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Zedaph is/n’t in his lab.
His lab is:
1 . An enclosed space, with four walls. 864 . Twisting and curving and turning.
2 . White, in the majority. 6009 . Angled.
3 . 3 . Quieter than he expects.
4 . His. -17.33333333 . His.
There is a mousehole in his lab.
Two, actually.
Maybe more?
18 . Sterile. Chemical in scent. 877993e . Dimensions unclear.
79.5 . Bees see in ultraviolet. θ . So do birds.
He is/n’t him. Him. Zedaph. He is holding a measuring tape. The tunnels extend past sight, sound, vision, but they are/n’t measurable. Documentable. Calculable.
Scientific.
He is/n’t scientific. Classifiable?
1 . Him.
The escape velocity from the surface of a black hole is equal to the speed of light, three hundred thousand kilometers per second. Past that point nothing can escape no matter how fast it is moving. It has been [three/eight/twenty-seven] [days/weeks/years] since he left his lab.
Begin with what can be observed.
3 . Distention of the walls. 2Ɛ . Distention of the metacarpal bones.
8i . The phone on your desk is/n’t ringing. 0.6 . sɹoloɔ ǝɥʇ sɹoloɔ ǝɥʇ sɹoloɔ ǝɥ┴
906 . Something is pooling beneath the 907 . walls.
Leaks should/n’t be avoided in a laboratory environment at all costs.
Even a small leak or spill of any hazardous material can/’t compromise the entire structure.
908 .
He/ can/’t see any/ thing.
You every
I can.
2 . White, in the majority. 22 . contains ǝʌǝɹʎ ɔoloɹ
8 . A prism, on my desk.
There was/n’t a mousehole in his office.
He steps inside.
80 . Mice can’t see in infrared. ±80 . Neither can humans.
When light reaches a black hole, it is absorbed. There is no escape. There is/n’t nothing else. There is/n’t the black hole. I am me. There is no/va difference.
Will it be measurable?
I always am.
Calculable?
3 . Infinitely.
[Retroactive continuity is a literary device in which established diegetic facts in the plot of a published work are adjusted, ignored, supplemented, or contradicted by a subsequently published work which recontextualizes or breaks continuity with the former.]
(In photos) he is:
1 . Blond. 5½ . Happy?
4 . More or less correctly proportioned. 404 .
29 . Approximately 176 cm tall. 00000 . Real.
Because the gravitational pull of a black hole is so intense, any person or item that draws past the event horizon will be subject to unequal forces at different points, stretching you
(almost)
beyond recognition.
(Theoretically, this could be survivable. Nobody has proved it is/n’t.
Any study must be replicable to have merit. If a study cannot be replicated it can only represent an incomplete understanding of the
world.)
1 . His lab is:
My calculations make non/sense again. The numbers do/n’t line up. But they never did. I don’t line up. You ca/wo/n’t. I don’t. Im/measurable. Un/classifiable? A scientific a/nomaly.
Further research is required. Begin with what can be observed.
[A literary device.]
Zedaph is/n’t in his lab. Zedaph is/n’t stepping into a mousehole. Zedaph is/n’t ˥∀q S∀ℲƎ┴⅄¡! patching a leak. Zedaph is/n’t
1 . Zedaph. 1 . Zedaph is/n’t.
2 . A mousehole.
[Diegetic facts.]
3 . A prism breaks light. 33 . A black hole distends it.
4 . A Zedaph is blond. ɹnoℲ . Magenta is/n’t real.
1 . You.
Mice are overwhelmingly used in laboratory testing because they are extremely genetically similar to human beings.
If we had the opportunity to live-test the effects of a black hole on a living being,
we would probably use mice first.