[Torg] Last night's episode of _Fringe_

[Kansas Jim]

Scott Schultz wrote:

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> Firstly from the idea that there could be areas of the world where universal constants were not actually constant but where changing in comparison to the rest of the universe. He basically gave what amounted to a scientific explanation of a shift in the axioms of a pure zone and its change to a dominant zone. 

I didn't think of it that way but I suppose if you picked the right
universal constants it could apply. My view was more of him referring
to different realities since these weak spots were where you found
bridges to other realities, but I suppose axiomatic differences within
a reality can count as a differing reality too.

> Secondly, was Walter's conviction that advances in science and technology were causing the shifts in some unexplained fashion. It was a few seconds of hand-waving for story purposes, but he basically outlined the Torg idea that determined efforts by possibility-rated people like himself would eventually result in the shifting of axiom levels until a cosm-wide shift occured. 

Axiom shifts do not require P-Rateds, merely the existence of dominant
zones. There simply aren't enough P-Rateds in a cosm's population that
they could be responsible for every shift.

> You could easily hand-wave Walter's dimension portal as a dim-thread generator, and posit that a "dominant" Core Earth zone is one in which another cosm is "leaking through". In that other cosm, the same zone is dominant and Core Earth is "leaking through". The dimthread machine bridges the two dominant zones, perhaps by making each side of the bridge temporarily into "balanced" zones (mind blank on proper terminology for a zone where two realities are equally present). 

The reliance on weak spots makes me think that it's not the equivalent
of a dimthread generator, it's more a means of finding these naturally
occurring areas where fringe (heh) realities are "close" to their own
reality and somehow effecting a temporary overlapping of them. Walter's
gizmo then disrupted this effect, causing the overlap to collapse and
seal back up.

Now Bell's trick of zapping Dunham between realities while she was in an
elevator, that's more like a dimthread. No only did she move between
realities but it was not in an overlapping weak spot (since she did not
end up in the same physical location in the other world.)

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