The Intelligent Beings Near The Black Hole

Starfarers, 38.

(Most of tomorrow will be spent in the company of the previously mentioned Buddhist friend from Birmingham so posts will be few.)

The Envoy crew begin to learn the nature of the beings that will later be called Holont:

the vacuum is a sea of virtual particles;

space-time is convoluted and changeable near the black hole;

life is information;

quantum states, like matter, can bear information;

the intelligences are not molecular, atomic, nuclear or material;

the quantum states of the plasma in the accretion disk are neither structured nor complex enough to bear information;

by a process of elimination, the beings are quantum states in the vacuum near the black hole.