Dr. Takatoshi
Dr. Takatoshi is a quantum physicist who disappeared from public life in 2007. She works for XEDRA.
- Name
- Amy Takatoshi
- Pronoun
- she/her
- Role
- Doctor
- Associated Projects
- Teleportation research, quantum physics
- Place From
- MIT
Newspaper Reports
CELEBRATED PHYSICIST GOES MISSING. Dr. Amy Takatoshi, a celebrated quantum physicist at MIT dubbed by some as "the next Hawking" has gone missing shortly before a press conference that was expected to be the announcement of her newest research results, rumored to be in the field of teleportation.
TELEPORTATION? An unidentified source working in a major university contacted multiple media outlets this week with a farfetched story that is nonetheless corroborated by third-party physicists as "shockingly possible". This source, nicknamed "Deep Space", describes secret government experimentation into teleportation, dating back to before 2008. "When I read the tagline, I just scoffed," said Dr. Alice Feyn, a physics professor at MIT. "Then I read on. This is strongly reminiscent of Dr. Takatoshi's lost work. It feels bizarre to say it, but I think there's a grain of truth to all of this." Dr. Amy Takatoshi was a quantum physicist who went missing, along with all records of her work, in July 2007.
Lab Notes
Dr. Takatoshi sent us interesting news: her lab serendipitously discovered that sufficient rapid teleports in a short span of time can strip out XE037 somehow, without harming the subject. This has the unfortunate issues of needing an absolutely insane amount of electricity, and drawing the attention of what Dr. Takatoshi calls \"subplanar creatures\" and the rest of us call \"horrifying alien monstrosities\". Still, it's a start.",
Probe XC-3 returned with the soil samples Dr. Takatoshi requested. As she predicted, the samples were absolutely loaded with rare isotopes: just in that 100 gram sample, there was five times as much plutonium-244 as in the entirety of the Earth's crust, for example. We've sent it on to phys chem for further characterization, but it's clear enough. A few kilos of dirt from 021XC could provide enough unobtainium to make XEDRA very, very rich.
Our lifeform extraction program continues to produce samples laced with XE037. It is in mineral, water, and biological samples from dimension designate 000XE. It is extremely difficult to analyze: we are mostly aware of its presence through mass shadows. Dr. Takatoshi suggests it might be a dimensional variant of dark matter.
The rapid uptake and die-off of XE037 we observed in mouse tissue isn't quite what we thought. We're getting a bit better at what Dr. Takatoshi calls 'negative space spectroscopy', and we've found tiny amounts of XE037 clustered around the nuclei of the mouse's cells.
Dr. Takatoshi personally requested we do some experiments on a sample she had retrieved from 000XE. It was a piece of wood-like material. The material itself was interesting, but she didn't care about that. She wanted us to study what was "between" the wood. Indeed, based on her protocols, we found spaces in the material where we could pick up detectable mass, but weren't able to interact with it with any of our spectrographs. We're dubbing the contaminant XE037 per naming protocol.