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Grief as a four-dimensional figure by Moreta1848
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
07 Feb 2024
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"One might arguably say it is not fully logical to care whether I cannot return to Vulcan because it no longer exists or because it is separated from me permanently in five-dimensional space.”
“No, I think I get it,” said Jim. “Like, I haven’t gone back to the old house in Iowa in years, but I do like knowing it’s there. If my mom sold it and it got knocked down, it would make a difference to me.”
The ambassador nodded. “Likewise, even in four-dimensional space, we are separated from the things we have lost only by distance—by the fact that we cannot easily travel along the timeline.” He marked out a section of his timeline, then a dot further back in the bottom timeline—Jim’s timeline. “My marriage is here. I am here, in a different timeline and at a different time. But my marriage exists. It is a figure in four-dimensional space which will continue to exist, in that sense, eternally. So long as the timeline does not collapse, it is a permanent part of history. So although I do not have my spouse with me, I know that he existed. That somewhere, in a time and a dimension I cannot go, we are meeting for the first time. That somewhere, I am asleep in his arms.”
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Bookmarked by RedSchist
14 Feb 2025
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Beautiful, hands down best thing I've read for a looooong while.
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They meet for the first time in 2020.
It’s weird that they’ve never seen each other before, what with how they’re evolving in the same circles and hanging out with the same people, but once they do meet, well, they just keep on meeting.
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- Part 1 of Do I Wanna Know?
Bookmarked by RedSchist
25 May 2024