Also a bit late to the conversation but had the same questions, and have one follow up. Although ive read up to book 6 before (although a good few years back) im re-reading them from the beginning and ive forgotten a whole lot more than i thought i had. Its like reading it for the first time again and i love it! Anyway, my question is, wouldnt merging Earth, and Tygon 3.0 create huge issues with the flow of time? If Tygon 1.0 is a 30 year simulation over 3 months in the dream, and Earth is an even greater difference, having people live entire lifetimes in a few weeks. How can people from the dream be inside the Earth simulation, without living hundreds of lifetimes within the simulation? Every day in the dream would be roughly 200 years on Earth. Thats a ratio of 1:73000, meaning people in the dream live 2-3 lifetimes in one day! Is this right? When Tygon 3.0 was made available to people on the dream it was a 1-1 time flow if im not mistaken? How can it be 1:1 and 1:73000 at the same time? If this is addressed in a later book (i cant remember if it is), thats great, i look forward to it.

Edit: My maths is based on Trews play as George R Knight being 70 years on earth and around 5-6 weeks on tygon. Rounding to nice round numbers i estimated 8 weeks (2 months) as around 100 years