All the same, I find it just as unbelievable in this story as I did in "Division." Maybe it's just because I'm not scientifically-minded, but I have a hard time believing that there is one singular fact to render all of science or math or whatever the rational theory of the day is obsolete. Admittedly, I could only skim Tessimond and Ana's discussion of the black hole theory, mostly because I can't understand half of it. Even so, I'm not convinced that this idea (though it "fit" with all of her calculations ~perfectly~) is enough to make four potential Nobel Prize winners abandon their life's work because of it.
I understand the narrative poetry of it; the idea of "more important things to life, yadda yadda." But stories like these just frustrate me more than they entertain me. I root for the scientist to win the Nobel Prize! Tessimond, despite Ana's change of heart by story's end, still seems like the villain here and not the savior. Hmph.
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