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"We [science fiction writers] always wanted to believe in "private sector" space -- hucksters make better characters than a government does."
- Larry Niven
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| Space-Sphere | ||
| A bubble of reality. |
| “We are cut off forever now from our own Solar System, John,” said Doctor Rider. “The spherical space of the cosmos burst, as you saw, into fragments. We are caught in a different fragment of space from the fragment which holds our Solar System, are separated from it by an unnavigable four-dimensional abyss.
“The patch of space we happened to be in when the bursting occurred at once closed up on itself to form a smaller space-sphere like the former vast one of the cosmos. Such closing of space which contains matter is inevitable, due to the distortion of space by the gravitation of the matter it holds. It was the sudden closing up of this remnant of space which brought that formerly distant white sun suddenly near us. Just as two points far separated on a sheet of paper can be suddenly brought close together by rolling the paper up into a circle.” “But how are we going to get back to our own Solar System?” asked Haley. “We can never get back to it,” said the scientist sadly. “The gulf of the fourth dimension forever separates the space of this tiny cosmos from the space of that other little new cosmos which now holds the Solar System.” |
| Technovelgy from When Space Burst,
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