441. T.I, 7

(Rose)

We keep heading to the orient.

All the forests have slowly withered and shrunk in size over the distance we’ve travelled.

All woods are disappearing in the far distance. Wildlife also has begun rarefying.

We’re slowly entering a different land that nothing announced.

And it’s likely to be a desert rather soon, given how life seems to progressively diminish and wither around us.

Blume eventually detects a difference in the air and invisible flows my eyes can’t notice yet.

So we end up discussing about T.I.

We share what we’ve learn over the years.

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B - I understand that T.I. and my water are the same thing, but what do the letters stand for?

R - Temps Imaginaire, I think.

B - That’s a funny name for this form of energy.

R - I think T.I. stood for something else actually. It was described by that scientist as a boson, an elementary force that can be described and detected as waves or particles. But in a different model in the same paper, the scientist described it as the second dimension of time, akin to complex numbers. The imaginary time.

B - So as electromagnetism can be described and detected as particle or a wave depending of the physics models and tools you use, a similar duality would already be proven for that form of energy?

R - It would seem they are the two best ways to define it yes. Its nature is likely in quantum physics more than chemistry or biology. It’s not a new compound, nor a new element. It’s maybe not even a new particle, but a shift in something previously at neutral value.

B - I see it as energy. Water, fuel, flowing quite like matter in gaz form. So I can see the chemical aspect with ease. I can related with the physics aspect that is logically behind. I can’t really understand what it means about time though.

R - Not that I understood everything there would be to learn either, I can try to explain a little that part.

B - Go ahead.

I try.

Basically, we tend to see and experience time as a scalar, a linear progression, on a single axis of time. We would call it real time.

Because there’s usually no shift of that flow, we don’t experience the presence of a different dimension of it. As everything would be flat on the ground until you start digging and building something.

There are instances in relativity where time speed can shift slightly. The faster you move, the closer you get to the celerity, the slower your time goes.

To a biased extent, you could see your time speed being lost because it is converted in the energy you need to go that fast. Or the fact to reach that speed as a kind of endothermic reaction that forces a cooling of your time.

It’s not what actually happens as I understand it, but it’s a similar concept. Time shifts require energy, or release it.

And that’s where T.I. breaks the usual flow of time.

We would think the second dimension of time is basically zero, it doesn’t exist or bears no influence on anything.

And if it exists, it shifts only in relativistic conditions.

Actually, the second dimension or axis of time would be non null.

The flow of time, real time, would be constant, meaning if you were to draw the curve of time acceleration upon time, you would have an horizontal line set at zero. Time speed is in stable inertia.

So you would think imaginary time is zero as well, if that was supposed to have an impact on time speed.

But T.I. is actually like a field, with a usually constant value we’ll define as a 1.

On the complex values of time flow, not acceleration, the real one grows, the imaginary one stays constant.

That’s normal time. T.I. has no effect, until something activates it.

When the value of imaginary time is shifted, it affects the real time as well. Maybe the modulus of time must always remain linear, and forcing a shift on the imaginary part forces a shift on the real part. I don’t have values to assert this.

What matters is that T.I. uses can have direct impacts on time flow, locally.

That’s possibly how beings-like-her and even I to some extent, can increase metabolic rates drastically, healing or growing faster. Or even evolving and transforming the flesh as fast as some do.

That’s how auras partially work as well I would guess. That can be seen as an explanation on how thermodynamic effects can vary so much nowadays. Or how the value, the intensity of the effect of T.I. can vary. Because time can shift, its mass can as well.

Or rather its effect on mass, sorry.

B - I’m not sure this makes sense to me...

R - Neither am I. I’d say, I can sort of grab the main concept, but when I try to squeeze it into words, it evades me. You think you understand its quantum dynamics and effects, but...

B - I don’t think I can travel through time using T.I.

R - According to that theory, that’s impossible. If you see the value of 1 of T.I. as the speed of real time, we have constant time speed. If you affect your time speed locally, you could theoretically increase your speed and therefore live as if the universe went slower, and vice-versa. But you wouldn’t be able to get either speed to become negative. There would be a mathematical singularity at zero, as you reach yourself zero or infinity of time speed.

B - I can guess that if your time speed reaches zero, you end up dying with the universe.

R - That’s a singularity. Weightless particles could perhaps do that, but anything with mass that suffers from accelerations, it seems impossible.

B - At least that part seems logical to me. T.I. theory still doesn’t make much sense otherwise.

R - It’s the best theory I have to explain your very being and some of your powers.

B - You said the value of imaginary time was set at 1. But in the past, there was almost no T.I., and time was the same.

R - Yeah... I don’t know really. Maybe that field can affect time as a transformation of energy but isn’t fully bound to it in complex pair. I don’t know nearly enough about quantum physics or the energy of time to really know.

B - It’s alright, I understand how you feel. I felt the same way back when I first saved your life. Things, physics, chemistry, biology, they just went as they went. I understood nothing of them at the time, but I still had to affect them. It was stressful. You don’t have to know about everything about how your body works down to a quantic level in order to stay alive. You don’t and shouldn’t try like we tend to really.

R - But the physics of T.I. are so different and complex, I want to understand.

B - It may be a new field of science alright, yet to be bound to previous great scientists works. But as you said yourself, maybe you need more knowledge before you can truly make real sense out of it all.

R - I’m looking for an opportunity to learn more about quantum electromagnetism, quantum gravity and quantum chromodynamics in that regard. It seems it would help a lot. But it’s hard to learn about these fields of science nowadays.

B - What about the scientist who wrote that theory of T.I. ? If he studied it, he may still be alive today?

R - How I came to learn of that thesis is a long story of its own. The short answer is I have no idea of who that was and where. I think it was in French, and with an unusual connection to the remainders of the global computers network.

B - Sounds like a long story indeed.

R - When we next find a working computer, we can try to search. But it’s quite like finding humans nowadays.

It’s unsatisfying to feel more confused about that theory after having tried to share it. I’m frustrated now.

This new gods particle is so elusive, it’s painful...

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