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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.

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[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?

[i_themagician]

The slowing of time in the area around a black hole is a direct result of the immense amounts of gravity that it has. The very definition of a singularity, then, necessitates that time stop completely within it.

The only way I can see that this theory holds water is if the City and our "time" spent in it is merely a shared dream. I would see no problems with this, except that I don't think one has to be part of a singularity in order for that to occur.

[dubia_lux]

Not a dream. A shared pan-dimensional memory.

I am not saying this is true, merely that it is a possibility. Improbable and impossible are not the same.

[i_themagician]

A memory? ... I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean by that distinction.

Anything is possible.

[dubia_lux]

Ah...It does not matter.

[i_themagician]

Nothing does; that's the best argument yet in favor of the City being a singularity.

Still, I am curious.