Talk:Abigail Callaghan/@comment-24568211-20150206203230/@comment-26139661-20150224110831

I don't think it could be her suit or the pod, because:

a. The testers weren't expecting her to be in the portal more than a few seconds.

b. If they thought she needed to be in hypersleep for her safety, they would have put her in hypersleep BEFORE sending her into the portal, just as a patient is sedated BEFORE surgery. Can you imagine sending Abigail into the portal, and then she realizes she can't get out and starts freaking out, thinking she's going to die and never see her family again, and THEN have an automatic timer put her into hypersleep because it's been 5 minutes and she hasn't returned? That would be cruel.

c. Even if the equipment had the ability to place her into hypersleep voluntarily, if I were her I'd want to maintain my consciousness as I tried every resource I could think of to regain access to the world outside the portal.

But then, we're talking about a physical impossibility (portal travel) given the 11-dimensional space-time fabric of which our universe is woven. It's all science fiction in the end. You can only work within the framework of the physical universe in which you exist. You can change what you write on the paper, but you cannot change the paper on which you are writing - that decision was made for you.