[ He rolled his eyes, smiling, leaned back a little to reach for a pitcher of water tucked to one side of a nearby low bookcase. ]
Where I'm from, the winds would get really bad. Make cyclones in the sand, sometimes bad enough to be colony killers. But a few systems away, there was a planet with a colony-killer storm. The eye of its cyclone was like... ten times the size of this city, easy. Winds hard enough to just rip flesh from bone, crush metal beams thicker than you are like paper.
But even thing of things like that as like.... nothing compared to a singularity. Like comparing a tiny twig to a massive tree. Whirlpools, cyclones, all of that, they're just water and wind, things we can sense a little better.
A singularity's a little like... what happens when similar kinds of force move not water, not air, but space and time... with one big difference I'll explain in a second. They can happen in nature, but pretty rarely, but can also be caused.
[ He took the largest glass flask, wide-mouthed and the one into which most of the rest of his small equipment rest, and poured a measure of water into it. He turned his sleeve, caught it in his free hand while he set the water down, and used his teeth to nip a small wooden button off his sleeve. He took it from his mouth between his fingers and dropped it into the water. It floated, a little. ]
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Where I'm from, the winds would get really bad. Make cyclones in the sand, sometimes bad enough to be colony killers. But a few systems away, there was a planet with a colony-killer storm. The eye of its cyclone was like... ten times the size of this city, easy. Winds hard enough to just rip flesh from bone, crush metal beams thicker than you are like paper.
But even thing of things like that as like.... nothing compared to a singularity. Like comparing a tiny twig to a massive tree. Whirlpools, cyclones, all of that, they're just water and wind, things we can sense a little better.
A singularity's a little like... what happens when similar kinds of force move not water, not air, but space and time... with one big difference I'll explain in a second. They can happen in nature, but pretty rarely, but can also be caused.
[ He took the largest glass flask, wide-mouthed and the one into which most of the rest of his small equipment rest, and poured a measure of water into it. He turned his sleeve, caught it in his free hand while he set the water down, and used his teeth to nip a small wooden button off his sleeve. He took it from his mouth between his fingers and dropped it into the water. It floated, a little. ]
Alright. You with me so far?