经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第14章 Part1

"Tricia McMillian?" he said. "What are you doing here?"
"Same as you," she said, "I hitched a lift. After all with a degree in Maths and another in astrophysics what else was there to do? It was either that or the dole queue again on Monday."
"Infinity minus one," chattered the computer, "Improbability sum now complete."
Zaphod looked about him, at Ford, at Arthur, and then at Trillian.
"Trillian," he said, "is this sort of thing going to happen every time we use the Improbability drive?"
"Very probably, I'm afraid," she said.

The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill at ease knowing that they had been brought together not of their own volition or by simple coincidence, but by some curious principle of physics — as if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules.
As the ship's artificial night closed in they were each grateful to retire to separate cabins and try to rationalize their thoughts.

“崔茜卡，麦克米伦？”他问，“你怎么会在这儿？”
“和你一样，”她说，“我在搭便车漫游。毕竟，拿了一个数学学位和一个天体物理学学位，我还能做别的什么呢？只能选择这个，要不只能在星期一排队领救济。”
“无穷负1，”电脑这时又出声了，“非概率总数终于算出来了。”
赞福德看了一眼自己，然后看看福特，再看阿瑟，最后看崔莉恩。
“崔莉恩，”他说，“这一类事情在我们每一次使用非概率驱动的时候都会发生吗？”
“恐怕很有可能。”她回答说。

黄金之心号静静地穿过太空的暗夜，它现在使用的是常规的光子驱动。船上的四人隐隐感觉到，他们之所以走到一起来，既不是出于本人的意志，也不仅仅只是一个巧合，而是由于某种奇怪的物理倒错——仿佛人与人之间的关系同样要受到控制原子和分子之间关系的物理法则的影响。
当飞船上的人工夜晚降临后，他们才谢天谢地地回到各自独立的休息舱，极力整理一下自己的思路。