ext_66540 ([identity profile] ten-and-chips.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2005-10-17 04:50 pm
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Quantum Physics 123: Monday 17 October

[The Doctor is slightly jacked up on coffee.]

Thanks to everyone who turned in their papers last week in such a prompt manner. I appreciate it immensely. You'll get your papers back on Wednesday. So far everyone's doing well enough.

So far we haven't done much with the practical application of time travel. I want to have you do some not-quite hands on work, some that won't involve having you create paradoxes and me having to fix them. It's a very big pain, trust me.

This week we're going to be doing assignments in pairs. If there's an odd number of students, then there can be one group of three. I want you to take a particular event that happened recently at Fandom High and theorise as to different possible outcomes. Be creative, but don't be outrageous. The hard part of this is that you'll have to check things against your partner's work, so I'd like you to work with people that you don't know as well.


Oh, and Mr Harkness, you're not in trouble, but I'd like to talk to you after class.

[identity profile] anextimeagent.livejournal.com 2005-10-17 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, so what would have have to have happened for us to be eaten? I mean, if Coach Ash hadn't stopped them dead when he did, we might still be fighting them.

[identity profile] sogothcally.livejournal.com 2005-10-17 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, that's true... and the dorms were pretty safe, so... maybe we would just have been stuck in the Dorms until they all went away? Or, if they didn't... we'd have to start cannabalizing people for food, wouldn't we? And therefore, become just like the zombies ourselves.

[identity profile] anextimeagent.livejournal.com 2005-10-17 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Is that how people become zombies? I thought you had to get bit by one.

[identity profile] sogothcally.livejournal.com 2005-10-17 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, not become actual zombies, but we'd be no better, cause we were having to eat people to survive, right?

[identity profile] anextimeagent.livejournal.com 2005-10-17 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I wonder if that's how we got the first zombies. And can I just say, ew?

Okay, so if Coach Ash hadn't saved our butts, we'd be cannibals in the dorms. Right?

[identity profile] sogothcally.livejournal.com 2005-10-17 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
::shrugs:: I read about it in a book. About running out of food out on the ocean. I figured the same sorta principles applied.

But yeah, that's my idea.

[identity profile] anextimeagent.livejournal.com 2005-10-17 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, just between me and you... is the Doctor talking to a beach ball (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomhigh/229450.html?thread=10903114#t10903114)?

[identity profile] sogothcally.livejournal.com 2005-10-17 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
::blinks a few times::

::eyes go wide::

Yeah... I think he is.

Maybe we should go get a doctor or some- ::pauses, and breaks down into giggles::

[identity profile] soniabelmont.livejournal.com 2005-10-17 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Sonia timidly approaches Cally.

"Erm...vould you mind if I joined your group? Everyvun else seems to have partners, already, and I've been cheated byou you since..."

She stops, shakes her head, and clears her throat.

"Sorry...that vas odd."

[identity profile] sogothcally.livejournal.com 2005-10-17 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Umm... that's okay. ::bites her lower lip, concerned::

Well I don't mind if you join us, and I'm sure Jack won't mind, right Jack?

[identity profile] soniabelmont.livejournal.com 2005-10-18 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
She smiles at Cally. "Thanks! So...sorry, I couldn't help but to overhear, you vere talking about zombie veekend? Rather scary, if you think about vot could have happened if Mamma mia, here I go again, My my, how can I resist you? Mamma mia, does it show again..."

Sonia stops, her face twisting in confusion and horror. She hasn't heard the clinic's announcement, and has no idea what's going on. (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomhigh/225932.html)

Vot in the- did I ever let you go? Mamma mia, now I really know..."

[identity profile] sogothcally.livejournal.com 2005-10-18 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
::blinks a few times::

Um... are you okay?

[identity profile] soniabelmont.livejournal.com 2005-10-18 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
She blinks as well, and puts a hand to her throat.

I- I don't know what you think, the girl means business so I'll offer her a drink.

Realizing this isn't going to get her anywhere, Sonia pulls out her notebook and a pen. She quickly scrawls across a sheet of the paper and passes it to Cally.

I have no idea what's going on- not that that's a surprise in this school. I'll just communicate in writing for the rest of the class, if that's alright with you.

[identity profile] sogothcally.livejournal.com 2005-10-18 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
::nods::

Yeah, that'll be okay... now, Jack and I were talking about the different ways Zombie Weekend could have turned out... do you have any ideas?

[identity profile] anextimeagent.livejournal.com 2005-10-18 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
*reads note* This school just gets weirder and weirder...

[identity profile] soniabelmont.livejournal.com 2005-10-18 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
She nods.

I know. Nothing's ever normal, from one day to the next. Not always a bad thing, but then again... She gestures to her throat and shrugs, then scrawls more to the note.

Could be worse. Could be raining.

[identity profile] anextimeagent.livejournal.com 2005-10-18 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Waits for the sky to start raining.

Good point.

[+1 Young Frankenstein reference.]

[identity profile] soniabelmont.livejournal.com 2005-10-18 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Sonia nods, and writes down what she way saying to Jack (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomhigh/229450.html?thread=10985290#t10985290) just before her voice completely gave.

I think you mentioned what the most devastating outcome might have been- we lose, and the zombies overrun the school. But what if the changes were on a smaller scale? Say, we lose a few students, or a teacher? We were lucky, as far as casualties went- but what if we hadn't been?

[identity profile] sogothcally.livejournal.com 2005-10-18 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, we were really lucky... I suppose the whole school would be different, even if only one student or teacher had died.

[identity profile] soniabelmont.livejournal.com 2005-10-18 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
She nods again, and frowns.

Or what if one of us had been bitten, and turned? How do you think it would have been handled?

[identity profile] anextimeagent.livejournal.com 2005-10-18 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
Don't mind at all. We're discussing Zombie Weekend and how things could have turned out differently.

[identity profile] soniabelmont.livejournal.com 2005-10-18 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Ah, right. Vell, I suppose the most obvious outcome is that ve lose. But if you think on a smaller scale than that...we had no fatalities on our end. How vould something as minor as, say, losing a teacher or a student have affected the school? Vould it stay on the ground, girl, you better not get too high, but I'm gonna..."

She takes a deep breath and narrows her eyes. "Alright, zis is *not* funny any-you look like a movie star, but I know just who you are."

Sonia groans and puts her head in her hands, then pushes the note (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomhigh/229450.html?thread=10982474#t10982474) from Cally to Jack.