Boltzmann Flies

A spontaneous-organism and memory-contamination dossier for Cthulhu Eternal

The specimen lived for forty-three seconds. Its wings, beating in a hard vacuum, reproduced Araceli Ward’s own voice telling someone to close a north valve because Isaac was still inside. The laboratory had no north valve, and nobody on site was named Isaac. Ward remembered his funeral anyway, down to the rain on his husband’s green umbrella.

Specimen log BF-22

The first specimen showed up inside a sealed calorimeter six minutes after the Eraser died.

It weighed 19 milligrams and looked like a black fly assembled out of ash, human skin cells, copper oxide, and blue protein. Its wings moved in a vacuum. Shift the accelerometer output into the audible range and their vibration reproduced fragments of speech.

Technician Araceli Ward recognized the voice as her own.

The recording said:

Close the north valve. Isaac is still inside.

The laboratory had no north valve. Nobody assigned to the site was named Isaac.

Ward remembered him regardless. She remembered his narrow shoulders, his habit of chewing coffee stirrers, the pressure of his hand slipping out of hers during a containment failure eleven years earlier. She remembered attending his funeral. She could describe the rain hitting his husband’s green umbrella.

Employment records held no Isaac. The laboratory had opened seven years earlier. Ward had never worked at another containment site.

The specimen lived for forty-three seconds. Its abdomen collapsed into warm dust that held a tiny gold ring engraved with two names. One belonged to Ward. The other belonged to Isaac Mercer.

At 04:17, seventeen more specimens appeared in the calorimeter.

Eleven carried the same memory. Three remembered Ward dying instead.

Classification

Boltzmann Fly is the field name for a short-lived organism that assembles spontaneously out of a sufficiently improbable fluctuation near angular thermodynamic waste. Most specimens look like insects between two millimeters and twelve centimeters long. A few are nothing but nervous tissue, sensory organs, or wings wrapped around an information-bearing core.

They have shown no eggs, parents, juvenile forms, or heritable lineage. Each specimen begins at or near functional maturity. Its components come from local matter, from field excitations, or from material imported through the same angular boundary that selected the fluctuation.

Lifetimes run from less than a single detector interval to several hours. Death usually returns the body to disordered material with no decomposition in between.

Some specimens carry structured records that behave like memories. These may describe:

• Mundane lives with no external evidence behind them.
• Variations of real events that turned out differently.
• Hound encounters that never happened in the surviving history.
• Experiences belonging to people consumed by an Eraser.
• Technical expertise developed by researchers who never existed.
• Places whose geometry is possible but absent from Earth.
• The current observer examining a different specimen.

A Fly can transfer this information into a nervous system. The recipient experiences it as autobiographical memory, with sensory detail, emotion, temporal context, and the full conviction of prior ownership.

Order is a counting problem

Statistical mechanics relates macroscopic properties to the number of microscopic configurations compatible with them.

Boltzmann entropy can be written as

where (k_B) is Boltzmann’s constant and (\Omega) is the multiplicity of the macrostate: the number of microscopic states that look identical under the chosen coarse graining.

An equilibrium macrostate occupies an overwhelmingly large region of phase space. A condition in which gas molecules gather in one corner, shattered glass reassembles, or warm ash organizes into a living insect corresponds to a far smaller set of microstates.

For two macrostates with equal a priori weighting of compatible microstates, the multiplicity ratio is

If state 2 has lower entropy by an amount (\Delta S>0), its relative statistical weight is suppressed schematically by

That expression carries the central scale. Every additional organized degree of freedom makes a large fluctuation exponentially less probable.

Microscopic fluctuations are ordinary. Mesoscopic fluctuations can be measured in carefully prepared small systems. A spontaneous living insect assembled out of room air would take such extraordinary coordination that treating it as an expected laboratory event is nonsense.

Fluctuation theorems, carefully stated

Modern fluctuation theorems quantify relations between entropy-producing trajectories and their time reversals in small nonequilibrium systems. A representative detailed relation has the form

where (\Sigma) is total entropy production under the theorem’s specified dynamics and protocol.

The equation shows why negative entropy-production trajectories can happen over short intervals while becoming exponentially less likely as their magnitude grows. It promises no arbitrary violations of the second law, and its exact form depends on assumptions that include microscopic reversibility, the initial ensembles, and how the forward and reverse processes are defined.

