"Maybe it will bring him back into the real universe."
But the whole "real" universe had evolved out of it.
Then they dropped back into the real universe and waited for things to happen.
But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
Was this another valley facing the real universe of stars?
How can imaginary time have anything to do with the real universe?
How then could we tell whether the real universe should have started out with a big bang?
Don lived in the real universe, where a good pilot knew what wasn't possible.
None of them had anything really to do with the real universe.
Two days that passed as a second in the real universe.