Temporal Substrates *Jane's Regret*

Jane had been trapped in Hartley's little wooden cabin somewhere in the Pleiades star cluster since she arrived during a time-spring in the near, yet however far distant, past it was. Unknown to her and the scientists who discovered the physics that made it possible for her to traverse the impossible distance in the brief moment required, Einstein had failed to deduce a critical element of his general theory of relativity. That is, the various laws of physics, known and unknown, are also relative to each other. A particular value of mass, velocity, gravity, or whatever, is determined by also factoring in its relative position in the universe where it exists relative to the geometric space-time-mass-energy mean of the composite universe.