In the case of the vehicles, the current I have already
mentioned (used in the mechanism for the transition from
Earth to the other realm) that current, circulating in the
organic material of which the vehicle was composed, altered
the state of matter of the carrier and everything within the
aura of the current's field. The vehicle and all its
contents, with altered inherent vibratory rate of its
molecules, atoms and electrons, was in effect projected into
another world. A new dimension was added to it. It became an
imponderable wraith, resting dimly visible in a sort of
borderland upon the fringe of its own world.
Yet it had not changed _position_. It still remained
quiescent. Then the current was further altered, and the
time and space co-ordinates set into new combinations. This
change of the current was a _progressive_ change. Controlled
and carefully calculated by what intricate theoretic
principles and practical mechanisms no scientist of our
world can yet say.
It is clear, however, that as this progressive change in
space-time characteristics began, the vehicle perforce must
move slightly in space and time to reconcile itself to the
change.
There never has been a seemingly more abstruse subject for
the human mind to grasp than the theories involving a true
conception of space-time. Yet, doubtless, to those of Tako's
realm, inheriting, let me say, the consciousness of its
reality, there was nothing abstruse about it.
An analogy may make it clearer. The vehicle, hovering in the
borderland, might be called in a visible but gaseous state.
A solid can be turned to gas merely by the alteration of the
vibratory rate of its molecules.
This unmoving (gaseous) vehicle, is now further altered in
space-time characteristics. Suppose we say it is very
slightly thrown out of tune with its _spatial_ surroundings
at the time which is its _present_. Nature will allow no
such disorganization. The vehicle, as a second of _time_
passes, is impelled by the force of nature to be in a
_different place_. This involves motion. A small change in
the first second. Then the current alters it progressively
faster. The change, of necessity, is progressively greater,
the motion more rapid.
And this, controlled as to direction, became transportation.
The determination of direction at first thought seems
amazingly intricate. In effect, that was not so. With
space-time factors set as a destination, i. e., the place
where the vehicle must end its change at a certain time, all
the intermediate changes become automatic. With every
passing second it must be at a reconcilable place--the
direction of its passage perforce being the shortest path
between the two.
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