Inquanta (sometimes just quanta)

The encoding or description of matter (solidus) by ordered packets of energy.

Quanta (phenomena) are the sensory manifestations of space-possibility-time, just as antiquanta (noumena) are the extra-sensory manifestations of space-possibility-time. Examples of the former are matter (gravity), antimatter, virtual matter, electromagnetic energy, weak nuclear force, strong nuclear force, warptear, mind, ESP (the sensory part of the extra-sensory), etc. Example of the latter are a little harder to come by, since by definition they are imperceptible. However, we might include in this category: the human soul, God, etc.

IPPR

The Institute for Physico-Psychic Research in El Rasigo, New Mexico, completed and ready for equipment testing in November of 2004. Much later Max Cole remarked, "It was the worst thing we could have called it. The place drew every nutcase for hundreds of miles. In my opinion a better name would have been the Sanitation and Health Institute of Technology or SHIT."

Isocell ('Cell)

The heavily sound-insulated room for the Lens sleeper or dreamscanner. Like all rooms in the isochamber, the isocell has three walls, not four. The equipment in the room was kept to a minimum to avoid distracting the sleeper.

Isocon ('Con)

The control room adjacent to the isocell. Together with the anteroom and isocell it makes up one of Institute's four isolation chambers.

The Kind or Kindmen

A paranoid race of two spatial-dimension beings. These fantastical creatures were often depicted on Neolithic cave art as gods or devils.

Klein Bottle

Named after the German mathematician, Felix Klein, (not Owen) the Klein bottle is a bottle of only one side or surface with no edges, giving it no outside or no inside. Cutting the bottle into two mirror-symmetrical halves will yield two Mobius strips. Any two points on the Klein surface may be joined by an unbroken line.

Its general shape matches that of the perfect Baumer universe - no discontinuities with the exception of the intersection or Big Bang. Each Dyad is a Mobius strip. (See Continuity and Dyad)

Klicks

According to Keezer, a race of beneficent four spatial-dimension beings. The natural enemies of the ruthless, self-centered Kwoggs. (See Kwoggs)

Kyrpower

The natural ability to thin or thicken paraspace by the mnemonic power of mind. The result is the observation of distortion, contraction or dilation of time or space.

Kwoggs

According to Keezer, a jealous race of three spatial-dimension beings. The natural enemies of the Kindmen. (See the Kind)

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