by accident Furthermore, we know better than to try to reproduce those tunditions Therefore, we undertake without hesitation to understand how the Kwisatz Haderach actually operated Because it is useful to know as much as possible about even what is forbidden, and because there are some con cepts that can help us understand what the Kwisatz Haderach did, we venture to explain what happened when the Kwisatz Haderach controlled the future Two of the concepts come from compartments within the ancient field of physics, now a subset of Systemics, and one is from a rudimentary segment of the infinity calculus Relativistic physics suggests how a Kwisatz Haderach could shorten the way ' and gain knowledge of a future Time as we know has no reference point Anv place that ob serves recurring events can discover and measure "time -local time-in terms of patterns of event repetition Orbital motion, change from dark to light and back to dark, vegetation followed b> blossoms followed by fruit and seeds are familiar examples of repeating patterns Dependable information about such repetitions, and thus about time, comes from light, whose speed is constant If one could travel at the speed of light, one could gather all information about all local time references This collection would m elude information about what would have been the futures of all localities It would be available from the absolute vantage point of light speed travel Paul Muad Dib Atreides apparently could be in "many places at once," was able to achieve a mystico magical fusion with the speed of light/thought/mforma tion Thus he earned out the ultimate "shortening of the way" between all local time frames His reports about the Alam al Mithal, where all physical limitations are removed seem to support this hypothesis In his deepest trances, Paul felt dislocated, ATREIDES PAUL 95 ATREIDES PAUL rootless He sensed no position, no place, no orienting permanence Some kind of merger with the Absolute is implied, and therefore a complementary disconnectum from Other Paul had to fight his way back from the Alam al-Mithal, to some Place where he could refer to Other, because connections with and references to Other are necessary if there is to be Self Relativistic physics offers a clue to what the Kwisatz Haderach did, evea though it does not fully explain how he accomplished his mystico-magical leap into the abyss of the Absolute The extent of our ignorance about the process is underscored by the decline of those physics Even Harq al Ada recorded his reservations "Either we abandon the long-honored Theory of Relativity, or we cease to believe that we can engage in continued accurate prediction of the future " The Kwisatz Haderach appears to have glimpsed, and temporarily frozen, a relatms tic path into the future What he could not have known, when he made that valiant effort, was that the two paths he saw and ' knew" were not the only futures He could not know that in limiting himself a