The Physics Of Time Corridors II

The Corridors Of Time, CHAPTER THREE.

(iv) Storm describes the relationship between a time corridor and the outside world:

"'...from the viewpoint of one within, cosmic time - outside time - is frozen. By choosing the appropriate gate, one can step out into any corresponding era... Every few centuries, there is a portal, twenty-five years wide.'" (p. 33)

The terms, "gate" and "portal," seem to be interchangeable. When Storm and Lockridge first approach the entrance - hidden underground - to a corridor, it is described as:

"...a doorway some ten feet wide and twenty high." (p. 26)

It is filled by a flickering veil which initially resembles a curtain and then is referred to as "...the curtain." (ibid.)

Warning Lockridge that there might be enemies:

"'...on the other side of this gate...'" (ibid.)

- Storm orders him to follow her, then bounds through the "curtain." He follows and they are in the corridor, a hundred feet wide and stretching apparently for miles in both directions. On the inside, the gate, now called a portal, is the same height but two hundred feet wide. A series of parallel black lines, inches apart, stretch from the portal:

"...some distance across the corridor floor." (p. 27)

At the end of each line, there is an inscription in an alphabet unrecognizable by Lockridge but also, every ten feet, there are Arabic numerals: 4950, 4951, 4952... Each such number heads a group of lines. Storm leads Lockridge exactly along a single line, holding his hand, as they exit the corridor.

I have summarized all this in detail because the details matter for discussing what I have been calling the physics but what I should really call the time travel logic of this narrative but I am also not sure how much more I will post this evening! This post should provide a sound basis for the next one.