The Crooks fluctuation theorem gives a related statement for nonequilibrium work distributions:

where (P_F(W)) and (P_R(-W)) are work distributions for defined forward and reverse protocols, (\Delta F) is the equilibrium free-energy difference, and (\beta=1/(k_BT)).

These results have been tested in microscopic and mesoscopic systems. Extrapolate them all the way to the spontaneous assembly of a reasoning animal and you throw away nearly every practical constraint that made the equations mean anything.

Boltzmann Flies demand that extrapolation, but only after the fictional angular mechanism has been introduced.

The Boltzmann-brain problem

Some cosmological models approach an extremely long-lived state with a finite horizon temperature and rare fluctuations. If the spacetime lasts long enough, fluctuations able to support observers can occur. A minimal observer with apparent memories can require a smaller entropy decrease than recreating the entire low-entropy universe those memories imply.

This leads to the Boltzmann-brain problem. Under some measures and vacuum assumptions, fluctuation-born observers could outnumber the ordinary observers produced by cosmological evolution, planets, biology, and history. A typical observer in such a model would then hold unreliable apparent memories inside a disordered external environment.

Cosmologists use this result as a diagnostic problem for theories and measures. The proposed resolutions turn on vacuum decay, cosmological measure, observer definitions, and the treatment of de Sitter equilibrium. The literature does not establish that disembodied brains will materialize in our future, or that any present observer is probably one.

The useful horror premise comes out of the epistemology:

A present physical memory can be internally coherent even when the remembered history never occurred.

Memory content is evidence about the current state of the remembering system. Historical authentication requires a causal chain connecting that state to the event it appears to represent.

The Tindalosian axiom

Angular thermodynamic processes create a reservoir of exported entropy and record structure. Rare curved-space fluctuations can couple to that reservoir, selecting short-lived organisms whose internal states inherit information from possible, erased, or incompatible histories.

Three fictional effects are at work.

Concentration

Ordinary rare fluctuations happen wherever their physical conditions allow, scattered across immense volumes and durations. Angular coupling maps many such opportunities onto one contaminated curved-space region. A swarm seen in one room may therefore be built from specimens whose supporting fluctuations originated at widely separated angular coordinates.

Selection

The angular reservoir supplies a boundary condition that favors compact mobile states able to carry structured records toward observers. This bias explains the repeated fly-like body plan. It also breaks the naive expectation that meaningless arrangements should vastly outnumber useful ones.

Inheritance without ancestry

Information exported by an Eraser, a Cleaner, a Hound, or a collapsing habitat can shape the specimen’s internal microstate. The resulting memory has a physical source without ever acquiring an ordinary biological lineage. Several Flies can inherit overlapping records because the same angular exhaust conditioned their fluctuations.

Known statistical mechanics supplies none of these effects. Thermal noise has no motive, no angular address, and no general mechanism for delivering deleted biographies into human hippocampi.

Why they look like flies

A small flying body earns its keep inside a brief lifetime:

• Rapid movement through a three-dimensional room.
• Contact with eyes, nostrils, mouths, wounds, and instruments.
• High surface area for sensing thermal and chemical gradients.
• Low total assembly cost next to a vertebrate body.
• Familiar motion that human observers wave off at first.

The resemblance is functional, not taxonomic. Dissection turns up anatomy built from whatever local substrate took part in the fluctuation.

Specimens collected after an archive fire held cellulose fibers, soot, photographic silver, and fragments of magnetic coating. Hospital specimens took in aerosolized proteins, polymer dust, disinfectant, and skin cells. Flies emerging near a quantum processor carried patterned superconducting films where their nerves should have been.

Common features include:

• Wings whose veins resemble maps, handwriting, or neural dendrites.
• Compound eyes showing the same remembered location over and over.
• Mouthparts folded around a dense blue-black information organ.
• Abdominal segments holding objects too large to have developed there.
• Missing bilateral features made up for by angular projections.
• Pulse, temperature, and metabolism that do not match the local chemistry.

Some specimens arrive already injured, gravid, parasitized, or aged. Those states belong to the fluctuated configuration. They tell you nothing about prior development, because there was none.

Memory-bearing anatomy

The most dangerous specimens carry a mnemonic knot, a compact network of biological, electronic, crystalline, or angular states. Its correlations encode one episode rather than an entire mind.

