Robert Lutece (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ablankpage) wrote2013-09-26 11:15 am
ablankpage) wrote2013-09-26 11:15 am
Voxophone 4/?? - Voice
[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.
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.
voice;
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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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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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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Exactly. Because it passes through at an angle, there's even more variation than if it passed straight through.
Of course, this is only a theory.
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And I always heard that the world's what's bringing us here, but I guess no one knows if it's 'cause of the world or something that was done to the world?
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[He pauses, considering it.]
The problem is that, in my experience, crossing between worlds has a very taxing physical and mental kickback. The lack of it makes me think we are not in an actual world unto itself but a kind of stable zone of the possibility space.
Our minds and bodies do not have to adapt to a new reality because we have not actually entered one.
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[ She's trying to figure this out. ]
An inbetween place?
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THAT'S EVEN BETTER THAN DRAGONS. Ikki spins around, although through the voice function, there's only a squeal as she turns, happily. ]
In the sky? A whole city? Were there castles there? Can I see it someday? Did people know how to fly?
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I wanna go there someday! And fly in the city!
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It's quite marvellous to see.
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But we don't have those at home...so, I haven't gone to one yet. I was gonna build one, though.
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