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Terry, watched as a hand popped out of the girl's head. It was one of the weirdest thing he had ever seen. He watched as the hand formed an identical copy of the girl. There were now two Akikos, Terry couldn't tell which one was the real Akiko. He thought it was some kind of illusion. He watched as one of the two girls walked out of the water. "So, whaddya wanna learn next? Maybe the butterfly stroke? Or the frog stroke?" Akiko asked. "Frog stroke, what is that?" Terry asked with curiousity. He had never heard of such a thing. "Let's learn the frogy thingy, since I don't know what it is."
(sorry for the lateness. Steam sales distracted me)
"Alright," The swimming girl said, starting to demonstrate the frog stroke, "The frog stroke is one that's designed to emulate a swimming frog, just like the name suggests." She paused briefly before going on, "it's not too hard though. You just put your hands together in the center, back to back, and spread them outward. At the same time, you kick your legs out and push off the water behind you." Akiko demonstrated the stroke as she explained it, "what do you think?"
“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
Terry listened and watched as the girl explained and demonstrated, how the frog stroke was performed. Terry made sure to memorise everything the girl did. After the girl was done explaining and demonstrating, it wa his turn to demonstrate. "What do you think?" the girl asked. "Looks pretty easy." Terry, replied. He put his hands together in the centre, back to back, and spread them outward. He moved a little, but it was not swimming. He looked at the girl. "What did I do wrong?" he asked. "I did as you said, put your hands together in the centre, back to back, and spread them outwards. Oh, I forgot to kick my legs out." He put his hands together in the centre, back to back, and spread them outwards. At the same time he tried to kick off the water behind hi, but the kicking was not easy for him. His kicking was too late. He kept trying until he got it right. "This is so much fun." he said. He was realy enjoying the frogy stroke, and did not want to stop.
While Terry was enjoying the frog stroke, he remembered that he had to fetch something from the Kage tower. "I have to go. Thanks for teaching me a few swimming thingies, hope to see you again." He stepped out of the water and waved goodbye to Akiko, then ran towards the tower.
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With the kid gone, Akiko decided to get back to her reading. As the swimming Akiko dissolved into nothingness, the other Akiko went to find the book-cart woman to get a new book, figuring she had enough weaponsmithing for a while, and perhaps she should move onto something more technical. Since she was planning to craft her own equipment, and she had a lot of rather technical ideas in her head, some technical knowledge would be...useful, at the very least. After finding the transdimensionalbooklady, she checked out a handful of books on the topics of...well, all sorts of things. Most of which would allow her to make stuff.
After looking over the different book covers for a bit, Akiko decided on one called 'Giant Mother F*cking Robot Technologies and You'. No, Really, that was actually the title. Putting aside the absurdity of the title, Akiko decided to move on with the studying. The first entry she thumbed to was on Minovksy physics.
The article started by stating that the 'Minovsky Physics Society' was formed in UC 0056 at the Space Colony group known as Side 3. Well, already the retired Mizukage was both curious, and skeptical. Firstly, UC seemed to be some form of time period name, like Anno Domini. But she had no idea when it was supposed to be. Theoretically, this was either from some other timeline or world or something, or perhaps even the future. Her reasoning for that brought her to the second point: Space Colonies. While some sort of colony was possible, they'd need fully manned space flight to be possible, something they hadn't yet managed.
Well, if there was one thing she had learned, it was 'f*ck it and move on.' The Minovsky Physics society was devoted to the development of a realistic nuclear fusion reactor. Within two years of their formation, by the year of UC 0047, the development of what would be called the Minovsky-Ionesco reactor began. This reactor, though developed by one Dr. Trenov Yvan Minovksy when he was originally working for the Earth Federation, was still a piece of black box technology, rendering him a heretic in the classical physics community of the time.
It was the classical community's response that led to Dr.Minovsky terminating his service with the Earth Federation and taking up residence in Side 3. After seeing the Zabi family's militaristic regime, Minovsky returned to the Earth Federation.
