Dr Elias Jackson
Many people say the world is going to shit; people used as weapons to advance their government's agendas, Primes, whatever - it's total chaos!
Few people in these times spend the effort to think rationally; the Primes will do it for them, or the governments that control them - it is a sad fact that everyday people have little control over the momentous events that carry the tide of time forward, and most are content simply to ride the currents.
Dr. Elias Jackson is not one of them.
Jackson is a resolute rationalist; he is a nobel-prize winning theoretical physicist, and to him, the advent of these Primes and these disturbing trends in human behavior requires more thinking, and more of the everyday person than has ever been expected. Early in his career, he developed a groundbreaking theory on the interconnectedness of all things. Jackson postulated that the nature of the universe was deterministic, and that through myriad interconnections everything affected everything else. Though on the surface it resembled chaos, the Jackson Hypothesis is a framework for ordering that data.
The Jackson Hypothesis is also so unbelievably complex that only Elias Jackson himself can make any real sense of it, but a counterexample has yet to be found.
A few years after recieving his Nobel Prize, Jackson announced that he would demonstrate the ultimate application of this theory: that by doing nothing other than firing neurons in his brain, he could affect anything. Turning mass to energy vice versa was the basis, but after a few tests that only amazed the scientists, he did something amazing. He flew. Then he disappeared and appeared a moment later with a chunk of the moon. Then, he split into four Elias Jacksons and began discussing simulatenously the various processes that allowed him to do so.
Elias Jackson was no longer the champion thinker of the people, he was one of them. He was a New Man.
He denied it vigorously - this was simple science. Well, maybe not simple, but with enough time and graph paper, anyone could do it! But even his colleagues, whom he had convinced of the paramount importance of rational, exhaustive critical thinking, saw an explanation that didn't give them headaches or make them feel like dunces: He was just a superhero.
