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Chapters 20 and 21 - Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer

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Elstein: This is probably one of the most convoluted passages in this entire book because it's trying to explain a very advanced quantum physics concept. So Dhamnina asks if the teleportation that they're using to summon this fish is how cackajans, things from off world, came to earth. Father Inneri responds by explaining the issues of faster than light travel in the context of special relativity. As an object speed increases, so does its energy.

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