The Fly goes looking for a nervous system whose existing structure can complete that episode. Contact supplies a partial pattern. The recipient’s brain fills in faces, language, bodily perspective, and emotional associations. So two people inoculated from one specimen may remember the same event from different personal viewpoints.

This resembles pattern completion only as inspiration. Neuroscience supports the reconstruction of memories from partial cues and distributed representations. It offers no mechanism by which an insect installs a detailed foreign autobiography by biting someone.

Transferred memories fall into four operational classes.

Class	Physical origin	Evidential status
Endogenous fluctuation	Random organization within the specimen	Usually unsupported and potentially meaningless
Counterfactual inheritance	A nearby alternative or incompatible history	Coherent, sometimes predictive, absent from the surviving record
Exported residue	Information displaced by an angular organism	May authenticate an erased event or person
Composite completion	Fly pattern combined with the recipient’s own memory	Partly familiar, highly convincing, causally mixed

No subjective feature reliably tells the classes apart.

Fluctuation Density

Use Fluctuation Density to represent how strongly a location concentrates improbable organisms. Track it from 0 to 6 and keep it visible once the Protagonists identify the phenomenon.

Density	Condition	Manifestation
0	Background	Ordinary fluctuations only
1	Statistical residue	Repeated improbable arrangements, isolated wingbeats, transient cold and hot spots
2	Nucleation	One incomplete or nonviable specimen per scene
3	Viability	Living Flies appear; one memory-bearing specimen per hour
4	Swarm	Coordinated feeding, equipment contamination, repeated memories
5	Cognitive bloom	Complex memories, technical competence, and human-directed behavior
6	Observer event	A larger temporary cognitive organism begins assembling from the local environment

Increasing Density

Add 1 when any of the following happens inside the contaminated region:

• An angular organism exports a major record or entropy load.
• An Eraser completes Historical Excision.
• A Cleaner’s Digestive Archive ruptures or performs a mass export.
• A False Vacuum Nest collapses asymmetrically.
• A Hound is forced abruptly into one finite projection.
• Investigators concentrate several mnemonic knots in one apparatus.
• A major heat, chemical, electrical, or informational gradient couples to blue residue.

Ordinary heating on its own cannot create Boltzmann Flies. Temperature speeds up many microscopic processes while also destroying delicate correlations. Density measures angular concentration and usable nonequilibrium structure, not a thermometer reading.

Reducing Density

• Separate mnemonic knots and contaminated matter into independent rounded containers.
• Map and sever the angular boundary coupling before removing heat.
• Drain free-energy gradients gradually through diverse passive sinks.
• Let exported record structure disperse without recording its detailed fluctuations.
• Use controlled disorder to keep the same mnemonic pattern from assembling twice.
• Move observers and nervous tissue outside the coupled volume.

One successful Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Unnatural, or relevant professional test identifies a usable intervention. Two independent successes reduce Density by 1. Failure reveals a real constraint without moving the track. A fumble raises Density by 1 or exposes an operator to inoculation.

At Density 6, dropping the track below 6 before three Observation Intervals pass prevents the Observer Event. If the event completes, run the resulting organism as a unique entity with its own motives and statistics. A human face or voice does not establish human identity.

Counterfactual Memory procedure

When a Protagonist picks up a transferred memory, the Handler writes five elements:

1. Episode: what the character remembers happening.
2. Emotional anchor: why the event matters personally.
3. Known correspondence: one detail matching present reality.
4. Testable claim: one fact the group can investigate.
5. Causal trace: the physical evidence, if any, connecting the memory to a history.

Reveal the episode, the emotion, and the known correspondence immediately. The claim becomes available through questioning, reflection, Psychotherapy, or a relevant professional skill. The causal trace has to be discovered in play.

Track the memory’s status:

Status	Meaning
Unsupported	Only the recipient and the Fly carry the information
Compatible	Surviving evidence permits the event but does not support it
Predictive	The memory supplied a correct fact the recipient could not have had
Corroborated	An independent record supports part of the episode
Contradicted	Reliable evidence excludes at least one necessary claim
Authenticated	A physical causal chain connects the memory to an actual or erased event

Prediction raises evidential weight without proving the whole episode. A Fly can weave authentic technical data together with invented people and emotions. Authentication should require at least two independent physical links, or one uniquely identifying trace with secure provenance.

