It had to be said that Bishop Di really did have a knack for socializing, willing to set aside his status to fit in with a group, especially after offering such a seemingly simple, accessible "conjecture."
Light shone down from a higher plane, passing through some dimension of consciousness that seemed anchored in the material plane of three-dimensional spacetime, yet also partly transcended materiality, ultimately dislodging stable factors and allowing a "shadow," determined by its various "shapes" and "heights," to fall upon reality.
It was an exceptionally intuitive metaphor. Even if it was occasionally mixed with a seemingly religious, mystical flavor, the more one considered it, the more subtle it seemed!
After a brief silence, thunderous applause erupted from the audience, with no distinction between those on either side of the screens.
As the saying went, outsiders watched the spectacle, while insiders saw the workings.
Those able to sit and listen in these various venues were mostly a mixture of users, relevant scientific research personnel, administrative officials, and prominent public figures. In terms of the concentration of "insiders," it was probably higher than at any public academic conference.
Clearly, for an internal symposium intended for academic exchange, this fourth-tier user had indeed brought out something of substance right from the start.
That was not to say everyone could accept it wholesale, but probably few would think the guest onstage was merely talking nonsense.
A fresh line of thought was always hard to come by.
Even if many felt Mr. Di's related speculations were perhaps more like mere flights of fancy, to those attending this internal academic symposium, "wild ideas" from different angles, which could be called original or even heretical, might well be more valuable.
Both at the venue and in the projections from elsewhere, many people showed no intention