[Now he's interesting, and she officially sets her book down. They're both at that point. They've gotten there. Good job, them. She turns more towards him, one arm resting on the table, her blue eyes cool as she studies his expression.]
If you understand quantum states, you'll understand this. My . . . partner and I had a machine that tore open the fabric of the universe for brief periods of time. It, by necessity, existed in a fixed point, but had parts of it that straddled the line between worlds. Certain critical atoms, you understand.
One day, it overloaded, thanks to an idiot. We were, of course, killed. Our atoms were scattered. But because there was a possibility that we might not be, we were reborn: beings who were alive and dead all at once, existing in possibility, removed from all the constraints of time and space, because we existed in all of them at once.
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[Now he's interesting, and she officially sets her book down. They're both at that point. They've gotten there. Good job, them. She turns more towards him, one arm resting on the table, her blue eyes cool as she studies his expression.]
If you understand quantum states, you'll understand this. My . . . partner and I had a machine that tore open the fabric of the universe for brief periods of time. It, by necessity, existed in a fixed point, but had parts of it that straddled the line between worlds. Certain critical atoms, you understand.
One day, it overloaded, thanks to an idiot. We were, of course, killed. Our atoms were scattered. But because there was a possibility that we might not be, we were reborn: beings who were alive and dead all at once, existing in possibility, removed from all the constraints of time and space, because we existed in all of them at once.