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[tanner]

SPEC the cube is a hypercube (which has no inside and outside from a 3d point of view) so PPC is both inside the cube (hence RECEDA meaning Stronghold) and outside the cube (Hence its kept in a secure museum) -- cube gets stolen from museum but PPC is still inside -- so PPC is hidden here on earth somewhere

[vibration13]

Hypercube

[Tiny]

When they say timelines diverged I keep thinking Atlantis. Atlantis was supposedly a sophisticated race, highly advanced and much more intelligent then the modern humans of their time period. The whole of Perplex City is advanced as we see with this "Key" thing of theirs, which to me seems like it must be a type of neuro implant. I can't really explain the idea but in "Signal to Noise" and "Signal Shattered" by Eric Nylund, the human's have a sort of technological implant which act sort of like laptops in their skulls as virtual reality devices that are hooked into every aspect of their life, hence why it could be used to pay for a newspaper subscription, it is hooked into a bank account.
Just picture it, a few thousand years ago an advanced civilization came across an artifact, a cube and some how use dit to transoport themselves to another dimension, time period or planet, maybe even another parallel universe. Now after the remainders of civilization on their home has come to fruition they are studying us very closely, because we are them, almost.
Tj-

[Ayanami Rei]

Technology

[Nik_Doof]

Re: Technology

[Alex Smith]

[theMoo]

Perplex City is here on Earth?

[thanks]

Remember the Hilbert Cube? Basically it was a math equation to form a cube containing infinite mass, or indeterminate mass. Sound familiar? Indeterminate could be construed as infinite, yes? So, possibly the cube could contain Perplex City's entire universe (as it's constantly expanding - infinite.) I mulled this one over, but it isn't possible. The academy actually had the cube in their possession or at least according to our notes they did. If they were able to study it then that goes along with the whole, it can't be big enough to fit an entire city that studies it. I love Tanner's theory though, that is a good one.

[LordKinbote]

I think the most likely answer is "second star from the right and straight on till morning."

[Demontague]

Re: Perplex City is here on Earth?

[tanner]

[theMoo]

Yeah, in order for PC to be on our Earth there would have to be some reason why the PCers don't remember our 'shared history', but I just mention it as a possibility.

For the shared calendar to be a supporting argument for this bit of spec, PC would have to be established sometime after the move to the gregorian calendar. Google tells me this happened in 1582 for the earliest adopters. Not sure where this fits in with the possible timelines though...

[Mikeyj]

The shared history thing comes from their researches, they've been studying our history and found parallels with theirs. There's no reason why their populace should remember it.

[Alison_1]

the 6th Sense...er Dimension

[Alex Smith]

/me fades away into non-existence