Chapter 20

He could do this programming, easily enough. But as he stood before the banks of complex, yet beautifully familiar levers, the sheer exquisite complexity of it overcame him. To compute the movements of thousands of stars, all moving at different speeds in different directions in the vast swirling directionless chaos of the Universe--and yet to be sure that every separate movement would come out to within a quarter of a mile! It was something that no finite brain--man or Lhari--could ever accomplish, yet their limit…