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[covertness]

what do you remember from before the crash?

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[strove]

I've seen someone go braindead because they were killed in the simulation. I've also seen someone's mind safely uploaded. So, that's where that was coming from.

But I think it's safe to say those corpses we left behind on the bus are very, very dead.

Have you dealt with a timeline mismatch of this scale before?

[retravel]

I see.

[ it's fascinating that their experiences are so similar. ]

Not of this scale. I've dealt with a 74-year jump, but that was comparatively straightforward: Two-way wormhole opening at points A and B.

[strove]

Was that a wormhole between the same world, akin to time travel?

[Which she ... knows nothing about. Oh, if Raven was here. Raven probably knows things about theoretical physics somehow, at least by now.]

Or different versions of the same world? I assume if it's straightforward, it's simply going forward, but I ... don't know if that's actually how straightforward it can be for someone else.

[retravel]

Yes, exactly, akin to time travel.
Same "world" or universe, but time and space (or spacetime) travel within it.
Think more physical, like a tunnel. You enter at one end, and exit at the other. Each end is separate point in spacetime, differentiated by its location, time, or both. You enter on earth and pop out on a far-off planet or vice versa. Same goes for entering in your current year and exiting ten years ahead.

Travel between different worlds would be interuniversal. If you accept that mutliple universes exist, you can apply the same tunnel imagery. So, if we're all from separate universes, then we've all gone through different tunnels to reach the same endpoint: Here. Much less straightforward because of the numerous routes involved.

[strove]

I'm really glad that someone here both accepts it when I say I can't possibly be from this version of Earth and offers an explanation for what happened. I'm not sure if they bothered to interrogate us for our knowledge before we were being shipped to another location, but it'll be good for us to have what you've just laid out as a reference.

Do you have any guesses on how difficult it would be to pull that off in this world? Based on the minimal amount of technology you've seen already.

[retravel]

[ !!! what a nice reply. ]

The same to you, honestly. It's a relief that someone else is thinking along these lines.

Very difficult. El and Gaby seem as confused by us as we are by them. And most theorists think interuniversal tunnels would collapse in on themselves before anything could make it through to the other side, so. This is beyond what I thought possible.

[ eating crow re: the multiverse theory is... the worst. ]

[strove]

Well, I have a feeling that if we can figure out how we got here, you're going to really shake up your world with what we've found.

Because we're obviously returning home. In time.

[Though Clarke wonders if she'll be the only one uncertain about whether that's something she wants to do.

But that's far from a question she will propose to ... anyone.]

[retravel]

Yeah, we are.

[ he and jemma haven't crossed space and time, the virtual and the real, only to end up separated by universes. ]

If there's a way here, there's a way out.

[strove]

I'd like to have more of an idea of who did this to us. And why.

While we're at finding the way out, anyway.