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[dubia_lux]

I wonder sometimes if there is any merit to the idea that our fair City is merely the event horizon of a black hole.

[Filtered to Matt, Mello, Near||Unhackable]This torture artist....An associate of mine knows her identity. I will look into it but this case seems woefully simple if she was so careless. In the meanwhile, please continue to keep an

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[twin_gunsy]

? ? ? ?

[dubia_lux]

Hello.

[twin_knifesy]

H e l l o ♫♪!

[dubia_lux]

...Dear god there's two of you.

[i_themagician]

That's an interesting theory, but I'm not certain how it could possibly be true. For one thing, people do leave. For another, we should be operating in an environment of severely-reduced if not non-existent amounts of time, meaning that nothing should be happening and/or everything should be happening at the same time.

[dubia_lux]

Do people leave? People do seem to leave but if they are being released into another dimension then they would be free of the event horizon. Or, people are not leaving but are being swallowed then spat out again. Things get quantum in that area.

As for time...how does time work here, Mr. Reed?

[i_themagician]

The living go back to their own worlds. It is a mystery where the dead go, if they go anywhere, but the fact remains that some people do leave and there is a clear and obvious distinction as to who goes where.

My point is that it works at all. Were this the event horizon of a black hole, time would move infinitely slowly relative to other dimensions; you would perceive everyone who was ever here as being here all at once and would not have time to notice other people vanishing and appearing.

[dubia_lux]

Then the argument of human perception has to be made. We know what appears to happen in an event horizon but have you ever personally experienced it?

[inshiningkevlar]

Time would move slower, were it a black hole. Unless you are speaking, ah, what is that word? Allegorically?

[dubia_lux]

Mostly allegorically, yes, but also somewhat literally...

We cannot say how, precisely, time moves in the City. We are a giant clock-One that has been rewound at least once.

[inshiningkevlar]

I have heard that when we return to our worlds, it is at the precise moment that we left? I would almost think it the other way around, if that is true. Though I've no way of knowing.

A clock? That explains perhaps the ticking?

[dubia_lux]

All we know about black holes in my world is that we know almost nothing. We have many theories but little knowledge since nothing has ever passed beyond an event horizon and come back to us to explain what happened.

If you take Reed's statement "that nothing should be happening and/or everything should be happening at the same time" then that may apply to the City. That there is in fact no real time as we understand it in this place. No time will pass outside even if we spend what may feel like months or even years here. Saaa~I don't mean to seem like I know a great deal about this subject. Back home becoming a quantum singularity was not exactly a concern of mine.

...Yes, you hear a ticking because of the Clock. The buildings are arranged like numbers on a clock face, the carousel is the center. If you go into the Underground you will find the clockwork.

[knightbalanced]

Matter can't exist inside black holes. They can also generate energy independently, I don't see why they'd need to kidnap people if they somehow became large enough to be stable versus implosion centers.

[dubia_lux]

I'm afraid you are speaking to a man who, since coming here, has had woeful amounts of time to consider life as he never understood it before.

Matter can't exist. Do we, though? We all just may be afterthoughts of people who existed once.

[knightbalanced]

Well, I use black holes pretty regularly. I got sucked through one once, I don't think that's going on here. Let me tell you, it's weird being able to remember not existing. It doesn't feel anything like this though.

[ooc: ... Star Wars science is not any kind of science that makes sense, orz.;;]

[dubia_lux]

....You've experienced non-existence? That is....odd.

[not_alaska]

I'm afraid I'm not entirely up on my physics.

[dubia_lux]

The short version? We don't exist.

[not_alaska]

So no "I think, therefore I am"?