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[The NV does not show a person. Instead, he sends out a text. Because Skyping is for people who have achieved the first three tiers of friendship.

He's also rather freaked out by the Darkness and doesn't particularly want to show it on video feed, so he's just going to sit in his new starter apartment and pretend everything is perfectly normal and Leonard is going to come get him, thank you very much.]

I have been told by one [1] so-called expert in the field that I have been brought to an alternate dimension. As this is both ridiculous and impossible as I have not discovered it yet, I am waiting for an explanation that is both reasonable and able to be proven.

Until then, I will be waiting within this house of the American past-time, attempting to find a train station to return me to Pasadena.

Should they be within this "alternate dimension Canada", I require the presence of one [1] Leonard Hofstadter, provided he is not off wasting his time entertaining the company of two [2] scientists by the names of Rajesh Koothrappali and Howard Wolowitz or one [1] Cheesecake Factory waitress that lacks the education to know this is a ridiculous hallucination by the name of Penny.

By the terms of our friendship agreements, they need to be within this baseball diamond.

Now.

[And then, just as this text is sent out, another one follows it, from the same feed number.]

Amy, if you can read this, call me. Please.

I need to speak with you immediately.

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Need I state again that our universes are different?

You cannot expect me to believe that your supposedly scientific theory is entrenched in religious fundamentalism.

Do you know who else uses that argument? Fred Phelps.

Do you know what he does? He copyrighted the website godhatesfags.com.

Do you know what that means? You're wrong.

Don't take it personally, no one is right all of the time. Except me, obviously, but you have to work for it.

The existence of Heaven and Hell in my world is not a matter of belief. They are real locations, just as the Himalayas, or the Sahara desert. Religious belief is of no consequence and no factor in this.

You can disbelieve me if you desire. It makes no difference to me, though you will find no answers to the questions you ask if you are unwilling to accept that perhaps it is your belief that is incorrect, in this instance.

You cannot equate

[And suddenly, the video feed switches on to show a relatively thin young man sitting on the edge of his bed. He's wearing a suit jacket over a tee-shirt and he seems to not want to... touch most of anything in the room. Sitting on the strange bed was enough of a challenge. Hence sitting on the very edge of it.

-- he doesn't know how clean it is, okay.]

You cannot equate the location of two discovered landmasses to a dimension that is steeped in religious mythology. The creation of Heaven and Hell are nothing more than security blankets cast upon humanity whenever someone asked where we went after we died. You can't buy a plane ticket to Heaven, you can't take an elevator down to Hell, because both locations don't actually exist. They are figments of the human imagination, delusions of grandeur that capture the minds of the simple-minded. If Stephen Hawking hasn't yet discovered the door to another universe, then God certainly hasn't.

In short -- you can't prove trans-dimensional travel with a Bible, that's stupid.

[Oh good, video. Castiel is much better with this.]

The Bible proves nothing. Particularly as it is incredibly inaccurate and created far after the Creation of the world and Heaven and Hell.

I presume your world also does not have ghosts, vampires, werewolves, or any number of other beings that exist in mine, because once more, our worlds are not the same. In some, indeed religion and the stories of the Bible are creations of humanity. In others, they are real.

What is the field you are an expert in?

[Sheldon cannot even begin to comprehend that statement -- and it shows, with a slightly blank staring, before he focuses on the question he can answer.

And answer... in depth.]

I am a theoretical particle physicist, specializing in string theory. My original discipline was bosonic string theory, but I've lately been focused on heterotic string theory -- specifically, applying string theory to the black hole information paradox. I've also been working on time-dependent backgrounds -- quantum field theory -- in D-dimensional de Sitter space.

[And there's a tiny, nearly minuscule, quirk of his lips.]

Stephen Hawking informed me that I was brilliant.

[NO ONE NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THE PAPER.]

[Castiel has to parse the human names for the fields of study to what they actually are, which takes a moment, but eventually he does put them all together and lay out in his head what it is that Sheldon works in. String theory, of course, Castiel understands without issue--angels know how the universe works, after all--though he isn't entirely certain how much humans know of it. And of course, there are likely variations in the different worlds.

But Castiel takes a moment, to write down a string of equations to send to Sheldon; they're nothing particularly special, just a demonstration that Castiel understands what they're talking about, and that he isn't some uneducated being working in ideas of belief alone.]

[He opens the file suspiciously before he looks it over, scanning it quickly for error. There, remarkably, isn't any -- and Sheldon seems to visibly relax slightly at the explanation.

-- well, kind of.]

Well, now that I've ascertained you aren't a complete and utter idiot, I suppose I can listen.

[ -- it's a compliment, take it. 8|]

-- but for the sake of my own sanity, we can leave the so-called concrete ideals of Heaven and Hell out of it. The proof of those two things might cause my cerebral cortex to implode and the last thing I need is for my crazy Christian mother to show up brandishing a spoon and telling me I was wrong.

[He says the word 'wrong' like it is truly a curse.]

Alternate dimension Canada, I can deal with. For the time being.

That can be done.

[He doesn't need Heaven or Hell in specific to discuss this topic, after all.]

That we are in another dimension's Canada is indeed the main factor of import, here, as it has the most relevancy.

I'm glad we're on the same page.

[He means it seriously. Sheldon doesn't speak sarcasm very well.]

Have you researched the Core itself? The pattern of people arriving within the city? The percentage of people staying here longer than one month?

Nothing other than in passing; I have had more pressing issues to be dealt with. However individuals do arrive throughout the month, in small groups every few days.

[He's writing this down.]

Every month?

No, every few.

Three months, four months?

Two.

Around the same amount of people?

From what I understand the number varies from fifty to a hundred across the span of the month.

[But he hasn't paid that much attention.]

[Sheldon pauses to stare down at his list of notes, bothered.]

Well, that isn't very helpful at all.

I've had more pressing things to focus on. Ask greeters; they likely keep better track.

All they did was give me a pamphlet with coupons in it.

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