經典科幻文學:《銀河系漫遊指南》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，麥克米倫？”他問，“你怎麼會在這兒？”
“和你一樣，”她說，“我在搭便車漫遊。畢竟，拿了一個數學學位和一個天體物理學學位，我還能做別的什麼呢？只能選擇這個，要不只能在星期一排隊領救濟。”
“無窮負1，”電腦這時又出聲了，“非概率總數終於算出來了。”
贊福德看了一眼自己，然後看看福特，再看阿瑟，最後看崔莉恩。
“崔莉恩，”他說，“這一類事情在我們每一次使用非概率驅動的時候都會發生嗎？”
“恐怕很有可能。”她回答說。

黃金之心號靜靜地穿過太空的暗夜，它現在使用的是常規的光子驅動。船上的四人隱隱感覺到，他們之所以走到一起來，既不是出於本人的意志，也不僅僅只是一個巧合，而是由於某種奇怪的物理倒錯——彷彿人與人之間的關係同樣要受到控制原子和分子之間關係的物理法則的影響。
當飛船上的人工夜晚降臨後，他們才謝天謝地地回到各自獨立的休息艙，極力整理一下自己的思路。