| B: |
Think it like this. You're sitting at the bottom of a pond which
is frozen over. And you look up the surface and you see
a reflection of yourself. Now you might think you're looking at
another person sitting at the bottom of another pond looking back at you.
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| Ja: |
And in this case, we've been staring at the surface of the event horizon
and seeing the time-delay reflection of ourselves.
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| Ch: |
Are you saying we are the ones trapped in the singularity?
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| B: |
Unfortunately, yes.
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| Ja: |
You're right. It's the only theory that explains everything happened
to us. We've probably been in the singularity since we helped the
first jogged(?).
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| Pa: |
Wait a minute, wait, wait a minute. Let me get it straight. We were
cruising along at warp 7. Then we picked up a distress call and moved
in to investigate. But now you're saying that the other ship was
actually just a reflection of us, and that the distress call is
actually just a Captain's opening hail. But we picked up the
distress call before she sent the hail. How could we've been seeing
a reflection of something we haven't even done yet? Am I making
any sense, here?
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| Ja: |
No. That's OK. Whatever more difficult concept to grasp temporal
mechanics is that sometimes effect can proceed cause or reaction
can be observed before the action which initiated it.
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| Ki: |
So what do we do to get out?
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| B: |
I'm not sure. But I do know one thing that as we slide deeper into
the singularity, the spacial distortions are increasing. Acoording to
my calculations, within 9 hours they'll crush the ship.
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| Ja: |
If your analogy's correct, how do we get through that(?) she advise.
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| B: |
Look for a crack.
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| Ja: |
Or make a crack. Take something and smack it into the ice until
we're back off.
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| B: |
Wait a minute. What if we've already made a crack in the ice?
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| Ja: |
When we first entered the event horizon.
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| B: |
If we could find an entry point, we might be able to slip out of
where we came in.
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| Ja: |
So, we've been looking for subspace instability in the event horizon.
What would make a show-up on our sensors?
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| Ja, B: |
Warp particles.
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| Ja: |
If we would saturate the event horizon with warp particles, we might be able
to see the escaping through the rupture we made and we entered.
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