# ellipsisoid consider the infinity symbol - not projected as path but projected as (and this is gonna be initially inelegant, stay with me) apparatus hold a hula-hoop out in front of you rotate it around behind you, and have someone else hold it in place this is an unusual hoop: at your request, the person behind you is able to give it a twist, and it becomes a stable lemniscate, hovering waist-high, with you up at the prow now shift it to your right hip, and hold it there this is a side-winding time-car or a time-winding side-car, if you prefer either way, the path of your intent curves ahead of you, twists around behind you, and becomes that which propels you forward like any car, sometimes you might need to make a sixteen-point turn to get properly redirected, but as long as you are looking where you are going, *actually* going, you'll have fuel to get there the time-loop is not a trap it is an engine it *might* be a perpetual-motion machine, at least until you dismount, park it, maybe let it cool off or something if you've been riding hard \--- from this perspective, you are navigating something more fundamental than spacetime (or learning to navigate it, anyway? fine sub-motor skills? sub-.. sub-*motoring* skills? I'm so sorry lol everything about this would be ridiculous if it wasn't also *working*) the fundament might be "[relationality](/2025/04/29/relationality.md)"? (Kantian noumenal space? Platonic form-space?) which I *think* would explain the recurring characters that are genuinely not you. I walked into solipsism willingly, and it didn't work. this framing has solid ground under it, is what I'm saying (I speak from an ongoing road-test; see "[pattern recognition](/2014/pattern-recognition.md)") --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://www.isaacbowen.com/2025/08/28/ellipsisoid.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.