Update on The Kitten Antigravity Project [FTSD]

Ark, with the distractability for which kittens are famous,
only returned a recent other night to his efforts on The
Kitten Antigravity Project, but did so with a deafening
report once begun.

Not content with being able to teleport his light-absorbing
self through the emptinesses of the space between the
galaxies as a short-cut to crossing the living room, Ark has
added the capability, in this, his latest advance, to
"teleport other".  In this case, specifically, "other" was a
hangable white plastic flower pot no longer hanging, but
sitting abandoned on the top of Mama Refrigerator, sporting
a long dead and dessicated frilly plant and potting soil
long dried and worn out until it was featherweight.

With no perceptible intermediate position, Ark teleported
the flower pot from its initial position in the utility
room, two meters downward, and over four meters sideways to
its new position resting next to the wastebasket in the den,
bypassing the kitchen in between entirely.

On a bet, considering the amount of teleporting so far
involved in The Kitten Antigravity Project, it seems that
antigravity is to be accomplished by continually teleporting
in the opposite direction of the local gravitational field,
rather than by warping and inverting the local gauge field
as most researchers had assumed to be necessary in past
efforts.

Far from being smug in triumph at his accomplishment, Ark
scampered from the destination of the pot as if all the
demons of hell were in pursuit, yellow eyes wide, claws
skittering on the hardwood floor, finally to come to rest
under the smaller living room sofa.  Still, all in all, it
was a landmark day for kitten-researcher-kind.

xanthian.

I hear you scoffers, saying it is much more likely that Ark
jumped onto Baby Refrigerator, from there jumped atop Mama
Refrigerator, somehow became entangled in the three upright
hanging rods of the flowerpot, fell to the floor, landing
catlike but still entangled, sprinted through the kitchen
past Papa Refrigerator, finally being rid of the flower pot
at the other end of the kitchen.

As a scientist, however, I shave with the razor of William
of Occam, which warns us not unnecessarily to multiply our
suppositions, and between so complex and unlikely a
scenario, on the one hand, and a simple teleport in line
with earlier progress on The Kitten Antigravity Project, on
the other, science comes down firmly for the ever so simple
teleport theory.



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