The "King's Story" is supposedly written by Lindsay Mannix, but it actually may have been from SM's pen, or derived from ideas that SM gave to LM that LM never made public. It is a somewhat clever mixed metaphor for at least one aspect of the operation of the "device". Let's see what you guys come up with upon reading it, then I'll give my interpretation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The King's Story (spelling corrected where appropriate) Wunce upon a time in a microsecond far away in a land under the noses of all, there were some electrons which were sent on a trip around the world by their king. Their destination was a place near their home but they were sent the longest way possible. Their king told them that it was so that they could meet as many friends as possible on the way . They were told that if they were lucky enough to meet some friends they could have a big party and celebrate with them and invite a few back for a visit. So their king gave them a big kick to send them on their way and arranged to meet them back where they started, he showed them the other end of the wire just behind them. "See you at the arranged time, back here" he said and off they went!
Some short time later the king sent some more groups of his favorite electrons on a similar journey,down another wire . He did this a few times . After a while he lost track of how many he had sent and was worried that they all might arrive back at his castle together and crash into each other. The king was worried about this so he disconnected the return wires before any of them arrived home ..he wondered whether they might get lost but was more worried about them colliding with each other in his castle on their return home "Oh dear!.. What Have I done?" he said.
Meanwhile the electrons were still on their merry way twisting and turning ..round and round when they noticed that their end connection was somehow gone ...What had happened? they also saw some other electrons nearby that they recognized and so they met up and had a party. What big party it was. They all met and danced and sang and in the process many more electrons joined in the party, even ones that were not sent by the king. this created a few fights and some confusion but all the other electrons from all around heard about the party and sent messages to all their friends. Obviously the place was not big enough, but as it happened, just nearby there was a wonderful piece of wire which seemed to have an even better way home and it was a bigger wire with much more room . They told their friends and almost the whole party jumped over to the other piece of wire so that they might get home the short way. The uninvited guests were really getting out of hand at this point so It really was a case of either jump or be pushed so they jumped..the only trouble was that all the uninvited guests followed them and their friends and their friends as well, and they just kept on coming .Nobody told any one that the party was over and not to come. . When all the kings electrons came rushing home thru the other big wire that was not for his travelers. the king was relieved that they had taken the shortcut ..but when he saw all he other uninvited guests he realized that disconnecting the main return wire was a bad mistake. He grabbed a few of them and put them to work ...he was able to send some of the others back down the original wire in the hope that they would find another king to annoy But there were too many of them so he quickly found another big wire that led some where else and joined them together. he managed to get most other uninvited guest to go down that one, away form his kingdom.. told them tell the others that the party was over but they were having such fun ,weaving and winding ..jumping and pushing. It did not take long for the king to have so many electrons passing by that he had no way of dealing with them so he would sometimes go down to the big wire and watch all the free loaders whiz by . He would tell some of them that the party was over but they just kept whizzing by faster and faster. He even sent some of them down the big weavy wire to let the others know that the party was over, but it didn't work. He gave up after a while and left them to it and went off somewhere else hoping that nobody would notice ..I'm told that he went to a power generator where none of this silliness could happen to him again and all the electrons had things to stop them from being so silly. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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