[And what follows of course, is a five to ten minute "basic" explanation of M-Theory, while the whole time Lydia absently fiddles with her hair, drinks champagne, has nibbles, drinks more champagne, and basically acts in a fashion completely incongruous to the words coming out of her mouth.]

-- and so I'm wondering if the stability of a pocket dimension is dependent on it being a fixed point, and if so, that's totally going to like, change the shape of the whole debate on quilted versus inflationary universe models.

Oh sorry, am I boring you?