[SPOILERS ALL] Brainstorm: Help us figure out the physics!

>![Tiamat's Wrath spoilers ahead....](/s "The slow zone, which has been described as a pocket universe, seems to interact with the Goths differently than normal space does. This is how the Goths are able to destroy matter in the slow zone, but not so much in normal space.

My current thinking is that the slow zone might be a part of the Goth dimension, or intersects with their dimension some how. The Romans pissed the Goths off by making these dimensional hubs that interfere with the Goth dimension, and that's kind of how the war started all those years ago. So my theory is that some how, by the end of book 9, we'll have to abandon the gate network, maybe even collapsing it altogether just to appease the Goths to not obliterate humanity.

The only hole in this is the system with the neutron star, being that the Goths we're able to boil matter into existence in normal space. But the Goths definitely don't have the same abilities in normal space that they do in the slow zone. I think that's the key somehow.")!<

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