On the Origin of Sour

Daily notes, August 15th, 1992
Employee 502 – Raw Science Research Division

The behavior of “extreme” flavors in miniaturization—their tremendous power—clearly owes itself to the presence of raw science particles.

At this scale, they seem to have an ambient effect in the environment. More research needed on this. Are the particles too diluted at regular scale? What is the optimal dilution rate of Raw Science in an enclosed environment? In theory, by controlling the total amount of raw science, we could generate effects at any size... A dangerous train of thought…

But if we want to leverage our discoveries for defense applications, this fundamental issue needs to be resolved. Everything hinges on the scalability of our work. Otherwise, all we’ve created is a swarm of easily crushable weapons of mild destruction.