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PSILINK DB
PSILINK SUMMARY: The Realm
Your request for a summary best-guess
re: The Realm is approved. Summary
follows.
The Realm is that region beyond Portal
which occupies various combinations of
the seven dimensions beyond the
so-called normal four (space/time).
Projections assume that the combinations
suggested may include the normal four,
although not consistently.
Some possible consequences:
1) Time travel. Because parts of The
Realm may or may not include space/time
among their dimension set, time may be a
fluid dimension, subject to movement.
One potential of this is passage of
thought information through time,
possibly including some electromagnetic
and quantum effects as well. It is
presumed that physical travel is not a
likely consequence.
2) Near-instantaneous spatial
transportation. In the mental sphere
certainly The Realm offers perception
and transportation of data sets across
great physical distances, from galactic
to near-universal. Energy expenditures
would be considerable for extragalactic
distances, and may subject the traveler
to unsupportable stress, but it is
assumed from the correlates to the psion
equations that galactic distances offer
no significant obstacle to
mental/psychic travel.
3) Potential physical interstellar
transportation. At this time the
equations are incomplete, and this
remains a speculative issue. However,
there is nothing known to date to
prevent, given appropriate technologies,
interstellar travel at magnitudes of
light speed. While the energy
expenditure would be considerably
greater than for psychic travel, the
Anomaly provides more than adequate
axion flux for such travel. The Vega
starships, for example, could be met by
people from Earth. This may not be a
desirable project.
4) Empathy/sympathy and
distance-dependent physical
intervention. These are included
together since they fall farther into
the speculative region of consequences,
and confidence is not high. Yet it seems
possible for quantum energy to be
projected through Portal tunneling to
distant parts of the universe, with a
cascade of carefully preplanned results.
At the same time, such effects would be
difficult without the empathy/sympathy
component active at the time. This
means, in a strange ethical way this AI
cannot fully understand, that the Portal
and The Realm cannot easily be used for
what human beings call "Evil."
5) There is every possibility that The
Realm is populated. If human beings can
go there (and it seems that they can),
then other species will surely have done
so too.