Unstable Space-Time

"Star of the Sea," 20.

"...you must watch over events; make certain they continued on the Tacitus One course; no doubt intervene, most carefully, now and then, here and there; till at last they were out of the unstable space-time zone and could safely be left to themselves." (p. 629)

Danellian and Time Patrol mathematics and their Temporal language describe spatiotemporal instability. Maybe we cannot cope just with English.

We must not think of "events" as literally moving through a "zone." Space-time is a four-dimensional set of relationships between events. If one space-time zone is somehow "unstable," then some events are within that zone whereas others are before, after or outside of it.

Janne Floris must watch and sometimes intervene in a sequence of events where, e.g., Veleda:

preaches;

leads a ritual;

eats;

sleeps;

rises;

prays;

gives advice;

receives a visitation from Floris/Nehalennia;

etc.

To Floris, these events are static in the sense that she can observe and re-observe them in any order and as often as necessary.