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[A strange experiment, Robert thinks, but he's grateful for it. It allowed for a demonstration of the capabilities of the world to Rosalind without providing an experience that might have injured her. Better, certainly, than his own first encounter with such things.

Now that it is is passed, though, they can resume their work.

It's the middle of the afternoon when he opens the Journal again. He's used it as a sort of voxophone before -- storing his thoughts and sharing them with others. There is no reason not to do it now.]

It remains my theory that this world we reside in does not exist parallel to other worlds but is, in fact, a tangent world, crossing many universes with many timelines at a metaphorical angle. [If it ran parallel, in his experience, there might be accounting for the variations on one particular world -- and it was still possible that everyone here was merely from extreme variations of the same world -- but not inconsistencies in timeline. A Booker DeWitt who stepped out of July 12th, 1912 would arrive in the world of Columbia on July 12th, 1912.

A tangent line, however, could take, for this example, a DeWitt from July 12th, 1912; an Elizabeth from February, 1909; a Rosalind from October 19th, 1899. It had not, but it answered for how such things -- as had been observed in their own case in a small way and in others' in much more noticeable strides -- happened.]

It is even possible that, rather than in a particular time or place, this "Luceti" occupies some stable portion of the possibility space. [If the possibility space was an infinite as he and Rosalind believed, then it, like worlds, contained infinite possibilities. A pocket of it might well house them now.] This would account for the variable nature of the world -- the ability to alter time, perception, and even the permanency of death.

There is no way to test this theory save to attempt to recreate our machine and access the Lutece Tear, so we are resolved.

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[Voice]

[yourfononsarewhack]

[Ah, Jade had been meaning to get to know more of this world's supposed intellectuals, and here one is. Perhaps some intelligent conversation could be like a good tonic for the metaphorical hangover of having been his younger self.]

I can't say that I've studied quantum mechanics to such a comprehensive degree, but my, even so, this certainly sounds like an intriguing notion. What exactly is a Lutece Tear?

[Voice]

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My work is in quantum physics, a field in which, where I am from, little work has been done. Therefore, the naming of the phenomena I have encountered has been limited to myself and a colleague.

A "tear" in the sense that I use it is a weak point between different universes. There are places where these occur naturally. They allow glimpses of the sights and sounds across the barrier. The Lutece Tear is a man-made tear, one that can be controlled and manipulated by a machine. It allows not for just perception with another universe but for interaction.

One can cross between worlds.

[Voice]

[yourfononsarewhack]

I see. It certainly sounds incredible and unbelievable in theory. Are you saying that this machine actually worked?

[Voice]

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It did. I crossed the boundaries between worlds myself.

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[breezing]

...What's all that mean?

What's a Tear? What's a tangent world? What's a metaphorical angle? What's possibility space? What machine are you making? Does it do something cool?

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[...A child. Okay. Children's terms. It's actually pretty easy. He just imagines explaining it to DeWitt.]

The machine creates a very large tear, which is like a window or door. Except it goes between worlds. For instance, different tears could take us all to our respective home worlds.

As for a the "tangent world" and metaphorical angle...

Imagine that our worlds are like this:

[He draws three lines in the journal. Then draws one straight across and writes next to that line "normal angle."

He draws another three lines and a fourth one crossing them at an angle. That line gets marked "tangent angle."]

Rather than passing through the same point in every world, it passes through different points.

The possibility space... Think of it like crossing a hallway between two rooms. You leave one room, go to the hallway, then go into the next room. The hallway is the possibility space. You've left one place and have all your options for where else to go there. All the possibilities.

Does that make sense?

[SCIENCE IS FUN, RIGHT?]

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[breezing]

[ To her credit, Ikki will always listen to the answers to any questions she asks. ...Even if she might occasionally, you know, interrupt people in everyday conversation with questions, she's willing to listen to the answers that come for them, usually in expectant silence right up until the second someone finishes speaking. ]

So, the tangent angle is how come we're all from different times, but if it were the normal one, we'd all be from the same time??

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A tangent or pocket world would indeed account for the strange variations in time and universes crossing... Yes, that theory is indeed quite sound. However, I have seen the stars in the sky - they are unfamiliar, despite my thorough study of the skies.

The necessary equipment to create a pocket universe, however, is quite possible although it is something far beyond anything I've ever heard or seen in existence. T-tell me, was it possible to create such things in your- your world?

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I don't know. Certainly, the machines that my partner and I were able to design and build never accomplished anything like that.

[Robert, personally, has a dozen theories about Luceti and its strange ways.]

This particular sort of situation is one I never encountered in my work.

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Such technology is far beyond that which we are capable of. ...the other universe, however, perhaps they-- But, no...They would have used something like that to save themselves already if that were the case.

Although a pocket universe would account for the strange physics, the time distortions and the sky. ...Perhaps all the worlds colliding here have created a new sky, an- an amalgamation of all the skies from the various worlds represented?

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... and where are you planning on putting this machine? Exactly?

[She's seen your house Robert.]

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This is why a laboratory was a necessary requirement for the house.

[In other words: wherever it will fit.]

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But that machine took up your entire house.

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[Asami stumbles her way through a lot of that, and picks the thing that seems the most important. Sort of...]

...The Lutece Tear?

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An artificial window or door between multiple universes, stabilized by a machine.

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[Well that answers the 'what's the machine for' question she was going to ask next.]

So...you...could send people home.

[Voice]

[spohkh]

That is an interesting theory, however, if it is viable I would question the stability of such a space.

[Voice]

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Of what space? The possibility space?

I think it's been proven that whatever space we occupy here -- whether a tangible part of the possibility space or a different universe entirely -- is unstable. One only needs to look at the last few months to see evidence of that. And further back, as I understand that these happenings are not a new occurrence.

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[spohkh]

It seems as though you are comparing the instability with the phenomenon known as the Malnosso. This planet, or rather the space this ground occupies is a singularity.

May I inquire as to your name?

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[There is an angry looking DeWitt slamming into whatever room you're in dick. Common decency be damned, you don't get a knock.]

You want to do what now?

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Recreate the machine of Rosalind's design.

[He isn't surprised to see DeWitt. In fact, he only just looks up from his books.]

Eventually, at leas.

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Yeah, I got that much.

Just what the hell are you thinking you're going to do with this?

[If it even sounds like what he's afraid of happening oh you are going to get so shut down every time you try something.]

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Hmmm...

[ Lenalee isn't a scientist, but her brother is and her self-education is nothing to underestimate. It takes a bit for terms to come together in her head, but she finally speaks up. ]

So you think this place always exists in the same moment regardless of what happens to the people in it?

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I believe it has its own timeline but that said timeline does not operate in the same fashion as other worlds. It is accepted, after all, that time does not pass in other worlds despite passing here.

So it may be that time here runs perpendicular to other worlds.

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[blade_waltz]

Erm...

I'm sorry, that is hard to imagine. Maybe if I drew a chart...