//------------------------------// // Fathoming the Unfathomable, by Tophe // Story: Group Precipitation // by FanOfMostEverything //------------------------------// Twilight massaged her forehead. “No, I mean the geometry of the space you travel through. Is it Eweclidean? Mincowski? Is it even a manifold?” “Yup.” Pinkie nodded sagely. “I have no idea what those are.” “Well, is it hyperbolic, elliptical, or flat?” “Oh, definitely not flat. It's all floofy, like cotton candy!” “Ugh, this was a waste of my time. Sorry, Pinkie, but if you don't have the technical basics to – wait, how is it like cotton candy?” “Well, cotton candy's made of sugar threads wrapped around a long stick. So if the stick is the universe, the candy is like...” * * * … this five-dimensional region is surrounded by the Bubble Bath, which doesn't contain any strawberryways because it would dissolve the sugar. I would like to thank Pinkamena Pie for her contributions to this chapter. - extract from Probability Space: A Primer by Twilight Sparkle