Clive said: > But I never did figure out if everything above Code Plane 16 was above or > still below the Heaviside Layer... ;-)}
As for the cats, in "Up up up past the Russell Hotel, up up up to the Heaviside layer"? Actually, my surmise, given the fact that the code points past U+10FFFF are forever inaccessible, is that they lie beyond the event horizon. Not merely the event horizon of local black holes, as for Planes 2 and 3, which will be endless sinks for CJK encoding energy, pulling hapless encoders in and shredding them with infinite tides as they approach the danger zone. No-- rather, the event horizon of the entire character universe, beyond which we can detect nothing. Perhaps, however, from the murmer of chilled microwaves emanating from the vicinity of the noncharacters U+10FFFE and U+10FFFF, at the far nether reaches of the astral planes, we can find patterns that will allow us to interpret the earliest history of the character universe. --Ken
