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well wherever it is... im kinda wondering if maybe i should be waking up soon? i feel like my friends are probably going to need me you can't wake up just yet. why? it's not time. not where your physical form is, at least. where my physical form is? then... what about here? what about here? argh sorry this time stuff is really confusing you're a space player. yeah i mean if its not the right time to wake up where im sleeping... how long do i have to wait HERE in order to wake up? the correlation between the passage of time in the furthest ring and any given physical location is tenuous. the measurement of time here is inseparable from the physical passage through its knotted space. those two aspects are closely woven together here, to such an extent that they are barely separable. all aspects are. really? all of them?? yes. i understand how this place has time and space of course.... even if they work together weirdly but i dont see any of the others one doesn't see abstractions. not directly. ... oh each opposing pair is in balance throughout this field so as to form a stable canvas. though the canvas becomes less stable with each crack in the field, ordinarily one would never directly observe its constituent forces. the canvas would seem smooth from afar, but up close, as it were, the tapestry is circuitously woven. the aspects, while remaining in balance, interfere with each other. they interlock and intertwine. so neither space nor time functions linearly, nor are they conventionally measurable. wow i am not sure i totally understand... but that is pretty interesting! you are predisposed to find the nuances of space intriguing. and since its opposing aspect is more related than you perhaps have realized, the challenges of understanding it are more compelling to you than you realize as well. yeah i guess so physics are all about space and time and such which are fun to think about i like all that stuff! yes. so youre saying space and time... and all other aspects i guess... are more closely related here than in like umm... more stable places, like my universe? they are less distinct from each other here, yes. you said passage of time is inseparable from... traveling through space? yes. so if we were holding still time wouldnt be moving either? that is correct, in a way. though motion itself is not the absolute process it is in a more conventional medium. the measurement of motion requires stable features for comparison. of which there are very few in the furthest ring, typically. the more cracks that appear, ironically, the more the ring begins to stabilize, at least in a spatial and temporal sense. i see so if the cracks werent there how... how would we be able to tell if we were moving? motion through the twisted space is not gauged by passing landmarks, but anchored to a particular destination. destination is an idea maintained by the traveler. ideas are subtle composites of various aspects. without clear understanding of destination, motion becomes less discernible. with less discernible motion, passage of time becomes less measurable. at a standstill, time loses meaning, and can seem to stretch on forever, as all events throughout reality swirl around you in no particular order. one becomes isolated from all else. imprisoned by inertia. hmmmm that is pretty cool too i love spacey stuff! yes. you talk about it in a neat way it kinda seems like you are trying to educate me on this like a teacher or something :) of course that is what i'm doing. oh heh
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