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General relativity describes how space-time operates. As best as I can figure out, the only way that we can appear from different points in our own timeline has to do with the application of gravity. I don't know for sure, but I think that the Jump affects gravity in a manner that we don't understand yet. I keep redoing the equations, but there's a problem with the constants that I can't puzzle out. If we accept, though, a quantum model, that states that everything that can be will be (1=.9999999999999 into infinity) and that every movement of electrons at a quantum level can influence the separation of universes, then there's an infinite number of universes, right?

And we're all here because some function of the Jump Drive, that can influence matter at a quantum level. In another version of this universe, it's not you here. It's your brother, or your sister, or your cousin, or other people you don't know. But someone from your world is here in an untold number of universes, but in some universes this ship has reached a location, or has stopped moving and has killed everyone within, and space continues, bounded and infinite at once-

All right, let me start again.

I don't think that fear is any better than the things we're afraid of. Fear itself, right? It's paralyzing.

So I'm glad that's over.

I dropped a violin, the other day, during the...incidents. It was in a black case, and when I went back for it, it was gone. I would really like it if whoever picked it up could return it to me. It means a lot to me, and it's very delicate. I would like it back, please.

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But you didn't actually see them or anything.

Maybe you added or subtracted wrong.

Maybe I added-

Are you-

I do not get math wrong.

Hey, don't get mad. I mess up math all the time. Everybody does.

[...Firo far more often than most.]

No, most people get math wrong, I don't.

And in any case, this isn't my equation. Do you think that when a mathematician and a particle physicist propose a theory that the entire scientific and mathematics community just accept it as fact without trying it themselves?

[He thinks back to Luck and supposes what she's saying is possible; he'll never understand how they do it, but there are some people that good. So long as he can try and figure out another way that her explanation might be wrong because he does not want to accept the thought of his family suffering what he's suffering.]

No idea. Is that a question I'm actually supposed to answer?

Yes!

This is what the math tells us happens. I'm not a particle physicist, but this isn't something that someone wrote in a notebook. This is something people have discussed as a strong possibility for years. That's why we all come from separate universes. I don't think this ship is a singularity, incapable of quantum reproduction.

Oh.

But what if it was whatever that thing was? Then they'd all be safe?

Our families?

Worrying about the possibility of there existing a universe where your family is here is a fool's errand. Even if this place is a singularity, there are going to be countless universes where your family is dead.

What? That's crazy. They can't--

That's just not going to happen. Sorry.

There are countless universes where you're dead, too. Or don't exist, never existed at all.

That I can live with.

[Or be contentedly dead with? Whatever.

He's hesitant to even type the next part, but she has him concerned enough that he decides to go for it.]

What if stuff happened where they couldn't die? There can't be a universe where that'd un-happen, right?

There are countless universes with this theory. Everything that can be, will be.

[Well, that's not at all what he wanted to hear. But maybe he can try to look on the bright side.]

So there are also still a ton where they're okay?

This is some crazy stuff you're talking about, lady.

Yes.

All right. That's better, kind of.

Why share all this?

Why not?

For one I don't know how many people here can even understand this stuff.

And two it doesn't sound like we can do anything to save people so why bother knowing about it?

This isn't useless.

Then tell me what is the use.

In small words.

Smart.

People.

Talk.

About.

What.

They.

Know.

So.

Maybe.

Someone.

Can.

Think.

Of.

Something.

With.

Facts.

They.

Didn't.

Have.

Before.

I still don't see how knowing our families are dead in other worlds helps anything. It's not going to get us out of here any faster.

Well, clearly, you have the brain capacity of a slug, so that's unsurprising.

And you're about as likable as one. The hell is your problem? Not everybody's a genius, you know.

I wouldn't have to be unpleasant if you didn't fixate on some stupid hypothetical and tried to focus on the bigger picture! Maybe you can't figure anything out, but maybe someone who can will hear what I said and posit a suggestion on how we can make a change to a variable and figure out a way to manipulate how the Jump operates. Fundamental physics clearly doesn't apply, and I'm trying to think laterally, here.

All right, good idea and all, but you really think what I was talking about wasn't part of the bigger picture?

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