hyperportal

Suggested music: Hyperportal (which it was written to)


---
The hyperportals were strange otherworldly pieces of hypertechnology, high sorcery, witchcraft, mathematics, and primitive magic.
the usual rules of each didn't apply in one. their floors were utterly frictionless. the temperature inside was always 'unsettlingly friendly'. one could go between universes or realities in one. almost feels like a dream in them.'this is familiar' you might say.

how far did we travel "impossibly far"
how fast did we travel "impossibly fast"
how many ways did we go from point A to point B: "you didn't go
from point A to point B. you went all possible ways woven in a fabric"
maybe the feeling you get inside one is like a bright darkness, an oily
happy hug groan. your perception is trying to ascribe agency or sentience
or recognizable qualities to the workings of the hyperportal, which
are something beyond both merely biological or mystical or
mechanical or physical or some consequence of the lambda calculus.
a trip between here, and a galactic core farther away than the
current light cone of the visible universe after recombination?


around a day or a week. and it's a lazy trip: no complicated
procedures or preparations for unfriendly hyperspatial environments.
A Steppenquoy conveyance snags the localized context froth zone from
the hyperportal and we're on our way.


the trip feels like being at ocean, but maybe it's a larger ocean
than the one in which our embryos swam when we were embryos, and
that feels odd. and reassuring. luminescent darkness and
ebon surfulgence

 the lighting conditions are strange

luminescent darkness
ebon surfulgence
illuminant tenebrosity


pale, washed out, completely nonreflective total oblivions
of light brilliantly surfulge with manic radiance, almost teasing your
visual system. "is that light? is that darkness? the intensity of what
I am experiencing is transcendent of such concepts. "

beings in such an environment report that their senses are usually
at an acuity they would describe as "stunning clarity": they
can usually give better and more thorough descriptions of their
interactions in this environment, even if the environment
itself foils their language abilities.


keep in mind that this environment is not hyperspace proper,
nor is it hyperspacetime, it's more of a hypercontext of sorts
that the hyperportals can incubate and the Steppenquoy Conveyances
can arboresce safely between here and there.


a week passes. the conveyance informs this context that it is
parting us to the destination hyperportal.

we have (effectively) traveled around 18 yottaparsecs to a planet called
Arzauno-Oblique-Coehenteheororius, second from the star
Lyssiary, in the Glitterswash Galaxy, in the
Lanihimehimehupualine hypercluster.
--------------------------

[astonishment note no. 1134:
I had to go and check that this was, in fact, written before
Laniakea was named:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 2729 Nov  4  2013 hyperportal]