2 ][ Concern

[the_pointsman]

They're doing what?

They want to set up a door out of the City? Are they--are they completely mad? They can't do that! Not if they expect the entire metacellular structure of this entire place to remain stable! Any kind of interference at that kind of structural level will result in nothing less than every last sub-sub-atomic particle turning to its inversion and thereby completely dematerializing the City. I don't mean we'll find ourselves with left-handed molecules but the entire chain will come undone.

They have absolutely no concept of what they're meddling with! They've met with some small success in the course of their tests and now they think that they've found a safe passage out of this place? That's impossible! No, absolutely not!

The possibilities of escape are rendered absolutely null in a situation such as this one where the vibrational resonances of the present organisms and reality only extend as far as the fourth dimension. It's technically impossible to present an avenue of escape at all without the presence of these vibrations in the fifth dimension--at least the fifth dimension. Lacking that kind of reach, there's absolutely no way that door will open anywhere except immediately behind itself. It's a doorway and not a door at all. It opens to nothing. It's an arch. And so far as I know, they've not addressed their means of navigation even if they could obtain the proper vibrational frequencies needed to break on through to the other side. Positing for the moment that they have managed to reach the proper vibrational frequencies, because we'll imagine that they've managed to make a diamond quantum circuit, this is rather like opening a door in a house one doesn't know: there's absolutely no telling where the door might lead and if one might want to pass through it. And it may be impossible to tell where it's leading before passing through it. Furthermore, the infinitude of potential worlds means that with only one door, either everyone will be forced to evacuate to the same world, good or ill, or everyone will have to wait a literal eternity until his own world appears in the doorway. Or perhaps a world only very much like it without being that world exactly. There isn't any telling how the City manages to open and close its portals as it does and these people are completely made to try and replicate that kind of sophisticated movement and vibration across the infinite variety of worlds!

To say nothing of the fact that one of them is a dog!

[ooc: What's going on? Better see this post for more!]

Comments

[candothat]

No, yes, this is precisely what has been concerning me! The stability of the City once a door is made--that is if that can be done, I still have doubts--is very uncertain, and I have been thinking of the difficulties of navigation even if a gateway should be successfully created.

That one of them is a dog, however, does not make their research any less valid, I only wish there would be further research before they dissemble the City at the subatomic level.

voice;

[maoser]

What's wrong with a dog? [Other than everything, but Mao's biased. You know, being a cat and all.]

voice;

[the_pointsman]

He's a dog!

[the_pointsman]

The fact that he's a dog makes me very concerned, thank you very much.

[skintoskin]

[Sailing over Neil's head like... a sailing thing would do...]

Uh... what?

Re: voice;

[maoser]

So you've said. But I don't get your point.

voice;

[the_pointsman]

How can the ostensible scientific findings of a dog be considered valid?

[the_pointsman]

What?

[sitaronthewater]

Uh. I didn't understand any of that. But, I mean, as long as it's not the dog that killed me, I guess it's okay?

[deadmanbusiness]

You know, you sounded just like my ritual mage friend when he's drunk.

voice;

[maoser]

How can the ostensible scientific findings of a human be considered valid?

[candothat]

More concerned than the possible destruction of the City and the navigational difficulties posed if a gate is successfully created, or is that concern only amplified by the dog?

[skintoskin]

What you just said. I'm not a fuckin' geek. Again, in English.

[the_pointsman]

That concern is rather distinctly amplified because of the dog.

voice;

[the_pointsman]

There's more data created by humans, or at least non-canines, which thereby suggests a certain preexisting familiarity with things like science which is lacking in corresponding canine populations.

[the_pointsman]

They want to send all your atoms on a permanent vacation very far away from one another. And one of the creatures that wishes to do this is a dog.

[the_pointsman]

Believe me, I could hardly be more sober at the moment.

[the_pointsman]

Beginning with your experience there, a dog having killed you, I would wonder how well you could trust others of the same species.

[sitaronthewater]

What, Nobodies? People aren't usually supposed to trust us anyways. We're "the bad guys".

[the_pointsman]

No, no, I mean, how could you trust a dog after you were killed by one?

Re: voice;

[maoser]

Maybe the canines just haven't shared their results.

voice;

[the_pointsman]

Yes, yes, very witty.

Re: voice;

[maoser]

I try.

so sorry, been in and out of hospital...

[skintoskin]

A dog?

Oh.

Okay, yeah, that's weird.

And... dangerous, I guess?

OMG--I hope you're doing better now

[the_pointsman]

Of course it's dangerous! What else do you think it could possibly be besides dangerous?!