I hold no grudge against those early Backrooms pioneers that chose the name “no-clipping” to describe Phenomenon 5. After all, they borrowed the term from the only convenient frame of reference they had: video games.
Had they even thought to use the term “teleportation,” that name was locked away in pop culture nomenclature by Star Trek. It was used to describe the technical wizardry of “beaming” people and objects to the surface of a planet, or back up to the starship USS Enterprise orbiting the planet.
“Beam me up, Scotty!”
“Beam me up, Scotty!“ was never actually said in any episode of the TV series Star Trek or in the Star Trek movies. Really.
No. Few people realize that “teleportation” has a rich history in our Frontrooms. Both in fiction and fact. Reports of people and all manner of objects appearing, disappearing, and teleporting fill the literature of things unexplained and unknown. Often documented by professionals.This teleportation is not expected and mostly seems to be beyond the control of the locals.
No-clipping and teleportation reasonably mean the same thing: to move something from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them. The distance between levels in the Backrooms may border on the infinite.
By the way, No!-clipping is pronounced No! - clip - ping (with the emphasis on the first syllable).The "No!" in No!-clipping emphasizes its tragic nature.
Your friend and colleague,
Goerman
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