Factoring Humanity
“But then Heather felt a sinking sensation in her stomach, as though she were in an elevator that was dropping rapidly down its shaft. A moment later her ears popped.
She smashed her fist against the stop button— —and everything returned to normal.
Heather waited for her breathing to calm down. She tried the door, disengaging it slightly.
Okay: she could halt the process at any time, and she could get out at any time.
And so she resolved to try again. She closed her eyes, summoni...ng inner strength, then pulled on the handle to reseal the door, and with an extended index finger, touched the center of the area on the panel in front of her circumscribed by the solid circle.
Heather’s stomach dropped away from her again, and her ears, not yet recovered enough from the last time to pop, ached a bit.
And in front of her, the constellations of phosphorescent squares started shifting, moving, rearranging, as— As the unfolded hypercube she’d built began to close in on itself, moving ana or kata, collapsing into a tesseract, with Heather at its very heart.MoreLess
She smashed her fist against the stop button— —and everything returned to normal.
Heather waited for her breathing to calm down. She tried the door, disengaging it slightly.
Okay: she could halt the process at any time, and she could get out at any time.
And so she resolved to try again. She closed her eyes, summoni...ng inner strength, then pulled on the handle to reseal the door, and with an extended index finger, touched the center of the area on the panel in front of her circumscribed by the solid circle.
Heather’s stomach dropped away from her again, and her ears, not yet recovered enough from the last time to pop, ached a bit.
And in front of her, the constellations of phosphorescent squares started shifting, moving, rearranging, as— As the unfolded hypercube she’d built began to close in on itself, moving ana or kata, collapsing into a tesseract, with Heather at its very heart.MoreLess
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