So close, and yet so very far. Concepts that seemed to perfectly mirror what he was chasing after, and yet felt so very foreign at the same time. It felt like he was looking at the Laws he wanted through a mirror, touching the glossy barrier, but feeling a separation between his fingers that he couldn't close in on, no matter how hard he pushed.
Theron remembered reading about concepts like this…
It was said that life was started with what was nothing more than the very same atoms and chemical processes that made up dirt. There was no fundamental difference other than the fact that the chemicals that made up his body had come together to create the life that was him.
It was a truly magical thing.
However… atoms and molecules were quite fascinating things. They could have mirror images of themselves, that looked the same and fundamentally acted the same, but in practice were entirely different from one another.
