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Folded Universe Series - 6 books: What if the imaginary dimension that is necessary in standard physics equations were an actual dimension like length, width, and depth?
And what if the universe were folded in that dimension so that parts of the universe that are distant in the standard dimensions were close in that new dimension?
What would you find if you could travel in that direction?
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Jura: An imaginary dimension yields a new planet
Bob Hunter is a new assistant professor in the math department at the University of Tennessee and Suzie Fletcher is a new assistant professor of physics at UT.
They are busy with teaching duties, counseling students, and serving on departmental committees. Additionally, they are expected to be working on publishing papers.
All of this is completely ordinary for young professors. However, Bob has an idea. He proposed that the imaginary values in common physics actually represented a real dimension,
different from the normal length, width, and depth dimensions. Further, he suggested that, if the universe were folded in this imaginary dimension,
it might be possible to view distant parts of the universe as if they were next door. Bob and Suzie found this concept so intriguing that they work on it in their spare time.
When they succeed, they discover dinosaurs! Their work also brings out criminals who want to use it for their own purposes.
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Jura Colony:
Portals lead to big changes
Bob and Suzie’s bombshell paper on creating portals between the Earth and other planets appeared while they were on their honeymoon.
As a result of the paper, they are having a growing influence on the other members of their departments while they work on the theory behind the folding of the universe in the imaginary dimension.
The couple have also enlisted Pat and Rita Kelly as partners in forming Folded Universe, Inc., to take people on safaris to Jura to take pictures of the dinosaurs.
Amidst their theoretical researches and commercial endeavors, they have to contend with both Russian and Chinese aggression.
Bob and Suzie are also working on a use for the portals that will totally disrupt the economy if it isn’t implemented properly. They are planning on economic upheaval, but not wars.
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Yucatan: Asteroids can be dangerous
The Russian and Chinese assaults were defeated through the use of portals supplied by Folded Universe.
However, there were still spies, seduction, and a war being planned. Folded Universe is now a profitable company. Bob and Suzie Hunter and Pat and Rita Kelly are running safaris on Jura and have helped found a colony on Jura.
The Russians have also founded a colony there, where they had previously had a military base. Rita and Pat are running a large University of Tennessee project that is funded by the National Science Foundation to investigate Jura.
And the math and physics departments are researching various aspects of the 4-dimensional space that contains the folded universe; Bob and Suzie are leading these efforts.
But Jura was just one of the near-Earth planets, so Bob and Suzie picked another planet to investigate. This one contained an abandoned city that was being engulfed by a jungle of vegetation.
Accordingly, they named this planet Yucatan.
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Hades: Describing
the folded universe is important
Bob and Suzie have completed their second major paper, this one providing the theoretical explanation of the folding of the universe and a predictive map of the folds.
Within the university, they are searching for remnants of the population of Yucatan and the planetary scientists want them to find an exotic planet to explore.
At the same time, Folded Universe’s implementation of the major air routes with a portal-based system is bringing in a phenomenal amount of money.
On the international front, Russia and China have exhausted each other, but Syria’s dreams of forming a Greater Syria are generating a quagmire.
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Settlements:
Hunting dinosaurs for trophies can be dangerous
Suzie and Bob have shared the Nobel Prize in physics for their first bombshell paper and are set to give lectures around the country.
France, Germany and the UK are all building their own colonies on Jura, bringing the total settlements there to five.
Bob and Suzie are worried that trophy hunting for dinosaurs will be instituted and that, in time, the planet’s ecology could be irreparably damaged.
On Yucatan, the survivors that Pat had found were now settled into three towns, the subjects of intense anthropological study.
At some point, the researchers were going to make contact with the survivors, although how and when were not yet determined.
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Herders: The
survivors of the Yucatan disaster need to recover
More Nobel Prizes have been awarded. However,
the Chinese are not through causing trouble. In the meantime Bob
and Suzie and their friends are working to help the survivors of the
catastrophe on Yucatan.
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Sciences used and abused: Physics -
curved space; mathematics -
topology;
military science; planetary sciences;
astronomy; anthropology; sociology; geography; geology.
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Bob and Suzie
 
Pat and Rita
 
Ken and April
Brian and Paula
 
Camille and Leon
Lacey and Hal
Jura map
 
Allosaur on Jura
Ruined city of Maya on Yucatan
 
Hades a as seen from Hades b
Chased by a dinosaur
Yucatan pack animal |
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