Val jumped slightly when the hologram materialized next to him after he requested information from the computer.  That would take some getting used to, he wondered if the hologram could appear anywhere on the ship in that way...  Something to keep in mind he supposed.<br/><br/>Listening to the near rant of the hologram called Lewis, Val was...  Surprised to be honest...  This holographic projection seemed to be responding to the world with some amount of emotional passion.  He was a man of science but his field of science really didn't leave him without a sense of ambiguity with what actually sparked the conscious mind, what pushed the emergent properties of life from a jumble of chemically reactive cells in the brain to a mind that could think, feel, and love in the world at large.  This...  Computer program was doing a fair imitation of hurt outrage.  Fascinating.<br/><br/>When Lewis was finished Val said, "Alright, Lewis, I was looking at field dynamics and different subspace harmonics that would bend the path of chronitons around a given object.  Studying material on various impacts of the particles I do not believe it would be wise to collect or deflect them.  When collected they could force the person inside the field out of sync with time.  If deflected, they could pose a risk when interacting with technology such as the USS Defiant faced when its transporter beam interacted with temporally polarized hull armor, caused by chronitons."<br/><br/>Val worked his controls and the room darkened, in the center of the room a hologram of a subspace energy field in a spheroid shape was being bombarded by particles.  When Val adjusted the field frequency and geometry, the particles went around the bubble.<br/><br/>"What do you think?"