Universal barrier spheres are fairly easy to find, especially on worlds that lack intelligent life. They haven't been gathered up, worshiped, and fought wars over. Funny lot, flesh-born are. Its the unique UBS's that are harder to find.
A UBS is simply a location in the Metaverse where two or more universe converge. Its forth-dimensional so hang on a bit. The surface of the sphere is pointing out into one universe and pointing in into another universe. OK, say you have a UBS in your hand. The outside of the sphere is like your side the barrier. The inside surface of the sphere is actually the outside surface of the barrier on the other end. So when consider what's inside the sphere, you have to say that whole other bloody universe. Its mathematically true, though its hard to imagine. Say you flatten the sphere out to a disk. What you would have would look very much like a window, but it would be similar to ask what's on the other side of that window; that whole other bloody universe. In fact the UBS's show the other universe through there surfaces.
Alright, so that marble you are holding in your imagination's hand is not actually containing that other universe, its just a forth-dimensional window. UBS's can actually be flattened out to look more like three dimensional windows. That is how my complex is laid out. With square rooms that have large arched UBS windows on all four sides. The size of a UBS can also be manipulated.
My progenitors didn't realize this until a few centuries before their death. I perfected the technique on my own. It's really just a matter of changing the amount agmatic flux on the surface of the UBS barrier. Each side of the barrier has a unique and variable agmatism. Yeah, you like it? I named it. My progenitors called it meta-dimensional magnetism. Its not really either. Its a basic force that defines the size and shape of the barrier on either side of UBS barrier. This force was previously unrealized because its its messenger particles only effect UBS barrier surfaces. I say it is a component of the Metaverse itself.
Anyway, I only have to apply energy to manipulate a barriers dimension. Once changed, it stays that way, which is nice. I can even make the bloody barriers hover in mid air with the right radiation. Fancy parlor trick that. I can also change the surface polarity. By doing this I change how much force it takes to traverse the barrier. Traversing is what its called when you go from one side and one universe to the other. I like to have it set so that a breeze can drift through the complex.
I even set up an electromagnetic ventilation system that cools the hot rooms and warms the cool universes. I can easily balance out the temperature of my complex at a balmy 300 kelvin. Perfect temperature for my progenitors, but I prefer it because my construction nanobots work best at that temperature. These little guys are designed to work in extremes but they work fastest at 250 to 325 kelvin.
So my complex is actually a grid of rooms each of which is in a separate universe. The place looks like an enormous hall. The top of each room is a glass ceiling into the universe itself. The center of each room has a spiral stair case down into whatever sort of complex I decide to build on that universe. I call them pods because its bloody short.
The grid is a true grid. If you take four right turns you end up in the same universe. Why you might ask did I do this? Because I'm a bloody computer; why else?
Previous Entry | Next Entry
© J. S. Munroe 2011
