Infinite Worlds setting question.

[Kingmaker]

A conveyor allows you to jump across parallels. A projector allows you to go between quantum levels, it doesn't come with you, and its a stationairy facility.

Basically my question is how the hell did they ever build a projector on any quantum other than homeline? One way trips with conveyors containing the components to build the projector?

Then I suppose conveyors usually make two jumps within a Quantum, one back to the central projector quantum, then another through the projector?

I'm sure this was covered in the book, but conveyors do not have to land on the same geographical point as they were in the original paralel do they? How about Projectors?

Thanks!

[Flyndaran]

Projectors can pull as well as project.

[Diomedes]

Originally Posted by Kingmaker

Basically my question is how the hell did they ever build a projector on any quantum other than homeline? One way trips with conveyors containing the components to build the projector?

That would probably be the way to go. But neither Homeline nor Centrum knows of any other world where projectors work besides those two, so any projectors they did move through to test the limits were probably small technology demonstrators rather than practical transportation.

Then I suppose conveyors usually make two jumps within a Quantum, one back to the central projector quantum, then another through the projector?

No, I believe that multi-quantum conveyors can interact with a projector to cross quanta, but they don't have to go back to Homeline to do it.

I'm sure this was covered in the book, but conveyors do not have to land on the same geographical point as they were in the original paralel do they? How about Projectors?

Thanks!

I think it's almost always the same geographical point, unless the world is so different that "same" becomes meaningless.

[Kingmaker]

Alright guys thanks, I'm reading my way through this absolutely awesome book but it's pretty info heavy.

[nick012000]

Originally Posted by Diomedes

That would probably be the way to go. But neither Homeline nor Centrum knows of any other world where projectors work besides those two, so any projectors they did move through to test the limits were probably small technology demonstrators rather than practical transportation.

There's Shikaku-Mon, though they haven't managed to build one there yet. All those pesky amateur snoopers with their high-tech cameras and spy equipment make doing it in secret difficult, and that means they haven't been able to do it without risking The Secret.

[Ego Archive]

Is there a reason that they couldn't use a projector to drop another projector in the target line? Not that, that would get around the issue of finding another line that projector's work in, but getting a projector, and a generator to that line shouldn't be a problem.

Of course then your putting alot of risk on "the Secret", but again that is a different issue.

[nick012000]

Originally Posted by Ego Archive

Is there a reason that they couldn't use a projector to drop another projector in the target line? Not that, that would get around the issue of finding another line that projector's work in, but getting a projector, and a generator to that line shouldn't be a problem.

Of course then your putting alot of risk on "the Secret", but again that is a different issue.

Well, projectors tend to be quite large objects. You'd need a quite large projector to send another projector through.

[Ego Archive]

Originally Posted by nick012000

Well, projectors tend to be quite large objects. You'd need a quite large projector to send another projector through.

According to Infinity Unlimited p.27:

A parachronic projector (p. B530)
requires approximately 50 cubic yards
of equipment to project one ton across
the quanta. The equipment costs $50
million per ton of capacity (although
Infinity almost certainly pads those
costs), and weighs approximately one
ton per ton of capacity.

It appears that it can essentially convey an amount equal to it's own size, so if you had a several ton conveyer, transporting a one ton model shouldn't be an issue, unless of course there is a different problem.

[Not another shrubbery]

Originally Posted by Ego Archive

According to Infinity Unlimited p.27:

It appears that it can essentially convey an amount equal to it's own size, so if you had a several ton conveyer, transporting a one ton model shouldn't be an issue, unless of course there is a different problem.

I never thought much about it, but those numbers are kinda wonky... the density of the equipment comes out to something like 2% that of water. I think that it might actually be referring to floor space, so that the units would be 'square yards'. That's still pretty light, but this is cusp of TL9 tech *shrug*

[MrTim]

It's probably meant to be cubic yards, but with open space included. I imagine the actual equipment doesn't take up but a couple of square yards, and the rest is a big space for the projected equipment to sit on.