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On The DX Machine

Ok, so basically, how the DX works is that it uses the annihilation of electrons and positrons to make a small incision in space-time. The energy released in that annihilation is contained and redirected within a plasma field, maintaining the reaction long enough to set up a graphene grid within the incision. Once the graphene is directed to form a hypercube, it stabilizes the incision, effectively creating a gateway between dimensions. As the hypercube is microscopically small, the resulting gateway is likewise miniscule. However, the same plasma field that contained the initial blast can also be used to manipulate the incision, and the DX is designed in such a way that it can expand the hole to envelop an area of up to 5 meters in radius, for short periods of time. This allows a person or persons in close proximity to travel to neighboring dimensions. However, because the potential universes are so varied, and are constantly blipping in and out of existence, finding a stable neighbor dimension is incredibly difficult. So, as an additional feature, a quantum CPU chipset, combined with state of the art analytical instruments, can map the more probable universes, and display them in real-time.

For those unfamiliar with the concept of a hypercube, or tesseract, it is a 4th dimensional geometrical structure, relating to a cube in the same way that a cube relates to a square. Mathematically, if the volume of a square can be expressed as x^2, and a cube x^3, then a hypercube would likewise be expressed as x^4. Because it exists in 4th dimensional space, and we exist in a 3 dimensional space, we can only ever perceive it as a cube, in the same way that if you were to press a cube into a 2 dimensional space, a being living in said space would only be able to perceive a square. Rather abstract, I know, but being able to visualize it is irrelevant to its ability to stabilize 4th dimensional space for the purposes of interdimensional excursion.

-From the proposition for the grant to develop the DX Machine, By Seamus McKiernan

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About:Me

I never know how to start these things. Like, where the fuck do you begin? Do I describe myself, like some sort of personality inventory? Do I try to summarize my life's history? I have so many things I want to say, and I want to say them all at once, and the chaos of my mind ends up paralyzing, and I delete everything I wrote 500 times and then say, "fuck it", and give up. I'll try not to do that this time.

Call me Nat. I am non-binary because it's nobody's goddamn business if I have a dick or a pussy, and if we're not fucking, then I don't see why you need to know what type of junk I've got. If we're a world that cares about equality, then it shouldn't matter. I'm me.

Other labels I can't shrug off so easily. I'm autistic. Specifically Asperger's. It's not technically a diagnosis anymore, but there are differences between how I process information and how someone with Kanner's (the other major flavor of the spectrum) does, and people assume that I'm stupid if I don't qualify myself. Asperger's sounds Mozart-y, and Autistic sounds Rain Man-y. Even still, dealing with people is incredibly draining, especially when I try to pass for "normal", and it's made even harder if they think I'm an idiot savant.

I am also atheist, somewhat ironically, considering that, by definition, I am a god. I just think that, if any of the religions were true, that the various gods described within them would have been kind enough to send a universal message throughout all societies. When aboriginals in Australia have never heard of Krishna, nor ancient Chinese peoples knew of Jesus, and the myriad stories told as truth sound no different, no more cientifically probable than Greek mythology, then it seems illogical that any of the beliefs are anything more than attempts by ancient civilizations to understand phenomena that were outside of their scientific comprehension. Add in the often self-contradictory sets of moral codes and rewards and punishments that these faiths put forth, which at times are downright barbaric, it seems more like the fantasies of flawed men than the divine word of a compassionate and just deity.

I am also a former foster kid. My dad went AWOL before I was born, and my mother will die in prison, so I got to spend a few years being shuffled around stranger's homes like one of those Oprah book club picks that everyone wants to show off because it makes them look intelligent and heroic, but no one ever actually bothers to read. Because perception seems to be the important thing.

After 4 years in the system, I was interviewed for a true crime show about the murder my mom committed, and by chance, her brother, Seamus, happened to hear about it. My family was originally from Scotland, but my mom had moved to the US before I was born, so he had no idea she was in prison, let alone that I existed. He ended up getting some grant money from the University he worked at to come to the states and work on a project, and offered me a permanent home with him.

It was rough, at first, because I was... in a pretty deep depression at that point, and while it was never easy for me to connect to people, it's ten times harder when you don't see the point in anything.

Seamus saved my life, though. He spent a lot of time with me, yet gave me the space I needed to adapt. He tantalized me with the one thing that could draw me out of my shell: a mystery, a puzzle to be solved.

It's been 10 years now since I met him, and I went from high school dropout to post grad. And more importantly, I helped him to develop the technology he got that grant for in the first place: a functional hypercube. Using a device called the Dimensional Exponentializing Machine, or the DXM for short, we were able to arrange and maintain a grid of graphene into a tesseract, allowing us to interact with any reality it breaks into.

That is where my story really begins, and for now, where this post ends. Goodnight everyone.