Salem awoke with sunlight shining in his eyes. Alina was still fast asleep next to him, so he got up and began running through what went wrong with his washing machine of dimension travel.
'Theoretically, the gravity I had around it should be enough because any amount of gravity can them ground it to an area. If I didn't ground it, this planet would no longer exist. I think the problem was with the atmosphere around it. By giving it an atmosphere, I'm encouraging chemical reactions. I need to create it in a vacuum, but that would eliminate a safety measure.' Salem mused. 'Those chemical reactions were what caused the Cherenkov radiation. By setting safety paramiters using Cherenkov radiation wavelengths as a guidline I will be able to prevent another incident.'
Getting up, Salem began packing up his sleeping bag and caught them brunch.
When Salem fired, the muffled noise woke Alina. Collecting the carcass of the rabbit that he'd just shot, they had a light breakfast.
"What's your comprehension after that incident?" Alina asked him.
"90%." Salem replied. "I'm actually shocked that it's not 100%."
"You mean to tell me that you went from 52% to 90% and you're unhappy?"
"Well, kind of." Same replied, watching her face darken with every word. "I thought that dimension travel was beyond my class knowledge."
Her face immediately went blank. "Dimension travel? You can do that?"
"Yes, but there are theoretical constraints. For example, a singularity is a one dimensional point of matter that bends the planes of space, time, and matter and connects them at a point. It basically creates a point through which you can do lots of fun things like teleporting or time travel. Only problem being, once you become one dimensional, you need to be able to have something on the other side that can pull you out. Honestly, it's dangerous unless I create an anchor. Even then, it's difficult to survive the trip. Any living creature needs to be three dimensional for the proteins in their body to work. Even being two dimensional would instantly kill an organism." Salem had clearly thought this through.
"If you're going to travel between dimensions, I'd like to come with." Alina said, fidgeting with the ties on her bag.
"Okay." Salem felt that Alina didn't think his response was good enough, but couldn't think of how he could improve it. Electing to cut off some cooked rabbit, he and Alina stuffed their faces.
Looking towards the nuclear snowfall it occurred to Salem that the unintentional nuke could have a far greater impact than what he predicted.
'If a nuclear winter is occuring, this could effect this entire hemisphere.'
"We should go." Salem broke the silence abruptly. "It appears that my experiment has caused nuclear winter, meaning that the effects are much farther reaching than I expected. This could effect Oregon. We should go around the blast zone and return to Oregon. We can't let them suffer from the effects of a nuclear winter."