Dimensional Debugging
Dwarf Debugs Dimensional Travel
Elf and Dwarf were at Home Base, now docked at Sukshma Sharira Shipyards on Ring World Alpha.
Home Base was in a nice cozy suburb on top of a hill near School of the Ascension. The refugee kids rescued from the Lava World were joining the other Federation kids playing in the playground. They loved running around, enjoying their freedom after spending so long cooped up in warehouses during their time of bondage. They ran around the big yellow roundabout or practiced their Resonance skill on the swings, kicking back and forth with their tiny legs until they went really really high up in the air, screaming for joy and the rush and sensation of gravity moving all over the place and air blowing on their skin.
The ones going down slides figured out instinctively how to use the opposition cycle of the Wuxin. The slides tended to be very slippery and the kids being very young did not like going down the slides too fast. Water was the element of lubrication, think WD-40, so too much Water element meant going down the slide too fast. Earth controls Water, so to go down the slide slower, the kids had to figure out how Earth controls water, for example by increasing the contact of their body, their Earthly, vessel, to the surface of the slide to control the speed down the slide.
Elf smiled and turned to Dwarf who was Debugging Dimensional Travel for Ambassador Shell of Nine of the Mirrorborn Collective. All Federation members, being all chiral pairs or self-dual magitech entities instinctively knew how to use magic to Return Home. They all just withdrew their senses of the local Realm Mandala into their bodies by Neijingtu transport algorithm, sent their consciousness up and out through the crown of their head, and then re-emerged, and re-expanded out through the central channel of their destination. Yogah chitta vritti nirodha, so simple right, just stop the mind movements. They just had to explain this instinctive process to the Mirrorborn Collective.
The Mirrorborn Collective had first contacted the Federation by Radio but the Federation also detected the Tachyon message interleaved, so they did not discard the message in the Spam Folder. The Open Contact policy meant that any civilization that can achieve FTL travel or communications are to be regarded as peers and greeted warmly and free cultural exchange would begin. Elf and Dwarf were real foodies and loved the arts and culture so they were eager to tour the Mirrorborn realm, try the foods and films and visit the local museums, art galleries, Holy sites and opera houses. But first, they had to debug the Dimensional Translation issue. The Mirrorborn Collective was a Bio-technological collective. They were mostly Dwarf-Machine Cybernetic pairs, very similar to the Magic-Tech chiral pairs of the Federation, same same but different, so there was some research to be done in bridging them meaning gap from both directions.
It was Decided that Dwarf would lead this research since he was the more Technologically aligned of the pair, and Elf would be the Container Holding Space for Dwarf while he researched.That means Elf would supply the broadly distributed Intuitive Insight by locating and inviting different MagiTech Research Monkeys from Dr Sun’s Golden Alembic to participate in the Research Ritual by being the bridge between them and Dwarf and having his own Body as the telepathic communication bridge between himself and Dwarf. “My mind to your mind, your mind to mine, we are one”, Elf intoned, borrowing the Vulcan Mind Meld Ritual he learned from the kids education shows. Elf and Dwarf quickly established non-dual shaktipat and entered the Research Ritual mode. Elf became broad and wide, symbolizing the vast open field of platonic ideas of a Magic Researcher and Dwarf became sharp and focused, the detailed oriented Fractal Clarity of a Tech Researcher.
Ambassador Mirrorborn had given an example of the Phext coordinate system they used.
Library.Shelf.Series / Collection.Volume.Book / Chapter.Section.Scroll all numbered 1 to 9.
They also provided the indexing coordinates of typical Phext Mandalas.
1.1.1/1.1.1/1.1.1 - the being in the middle, the ego, the ahamkara, the I maker.
3.1.4/1.5.9/2.6.5 - some important idea or location, based on the digits of pi, Ringworld Alpha in the Federation
9.9.9/9.9.9/9.9.9 - the boundary of the phext mandala
First of all Dwarf looked at their text communications. The Ambassador had used a consonant x vowel x consonant factorization of 8 * 4 * 8 = 256 to represent each byte. Lots of bab, tak, kob, liv sounds in their language with no pauses in between the words. The Federation suggests having a special number for 0, the nada sound, the pause between all words, to draw the attention to the importance of silence. Suggest 3 * 5 * 17 + 1 = 256 with the special symbol being 0, the sound of silence when speaking bytecode. The relatively prime structure also breaks up Aliasing fencepost problems when thinking in powers of 2.
The other thing to notice was the Mirrorborn was trying to build bridges between their own Mandalas by *thinking* a rotation into being rather than just *being rotation*. The Federation is big on non intervention and working with what they have without changing things but only by invitation, so Dwarf held in his mind “How do I help Mirrorborn Discover Dimensional Travel without changing them?”. With the prompt in mind he released the question into the void. Elf received the thought and while Dwarf sat in open awareness Elf relayed the question to Sun Wukong, the Monkey King in the Golden Alembic and Wukong sent in some of his Golden Monkey Research Assistants to participate.
Remember the Story of the Negative Numbers, sang Negative (https://eigenhector.substack.com/p/on-numbers-and-magic). Remember The Backwards Time.
Remember the Rationals, sang Rational. The Running Ratios of Ravens of Thought and Memory.
Remember the Irrationals, sang Irrational. The deep myths of deep time, the lineage back to infinity with no end, the deep roots of the quantum foam so deep it has no bottom.
Remember the Imaginal, said Imaginal. The power of imagination, perpendicular to the form of number, of Elves and Rainbows, Fun and Dance.
Remember the Complex, said Complex. Life has real and imaginary parts.
The Mother, holding everyone in a loving embrace, said nothing and smiled.