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I am really going to enjoy reading this, and reading the other SSI link again.
First, I wanted to just throw out that I suspect that part of your last comment possibly could have bearing--regarding the malleability of time. Perhaps there's something going on there, as well, with time, not just space. The idea of treating time as one of the four dimensions we experience is very interesting, and has built into it the possibility of other ways of experiencing it.
Or, as you like to say, not. Just a thought.