Bertie

I am an ardent fan of my favourite pastime, which is shouting at the wireless. I have mostly my own teeth and can still get myself to the bathroom without too many accidents. I prefer my wine both copious and red.

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Bertie

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Shadows never fade,

a child’s cry beneath my skin,

bones remembering....

Poetry

The Mirror Beyond Time Part 7.

Bertie

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Back in spacetime, Ilar Mahir stood before a tribunal of reluctant cosmologists and policymakers. The sterile, high-ceilinged chamber hummed faintly with the undertone of interference dampeners, designed to suppress any unexpected fluctuations during sensitive hearings. The Bureau had frozen his data feed, citing “possible contamination.” The projected screen behind him, once vibrant with streams ...

The Mirror Beyond Time Part 6.

Bertie

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Time moved differently.

Or rather, time was a statistical preference, not a law. Causality formed where it was useful. Sequences emerged from entropy gradients like rivers carving valleys, flowing not due to strict laws but because they found paths of least resistance.

Lin sat beside a fire that emitted no heat but radiated coherence, like warmth for the self. The flames flickered in patterns he...

The Mirror Beyond Time Part 5.

Bertie

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Lin’s body reassembled within a simulation. Not a false world but a stable emergent domain, constructed from the cross-threads of a trillion entangled histories.

It resembled Earth, at least superficially. The ground beneath her feet felt firm, the air crisp with a scent of petrichor after a rain. But when she looked up, her breath caught. The sky was not the familiar expanse of blue or the ink o...

The Mirror Beyond Time Part 4.

Bertie

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Meanwhile, at Station N-Helios, Mahir and Aoife stared at the latest signal.

A burst of energy, sharp, coherent, symmetrical, like a signature in the informational sea. Not a random event. A pattern.

“Someone has just crossed the entanglement horizon,” Mahir whispered.

Aoife frowned, her gaze fixed on the fluctuating data stream. “What does that even mean? There’s no space there. No time. How d...

The Mirror Beyond Time Part 3.

Bertie

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Back inside the Entangler, Lin existed in pieces.

She was no longer a point in space, nor a line in time. She was a pattern in correlation space, a qubit entanglement structure spanning light-years and decades. Her ‘consciousness’ flickered between local reconstructions. In one fragment, she sat beside her childhood dog, feeling sunlight dappling through the leaves, the warmth seeping into her sk...

The Mirror Beyond Time Part 2.

Bertie

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Meanwhile, a billion miles sunward, on Earth’s L2 Lagrange shadow station, Dr Ilar Mahir, Chief Archivist of the Thermodynamic Bureau, stared at a 4D entropy model.

Which was the problem.

“This is impossible,” he muttered. “Statistical outliers, fine. Local reversals, maybe. But across fourteen million qubit-field observations, in vacuum-isolated high-mass entangled systems? This is… cold entrop...

The Mirror Beyond Time. Part 1.

Bertie

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The moment the loop closed, Lin forgot her own name.

Not all at once. Not in some dramatic, cinematic blast of light that might have signified a climax to an epic tale. No, it was more insidious than that, as gentle as heat diffusing into a colder medium, as subtle as ink slipping unnoticed into water, its tendrils weaving silently until everything was changed. Irreversible. The transformation wa...

Tough Luck…

Bertie

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you knew

what I was.

still

you touched

like I wouldn’t bite.

we lit

the lie

together.

you called it

danger.

I called it

home.

now

you wear

the burn....

Poetry

Why I Think Fusion Is The Dog’s…

Bertie

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**Why Fusion Matters**

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_The Energy That Built the World and Might Just Save It._

_“Energy is the only universal currency. It is necessary for getting anything done.”_

_… Vaclav Smil_

It is a simple truth: civilisation runs on energy. Not metaphorically, _literally_. Energy grows crops, purifies water, powers homes, drives transport, lights schools, warms hospitals, makes steel, and la...