How does the telescope work? How does it send the Chrysalis and its user into space?
A. Thought transference is a complicated process that involves the traveler’s brain, the Discovery VII telescope, the Chrysalis, and SID. Basically it works like this: The user sights his destination through the telescope and engages the clock drive in order to keep the scope locked on during transference. This sends a signal to SID, who intercepts the travelers’ brain wave energy and converts it to digital information. At the same time, he engages a matter-to-energy transformer which converts both the physical body of the user and the Chrysalis which is waiting nearby in the Professor’s laboratory into microscopic atomic particles. Then digital information and atomic particles alike are attached to a tachyon beam which is created at the base of the telescope and sent to the chosen destination where, if all goes well they are reformed into a cosmosphere and an explorer with a headache!