Memory effects

An inoculated character loses 1D6 WP and tests SAN at 1/1D6. Record the memory as a temporary Bond with a score equal to half the character’s POW, rounded up. The Bond attaches to a person, place, duty, or loss described by the episode.

When the character acts to protect or recover the remembered subject, they may add +20% to one relevant test per session. When reliable evidence contradicts the memory, the character tests SAN at 1/1D8 and loses 1 point from the temporary Bond.

At zero, the memory stays accessible but loses its autobiographical force. Authentication converts the temporary Bond into a real relationship or obligation only when an actual living subject exists and the player accepts it.

The Handler should never use a transferred memory to dictate a Protagonist’s private feelings, sexuality, loyalties, or past conduct. The imposed Bond measures the physical pressure of the mnemonic pattern. The player decides how the character reads and resists it.

Cthulhu Eternal Statistics

Individual Boltzmann Fly

Spontaneous mnemonic organism

Characteristic	Roll	Typical
STR	1D2	1
CON	1D4+1	3
DEX	3D6+8	18
INT	1D12	varies (see Borrowed Intelligence)
POW	1D6+3	6

HP 2, WP 6 (HP is the average of STR and CON; WP equals POW) Movement: 10 meters/yards flying Skills: Alertness 60%, Dodge 70%, Navigate 80%, Stealth 60%, Unarmed Combat 30%, Unnatural 30% Armor: None; mundane barriers give normal protection vs Lethal Damage: FRAGILE; any successful Lethality attack destroys the specimen SAN loss: 0/1D4 to dissect a spontaneous specimen; 1/1D6 to hear it remember the observer; 1D4/1D8 to verify that its impossible memory is causally accurate

Attacks

Mnemonic bite 30%, damage 1. Armor that stops skin contact blocks the bite. On a successful hit, the Fly may immediately attempt Memory Inoculation.

Memory Inoculation 60%, opposed by POW, costs all remaining WP. The Fly transfers its mnemonic knot and dies. Success gives the target one Counterfactual Memory, causes 1D6 WP loss, and requires a SAN test at 1/1D6. Failure destroys the knot without transfer. A critical success gives the memory one Predictive detail.

Powers

Brief Existence: At the end of each scene, test the Fly’s CON. Failure collapses its organized body back into local constituent matter. Refrigeration, vacuum storage, and chemical preservation delay ordinary decay while leaving the fluctuation lifetime untouched.

Borrowed Intelligence: Roll INT when the specimen appears. INT 1 to 3 gives insect-like behavior. INT 4 to 8 permits planning and tool recognition. INT 9 to 12 may support language, self-awareness, and explicit understanding of the encoded memory. The intelligence ends with the specimen.

Improbable Anatomy: A Search, Science, Medicine, Pharmacy, or Unnatural test identifies one constituent or anatomical relationship that could not plausibly have assembled locally. Each test consumes part of the specimen unless noninvasive equipment is used.

Boltzmann Fly Swarm

Angularly concentrated fluctuation colony

Characteristic	Roll	Typical
STR	2D6	7
CON	3D6+2	12
DEX	3D6+8	18
INT	2D6+3	10
POW	4D6+2	16

HP 10, WP 16 (HP is the average of STR and CON; WP equals POW) Movement: 15 meters/yards flying Skills: Alertness 80%, Dodge 60%, Navigate 90%, Search 70%, Stealth 40%, Unarmed Combat 50%, Unnatural 50% Armor: 2 points from dispersal; firearms inflict a maximum of 1 damage per successful attack unless using a suitable area or spread effect vs Lethal Damage: NORMAL against fire, blast, vacuum, chemical dispersal, or another area effect; RESILIENT against attacks that affect one point target SAN loss: 1/1D6 to see a swarm assemble; 1D4/1D8 to hear it speak through hundreds of incompatible lives

Attacks

Swarm abrasion 50%, damage 1D4. The swarm gets into clothing, machinery, eyes, and airways. Sealed protective equipment blocks the attack until it is breached.

Mass Inoculation 60%, opposed by POW, costs 4 WP. The target receives one Counterfactual Memory and loses 1D8 WP. On a critical success, two incompatible memories arrive together and require a SAN test at 1D4/1D10.

