she approaches it at an unimaginable speed and it grows like an infected wound , spilling a deep blue into the dark of the worm hole , an oceanic blue that swells and swells until it fills the void below her and then she is falling through the portal and the light burns her mind blank for a timeless instant everything stopsdeadsilent as cathedralsinfinite calmatoms stop spinningwaves become frozen particlessilence , hard and unforgiving , a wall of solitude , a million years of seclusion , condensed into this single diamond bright moment and then she is through , falling into new time , new physics , and new mathematics to map that physics .