Chapter i
Yanni went upstairs to his office/lab. He fired up the laser and turned on the computer attached to it. He closed the blinds to darken the room, wore his protective glasses, took out his e-cig and vaped in the path of the blue laser beam pointing to the ceiling.
The fake-cigarette smoke made the laser visible, but it was still going up straight as an arrow.
Yanni was annoyed by that silly adherence to the laws of nature.
He puffed a few more breaths and punched different variables on Matlab.
The blue light beam simply flickered a bit, but kept on straight.
Yanni grunted and then stared at the blue dot on the ceiling, thinking about equations.
He worked hard like that for seven hours straight.
Thalia came up and brought him a sandwich. “Were you sitting in the dark all day
