Geron Kees

More on this after the last chapter is posted?

That's right.

You have a future in observational psychology!

Nor such cool ears! Does Spock know you've borrowed them?

Sorry. In using an uncapitalized 'earth', I just meant good ol' dirt. I'll answer any question you have, after the story is over!

Der fliegende Holländer, klinkt goed!

One day, either your head will explode with these ideas, or mine will!

C.

Imagine if you take two complete universes. You set one on a table, and then you set the other right down in the same place. Because of the distances between suns and other stellar objects, many stars and even galaxies of the second universe will simply occupy empty space in the first universe. The dispersion of matter in our own universe leaves a heck of a lot of empty space. But because these two universes occupy the same place but not the same space, it's irrelevant in most all cases. You cannot in any way detect either universe from the other. But the odds are that some few stars will occupy the exact same places in both universes.These two universes don't interact normally, but placing two gravity wells in the exact same place could possibly cause the two universes to interact at those small locations. It is an idea that has no basis in fact that we know of, but that doesn't mean it's impossible. Only 100 years ago, it was thought that the entire universe consisted of the Milky Way galaxy alone. The discovery of Cepheid variable stars, which vary in luminosity at a predictable rate everywhere in the cosmos, allowed scientists to locate their physical position in space by comparing their apparent luminosity to their intrinsic luminosity to give their distance from Earth. At that time, the distant blotches of stars seen in the heavens were thought to be nebulae of dust within our own galaxy. Edwin Hubble located a Cepheid variable in one of these nebulae, and determined its distance to be so far from the earth and the Milky Way that it had to be another galaxy beyond our own. So it was only a century ago that the size of the universe was totally reassessed, and discovered to be filled with other galaxies than our own. The science we know today that seems like fact is subject to change tomorrow. Science is one field where we can never safely say never!

At least, I hope it wasn't boring!

The speed of their return to the room which Lodda occupied was amazing. Jamie simply told the new perspective to take them there immediately. Their collective vision blurred momentarily, and then they were simply there. Lodda was in the middle of a conversation with the bodiless voice when they arrived, eating from a plate he held in one hand. That reminded Jamie that it had been a while now since they had eaten, themselves. But the thought vanished as Lodda suddenly cut off his speech in m

There are plenty of places in THIS world where humans are a bunch of yahoos, too! That's sort of amazing. "You peed on my house!" "Yeah, but it would have burned to the ground if I hadn't!" "Yes, but you peed on my house!" You just can't please some people.

If he is, he ain't saying!

Flitch is a fellow traveler, just as Jamie is, in the nether. He seems to have no agenda with regards to Jamie or his people. Sometimes, a friend is just a friend.

I'd love to answer questions now, but they have to wait until after the story is posted.

The 'oracle' in Methuwan is damaged. The one out in space...?

I'd tell you, but then I'd have to reprogram you!

Be fun if you could just say, "NO! Write 20 more chapters, and I'd do it."

Porvus may not know exactly what forces the ancient mages used to defend their world. But that it was done by huge numbers of mages was part of it.

I will answer any questions still remaining, after the story is all posted.

I can't say!

Or something like that!

Just remember that everything in this story is told from the viewpoint of people NOT educated in science. So some of what they say is speculation, some is intuitive, and some is just wrong.

I'll wait until all the story is posted to comment on some of these ideas.

There are other alternatives.