The retrieval intervals, as we call them, correspond to temporal resonances, ripples in the timestream, generated when we drop an object into it, in this case, the client. In the orientation session I received when I joined the organization as a technician, I was provided a 5brief gloss of the physics involved, and how the intervals were due to quantum fluctuations and nested dimensions and other such abstruse concepts. I appreciated that the organization wanted me to understand these things, but at the end of the day I was hired to push buttons, move the clients through the exit and reentry
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This is a really clever way of avoiding a lengthy, complicated,and in all likelihood infeasible discussion of the science here (which really isn’t important anyway), yet doing so seamlessly within the story’s own internal logic.
