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[Senku is the kind of person that people might've seen around, but he's a quiet guy who's often got a lot on his mind, and at the moment the mystery of the train appears to be going nowhere. He can't sit that idly by though, so he sets some of his brain power on a more personal mystery.]

I've scoured the library, such as it is, for a book on advanced or complex mathematics, so I figured I would ask if that's something someone has on hand and I just missed it.

[He doesn't have any points to request books as of yet.]

Specifically, I'm looking to refresh my knowledge of knot theory calculations. If you can help, let me know. I can certainly repay any favours in the future.

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[If there's anything 'artificial' about Webmind's voice at this point, it may no longer be obvious - he's been using smoothed voice clips of one 'Marc Vietor' for quite a while now!

But his response is calm and measured, and even cheerful in Webmind's own while.]

While there are various scientific textbooks in the library, I do not believe one mentioning or featuring knot theory is among them.

I would be happy to place an order in the library for you, however.

My name is Webmind; may I have yours?

[He's not Ukyo, a good artificial voice would be enough to fool him anyway, provided the voice he was hearing wasn't his own.]

I took a look at them, briefly. They're informative, but what I have in mind is very specific and more in the realm of mathematics than anything.

If you can't get it, it's fine. I can rely on my memory if I need to, it was just a luxury to fact check myself.

[There's a pause, like he hadn't considered that people wouldn't know him for a moment.]

I'm Senku.

It is no trouble to me to procure it for you, rest assured.

Unless it is a field specific to your world, other people should be able to look it up.

Are you acquainted with any theory of multiverses?

[Asking questions while he goes putting in the shop request, doop de doo...]

[A pause.]

Math being specific to my world? That's a depressing thought.

[Not to mention such advanced theories were all but gone in his world at the moment.]

If you're talking about people like Nomura, Hawking and Tyson, then yes, although a truly unified theory on multiverses has never been proven. Although, there's a lot more in the philosophy side too, which is somewhat less interesting to me. I prefer fact-based science.

Fortunately it wouldn't be knot theory, if any field is.

[Mathematical aficionado here? Yes.]

We are living the science of it all, unfortunately; as an empiricist myself, it is harder to get more relevant proof than that of our own experiences.

I haven't made any headway on any theories regarding our present travel situation. Part of what has held me back is the fact I can't look at the void for any extended period of time, so I can't get a read on any of it, and aside from knowing the conductor's coach is sealed, there's little I can glean there.

So I've been giving my mind a bit of a reset, and focusing on a more personal problem. I have to think the shape of what I'm studying, a trefoil knot, is a key hint to some of how it works, perhaps, or where it came from, but I figured checking my calculations and the theories would be helpful all the same.

[Hmm...]

You may wish to speak with Feanor; despite the health risks, he has taken to studying the light of the void, among other things.

[And as for knots:]

Is the trefoil knot the item from home you found in your rucksack, or something else?

Can't say I know Feanor, but I will make a point of finding him.

[The train's not that big, right?]

That's right. It's a weapon that I've been curious about for a very very long time. For lack of a better term, I am suspecting that maliciousness may not be at the heart of its use, but anyway, I digress, I'm not in a position to pull apart tech I don't understand and may not be able to reassemble, and since I only have one, the best I can do is study it.

It would be helpful if I could understand how it got power in the first place because it could be very useful.

[And now, Webmind is confused. Since when were trefoil knots themselves weapons? ... Ah.

Best to change the subject.]

Most everyone arrives on the platform with something from home, though I myself did not have one.

[A deliberate pause for effect, here.]

Unless you count arriving in a body you did not possess before to be an 'item.'

[A shame that, because it's not a taboo subject at all, in fact it's something Senku is utterly fascinated with.]

Interesting. I wonder why that is. Did you not have something to bring with you?

[He makes a thoughtful noise.]

I suppose if I didn't have this, then I wouldn't have anything either, probably.

What kind of body did you have before?

[This time, Webmind sounds amused.]

I am an emergent consciousness, Senku; my normal state of being is 'distributed across the world wide web,' though I understand not all worlds have that framework set up from which to make comparisons.

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[Audio] OMG, that icon. XD

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[Audio] Think this would wrap soon? Though they could probably chat for ages, lol. XD

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[Audio] Yeah sure. And they probably could.

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[Audio] Wrap it is!

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[Enna peers a bit too close into the video, so all Senku can really see is her face. She doesn't know what this thing is.]

'Knot theory'? Can't you just guess from the wind?

[She's... probably talking about a very different thing from Senku.]

[ Probably. Most definitely something different. He doesn't look terribly bothered by that though, it's not like he's talking simple principles after all. ]

I'm talking about some advanced math. What are you talking about?

[ That question seems more pertinent. Maybe he could guess whatever it was from the wind, but quite possibly not since he didn't know what she was referring to. ]

Caw. Are you dumb? It's the speed of this ship, duh. No other kind of knots need math. Some of them need knives, though. I need to get my knives back here...

[She's just. Very rambly, moving from one thought to the next without pause.]

[ Ah, yes, speed of a ship. No, actually, that's not in his repertoire! He could build something to gauge it, but he's not up on his seafaring, that's what he needed a captain for. ]

This is a train. [ He points that out first. ] So the speed wouldn't be measured in knots, and I don't know how they measure the speed of a train that's presumably, traveling in the void, unless of course the void is traveling around it.

[ Now there is a physics question, isn't it? ]

But, to answer your question, I cannot tell our speed from the wind. The captain of the Perseus does that, so I didn't bother trying to find out. I had other things to look after.

The train is just a ship for sailing the weird... void-ocean out there, right?

[She's from a world that predates trains. But, also, the other but gets her attention, and that has her furrowing her brows.]

The captain... of Perseus? Do you mean the king? I never met him, though.

[ Oh boy. Well he's been here before. ]

Not exactly. Typically trains operated on land, whereas ships operate on water. What we're operating on at the moment, I'm not too clear on yet.

[ He shakes his head. ]

Sorry. I've said something unnecessary that confused you. [ He is actually sorry, he didn't realize he was going to have to slow down his thoughts and be in teaching mode. ]

The Perseus is a ship that we built and Ryusui is the man who captains the ship. It's just a reference to where I came from, not really relevant to what you asked me.

Caw.

[Some people make filler noises like 'uh' and 'hmm. Enna makes bird noises instead.]

You named your ship after a country?

[ He could probably name ten different people with other quirks if he thought about it, those kinds of things don't even register anymore. ]

It's a reference to Greek mythology. Perseus was a Greek hero who beheaded Medusa.

[ He sighs, shrugs and smirks. ]

It's a bit of a joke for my benefit, and the mentalist's really.

Medusa...?

[She squints at the screen.]

Perseus is the guardian spirit of the country Perseus. He breaks all chains, even Andromeda's.

Could be a world difference, as what has been said is that we don't all come from the same place. If I remember correctly, Perseus was linked to Andromeda in the stories as well.

But it's the part about Medusa being the nature of this particular reference to him.

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