Pass/fail (2012)
“It was useless, though. Other than the difference in color they were identical, as were the envelopes they held in their outstretched hands.He should have asked Megan to come with him, he thought. Maybe she could see a way to solve this one where he couldn’t. He hadn’t wanted to get her involved, not if he didn’t have to—the tests were dangerous, and if the Proctors were willing to kill him he had no doubt they’d see her as completely expendable. They might even kill her just for trying to help him, even if cheating was permitted.He started to sweat in the heat of the desert.He could only ask one question, and it could only be answered by yes or no. And yet he had to get two pieces of information out of that simple answer: he had to figure out if the Proctor he spoke to was telling the truth or lying, and he had to learn whether that Proctor’s envelope was a PASS or a FAIL.This was just like the Uncertainty Principle, he thought. You could determine a particle’s position or its moment...um—but never both at the same time.MoreLess
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