007 | voice

[myresponsibility]

So, Tim and I were kinda trying to figure out some stuff about how this place actually works, but obviously he's not around anymore, so... Is there anyone who's been, I don't know, studying how we don't, you know, asphyxiate and die when we go out on deck, or how the rooms work or whatever?

I mean - not to get anyone's hopes up or whatever but - maybe there's a way to turn off whatever messed up the hallways and common rooms or something.

[Private to Alex]

You ever find out what was going on with Zero?

[Private to Banner]

Thanks for letting me help out back during that whole thing. I know I'm not like, actually a doctor or anything, but if you ever want an extra set of hands, I could, you know, help.

[Private to Bond]

You've been kinda quiet. [Is this the good kind of quiet, or are you brooding/getting up to some other horrible mischief. :|]

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[voice]

[myresponsibility]

[This is a step up from where Peter is currently!]

How does it work?

[voice]

[dalekemperor]

[There's a pause, filled only by a peculiar tapping sound of metal against some hard surface.]

Very well, if you really wish to know....

[YOU ASKED FOR IT, PETE. This is gonna sound like godawful science fiction mainly because the mun is not a physicist as well as LOL DOCTOR WHO but in his universe this kinda malarkey works, damnit.]

[ahem.]

A gravity bubble capable of maintaining atmospheric integrity is a simple matter of electromagnetism, which has long since replaced the need for centripetal motion as a means to create such force. The electromagnetic output is calibrated in a physical matrix of emission points which, coupled with the extent of power channelled to them, creates a finite area of effect. The gravitic effect is coherent enough to hold an atmosphere around a central body--in this case a ship.

As to transdimensionality, that comes down to a variety of quantum theories and mathematical manipulation of solid matter at the subatomic level, thus literally shifting about the structure of any given object. I believe the humans Feynman and Dyson have made small, tentative steps in this direction.

[voice]

[myresponsibility]

[Oh no, new research project coming on.]

Do you think the library's got any books about it?

[voice]

[dalekemperor]

[there's something of a smile in his voice.] It has, yes. They are few, but they are there.

[He should know. He's read the whole damn library already.]

[voice]

[myresponsibility]

Cool. Thanks. [Seriously, those books are being DEVOURED.]