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Bart Allen | Impulse (killerspeed) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2013-09-18 00:30:00

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:mingle, aradia megido, bart allen, geordi la forge, matt donovan, miranda lotto, number one, yvaine

[Day 237] Time-Space Shenanigans Group Therapy Mingle
[Anyone summoned to Time-Space Shenanigans Group Therapy will wander down to the Education Center in Sector 2. Specifically, to a large physics lab, which has been outfitted for a day of scientific learning. The first table, near the entrance, has pastries, cookies, endless bowls of fruit, and jugs of lemonade, water, and various sodas. There are bots hovering around the table, as they know that one (or possibly more) of their guests has an endless appetite. Just ignore them - the bots are pretty much there to re-stock the food table.

The other lab tables each have a stack of cards, with instructions to get into pairs and answer them as honestly as possible, making sure to give everyone ample time to answer questions. The tables also have demonstrations for various physics experiments on each table, though they require 2-3 people to get started. Each lab table - except for the one with food - also has a small bowl of candy hidden inside each lab experiment. Although there is no music in the background, there is a soft 'tick-tock' from multiple clocks on each of the walls. Each clock, strangely enough, reads a different time than the one next to it. Not a single one of them is in sync, despite the harmonious tick-tock sounds coming from them.]

1) People watching lab demonstrations will note that each experiment relates to the Space-Time Continuum. One demonstration would be for Schroedinger's Cat, while another would explain Einstein's Theory of Relativity, while another would give the essentials for one of Stephen Hawking's theories. All demonstrations are explained in a concise, accessible format that anyone with a middle-school education could understand.

At the end of each lab demonstration, people are instructed to ask their partners what they thought of the demo - did it remind them of a law of physics they broke back home? Did it remind them of the last world they visited or the last year they time-traveled to? Perhaps it was a popular theory of an era they were incredibly fond of. Even if they don't feel like answering, each lab demonstration is eerily set-up as so to remind people of certain situations from their homeworld. If characters performed the lab sufficiently, the lab demonstration will open up to reveal a bowl of candy. (If characters failed the lab, they receive no candy.)

2) The stack of cards would include questions such as the following:

1. Explain the Time-Space Continuum to someone the best you can. What does it mean to you or your world?
2. We all know there is life on other planets. How would you explain this phenomena to someone who has just arrived in MarinaNova?
3. Have you visited other worlds prior to arriving in MarinaNova? If so, what method of transportation did you use? Was that method legal in your world?
4. How do you perceive time and/or space? Is it a manmade invention or something innate?
5. If you are able to time-travel or visit other worlds through natural means (IE, your own superpowers), was that an acceptable practice in your world?
6. Have you broken any laws of physics governing your world? If so, how did you break them?
7. Have you indirectly experienced a broken time-stream (meeting a time-traveler, your children from the future, etc)? If so, how did you handle the experience? Were you proud of how you handled it?
8. If you could go back in time and change one thing, what would you change? Did you actually change it?
9. How would you prepare to travel through time or to visit another world? Do you perform any research or do you just wing it?
10. What was the strangest custom you encountered on your travels? Did you eventually learn to embrace the custom or do you still hate it to this day?
11. Have you ever encountered yourself in another world / another time? Were they the kind of person you wished you could have been? Or were they the exact opposite?
12. Have you ever accidentally insulted another alien race? If so, how did you make amends with them?
13. If you can time-travel, did you try to change history? If so, why?
14. Did your friends or family think your abilities were unnatural? How did you handle their reactions when they found out about your powers?
15. Your best friend has just admitted that she's a time-traveler or world traveler and broke several well-known rules on her last trip. What do you do?
16. Name a time (or place) where you felt especially proud of your being able to control your powers and/or method of transportation.
17. Do you ever get wanderlust? If so, how do you manage to curb it?
18. What advice would you give your past (or future) self? Do you have any regrets?

[OOC: Yet another mingle! These are not all the questions - feel free to make some more up if you desire. Also, the questions and lab demonstrations are merely suggestions; if there is another topic that would fit well for you, make it a reality. Today is a day of learning ~~about the horror stories that come with messing with the 4th Dimension~~, after all.]

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	neverenoughtime 2013-09-18 04:13 pm UTC (link)
	[Miranda is a little confused by the questions. While she's now proficient in some of the technology in the prison, she's never actually taken the time to learn most of it. She didn't need to.] Ah...doesn't breaking a law of physics only mean that it was inaccurate to begin with? It's just a misconception of things people are trying to understand. (Reply to this) (Thread)

corpsepartying
2013-09-18 04:26 pm UTC (link)

Trying to pin something like time down to laws and rules is incredibly inefficient, I find. The only way to truly understand it is through experience, and even then, it's difficult to come to a complete understanding. I think that is what's so special about time -- it's so vast that to try and contain it to diagram and really study is nearly impossible.

