Jophiel ran those numbers in his head. ‘Ah. A million to one.’
‘Yes, you see it. Time down there, in the sub-cellar, is running at the same rate as down on Deck One, where the Xeelee lives. And so the obvious conclusion—’
‘Is that it is down on Deck One. That this nest of cubes is a passageway. Good thinking.’
‘And that is why I called it a wormhole. It’s not, but it’s obviously a – transit system. Across more than a thousand astronomical units, from up here to down there. It somehow manages the speed-up transition, the time dilation. But because of that—’
-Xeelee: Redemption, Ch. 66