The Minovsky-Ionesco reactor was named after its inventor. The reactor itself was considered 'Radical' given it's status as the first 'Clean' nuclear reactor; a nuclear reactor that emitted zero neutron radiation. The reactor utilized Helium 3 and Deuterium. Helium 3 is a rare isotope of helium which has two protons and one neutron in the nucleus, while Deuterium, also known as heavy hydrogen, is an isotope of hydrogen that contains one proton and one neutron, while the more common isotope, protium, lacks the neutron.
By combining the Helium-3 and Deuterium, they would react together to form the stable Helium-4, as well as a single proton. Since the proton is a charged particle, particularly one that's been positively charged, it could easily be trapped in a magnetic field. And that proton could then be used to help generate electrical energy, particularly in the large quantities the reaction could produce en masse.
There is one major practical problem with this type of reactor, however, as Helium-3 is exceedingly rare; most notable deposits are found mainly within uranium mines and are mostly mined out. Well, that cemented it even more. To her knowledge, Uranium was a radioactive material, and mining of such materials wasn't exactly common. Either way, according to the book, Helium-3 can be found in greater quantities on the moon, and in relative abundance within the atmosphere of Jupiter. Well, that was one problem solved, if their moon and our moon was at all alike.
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I would be enthralled at the stories the ocean could tell, about explorers and adventurers that traversed its swell, of the lives lost in shipwrecks and of pirate tales of old, and legends passed down through generations, told.
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Akiko looked up from her book, looking into the sky with a sigh, taking a pause from her studies to stretch her stiffening muscles. After a nice, long yawn, the young retired kage propped the book up on her legs and began to read into the next section.
This one talked about something called the 'Minovksy Particle". Apparently, while working on the Minovsky-Ionesco Nuclear Fusion reactor, the Minovsky Physics Society encountered an odd electromagnetic wave-like effect around UC 0065, one that couldn't be explained by conventional physics and known particles of the time. Over the next few years, they identified the cause, a never-before seen elementary particle generated by the Helium-3 reaction, which they named after the primary creator of the reactor, Minovsky. While a Minovsky particle's mass, like any other particle's mass, will increase to reflect it's potential or kinetic energy, it has a near-zero rest mass. It can also carry either a positive or negative electrical charge. When scattered into open space, the repulsive forces between similarly charged Minovsky particles cause them to spontaneously align into a regular cubic lattice structure known as an 'I-Field'. An I-field Lattice will slowly expand and scatter into open space; however, it will take up to 29 days before a dense field will support normal wireless communication again.
The main use of the Minovsky Particle was in combat and disrupting communication. When the Minovksy particle is spread about in an open fluid or vacuum environment with a low enough viscosity(in the case of the fluid environment), such as Earth's atmosphere, the particles form an I-field, and disrupt low-frequency electromagnetic radiation, such as Microwaves and Radiowaves. The Minovksy particle also interferes with the normal operation of electronic circuits, damaging unprotected circuits through it's high electrical charge. Because of the way Minovsky particles react with various forms of electromagnetic radiation, radar systems and long-range wireless communications become impossible, infrared signals become defracted and innacurate, and even visible light becomes fogged.
The disruption of electromagnetic radiation is caused by the I-field's small lattice creating fringes that longer wavelengths cannot penetrate, while wavelengths that are similar to the fringes become defracted, both of which cause disruptions in the electromagnetic waves used for wireless communication. Another use of Minovsky Particles and the I-Field was the repulsion of charged plasma and charge-less megaparticles from an I-field's surface, which found use in both power generation and offensive and defensive arms technology. The I-field's fringes can be manipulated to different widths, and to interfere with electromagnetic waves of different wavelengths. This can be used to miniaturize the Minovsky-Ionesco Fusion reactor into the Minovsky Ultra-compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor, since a controlled I-Field can block the infrared waves. This, in turn, reduces the amount of heat radiated from the reactor into the surrounding components and reduces the need for coolant and shielding. Without the field or the shielding, the heat would escape, and the surrounding area would burst into superheated gasses, and any living things within the area would be boiled alive almost instantly.
That sounded...less than pleasent...
“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”