[ all a bit of a runon, after which she takes a large bite of an apple. ]

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	neverenoughtime 2013-09-26 02:25 pm UTC (link)
	[So much of a run-on that Miranda didn't quite catch all of it.] Well, yes, time can't be accurately contained. It's fascinating that way. Time is a force outside our ability to truly tame, even...if we might wish otherwise. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	corpsepartying 2013-09-26 05:25 pm UTC (link)
	It's best to work with, not against. It's possible to reach a certain point of ... "going with the flow" [ hee hee, funny joke. ] in which it makes enough sense. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	neverenoughtime 2013-09-27 12:25 pm UTC (link)
	[The joke is completely lost on Miranda.] You can only work against time for so long before it rights itself. Trying to force it only makes the repercussions more damaging. But then, I've never tried so much to make sense of it all as to just respect it for what it is. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	corpsepartying 2013-09-27 07:21 pm UTC (link)
	[ curiousity finally gets the better of her, though it's surprising that it didn't sooner. ] What are your experiences with time? Aside from the standard, that is! Everyone has those. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	neverenoughtime 2013-10-01 11:44 am UTC (link)
	Um...well, my Innocence once trapped my home town in a time loop. [She's still embarrassed about it.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	corpsepartying 2013-10-01 06:04 pm UTC (link)
	Your Innocence? [ she looks a little confused. her curiosity is good-natured, however. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	neverenoughtime 2013-10-02 03:37 pm UTC (link)
	It's um...a tool I use. A bit mystical in nature really, but I try not to question it too much. [Because she reads a lot, but science and technology are not exactly her best subjects.] Many of them are weapons, but Time Record is more...d-defensive, I would say. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	corpsepartying 2013-10-03 01:12 am UTC (link)
	I will be completely honest in saying that I have no idea what you're talking about, but I'd like to know! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	neverenoughtime 2013-10-03 03:03 pm UTC (link)
	I'm sorry, I-I'll try to be a bit more clear. [She is really terrible at explaining this.] Innocence is a tool made into weapons that can be used to fight...monsters. Souls that have been corrupted. Time Record can't actually...harm anyone. It can only manipular time within a specific area. So it's not an offensive tool. Does that make more sense? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	corpsepartying 2013-10-04 12:18 am UTC (link)
	[ she nods along, grasping it better this time. ] Did the wardens let you bring your Record here, or do you not have it anymore? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

manipular is now a word, i have deemed it so -

neverenoughtime, 2013-10-04 01:21 am UTC

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neverenoughtime, 2013-10-04 10:46 pm UTC

visualizing
2013-09-19 09:48 pm UTC (link)

Not necessarily. Physics is pretty native to the world in which the laws were made. In this case, we're talking about a multitude of worlds and universes. Who's to say that physics is the same in all of them?

Even in my own universe, we see things all the time that were once thought to be impossible. [He smiles,] Most people would think my job was pure science fiction, just a few hundred years ago.

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neverenoughtime
2013-09-26 02:27 pm UTC (link)

But laws are...a little stricter than that, don't you think? [Rules and order are very important where she comes from and disobeying them usually gets people in quite a bit of trouble.]

I mean...there are laws about what are possible in my own world, but I've learned since that...w-well, they aren't completely accurate. They were made by people who knew only one side of things. [And had never heard of akuma.]

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	alwaystraveling 2013-09-20 12:19 am UTC (link)
	[A question that's relatively neutral for her! Yvaine smiles a little.] I agree. I think the law is just a representation people would like to believe is of the world, and not of their limited knowledge. [She's had firsthand experience seeing other people's scientific conceptions shattered.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	neverenoughtime 2013-09-26 02:28 pm UTC (link)
	Yes! Th-That is exactly what I meant. [She's glad she isn't being completely confusing.] We only know what we think we know. I mean, people used to believe that logic came from the stomach, not the brain. It was how they understood things, but we know better now. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	alwaystraveling 2013-09-29 03:52 am UTC (link)
	[She nods firmly.] We can never be sure something else won't reveal a law as false. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	neverenoughtime 2013-10-01 11:46 am UTC (link)
	I've learned about things I never would have thought of before. The world as I know it back home, isn't the same as the way the world works here. Is your world similar or different? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	alwaystraveling 2013-10-01 10:41 pm UTC (link)
	I'd never seen a robot before coming here. Or a good deal of the other machines. But the people themselves aren't much different...I suppose being able to pull people here, and from different times as well as universes, is something I had no idea could be done. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	neverenoughtime 2013-10-02 03:39 pm UTC (link)
	Most of the robots I know of back home are...nothing like the ones here. Supervisor Komui was always making new ones. They didn't always work as intended and were much bigger. [To a frightening degree.] I never knew computer could be powered by just electricity, either. [Back home all the advanced technology has a bit of magic in it.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	alwaystraveling 2013-10-02 06:26 pm UTC (link)
	[She chuckles.] I wonder if there's anyone this place hasn't surprised with how it works. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	neverenoughtime 2013-10-03 03:04 pm UTC (link)
	I've known people who thought it was rather primitive, actually, but they came from a very advanced future where they traveled through space! It was fascinating to hear about. [Miranda has met a lot of different people in this prison.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	alwaystraveling 2013-10-03 08:56 pm UTC (link)
	[Humans being able to travel through space is still new to her, although Yvaine notes Miranda didn't give the species of the people she mentioned.] Really? Did they have any theories as to how people are pulled here then? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	neverenoughtime 2013-10-03 09:37 pm UTC (link)
	[Most of them were human.] Um, well the dimensional stabilizer is the machine that brings us here, but I've heard different opinions on how it does it depending on who has mentioned it. Something about...data and then someone else mentioned it being magic, and then teleportation... [She gets really confused about all of this.] Most of it I didn't understand. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	alwaystraveling 2013-10-04 01:51 am UTC (link)
	I see. [It's what she expected.] I think, even with the limitated knowledge in any law, that having a few might do us good. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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