderly, logical framework.<\/p>\n
When the framework falls apart, the energy that unites them is lost, and there\u2019s a huge change in enthalpy moving towards entropy. One of your great intuitive poets used to say that \u201cthe center cannot hold.\u201d\u00a0 And it\u2019s true.\u00a0 In the most extreme cases of entropy, there is no discernable center.\u201d<\/p>\n
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I thought about that for a bit.\u00a0 Chico smiled again, broadly, and decidedly, and \u2013 quite unexpectedly, jumped up on me and licked my face.\u00a0 His breath was always like that of a puppy \u2013 puppy breath \u2013 fresh and delightful as a meadow in springtime.\u00a0 I hugged him.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI love to watch you think,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cThought is an electrical brain-soldier fighting against the force of intellectual entropy.\u00a0 It\u2019s the Second Law of Thermodynamics at work in your neurons!\u201d\u00a0 \u201cWow,\u201d I thought, \u201cthere\u2019s a really cool idea!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"