“I was going to ask you about that,” Martin said, after a few more moments of awkward silence between them. “This link we’ve got to Othar, there’s no reason we couldn’t use it more. It wouldn’t take much to build a… a room, say, which we could step into and slow down to the same speed as people living in the universe outside. That way people in here and people out there can collaborate in real time, without sacrificing the advantages of living here.”