“The primary differences between us are that we exist in linear time, and they exist in a temporal superposition. We use something we call petri dishes to examine and modify the evolution of microbes. They use earth-like worlds to examine and modify the evolution of organisms — over ‘spans’ of spacetime that are, to us, as nearly unimaginable as those that differentiate human size and temporality from mircobial size and temporality.”

— an anonymous informant