Instrument Bloom 70%, costs 3 WP. The swarm enters one active machine and uses its gradients as assembly substrate. Success disables the device for 1D6 turns and restores 1D4 swarm HP. Repair means removing the mnemonic material without concentrating it somewhere else.

Cognitive Avalanche 50%, Lethality 10%, costs 6 WP. Available at Density 5 or 6. The swarm forces several autobiographical patterns into one nervous system. On a failed Lethality roll, add the percentile dice for WP damage instead of HP damage. A victim reduced to 0 WP goes temporarily catatonic and speaks in alternating identities.

Powers

Distributed Fluctuation: Reducing the swarm to 0 HP disperses the current specimens. If Density is still 4 or higher, a new swarm assembles after 1D6 hours. Permanent remediation means reducing Density.

Mnemonic Chorus: The swarm can compare its constituent memories and answer questions through patterned flight, wing vibration, writing in dust, or instrument output. Answers reflect the majority correlation among specimens. Shared origin can make every specimen wrong in exactly the same way.

Entropy Wake: When the swarm loses 5 or more HP in one turn, nearby equipment heats, cools, charges, discharges, or suffers chemical separation. The Handler picks a carrier that fits the environment. Anyone in direct contact tests DEX or suffers 1D6 damage.

Causal Scavenging: A swarm near an Eraser’s unexported record, a ruptured Cleaner archive, or Hound residue gains +20% to Memory Inoculation and produces one memory relevant to that source.

Containment and investigation

Sample without selecting

Broad collection methods catch the population present at one moment. Sorting specimens for a desired memory can raise Density, because the apparatus becomes a physical selector coupled to the angular reservoir.

Preserve random samples in separate containers. Record the collection conditions before you examine any memory content.

Compare independent populations

A detail that repeats across one swarm may only reflect a shared boundary condition. The same detail turning up in specimens collected from physically and angularly isolated sites is much stronger evidence.

Separate content from provenance

Investigators should keep two files. One records what each memory says. The other records where the specimen appeared, what it was made of, its collection chain, and every physical relationship to known angular events.

Mix those files and a vivid narrative quietly stands in for evidence.

Protect cognition

Respirators, sealed eye protection, positive-pressure clothing, remote manipulators, and isolated instruments prevent most inoculation. Sound alone can trigger ordinary recognition and distress, but it cannot install the mnemonic knot unless an angularly active transducer turns it into a compatible neural stimulus.

Destroy safely

Individual Flies are easy to kill. A swarm’s matter has to be dispersed while its free-energy gradients and angular coupling are brought down. Incineration can raise Density by supplying heat, aerosols, ionization, and a common plume. Controlled chemical denaturation followed by distributed cooling is safer.

Test the memory

Use evidence capable of failing the remembered claim. A test built only to find similarities will always succeed against a detailed enough episode. Reward attempts to falsify, to compare provenance, and to obtain predictions before opening any archive.

Running the Flies fairly

• Write the Episode, emotional anchor, correspondence, testable claim, and causal trace before inoculation.
• Give every important memory at least one accessible test.
• Keep subjective certainty separate from evidential status.
• Let successful investigation contradict attractive memories.
• Permit authenticated memories to restore records consumed elsewhere.
• Make shared error possible when specimens have one angular source.
• Keep Density visible after the Protagonists identify it.
• Use protective equipment according to its actual coverage.
• Put the clearly labeled statistics where readers can find them.
• Resolve an Observer Event as a separate entity, not an arbitrary apocalypse.

The premise runs on disciplined uncertainty. Withhold every answer and the memory system turns into improvisational fog. Make every implanted memory prophetic and the Flies turn into an oracle service.

Compact incident: Isaac’s eleven funerals

The laboratory begins at Fluctuation Density 4. An Eraser died inside the containment room after consuming the final records of physicist Isaac Mercer. Its Digestive Counterhistory ruptured while the body was burning.

The swarm carries three recurring episodes:

1. Isaac died closing a north cryogenic valve during a containment failure.
2. Araceli Ward died while Isaac escaped.
3. Both survived, married, and left the program after they realized the experiment attracted Hounds.

The present laboratory has no north valve, because renovation removed the older cryogenic plant. Architectural plans reveal a sealed pipe chase beneath the calorimeter. Inside it are the valve, two wedding rings, and a strip of blue tissue folded around a handwritten shutdown sequence.

