Re: McCallister's Machine Gun
OOC: Oops, lost track of you.
IC:
"Well, that was my first question, don't you know?"
Her Irish accent fades, and she turns serious.
"The first problem is opening a gate to another universe, and I know two men who've claimed to have done that. One of them, Doctor Cullihan, I'm fairly sure of.
The second problem is more serious. There are three possibilities that theory allows for the size of the Multiverse. One, is fairly small, perhaps a hundred worlds, at most a thousand. The next is in the uncounted trillions and quintillions, ten to the 2086th power is a likely number for several good reasons."
She pulls a face.
"And laddie, don't you know, it gets worse? One rather good theory insists if you can believe it that the Multiverse is infinite? So, how does one go about finding precisely the bar code strip of paper with your precise details for your world in a room the size of the solar system, utterly packed with bar codes?"
She shrugs her shoulders.
PT