TWENTY SIX
DR. CLAUDE LAGRANGE stood at the podium and scanned the dozens of stern faces in the crowd seated at their banquet tables. He saw his colleagues as competitors. The ballroom was lit dimly, but a spotlight glared in his eyes.
LaGrange basked in this moment of opportunity, his chance to upend the status quo, which he had grown so tired of.
“I am formally announcing the detection of dark matter entanglement within cells of living organisms.”
Jolts and restlessness fanned across the dining tables. Several reached for their wine glasses.
LaGrange sneered off at the far wall of the ballroom. “I have a novel experimental technique, which is unprecedented, and none of you, frankly, will be besting me to publication. My observations to date concern the conversion of dark matter to d