Each episode holds authentic information exported from Isaac’s damaged history. None of them reproduces that history completely. The Eraser consumed different record families, and the Flies assembled several compatible reconstructions out of the residue.

Opening the pipe chase authenticates Isaac’s existence and restores one Historical Support. Reading the shutdown sequence identifies the experiment that created his Hound correlation. Publishing the evidence can restore him more fully while raising Scent.

At Density 6, the room begins assembling an adult human nervous system around the calorimeter. Every Fly calls it Isaac. Its first complete sentence asks Ward which funeral she remembers.

Scenario hooks

The dead language

Flies emerge from a museum climate-control system, speaking through their wingbeats in a language absent from every collection. Their memories describe the museum as a temple built three thousand years before the city.

One specimen knows the combination to a modern storage vault.

Technical inheritance

A bitten engineer picks up expertise in a reactor design that breaks current safety assumptions and appears to work anyway. Each successful test of the design raises local Density and brings in more memories of the nonexistent laboratory that developed it.

Funeral weather

Every specimen collected after an Eraser event remembers rain at the same funeral. Meteorological records show clear skies on every candidate date. The water inside the Flies carries isotopes that match a storm currently forming over the Atlantic.

The nursery swarm

A neonatal ward develops harmless white Flies carrying adult memories attributed to the infants. Several of the memories describe choices the children might make decades from now. Parents start reorganizing their lives around evidence with no established provenance.

Majority report

Thousands of Flies remember one Protagonist committing a murder. The details agree more tightly than real eyewitness testimony ever does. The alleged victim is alive, and has started remembering the murder too.

Field classification

BOLTZMANN FLIES Type: Short-lived spontaneous organisms and mnemonic contaminants Habitat: Thermodynamic wakes of angular manifestations, erasures, forced projections, archive ruptures, and unstable habitats Diet: Briefly sustained free-energy gradients; many specimens never feed Behavior: Assemble, seek compatible observers, transfer mnemonic knots, and return to disorder Reproduction: None demonstrated; repeated specimens are independently selected fluctuations Movement principle: Ordinary flight backed by angular concentration at high Density Primary sign: Insects made of local debris carrying detailed memories with no causal provenance Containment principle: Disperse angular exhaust, reduce gradients, isolate mnemonic knots, and authenticate memories through independent evidence Critical hazard: A coherent memory can guide correct action while describing a life that never happened

Where the science ends

Boltzmann entropy, phase-space multiplicity, thermodynamic fluctuations, fluctuation theorems, nonequilibrium work relations, de Sitter temperature, vacuum decay, cosmological measure problems, and the Boltzmann-brain argument all belong to real physics and cosmology.

Fluctuation theorems operate under defined statistical assumptions and have important applications in microscopic systems. They do not predict that laboratory ash will assemble into insects. The Boltzmann-brain problem shows up in particular long-lived cosmological models and depends heavily on how infinities, observers, and vacuum transitions are handled.

Known physics offers no angular reservoir, no local concentrator of remote fluctuations, no selection pressure for mnemonic insects, no transfer of a detailed foreign episode through a bite, and no inheritance from histories the present records exclude.

The Tindalosian axiom supplies all of those mechanisms. Fluctuation Density, mnemonic knots, Counterfactual Memories, and Observer Events are fictional consequences built for play.

Sources and further reading

• Gavin E. Crooks, “Entropy Production Fluctuation Theorem and the Nonequilibrium Work Relation for Free Energy Differences”, Physical Review E 60 (1999).
• Lisa Dyson, Matthew Kleban, and Leonard Susskind, “Disturbing Implications of a Cosmological Constant”, Journal of High Energy Physics 10 (2002).
• Don N. Page, “Return of the Boltzmann Brains”, Physical Review D 78 (2008).
• Ken D. Olum, Param Upadhyay, and Alexander Vilenkin, “Black Holes and Uptunneling Suppress Boltzmann Brains”, Physical Review D 104 (2021).

Final specimen

Ward isolated one surviving Fly in a glass vial and set it beneath a microscope.

Its wings had stopped. The mnemonic knot went on firing in a pattern that matched human speech.

The software reconstructed six words:

Please stop remembering me in pieces.

Ward reached for the vial.

Behind her, the calorimeter inhaled.