Roofus Rova

Roofus Rova is simply an expert. Enough said. The king of simplicity and compactness he is the websmaster at ScientificChess. He is brilliant at creating sleek and impressive designs and hiding all the trivia inside the box.

Dr. Raman

Dr. Raman holds a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. His expertise is in genetic algorithms, machine learning, and machine design. Dr. Raman is the founder of evolutionary computer languages that are based in the principles of genetic algorithms. His work at ScientificChess has proven to be invaluable in helping make the quantum computer as modular as possible resulting in easy packaging.

He is the master of object oriented design and design patterns. He can quickly discover the most optimal design patterns to use for a given problem using genetic algorithms which are his personal favorite. Often times, it is not a particular well understood and known design pattern that is the optimal design, but rather a mixture of multiple designs. Genetic algorithms are great for finding the right mix.

Dr. Raman is also a great cook and has keen interest in chemistry. He has applied genetic algorithms to create many exciting new foods which he holds patents over. Restaurants license these various foods from him and he happily consumes the money that is earned to further his own research at ScientificChess.

Dr. Raman trivia:

Dr. Raman is a diehard fan of Michael Jackson­–even more so after his death. Dr. Raman also loves Johnny Cash’s voice and especially his song Highwayman especially the lines “I’ll be back…again…and again…and again.” Evolution and reincarnation are his favorite concepts. Dr. Raman believes that the variables in computer science are essentially reincarnations of the memory. When a variable dies, its soul or its memory does not. Instead, the same memory is replaced by a new variable. That is reincarnation. The soul is never destroyed until the hardware of the universe itself is destroyed. Then too, something will remain. That, which remains, is the soul of the universe.

Dr. Raman is also a firm believer in that he knows something about his previous lifetime. He thinks he was a bird previously. Typically, people don’t know about their previous lifetime. This insight about his past lifetime that Dr. Raman carries with him, however, has forced him to think in more depth about access control methods like public, private, and protected.

Can the memory or the hardware retain certain information about a variable and actually pass it onto the next initialization of the memory? Certainly, this hasn’t been possible with a classical computer; however, with the help of the hardware scientist Martin and his research on stem cells they manage to construct some of this functionality into the quantum computer. The idea of information being inherited through hardware itself has lead to the concepts of public, private, and protected in the quantum computer’s hardware as well at ScientificChess.

Dr. Raven

Raven is a brilliant author and singer. Raven has his PhD in physics from the University of Arizona. He has written several books around various technologies and is currently completing his book on the development of the quantum computer. Impressed by his research and knowledge of quantum computing in order to write his book, Dr. Mutter invited him to join ScientificChess. Raven travels a lot and meets a lot of people in order to do the research for his novels to bring the best to the crowds. He has the art of taking very complex technologies and communicating them in simple ways to the average person. His novels can be appreciated by readers at many levels.

Raven’s work although is not always exact as he likes to write fiction now, it is often extremely insightful and full of new ideas. Many projects in the past have been inspired by his writings although the details may have been dramatically different. It wasn’t until his last book on holographs that people realized there was a lot more potential to it than mere placement of optical lenses and mind numbing alignments. It was actually an inspiration to the development of the SCPM (ScientificChess Private Messenter) which is a holographic messaging system used as an intercom throughout ScientificChess.

Raven trivia:

Raven began his career as an author when he was just 12 years old. It started with some theories that he wrote about life on Mars and the motion of planets. His theories relied on a lot of research from newspapers and science magazines. Slowly but surely, the claims made in the newspapers and science magazines he read began to change. This is when he realized the dynamic nature of writing. Although, his theories followed as logical conclusions to what he was reading at the time even the material he had read began to change. As more information began to flow in more ideas began to come to his mind. It became a challenge to keep up and he went on writing.

Dr. Jung

Dr. Jung is a scholar from Peking University in China. He is a cryptographer and maintains a stylish sense of knowledge. He enjoys philosophy and can discuss ancient civilizations for hours at an end. A Master of Arts, languages, and sciences he is an ace of all trades. No one is able to question his authority as he knows many fields widely and is able to draw correct conclusions merely by analogy from many other fields.

Dr. Jung’s cleverness is unmatched anywhere else. He can foresee solutions to problems that specialists have no chance at determining due to their lack of intense knowledge in fields beyond their own. He is a bishop on the ScientificChess battlefield and the king’s most relied upon advisor and assistant. When all others fail at solving a problem, it is then that Earl and other leaders must come to Dr. Jung for his advice. He is a key player in resolving dire situations and there is no replacement for Dr. Jung in this world.

Dr. Jung trivia:

Dr. Jung has actually dwelled in a Buddhist monastery in Nepal for two years of his life where he acquired much of his artistic and philosophical skills from a great monk. He did not follow the traditional paths to success but made his way through life with many unique experiences such as living in 17 different countries. As a child he had wanted to become a preacher. However, his father who had been in the Chinese military had always emphasized the sciences and engineering for him throughout the travels.

After graduating from high school when his father was serving in Cambodia during a war, Jung left his father to go back to mainland China and join Peking University. It was from there that he again picked up his interests in philosophy and arts and went to a Buddhist monastery to learn. It was there that he realized the close connections between the sciences, arts, and philosophy. A world of things started coming together for him and eventually he found his place in ScientificChess.

