Fusion future

摘要

It begins with a synthesised voice counting down from 10. After it hits one, there is silence. Then a faint but unearthly noise; somewhere between the roar of motorway traffic and the shriek of a jet engine at full throttle. Two flat computer screens light up with an extraordinary image; a fat, inverted teardrop of pinkish light - flaring to white around the edge and dark in the centre - illuminates the interior of a tightly curved tube. The centre of the teardrop is inky black.