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Henk [Once more into the Pit]
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 ==== A Short Treatise on Travelling ==== ==== A Short Treatise on Travelling ====
  
-Only the most naive traveller thinks that the opposite of forward is back, for once one has gone forwards, then turning around and going back does not deliver one to where one started. We have long known that time is a fourth dimension of sorts, and that suggests the tantalising possibility that one may be able to find a direction, call it anti-forward,​ that could enable one to return to the exact spot, in both time and space, from where one started. A search for such a direction ​to turn to may well be a fool's errand. Or not. +Only the most naive traveller thinks that the opposite of forward is back, for once one has gone forwards, then turning around and going back does not deliver one to where one started. We have long known that time is a fourth dimension of sorts, and that suggests the tantalising possibility that one may be able to find a direction, call it anti-forward,​ that could enable one to return to the exact spot, in both time and space, from where one started. A search for such a direction to may well be a fool's errand. Or not. 
  
 It is easy to think of space as a container of sorts, with three axes in perpendicular arrangement stretching from where one is into infinity - a vacuum in which one may move freely. For this to have any meaning though, it is worth noting that there have to be at least two objects concerned, one you measure from and one you measure to, for if there was to be only one object in space, distance would become meaningless,​ as if in a dream. ​ It is easy to think of space as a container of sorts, with three axes in perpendicular arrangement stretching from where one is into infinity - a vacuum in which one may move freely. For this to have any meaning though, it is worth noting that there have to be at least two objects concerned, one you measure from and one you measure to, for if there was to be only one object in space, distance would become meaningless,​ as if in a dream. ​
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