#AskSwell • "Matter permeable." What is it? What's its purpose?
What's the point of it? I don't even know. What is the thing? What is its purpose? And why even mention it? It sounds cool. The visual is cool. When you think about something passing through this thing, like shuttles on Star Trek passing through a force field. It's sort of that kind of visual
Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 1:50
So when you go through and you become molecules like a wormhole, you go through a wormhole, become molecules, and then at the other end, you're reassembled into the body that you're regularly known to have. However, if it's a matter permeable window, it also means that there is a possibility that it can be turned off or turned into a way where you cannot get through
And when I read it in the book, I just thought it was a feature that he had just thrown in there of this alien planet. And I thought how cool is that? But then I did some research and found out that no, it's actually true. Sand dunes even here on Earth, make this weird sound music. I'm going to put a link to a YouTube video that shows this. It's wild. Anyway, that book, House of Suns is a standalone
Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 2:12
This whole planet is God's gift. It really is. In all things. We should give him praise and glory, because it says, let everything that has breath praise the Lord. And if the dunes have breath, that's what they're doing. I appreciated the video. I really love this conversation. I could go on for ever in regards to Sci-Fi. But thank you so much for inviting me and including me. Bye
Adam V
@whentendimos · 2:08
I've definitely had the experience of squeaky sand when you're hiking up the dunes and you put your feet in there's, a little squeak from the friction, but that was on a whole nother level. Thank you for sharing that. And great pondering about the matter permeable window. I like it. Wow. So I have an opportunity to edit and add on. Very interesting
They'll have it blowing down an immense amount of air to keep the cold air out and the warm air in this invisible barrier. I mean, you can feel it as you're going through it. And I want to say that I remember reading about the same kind of thing but with respect to sound a sound barrier. But I can't remember and I need to find out more because there's also another conversation I'm having in two different places about a sound noise canceling sound barrier type thing
And so there's more wiggle room, there's more interpretation in how to understand what it is they're communicating. And there's not necessarily the depth of meaning or the words actually being chosen for a specific purpose. It's sort of like Impressionist paintings. You sort of get the gist of it
Adam V
@whentendimos · 3:04
Yes. Christina overlapping worlds. I love it. Yeah. So incredibly relatable, the getting caught up on a turn of word or phrase. I think that's part of one of the reasons that I read really slow is that I will kind of reread a sentence or a paragraph until I really feel like I got it, or until I can kind of get the sense that what I'm perceiving is related to what the author is trying to communicate
Sometimes I'm talking, like, fiction specifically, and when it's dense fiction, it's harder to plow through, and you definitely have to read it more slowly. And every word means something, so you have to be ready to the visual in my head is like a very fine, fine strainer that you pushed through the water. You're picking up every single little bit of information. Nothing is extraneous. Um, and so then switching between authors writing styles, communication styles, is always interesting
Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 0:34
You. Okay. Well, when I respond to your swells, I won't say, thank you for inviting me to this swell, because I tell everyone that thank you for inviting me to this swell. And they might not necessarily have invited me personally, but I feel like since I'm responding, I should at least say thank you, you know, for the swell in itself. But I understand