I SYNTHESISED A NEW ELEMENT
To me it was nothing.
I synthesised a new element. To scientists it may be an unthinkable task – yet to me, a beginner, with a beginner's disregard for tradition, and a child's sense of wonder, and an entrepreneur's willingness to bend rules in pursuit of great benefit, and a jazz musician's intuitive feel for structure, and a chef's knowledge of acid and heat, and an artist's ability to see fully formed in their mind's eye the finished work and labour tirelessly to hew it from raw materials, it was actually really easy, and with a pinch of a few substances I had close to hand and a method that seemed, as I was using it, to be both classically elegant and powered by simple commonsense, I was able to easily create the new element—which has now been, if this is even in question, verified as new, totally new, by the kinds of experts whom one approaches for this kind of verification, and whom also, having taken a look at it, at its various shapes - at the atoms, and so on—quarks, and such things – have already come up with a list of potential uses, or ideas for potential uses, or potential ideas for potential uses, many of which stand to yield great benefit to humanity at large, so long as their user executes them with a heart which is open and unhardened by cynicism and the daily erosion of tiredness and illness and stress, etc. and instead accepts the gift of my new element with a spirit of collaboration, true collaboration, which builds gratefully on the corpus of knowledge that has preceded it—and if not then at least recognises the thing within them which is imperfect, or just sucks, and has the humility to hand the gift of my new element off to someone better, more talented, with a clearer point of view and a lighter touch who can forge it, mould it, inject it, cast it, reproduce it, add it to existing products and distribute it worldwide until everyone has a piece, including all the losers and non-believers and those who'd previously tried and failed to make something important of the wondrous scientific accomplishment that I alone created, and the scale of my genius, at long last, can no longer be questioned.
Max Lavergne
Max Lavergne
