Status Updates From Quarantine

A chilling padlock experience.

"How do I love thee? Let me count the eigenstates..."

"This is how subjective time arises, how the future turns into the past, for us. We're in no position to discern how, or when, it happens." A gnawing thought for the next time I find myself alone and unobserved.

"Pure Orwellian doublethink.

"Knowing that my feelings have been physically imposed makes them no less powerful. Part I me finds this paradoxical, part of me finds it obvious. I can contemplate this contradiction until it drives me mad - of begins to seen utterly mundane - but there's nothing I can do to change it."

The police priming mods are an interesting necessary 'evil'. Their benefit was displayed to great effect during the chapter, and their unsettling reality was displayed just as well by the end of it.

"Deceptions of any magnitude are possible, on a short enough time scale; laws only apply to data that sits still long enough to be caught out."

Zeno's Lethargy is an interesting thought.

"[The Bubble] came into being as a whole, in an instant - but because the earth was eight light-minutes from it's centre, the time-lag before the last starlight reached us varied across the sky, giving rise to the growing circle of darkness." Huh... well that makes perfect sense.