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[Mosestrotsky]

I think Kurt has mentioned it in his blog.

Congratulations zaeil will come in very useful.

I have been thinking about what they could do - more as a curious theory than any actual basis on fact.

I was wondering whether they will go down a more science fictiony style tract or change tech we already have.

If you just look at the name s of the two items they could fit into any comic book style movie.

"Aha your'e eye beams cannot penetrate my Klebald plates"

Ioniser's mucj around with air molecules (okay I am not a scientist and I am basing this on my rudimentary knowledge). Common uses here are for smells or removing odours.

Could be something similar or, and I am using pure imagination here, maybe restricting air flow for sound or even using charged particles to cut through metallic surfaces?

Klebald plates sounds like armour but if there are two of them - placed opposite each other - then you have an area when charged particles can interact or 'bounce' off.

I am sure people have their own versions of what they do

[zaeil]

[Scott]

ok, so, now what? kurt, a respected mathmetician, close associate of Sente, member of the cube retrieval team, and all around smart guy at the academy doesnt know what kleibold plates are. Not "doesnt know how they would be used in a certain situation"; He doesnt have any clue what they are! So who would know? and how do we fFind them?

[Spankit]

[JebJoya]

[Macavity]

[Crane]

NOOOOO! You'll open another rift to Xen you fool! The Combine are behind it all! Weebleweebleweebleweebleshclup *faints*

[zaeil]

Now y'all are just plain being silly.

ANYWAY. Kurt wrote me back today!

[Macavity]

[Scott]

Ok, so, Holyoke et al needed to measure the cube to see how big it is so they would know how much volume they had to transport to Earth. Good. Very Good.

Then they needed to .. hmm .. shoot some very small ionized particles at the Cube? or they .. ionized the cube itself? And that's how they got it here? maybe? By sucking the thing into an ionizer and shooting it out across to Earth. Maybe. But they had to modify the device of course. That's not something it would do naturally. So they needed some genius types to make the modifications. Just thought of something: Someone suggested Ruth Coralhouse was in on the Heist, and here she is, in ashes, Halfway Ionized alreay.

[Macavity]

[SPEC]

The thieves were planning to use the Klebold plates to scan the Cube and produce a replica, which they would then return in place of the original.

However, something went wrong, and the Cube vanished before they could scan it, winding up on Earth and thus precipitating this whole brouhaha.

[/SPEC]

As a result of this spec, I wrote the following letter to Kurt:

[Leeravitz]

Well, given that Kurt's indicated that what he told Stacy was 'the most he can tell us' - I wonder if that's really very sinister or not. It's quite possible he doesn't mean 'I can't tell you any more, because it's more than my life's worth' - it could simply mean 'That's all I know about this obscure piece of specialist tech, sorry.'

[tanner]

ok -- just a thought -- could these plates have anything to do with the Casimir Effect?

The Casimir Effect (in quantum terms) involves the use of plates to produce an attractive force which if constrained could, in theory, produce a directional force without any energy being expended.

[zaeil]

I gathered from the preceeding email exchange between Kurt and myself that he couldn't tell me more because it'd be violating the technology transfer rules. I sincerely doubt that you'll get more out of him than that.

[Macavity]