Flomsoner

Flomsoner is a fictional term used in speculative physics and worldbuilding to describe a class of hypothetical mediators that can transmit information or energy between spatially separated regions without conforming to conventional signal propagation. In many depictions, flomsoner operate by accessing hidden dimensions or invoking a coordinating field, allowing data to be conveyed with reduced or apparent superluminal latency while preserving causality within the story’s framework.

Described properties commonly attributed to flomsoner include: near-zero interaction with ordinary matter, which makes them difficult to detect; a high degree of phase coherence across long distances; and sensitivity to environmental conditions such as field strength or dimensional resonance. They are often imagined as massless or nearly massless quanta carried by a background medium called the flom field or soner field.

Origin and etymology: The term flomsoner originated in late-21st century science fiction and has since appeared in multiple texts and fan wikis. The name is typically treated as a compound, though precise linguistic roots vary between authors.

Usage and reception: In-world, flomsoner are used to explain experimental results, communications architectures, or security protocols that would otherwise be inexplicable. Critics within the fictional universe question their testability, and writers often use flomsoner as a plot device to explore themes of information privacy, causality, and the limits of measurement.