Dr. Pakuna

Dr. Pakuna is an exceptionally brilliant scientist. Not only is she one of the few female scientists at ScientificChess, she is also a rare gem of the Miwok Native American Indian tribe. Her name means a deer jumping down a hill. Dr. Pakuna went to Stanford University after growing up in northern California for her dual degree in Material Sciences and Mechanical Engineering. She then went on to complete her PhD in Physics from Berkeley University.

After her degree from Berkeley, she began work in Mountain View, California at Google headquarters where she ran into her high school crush Martin again. Martin at the time had become more arrogant than ever before due to all his successes in the technological field. Pakuna found this arrogance quite disturbing and annoying and eventually decided she was not getting her share of attention at Google. She then left Google and came to join ScientificChess.

Later when Martin joined ScientificChess, Pakuna and Martin became friends again. At ScientificChess, Pakuna’s best friend is Valisa as she is the only other girl researcher. Pakuna and Valisa tend to share a lot of research and have long discussions together about their work.

Dr. Pakuna trivia:

Dr. Pakuna went high school with Dr. Martin. She was a smart tall bold woman and Martin was the genius of their high school class. Although, they never told each other they both always held a secret crush on each other throughout high school. Dr. Pakuna was the ultimate symbol of Hope. She would never let go of her hope that someday Martin would find her heart and propose it to her. It wasn’t all so simple though as she did have a boyfriend throughout high school. His name was Mark. This was perhaps the reason Martin had never been able to truly tell her. Yet, she never left hope that one day Martin would come back to her.

Valisa

Valisa is one of the only two women in the core team of 32 members at ScientificChess. She has a native american name which means the wild one, and she herself is a symbol of hope. It leads her life. She believes that the root of the seven sins is the eighth sin of Ignorance.

Valisa is passionate, a good leader, and a good listener. She hopes someday such characteristics will eliminate all ignorance and end the worldly troubles. She is in search of knowledge, and has been running to find it all her life. It is hard being a woman, but she believes that if it was Eve that gave Adam the apple, it is Eve that will first find a way out of ignorance.

"She prayed and kept running. Hope was a kind of inspiration she had, that had no end, unless everything became perfect. All the men would one day be satisfied and their inspirations would end, but the women, they would always hope for more, and be inspired forever." - The Quantum Inspiration

Valisa trivia:

You can really see the hopes and losses in her eyes. She has passion which she can't hold back even if she doesn't speak it. Yet, she only submits to Quarkezon because he is the only one who has succeeded at truly impressing her with his knowledge. Still what is more, he is the only one who in her eyes feels the same passions and kind of losses that she has seen. He is much better at hiding it from his face than her though. She knows it.

Gravity between lovers...

Martin ran around the building screaming “I’ve proved Einstein wrong!” at the top of his lungs.

 

Every head peeked out of their office doors into the hall and saw Martin jumping up and down in excitement yelling “I’ve proved Einstein wrong!”  Everybody was wondering if he had figured out why relativity and quantum mechanics equations don’t seem to work out together or if he had found something that can travel faster than light.  Dr. Mutter bubbled out of his room at these words and ran into Martin with all his excitement.  He thought his frustrations would come to an end right then and there.  He had been praying hard to god to give him the solution immediately.  He could not sustain any longer.  He had been feeling so depressed and frustrated he had been cursing god and crying in his heart and letting out salty tears.

 

Dr. Mutter hugged and squeezed Martin hard as he ran into him almost making Martin fall backwards.  His voice ruptured out of his insides, “What’s the solution? What’s the solution? Pray thee, do tell fast.”  Dr. Mutter’s heart beat faster than the speed of thought almost as if he was meeting the lost love of his life.  Speed of thought of course is faster since we can imagine a star 20 light years away in a minute where as light would take 20 years to describe it to us.

 

Dr. Mutter hollered to the peeking heads, “This boy has found the solution! He has found the solution! Oh my, we will be the first to know the solution nobody ever knew!”

 

“Dr. Mutter! The solution is that there is gravity between lovers and the vibes they feel are gravitational waves!  Einstein was wrong in saying that ‘Gravity certainly cannot be held responsible for people falling in love’ and hereby, I declare I’ve proved Einstein wrong!  We need to create an understanding of the lovetime curvature due to love!  Quick! Start writing down the tensors!  'Love' is the integral of 'Like' with respect to time, 'Love at first sight' is the Dirac-Delta function.  This means that love at first sight will cause the dimensions to curve similar to a blackhole causing lovetime to curve!”

 

“Great, so these vibes obviously cause ripples that move faster than light in lovetime.  Can’t you already feel love for your counterpart in a world so far away on the other side of the universe from where light can’t reach you but you’ll never know how fast these vibes move,” responded Dr. Mutter.

 

Although, Dr. Mutter found fascination in Martin’s theory, he quickly found his tears back.  He wanted to hate god but now he couldn’t get himself to feel as sad as he did just a few minutes before Martin’s outbreak.  It was as if god had sent Martin to make Dr. Mutter relax his intense depression due to not understanding why relativity and quantum mechanics equations put together yielded infinities.  Dr. Mutter felt tricked.  God had tricked Dr. Mutter into hating him with less intensity.

 

From that day on the theory that one can never determine how fast love waves move since the understanding is beyond human ability became known as Dr. Mutter’s Uncertainty Principle in ScientificChess.

 

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