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Normal Portal
Normal Portal is a transportation device which is used to lock a dimensional funnel in order to send or receive matter. Normal Portal refers both to the type of device and an actual piece of hardware, stationed at The Ring.
It was built by a group of scientists led by Patrice Eastaughffe, with the initial purpose to create an invisibility device.
History
Normal Portal was developed in late 19th century at a facility called Experimental Physics Institute, which was generally dedicated to the study of the psychic phenomena. While the paranormal studies have failed to produce any interesting results, a portion of studies was dedicated to genuine scientific endeavors. Focusing on the esoteric themes, such as parallel universes, time travel and other sci-fi inspired subjects, it was safe haven for those researchers who would otherwise never receive funding.
A group under the leadership of Patrice Eastaughffe had been working on a special type of invisibility which would hide a person or object by bombarding them with anti-photons. Although the intended effect was not invisibility, their experiments quickly uncovered emanations that did not seem to originate from the particle stream. At first this was attributed to the loss of anti-photons in the particle stream, since collision of anti-photons produces an electron-positron pair. But once this was accounted for, there was still a release of energy that could not be explained by anti-photon interactions.
In order to study this, Eastaughffe and team developed a device called Seeker, which would probe an area around the anti-photon particle stream, note which electron-positron pairs are produced from anti-photons hitting each other, and then identify the unaccounted pairs, as well as track their paths. This work has taken them 2 years, and by the time they were finished and published first results in 1901, the fate of the Experimental Physics Institute was in question.
Eastaughffe and her colleague Fred Rogers then relocated to the Urban Labs headquarters in New York, which offered them a grant to continue their work on the anti-photon particle stream, since they believed it might result in something akin to a free energy device.
In 1903 the second paper published by the group for the first time demonstrated that particles that have seemingly neutralized each other can actually be tracked by Seeker, and their paths can be measured long after they seem to no longer exist in our Universe.
