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    The Quantum Brain
    The Quantum Brain
    The Quantum Brain
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    The Quantum Brain

    By John Freitas

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    When Mark finds out that a great disaster is going to strike earth, he uses the opportunity to commit a crime that will set him for life and comes up with an ingenious and infallible plan.
    Or so he thought.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Freitas
    Release dateAug 23, 2015
    ISBN9781310193774
    The Quantum Brain
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    John Freitas

    John Freitas is an author of speculative fiction that lives in Southeast Texas. He has a background in electronics and computer science. John is currently working on a series of stories based on his first novel Pulse: When Gravity Fails. Some of the existing and upcoming titles are:The Quantum Brain (Pulse series #2) - free ebook download available at smashwords.com.Oh Hell No! (Pulse series #3) - the struggle of people from the future going back to our time to try to correct a terrible mistake.The Quantum Brain Returns (Pulse series #4) - after losing their first prototype, a technology company recreates an updated version of the quantum brain with disastrous results.Home (Pulse series #5) - an American doctor ends up stranded in the Middle East.Saci (Pulse series #6) - tells the story about an African entity that goes after abusive slave owners.

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      The Quantum Brain - John Freitas

      The Quantum Brain

      Pulse series

      A short story

      By

      John Freitas

      © 2015 John Freitas

      The Quantum Brain

      The fires burned in the distance licking between the scorched buildings and reflected off the windshield of Mark’s Honda Civic. Mark kept swallowing. He couldn’t seem to clear the dry lump from his throat. Watching the fires rage out of control in the center of Chicago was not helping him.

      They had lost the ability to control the damage and now most people were inside or underground hiding. They were hiding from the forces of the universe.

      Mark shook his head. He hoped that worked out for them. Ever since the announcement from the Marlo-Pitts observatory, the globe had gone into panic mode.

      Mark had figured it out sooner. He always figured out things sooner. Sometimes he told people. Sometimes he let disaster strike and then swooped in with the prepared solution like a god. It was his job security. Seeing it first and being prepared was how he made himself indispensable for the people he worked for.

      He used to warn them ahead of time, but sometimes they didn’t believe him. Or sometimes they didn’t appreciate his fix because he stopped fires before they started.

      Mark swallowed on a dry throat again and spoke out loud to his empty car and the light flickering across his windshield. Sometimes you have to let things burn for a while, so people appreciate the man that brings them the water.

      Mark had planned to use this fire for himself. He had timed the calculations, out timing each gravity wave that passed through the Earth down to the microsecond. Now he even had the force ratios figured down to the thousandth of a G force.

      The final gravity wave was going to be huge. It was going to enter the Eastern Hemisphere with crushing force and exit the Western Hemisphere, with its greatest intensity surging through North America. Cities were going to fly apart. People could hide, but no one could stop it. Three stars had collapsed in a rare, grand cascade and this was the last crest in what amounted to a gravitational tidal wave – crushing as it entered the Earth and flying away as it exited.

      The sun would survive, if Mark’s calculations were correct, and they always were, but there were going to be more fires in the cities on the Earth before it was all over.

      Mark almost quietly made it to the execution of his plan without a hitch, but then one astronomer in one observatory in Colombia of all places figured it out too. And he warned everyone. For all his perfect calculations, Mark was almost foiled by roadblocks and curfews, but he had made it to the base of the Conrad, Decker, and Rand Research Facility.

      He looked at his watch and in a moment of panic he thought he had forgotten to wind it. The second hand was still moving. He forced himself to take slow, even breaths.

      Mark reached over and patted his laptop in the seat. It was armored and shielded in the event of any electromagnetic pulses. If the gravity wave melted down a reactor or blew up something else big enough, ordinary computers would be toast.

      He who still has Internet will rule the world.

      Mark had another shielded computer and a UPS battery backup at home. It was better than the portable one in the car, but Mark didn’t want to have to count on driving back through the city after the damage was done. A simple plan was the best.

      He supposed his plan was not technically simple by most standards, but it was as simple as something this unprecedented event could get.

      Mark put his hand on top of the laptop. He needed to secure it after he handled the car. The computer was armored, but that wouldn’t help him if it flew into the Stratosphere.

      He held his hand on the closed back of the computer for a moment longer like he might be reconsidering the whole thing. The

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