In Anderson's Psychotechnic History, "hyperspace" is an increase in phase velocity, made possible by the frequency of the engine's oscillators, or is a tachyon mode.
In The Peregrine, part of the Psychotechnic History, when the spaceship is in the fringes of a trepidation vortex:
"'Components of the vibration have the ship's resonance frequencies. They'll shake us apart, atom by atom.'" (CHAPTER XIII, p. 114)
The solution is to:
"'...get the ship as a whole in phase with the major space-pulsations -...'" (pp. 114-115)
- so Coordinator Trevelyan, having glanced at the ship's instruments, then subconsciously computed gravitational and electric potentials, gradients, magnetism, gyration, frequencies and amplitudes, directs the engine room how to:
"'Pulse the hyperdrive, sinusoid - here, I'll give you the figures.'" (p. 115)
It all sounds very similar.
When I worked in a labouring job at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary, (see also Hospital) a member of the domestic staff informed me that a then current building project within the Infirmary was "Phrase One." We wondered how many Phrases there were going to be.
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