Pandora

Joe Fuller's name for the eighty-foot diameter panoptoscope. (See Panoptoscope)

Panigma

A conundrum of cosmic proportions. A term coined by Lloyd Baumer in 1992.

Panigma Button

The scientists' derogatory name for a program that initiates an automatic shutdown of Lens given that the probability for a superwindow exceeds a critical value. Use of the term gradually became acceptable.

Panigma Gate

Julia Moffett's Hell's Gate was invented by Lloyd Baumer and Henry Kincaid. It is a break in phenomenal causality created by focusing the Panigma Lens at high aperture (measured in cicabytes) across a warptear. When the superwindow of the target equals the superwindow of the source, a space-time dislocation of inquanta (matter or energy) may occur spontaneously.

Panigma Lens

LENS is an acronym for Light Enhancement by Neural Synthesis. Lens compumetrics or the rotation of the four dimensional space-time "plane" was first introduced by Lloyd Baumer in 1983. The rotation may be isotropic (components of the Martoff tensor are invariant with respect to the rotation the coordinate system) or nonisotropic. (See Tensor)

Panigo

Intense vertigo and "out of the body" feeling produced during the dream observer's panoptographic insertion into paraspace. (See Panoptoscope)

Panigma Machine

The collective term for the CIC, OPM, OnNet 210 computers and panoptoscope. It is thought to be a "twist" on the enigma machine, the infamous German cypher machine of WW II.

Panopticon

The geodesic dome of the IPPR. Also called Panigma Dome.

Panoptogram

The byte-content or byte-map of the panoptograph. (See CEP)

Panoptography

The holographic process whereby multi-dimensional space is rendered "viewable". (See CEP)

Panoptoscope

The eighty-foot diameter lumoscope known as Pandora. The panoptoscope or Pandora provides the observer with the illusion of actually being inside a device like a giant kaleidoscope, of being a part of the multi-dimensional panoscene. (See CEP)

Panoscene

The simulated view of multi-dimensional paraspace available through panoptography.

Panutopia

Word taken from Senator Thomas Warren Emsley's passionate appeal to the Senate's Science Committee. It refers to a state of utopia fostered by the Panigma Lens, a world freed of half-lies, full-lies, high crimes and misdemeanors.

Paracube

A dyad of two quars - a posiquar and antiquar. It is equal to the quinth of a quin, the centrum of the Lens. The paracube is the heart, if not the soul of the Lens.

Paradementia

The dementia brought on by exposure to a superwindow. A superwindow is high-aperture, high uncertainty, high possibility paraspace.

Parangle

The path through paraspace measured in parads (parameter-seconds) that defines the apparent velocity of light - the greater the parangle the lower the velocity of light. If the light pressure is inversely proportional to the parangle, then the apparent velocity of light is equal to the light pressure divided by the parathickness.

Paraportation

Movement through paraspace by mind or by other intervening forces. (See Vermis Kinesis)

Parascan

A Lens tour of paraspace during a heightened state of lucid dreaming often assisted by the infamous lucidity drug, Mercolidine Sulfate.

Paraspace (or Hyperspace)

A multi-dimensional space as viewed through the Panigma Lens. If space and time are finite, but unbounded, it is necessary that space-time bend around a centrum or focus as does any convex solid - example, a sphere or a polyhedron. The interior of the convex solid resides in the extra dimensional space. (See Theory of Continuity)

A proof for multi-dimensional space does not yet exist, though it does help to explain the wave behavior of light and action at a distance.

PPI

PPI is the Power Proficiency Index or the ratio of output to input power, i.e the mnemonic ratio of the aperture of the mind to the aperture of the available paraspace.

Posicube

It is a posiquin or five dimensional hypercube that contains forward space-possibility-time. The size of the posicube is a measure of the total positive S-T-X. Negative S-T-X is determined by the size of its mirror-image anticube or antiquin. (S, T and X are respectively space, time and possibility/uncertainty.)

Poxgang

A gang of neo-nazis lead by the poxer, Ralph "the Rail" Seiper.

Purbrown

The unique brown-lilac color of Julia Moffett's eyes, the relative intensity of each extreme depending upon the intensity of the light and its angle. The closest thing to purbrown is the color of the pacific ocean during a brief period of summer sunset. Similar to Green Flash, it is often called Pacific Purple Flash.

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