At the core I am a loner. I am not a people person and it’s a daily battle successfully handling intra-people communications. And in my line, I have to deal with people constantly. So why did I choose this line to make a living? I like the creativity, I can’t handle doing the same thing over and over again and I get bored very quickly. Mine is one of the rare lines of work where there is something new each and every time. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t dislike people, I just like being alone to my thoughts more. So like many with my disposition, I too have a happy-place in my mind I go to when I need a break.
Mine is a Dyson Sphere with a single AU radius and a G4 star. The inside of my DS is totally terraformed and most of my time in it is spent living in a small area doing carpentry with hand tools. I love carpentry and if I hadn’t been sat down (?!) before a computer when I was young, I could have taken that line of work. The remainder of my time in my happy-place is spent working out the technical logistics of my DS. I also love physics. I have a natural affinity for it – far more than I do for computers anyway. In my mind’s eye, I have worked out most everything I need for my DS to work, from night & day, gravity, stability, power, erosion to stuff like seasons, ecological balance (from a purely human perspective). Since I have plenty of space (gee!), every possible permutation and combination of human living conditions can co-exist without influencing each other.
The only significant deviation from reality is the manipulation of two extra dimensions from the four that we know exist. I believe in the string theory and so for me those dimensions, and countless other, must exist. Just because we can’t manipulate them does not mean that they aren’t there. I need those extra dimensions for suitable gravity and to prevent my DS from collapsing should any big enough asteroid hit it. Mathematically it works and I guess for a happy-place, it’ll do. The only glitch seems to be about the technology. It is not terribly advanced but it is on a very large scale. So as far as I think, when we do have the technology for it, I don’t think we will need any DS because we would have found a better way to keep all our eggs in different baskets. I believe in us. We have many shortcomings but without them we would not have our virtues. It’s a package deal and all in all, I’m sure we can see our own existence through long enough to get there.
So I often do carpentry in my happy-place. Sometimes in a remote small cottage beside a small waterfall (for the water-mill), sometimes in a small attic in a crowded Shakespearean-town with narrow cobbled lanes. From large furniture to small keepsakes, I work with everything depending on my mood and the time on my hands. Sometimes I read a book good enough to stir my imagination and I try to place the whole setting in the DS (it is a pretty big place) and try to work out the logistics. All in all it’s a good place to be and works best if I’m just moving off to sleep.
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