“How does Light move so fast..?”
“He travels at The Speed of….. Thought.”
‘Listen', said Lister, leaning over him, 'there's something I need to know: what's the duality jump? What is it? What does it DO?'
A plastic frown rippled across Kryten's brow. 'It powers the ship. It's a quantum drive - it allows you to leap from one point in space to another. Why?'
'How does it work?'
'I'm just a mechanoid. I don't know these things.'
'How does it WORK, Kryten?' Lister insisted.
'It's something to do with Quantum Mechanics and Indeterminism. Something about when you measure electrons, they can be 'in two places at the same time.'
Kryten seemed strangely reluctant to talk about it, and kept stressing it was a 'human matter' and not really the kind of thing mechanoids should concern themselves with, but, bit by bit, Lister wheedled what he could out of Kryten, and doggedly pieced together what he needed to know.
When you made a duality jump, it seemed, you temporarily coexisted at TWO points in the universe; you then 'CHOSE' one of these points to 'BE' in.
In this way you could leapfrog across the universe, not bound by the limits of Space/Time.
….in an old armchair.
“What The Devil IS That Thing..?!”
“It’s An Angel, stupid!”
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