by Paul Edwards
Chapter five
I found Archimedes at the Pub I had left him at, he was hunched over a small laptop cautiously pressing the keys.
As I got closer I could see someone had labelled all the important key's in ancient Egyptian. I could also see he was using the Strudel search engine web page translator application, so he could read the pages he was selecting.
I was amazed that Strudel could actually translate things into ancient Greek.
"So what have you found out?"
"Hmm... very interesting stuff, these electron's, and switching them with solid state valves... fascinating."
"Ya... they won't wear out."
Archimedes looked up at me.
"And the void... someone figured it out, I always wondered about it, the weird effects you could get."
"Yes, the math is pretty complicated though."
"I summoned him, the man who figured it out... we had a long chat," Archimedes said.
"Really?"
"Yes... he knew of me, that surprised me, very nice man."
"You are very famous now," I put my hand on his shoulder.
"I showed him the magic window," he pointed to the laptop, "I let him search on his own for a while."
"What did he think?" I asked.
"Well he started looking at the latest natural philosophy theories and then began laughing hysterically."
"Why?"
"I don't know, the translator spell wasn't very clear... I'm studying them myself, but alas... they are beyond my feeble brain, they make no sense."
"Are you ready to return?" I asked.
"You know Kem... I think I'll stay for a bit, I will be of no use to Syracuse... I looked it up. It has been years since I have been excited about things... all this new math, device's."
"OK."
