Dr Selma Kader

Threshold Institute · Staff record

Name

Dr Selma Kader

Role

The Institute's physicist

Years

Years 2 to 23

First file

T-006 Growth

Last file

T-016 The watchers

Dr Selma Kader was the Institute's physicist. She came in year 2 from the state's geophysical survey, for the rift, and for twelve years every instrument she brought to the chamber gave her a reading from elsewhere (T-009).

The rooms gave her something to measure. She took light readings in the dark room for a year (T-008). In the gravity room the dust in her lamp beam gave her a bearing, the first number that tied a room to the rift, and her paper on it was the first the Institute did not burn (T-009). Set against her readings there, the burn crews' log showed her that the growth in the chamber was not a creature that had come through but what the rift did to the ground it touched (T-006). Of the door that led elsewhere she wrote that it was a choice the building made (T-010), and of the room that was bigger inside: "T-011 is not larger. It is nearer to somewhere else, and its far end is there." (T-011).

She tested the quiet room with Jonas Berg (T-012) and timed Tomas Rehn's minutes in the cold room, whose cold she thought was linked to the growth (T-013). When the upside-down room was found she set it beside the mirror and told the staff meeting: "The other side of T-001 is our side, turned over." (T-014). In the replay room she saw people in clothes that were not the Institute's, and thought they walked the same room on the other side (T-015). Her camera in the watchers' room showed that their faces turned to the chamber whenever no one was there (T-016).

Papers under their name

• Addendum T-006-B: note, Dr S. Kader, Year 14, in T-006 Growth
• Addendum T-009-A: test log, Dr S. Kader, Year 14, month 4, in T-009 Gravity room
• Addendum T-010-B: test log, Dr S. Kader and T. Rehn, Year 14, month 12, in T-010 Elsewhere door
• Addendum T-011-B: note, Dr S. Kader, with Rehn's comment in the margin, in T-011 Bigger inside
• Addendum T-012-A: test log, J. Berg and Dr S. Kader, Year 17, month 2, day 9, in T-012 Quiet room
• Addendum T-013-B: note, Dr S. Kader, Year 19, month 2, in T-013 Cold room
• Addendum T-015-B: note, Dr S. Kader, Year 21, month 11, in T-015 Replay room

In the case files

Dr Selma Kader is named in 10 case files. The last column says where in each file.

Part I: The tear

File	Found	Where named
T-006 Growth	Year 7, month 6, day 9	Addendum T-006-A, Addendum T-006-B

Part II: The rooms turn

File	Found	Where named
T-008 Dark room	Year 11, month 5, day 6	Addendum T-008-C
T-009 Gravity room	Year 14, month 3, day 22	Discovery, Addendum T-009-A, Addendum T-009-B
T-010 Elsewhere door	Year 14, month 11, day 3	Discovery, Addendum T-010-B
T-011 Bigger inside	Year 15, month 8, day 2	Discovery, Addendum T-011-B
T-012 Quiet room	Year 17, month 1, day 30	Addendum T-012-A
T-013 Cold room	Year 18, month 12, day 5	Discovery, Addendum T-013-B
T-014 Upside-down room	Year 20, month 7, day 13	Discovery, Addendum T-014-A
T-015 Replay room	Year 21, month 10, day 1	Addendum T-015-B
T-016 The watchers	Year 23, month 4, day 27	Discovery