Moria Versus the Universe by Matthews Martin

Author:Matthews, Martin
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: a4523028-5f85-4073-87d7-02dc5501ca94
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
Published: 2021-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

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The inside of the Proxy was little different from the interior of the USS Megalodon, the submarine-destroyer hybrid that Delta Team was currently onboard in the Real, cocooned in the Dream Pods in the Creche, deep in the Meg’s hull.

The Proxy was a large ship, about half a kilometer long, with dozens of decks, its outer hull bristling with armaments. Because of the nature of the Dreamnet, so-called spaceships were unnecessary. Most personas fast traveled around the different planet hubs and other constructs using spawn points.

NODD space was the medium of nothingness between constructs similar but not equal to the space between planets and stars in the real world. NODD space was simply everything not filled with matter, and by that definition it was almost exactly the same as real space. Real space, however, was finite, albeit massive and beyond human comprehension. The Universe had a beginning, was expanding, and therefore had a boundary. The Networked Organic Dream Domain was theoretically infinite, or as close to infinite as the scientists who had first mathematically described the NODD as a quantum Bloch sphere could argue using their arcane terminology.

The truth was, no one really knew how big the NODD was because it was, by definition, unmeasurable. No light traveled from distant galaxies to allow scientists to accurately record time and space. NODD space was simply an almost-perfectly uniform medium to describe three-dimensional objects in space. Christopher’s high school classes on the history of the Dreamnet had dealt with this stuff, and most of it — okay, all of it — had made his head spin. He remembered the models and diagrams of Bloch spheres and two-level quantum states, and how computers and bits had evolved from superconductors and circuits into simian grey matter and the modern quantum computers with their organic qbit registries, and on and on and on…

All that mattered was that space in the Dreamnet was like real space: Airless and empty. A vacuum.

Christopher only remembered one factoid from those interminably boring classes, which was that space wasn’t actually cold, at least not in the sense that something, a physical object, could be cold. He had always imagined space as being icy, like deep arctic ocean water, but in actuality space was nothing, the absence of thing. And because of that, there was no-thing to become cold. Space wasn’t like the ocean, which could be warmed and cooled, and which was made up of trillions of molecules of dihydrogen monoxide along with other various chemicals. Space had none of that, save for some concentrated masses, such as planets and stars, and diffuse distributions of gases and radiation. But that was little to fill the void. So little, in fact, that the cosmos was mostly empty, and that emptiness was almost perfect.

Such were the thoughts in Christopher’s head when he entered the Proxy’s briefing room to find Director Hannibal Heinz waiting inside. The director nodded curtly as Delta assembled in the room.

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