The Conference #
In a crowded modern lecture hall, Lucia presents the discovery of the complete Method of Mechanical Theorems. "For a thousand years, we only knew it through a palimpsest. But this... this is the original ink."
She explains the "illegal" nature of Archimedes' logic: "He isn't doing geometry here. He is doing physics. He is slicing the sphere into infinite wafers and weighing them. He invented Integral Calculus two thousand years before Newton."
Lucia points to the weaponized potential of the theorem: "The Romans at Syracuse remembered him as a nightmare. He proved that a single mind, armed with the right math, could break a fleet."
Ulysses stands at the back, watching Lucia shine as she articulates the Master's logic: science as the ultimate equalizer.