“I seem to attract the wrong crowd.”
Magneto, X-Men* #quote
CJ's came over today. Anyway onto the flash fiction!
Scaling Down
When you go as little as you can get and make the story as
itsy-bitsy as you can get, new drama unfolds. Looking below the
galactic scale naturally. Not looking at planetary, or the scale of
the whole Earth. Not looking at country to country scale. Smaller
than states, counties or regions. (However a country would divide
itself up). Smaller than cities. Smaller than houses.
Yes, yes, that itty-bitty. Going straight to the people. That should
be usual story scale right? But no we're going smaller than people.
The insects around them? Smaller than that. What could be smaller
than a story of bugs? Perhaps a story of the dirt and its movement
through the ages? Grains of sand are small...but not small enough.
The new drama to be found is within the grains of sand at the
smallest of small. Say hello to Adam Atom and his sister(as much as
an atom could have a sister) Annabelle Atom. In the atomic world
drama fills every moment.
The atomic bonds that form a substance are a happy little exchange
of electrons that balance out reactions. Every nuclear thirsts for
the right amount of electrons orbiting it. Whether it gets them from
sharing or taking them doesn't make a difference to it. It does make
a difference to the larger scale. That's what makes a difference
between a bomb and salt.
Adam and Annabelle share electrons happily and contently as stable
atoms would. Through heat, pressure and even turning from mere dirt
to an artificial diamond by jewelry machines they stay together along
with all the other atoms around them.
After a century as an artificial diamond their peaceful lives end.
Scientists take their cozy little diamond home and use it for
experiments. Eventually they see it fit to use for the most powerful
of energy reactions: nuclear reactions.
A type of chaos unknown to Annabelle and Adam happened. Atoms of
strange types shot into the diamond. These strange atoms...isotopes
or something...they couldn't tell...Annabelle and Adam were too
afraid to tell what they were specifically. They only saw them
ripping atoms apart from each other. Then they saw the strange
incoming atoms breaking individual atoms in two and those pieces
breaking more atoms. A strange atom severed Adam and Annabelle. Then
it severed Adam and forced a piece of him into Annabelle and tore her
in two.
The bursts of energy from this diamond created a massive amount of
energy that supplied tremendous amounts of power to many people. It
was considered an incredible success.
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