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quantum-computing-environment
The chapter is set in a quantum-computing facility deep underground, emphasizing advanced scientific research as a backdrop.
1 chapter across 1 book
Hominids (2002)Robert J. Sawyer
Chapter 14
In this chapter, Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist, mysteriously disappears while working in a quantum-computing facility and is found unconscious after an apparent drowning incident in heavy water. At the hospital, medical professionals are stunned to discover that his anatomy is distinctly Neanderthal, highlighting the novel's central premise of parallel hominid species coexisting and interacting.