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A frown pulled at his lips. He knew if he tried to explain through his own understanding, Tony would dismiss it despite what he, himself, had witnessed. Sight was not trustworthy enough for humans if they could not then filter it through their numbers, he knew that from Jane. And his wise Jane had also taught him that the workings of the universe were not so easily conveyed between the realms, although her quick and clever mind had bridged the gap his own could not. If only she were here, he felt sure she would accurately act as his interpreter. She understood him in ways even his dearest fellows in arms could not.
‘I can not explain to you, Tony. Not through a method acceptable to your own beliefs, that which you call “astrophysics”.’
‘Particle physics. And no,’ Tony said, ‘no way. I’m not going to be fobbed off with magic. You did something, you created an electromagnetic trap somehow, powerful enough to- it’d have to be one trillion billion times more powerful than ordinary electro-, I suppose if you actually created enough protons and crashed them into the antiprotons, you’d create muons and - but that’s an incredibly complex calculation, I mean, one that’d solve the mystery of our very existence and you- you did it by smashing it with a hammer.’
Thor listened placidly to Tony babble, knowing the man only did so to comfort himself and set his thoughts aright. Once he reached a salient point in the dialogue, he held up a hand to interrupt, halting Tony and drawing the eye of Bruce and Natasha. He had the impression that the humans thought him to have done something impossible, when it was truly an embarrassing matter that could have been quicker resolved if he’d paid his tutor more mind in his youth.
‘My friends, I cannot think how to phrase this in a language you will accept. I do not comprehend the words of Kelvin Coulomb and his ilk, wise he may be. For on Midgard, you see your realm as braided circles, forming in the blood of all things as waves do on the sea, and you turn in balance with all things, one side never touching the other. But on Asgard we build on the strength of that spiral and shape ourselves to the physical form of the branches that pull the mind to here and the hand to there, with nothing between our will and the form of things. We are a hardier race.’ He paused, thinking of computers, of cameras, and bombs. ‘Though Earth probably has the right of it. As our technology does not translate to your tongue, so too would an Asgardian mind never conceive of a computer to breech a distance we do not know exists. Our language barrier is not so easily overcome, for all that I may imitate your speech.’
‘Fuck,’ Tony breathed. Bruce laughed, though, a little hysterically, and Thor worried that the composure he had so masterfully maintained would fall away, revealing the Hulk who dwelt beneath his bravado.
‘There we go,’ Bruce said, shrugging helplessly. ‘Thor. Can’t figure out Tivo; can rewrite the basic laws of physics.’
‘With a hammer,’ Natasha added. ‘And apparently in epic verse.’
And Tony said again, ‘Fuck. Thor, baby, you know you don’t need words, because you and me have a date with a Blue Gene Supercomputer.’
Thor really wished he’d stuck with movie night.
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‘With a hammer,’ Natasha added. ‘And apparently in epic verse.’
Oh Anon, you're lovely. ♥
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‘With a hammer,’ Natasha added. ‘And apparently in epic verse.’
Those lines deserve an award!
Also, I love the ending:
Thor really wished he’d stuck with movie night.
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http://memecrunch.com/meme/CFZH/thor-does-science/image.png
Great story!
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‘With a hammer,’ Natasha added. ‘And apparently in epic verse.’
I'll third the two who complimented this; I cracked up laughing at it. Good work!
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