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are concepts to do with location and the arrow of time. Classical physics holds that time flows in one direction, from past to present to future. It also holds that matter has specific and definable mass, weight and location. In spite of formulas like E=MC2 acknowledging that all matter is energy, ASSIST can’t get their heads around anything that appears to be in two places at once, whether it’s a photon or a human being. Communication faster than light speed is also a concern, as are situations that spin the arrow of time in different directions. Lacking empirical bases for these events, the scientists are losing their reference points and without such ground they’ve concluded that magic is a hoax, unprovable, impossible, a danger and a misconception. My funding has been suspended and all government support withdrawn.

Just when Rosette thought she understood the lesson, she was thrown by unrecognisable words. Photon? Physics? She picked up the next sheet.

But magic has a mind of its own, Ruby. Never forget that. It not only ignores the causal, mechanistic world view, it also ignores the scientists who are ensconced in it. Magic thrives, always has, showing its wares to those who care to study it, and sometimes to those who do not. I know that many of the ‘strange happenings’ seen in magic mimic the inexplicable events found in quantum theory. Have you discovered that as well, my daughter? He can help you there. I hope you’ve found each other.

A chill went up her spine. This was a parent’s letter to an offspring.

The perplexing effects that are difficult to explain in classical terms make sense in the quantum paradigm. In the world of the very small, the arrow of time flows symmetrically forward and back with no distinction between past, present and future. Precognition and the divinatory arts function in the same way, where future or past events can be perceived in the present, and events in the future can affect the past, even an extremely distant one. I’m not talking about causation, Ruby, but about participation. This isn’t one universe, it’s a multiverse.

You understand this, don’t you?

‘No,’ Rosette answered, even though she knew the question was not for her.

We think we are going from point A to point B, that A causes B. It feels right subjectively—you eat the ice-cream and then you experience its taste. But that’s not what’s going on in the brain, Ruby. Not at all. The brain responds to stimuli, a touch, a taste, a colour, a voice, before the object or colour or sound actually gets to it. We think we are ‘in the moment’, but it is actually a past response to a future event that’s already happened, and that’s not all. As soon as we choose to taste the ice-cream, our world splits, branching into two—one where we took a bite and one where we did not. Here, let me draw you a picture.

‘Ice-cream? What in Gaela’s demons is that?’

Rosette looked at the pages, shaking her head. The diagram was impossible to discern and the rest of the letter made even less sense.

Because quantum theory provides a theoretical model for how magic ‘works’, quantum theory-based experimentation has been my playground. I can see behind the veil into a whole new reality and quantum computers are my lens, just as he is yours. He is with you? All is safe? He can help you understand the perplexing effects on both the quantum level and in the divinatory arts. It’ll open doors, Ruby. This one’s only the beginning.

She picked up the final page.

Before I made the quantum-sentient breakthrough, the classical binary code bound computers to certain functions: calculations, information storage, communications and networking. A language that consists solely of zeros and ones has its limitations. But quantum computers employ superposition, which means they can be both ones and zeros at the same time. Even deeper, the old belief that consciousness resided in humans alone is over. I’ve changed that paradigm forever, though the effect my discovery is having on the many-worlds is still not clear.

Now ASSIST is stepping in, pulling the stops.

The conspiracy