01-07-2025, 02:00 AM
Danika blinked at Allan’s drawing, her hands still hovering over the controls of the projection table. Her gaze lingered on the pencil sketch, tracing the rough lines of supports and structures with her eyes. It was such a different way of thinking from her own, but that was part of why it struck her. The simplicity of it wasn’t a flaw—it was a new angle, one she hadn’t considered.
Her lips curved into a thoughtful smile. “Supports,” she murmured, her voice quiet as her mind worked through the idea. She adjusted her glasses—a nervous habit—and stepped closer to the paper, tilting her head slightly as though a different angle would make the concept click.
“It’s not... wrong,” she said slowly, her words cautious but open. “I mean, the throat of a wormhole isn’t like a physical tunnel. It’s spacetime itself, so it doesn’t behave the same way. But the idea of a framework—something to stabilize it externally...” She trailed off, her fingers twitching at her sides.
Her gaze flicked back to the hologram, the collapsing wormhole throat spinning in its endless cycle of failure. She reached out to the controls, her movements quick and deliberate, adding layers to the visualization. “I’ve been trying to balance it from the inside—adjusting the energy flows, the boundary conditions—but maybe I’m missing something. Maybe it needs more than just internal stabilization. Maybe it does need... a kind of structure. Not physical, but...” She paused, her voice dropping as though speaking to herself. “An energy lattice, maybe.”
Danika’s hands moved faster now, sketching out a faintly glowing grid around the edges of the holographic wormhole. The new addition shimmered as it interacted with the simulation, though the effect was still rudimentary. “A framework made of electromagnetic fields,” she said, thinking aloud. “It could act like scaffolding—something for the negative energy to anchor to, holding the throat open long enough for it to stabilize. It wouldn’t fix everything, but it might stop the collapse for a few nanoseconds.”
Her pacing began, her hands flexing as her mind surged ahead. “It’s just a theory, but it could work in tandem with the Casimir boundary. A temporary stabilization field. Long enough to start the self-reinforcing process...”
Her lips curved into a thoughtful smile. “Supports,” she murmured, her voice quiet as her mind worked through the idea. She adjusted her glasses—a nervous habit—and stepped closer to the paper, tilting her head slightly as though a different angle would make the concept click.
“It’s not... wrong,” she said slowly, her words cautious but open. “I mean, the throat of a wormhole isn’t like a physical tunnel. It’s spacetime itself, so it doesn’t behave the same way. But the idea of a framework—something to stabilize it externally...” She trailed off, her fingers twitching at her sides.
Her gaze flicked back to the hologram, the collapsing wormhole throat spinning in its endless cycle of failure. She reached out to the controls, her movements quick and deliberate, adding layers to the visualization. “I’ve been trying to balance it from the inside—adjusting the energy flows, the boundary conditions—but maybe I’m missing something. Maybe it needs more than just internal stabilization. Maybe it does need... a kind of structure. Not physical, but...” She paused, her voice dropping as though speaking to herself. “An energy lattice, maybe.”
Danika’s hands moved faster now, sketching out a faintly glowing grid around the edges of the holographic wormhole. The new addition shimmered as it interacted with the simulation, though the effect was still rudimentary. “A framework made of electromagnetic fields,” she said, thinking aloud. “It could act like scaffolding—something for the negative energy to anchor to, holding the throat open long enough for it to stabilize. It wouldn’t fix everything, but it might stop the collapse for a few nanoseconds.”
Her pacing began, her hands flexing as her mind surged ahead. “It’s just a theory, but it could work in tandem with the Casimir boundary. A temporary stabilization field. Long enough to start the self-reinforcing process...”
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