UltraNet Inc.

The trillion dollar, global cybermation company founded by Leopold Hardan and incorporated in 1979. UltraNet built military computers, large and small, for about 25 different governments, not all friendly.

Vercingetorix

Roschief of the Arverni. A leader of the Gallic revolt against the Romans in 52 B.C. Vercingetorix was defeated by Julius Caesar at the siege of Alesia in today's France. He was led in chains to Rome where he paid for his defeat with his life.

By 51 B.C, the long war with Gaul was over. All Gaul accepted subjection to Rome for more than three hundred years.

Vermis Kinesis

That part of the brain's anatomy capable of experiencing paraportation, i.e., psychic propulsion through paraspace. The VK is a wormlike structure, a part of the cerebellum absent or diminutive in certain individuals. (See Paraportation)

Vicom

Video phone alternately called visicom which became popular around 2001. Vicom can be installed on almost any computer. The one unfortunate glitch for the Vicom X85 is that it can be difficult to tell whether one's video side is on or off, often with embarrassing consequencies for the user.

Warptear

A rift or flaw in the fabric of space-time of infinite uncertainty in which adjacent events have no apparent causal connection. Warptear is a hole or gap in space-time, not a fold, crease or cusp. The size of the hole can be measured. Warptears encountered here are as large as a gigaquin per cubic meter-second. These tears occur due to the expansion of space-time. The cracks or nonuniformities act like trojan points sweeping up great concentrations of matter. Along major tears immense space-time "vacuums" may develop called black holes.

Inside a space-time "hole" it is impossible to know where something is or when something is. Therefore, uncertainty approaches infinity as an observer approaches the "hole". What is really inside the "hole"? It's probably the stuff of creation itself - infinity or something just as big.

Wave Function

Name given to Schroedinger's equation which describes the probability of an observation of a particle in space and time due to the fact that all matter has the dualistic character of both waves and particles.

Xenonadir

Death. Nihilation. Never having been.

The ultimate or macro collapse of the Wave Function condensing all possible realities into one, thereby setting probability, uncertainty or eventuality equal to zero. (See Wave Function)

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