Todd Hennessy assists Professor Argonaut

Professor Argonaut was your typical nutty professor with his tweed jacket, bushy beard and large glasses. He taught quantum mechanics and he worked at a nearby laboratory that conducted experiments in quantum mechanics.

Todd was not a student of Professor Argonaut. Todd didn't understand a thing about quantum mechanics. Todd had gotten a job as a janitor at the lab while he attended college his freshman year, still undecided about a major.

But even though Todd didn't understand quantum mechanics, as he cleaned, he did overhear interesting conversations about the relativity of time or the way light seems to be aware of its surroundings or the possibility of other dimensions.

One day, while emptying the trash, he heard Professor Argonaut say . . .